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St Giles (Camberwell) 1890

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell]

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3—other charities.
GRAY'S CHARITY.
By Will, Dated 15th December, 1868, Robert Alexander
Gray bequeathed £500 (to be invested) and the interest to
be applied in purchase of warm clothing for the poor of the
Parish not receiving parochial relief; also Three Per Cent.
Consolidated Bank Annuities to produce thirty guineas per
annum, to be distributed by the Master of the Workhouse
of the Parish of Camberwell, each Christmas, for personal
comfort or benefit of the inmates of such Workhouse.
HENRY SMITH'S CHARITY.
A sum, averaging £19 per annum is receivable by the
Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of
Camberwell, under the Will of Henry Smith, dated the 24th
April, 1027, arising from the Rents of certain Freehold
Estates in the County of Kent, "to be laid out every winter
in the purchase of Great Coats for the Poor Inhabitants " of
certain parishes named in the Will, including the Parish of
Camberwell.
The amount is received by the Churchwardens and
Overseers, and {ippropriated by them in the purchase of
great coats and cloaks, which are distributed to the poor at
Christinas in every year.