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those authorities sent their Delegates to such Meeting, who, after
duly deliberating, unanimously resolved as follows:—
"1. That it be recommended to the various Rating Authorities, and to the
Ratepayers, that it is advisable to call Meetings in their respective localities
to draw attention to the present action and policy of the London School Board,
and to combine in the several divisions and agree to support Candidates who
will pledge their word to economy and endeavour to keep the expenditure
within a rate not exceeding 3d. in the £ per annum, as originally contemplated.
"2. That a Deputation be appointed to wait on the Premier to urge the
appointment of a Royal Commission to inquire into the working of the
Elementary Education Act.
"3. That the Rating Authorities of the Metropolis be requested to petition
Parliament to appoint a Royal Commission to enquire into the carrying out of
the Elementary Education Act, more especially with regard to the rapidly
increasing expenditure of the London School Board."
The Election of Members of that Board will take place in the
month of November next.
This Board would call the attention of the Parishioners to the
fact that there is no control over or appeal against the Expenditure
of the Metropolitan Board of Works or the London School Board.
The Decease of Members.
The Board sincerely regret to announce the deaths of Thomas
Bellamy, Esq., Mr. Thomas Burden, and Mr. Thomas Simmons,
late Members of this Board. Mr. Bellamy was unanimously called
on to preside at the first Meeting of this Board at its Constitution in
1855, and continued for many years to take an active and beneficial
interest in its proceedings. Mr. Simmons was elected
Member at the same time as Mr. Bellamy, and from that date to
within a short time before his decease, a period extending over
twenty-one years, he took a most active and disinterested part in the
duties of his office. Mr. Burden became a Member in the year 1871,
and assisted in the duties of his office till his death.
The Board cannot forbear to express their sense of the loss the
Parishioners have sustained by the decease of those gentlemen.
Medical Officer of Health.
The sudden death, in the month of September last, of Dr.
George Ross, the late Medical Officer of Health, was seriously felt
in this District. His great experience, coupled with the very able
and judicious manner in which he uniformly and most successfully
discharged the duties of his responsible office (to which he was
appointed in the year 1869), was duly appreciated by the Board, and
in the District.
The Board, shortly after Dr. Ross' decease, appointed Dr.
Samuel Robert Lovett, of Great Russell Street, his successor,
believing him to be thoroughly qualified to discharge successfully
the duties of that important office, at a salary of £150 per annum.