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end of the accounts which appear in this volume on pages
24 to 39.
One of the largest items which appears in the accounts is
that of the precept of the School Board for London, which
during the year under review amounted to the sum of
£17,056 12s. 10d., and which the Board regret to say will
not, in all probability, be reduced during the present year.
The election of the School Board will take place in November
next, and it is to be hoped that the electors will take a more
serious view of the matter than they have hitherto done,
and that they will elect persons to represent them who,
while having due regard to the necessity for efficiency, will
yet procure some reduction in the present expenditure of
the School Board for London.
One half of the salary of the Medical Officer of Health is
now paid by the London County Council, in accordance with
the provisions of the Local Government Act of 1888.
The other items in the accounts are of much the usual
character, and with the exception of the expenses connected
with the St. Giles Churchyard they are not items upon
which it is necessary to make any special comment.
The St. Giles Churchyard.
In the last Report it was stated that the proposals made
by the Board for taking a lease of the Churchyard had been
accepted by the Rector and Churchwardens and approved by
the Vestry. Since then the lease has been completed and
has been confirmed by a faculty, which has also sanctioned
the necessary alterations and improvements which have since
been carried out; not, however, without considerable difficulty,
in consequence of the extremely inclement weather.