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not be sent to the school at Banstead in consequence of the strict
nature of the medical certificate; in addition to other pauper children.
This Board is of opinion that the establishment of such an
institution in the main road of Hammersmith would be a source of
nuisance and great injury to the surrounding neighbourhood, and
I am instructed to ask the managers to reconsider the matter with
a view to some site, other than in this district, being chosen for the
establishment of the branch school in question.
I may inform you that I have been directed to make representations
to the Local Government Board on the subject.
I shall be glad if you will bring this before an early meeting of
the Managers, and favor me with their reply as soon as convenient.
I am, dear Sir,
Yours faithfully,
THOMAS EDWARD JONES,
Clerk to the Board.
To which the following reply was received:—
The Kensington and Chelsea School District.
Clerk's Office, Marloes Eoad,
Kensington, W.
29th August, 1882.
Dear Sir,
On my return to town, I find your letter of the 16th instant, with
respect to Marlsford Lodge, which I will lay before the Managers
at their meeting at the School at Banstead at half past twelve
o'clock on Friday next, but as the Local Government Board's Order
has been issued and the Lease settled, I do not think that there is
the remotest chance of the Managers giving up what they consider
very suitable premises for their purpose, for what you must pardon
my calling a very remote, if not quite imaginary, injury to the surrounding
neighbourhood.
It is unnecessary for me to remind you that the Managers do not
propose to do anything which will in the slightest degree constitute
a legal nuisance, and I cannot refrain from suggesting that if any
reduction in the letting value of the surrounding property should
be traced to the establishment of the proposed school, the result
will be due entirely to the indiscreetness of those who by raising
an agitation have created a prejudice against the purpose for which
the house is to be used, though this in itself is perfectly harmless,
and would otherwise probably have been discovered by very few
residents in the neighbourhood.
It may be gratifying to your Board to know that as a rule the
number of children in the school will be very limited, and that no