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of the street afforded, at an estimated cost of £2,400, of which
one-half should be paid by the Company and the other half in moieties
by the Whitechapel Board and this Vestry, but if the actual cost should
exceed the estimated cost, the excess should be paid by the Company.
The Whitechapel Board and the Vestry accepted the offer, and made
an application to the Metropolitan Board of Works to contribute a moiety
of the £1,200 to be paid by the Whitechapel Board and the Vestry.
The Metropolitan Board has consented to contribute the moiety, so that
the other moiety of £600 will have to be paid in equal shares by the
Whitechapel Board and the Vestry. The improvement was greatly
needed, and its importance will no doubt bo generally appreciated.
SMALL POX.
Tho Vestry, with the view of providing hospital accommodation for
patients who were not paupers, entered into an agreement with the
Poplar District Board of Works for the use of ten beds in the hospital
built by that Board for twelve months, from May, 1881. The Board
undertook to supply medical attendance, nursing, and to defray all other
expenses, except that of burial in the event of death. The Vestry were
to pay the Board for the twelve months £120, and also to pay for each
patient sent to the Hospital £4 4s. If the Vestry had attempted to
provide a hospital of its own, a far larger cost would have been incurred.
Some building would have had to be taken, adapted, and furnished, a
medical and nursing staff and servants procured and paid, and the
maintenance of those employed; and of the patients provided, Six
cases only have been sent to the Hospital, and of these four of the
patients paid each £4 4s., the fee payable to the hospital in respect of
a case.
THE COMPOSITION BATE,
On the account of Mr. Churchwarden Perrin being presented and
passed, the question what payments may be lawfully made out of the
"Composition Pate" was referred to a Special Committee to consider
and report. Tho Committee met, when the question raised appeared
to be not whether any special payments were lawful, but whether any
payments for "Ecclesiastical Purposes," as defined by the Church
Rate Abolition Acts, could be lawfully made. In effect the question is,