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Rotherhithe 1878

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Rotherhithe]

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of St. James's, Westminster, in obtaining an inquiry under the authority of a Royal
Commission into the character of the funds in the possession of certain Public Societies
in the Metropolis in order to ascertain how far they might be diverted to the relief of
the increasing burdens of the Ratepayers.
The Deputation attended several Meetings of the Delegates appointed by the
Vestries and District Boards in the Metropolis, at the Vestry Hall, Piccadilly, and
ultimately a Memorial to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Home Department
was adopted for presentation, soliciting that a Royal Commission with parliamentary
powers be appointed to enquire into the present condition and management of the
property and charities of the several parishes of the Metropolis and of the City Guilds,
with a view to consider and determine what are the proper objects to which the property
of these Companies should in the present day be applied, and for the better
application of charitable funds.
The Metropolitan Board of Works having refused to sanction an application made
by Messrs. Still & Son for the approval of a plan for the formation of new Roads of
various widths to lead out of the West side of Deptford Lower Road, the Vestrv in
March, 1879, presented the following Memorial to that Board, viz. :
To the Honourable the Metropolitan Board of Works.
The Memorial of the Vestry of the Parish of Rotherhithe, in the County of
Surrey, under their Common Seal.
SHEWETH,
That an application was recently made to your Honourable Board by Messas. Still
and Son, the Solicitors for the Freeholders, for your sanction to laying out for building
purposes a piece of ground situate in the rear of the Deptford Lower Road, Rotherhithe
now and for many years past used as gardens to Culloden House and Almond Tree
House, abutting upon Southwark Park and containing about two acres.
That your Honourable Board communicated with your Memorialists w ith reference
to the application, and your Memorialists having fully considered the matter, resolved,
that inasmuch as the proposed new Road would not have two entrances of the full width
thereof, opening from the ground upwards, and the entrance roads thereto would not be
ot the width ot 40 feet, they considered the plan submitted to be very objectionable and
duly informed your Honourable Board of this decision, and they have since received an
intimation that your Honourable Board has declined to accede to the application.
our Memorialists are of opinion that it will be most advantageous and beneficial
to the whole ot that part of South London which participates in the benefits afforded
by Southwark Park as a place of recreation and public resort, that the opportunity
which now presents itself of extending the area of the park should be taken advantage
of. The present area of the park is smaller than any other in London, yet the population
ot the parishes abutting thereon, is in comparison equal to that of the parishes
abutting upon Victoria and Finsbury Parks, and your Memorialists desire specially to
point out to your Honourable Board that ever since the opening of Southwark Park in

By Cash paid for Bread, viz. :

£s.d.£s.d.
Crowson10160
Davies10160
Johnson10160
G. Wood10160
kilian10160
Sehon10160
Wolf10160
Crowson10160
Davis10160
Erback10160
Johnson10160
Davies10160
129120
By Cash Treasurer of Charity School3o0
„ Bennett's Charity distributed in 1/- Tickets900
„ Sprunt's Charity distributed to Six Widows578
„ E. Willoughby, Printing Bennett's Charity tickets086
„ Chief Kent in respect of land at Stratford and Plaistow0610
„ Mrs. Embleton's Gift5010
„ Coat Cloak Charity distributed at Christmas600
1581510
Balance3289
£19147