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St Giles (Camberwell) 1892

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell]

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50 (F.) 2. (a) Payment of 8 Pensioners (Class I.) at
the rate 26/- per week each.
(b) Payment of 4 or any multiple of that
number of Pensioners (Class II.) at
the rate of 10/- per week each.
51 (H.) One-fourth of the number of Almspeople of the
Pensioners of Class I., and of the Pensioners of Class
II., shall be appointed by the Vestry of each of the Parishes of
Camberwell, St. Saviour, St. Botolph, and St. Luke.
2. MISCELLANEOUS 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 received and distributed
by the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the
Parish of Camberwell, under the Will of Henry Smith, dated the
24th April, 1627,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.