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REPORT OF THE VESTRY
OF THE
Parish of St. James, Westmmster,
FOR THE YEAR 1883-4.
Vestry Hall, Piccadilly, W.,
June, 1884.
In accordance with the provisions of the Metropolis Local Management
Act, 1855, the Vestry present the following Report of their
proceedings and an Abstract of their Accounts for the twelve
months ended the 25th March last; also a statement of Contracts
entered into or in force during that time, and the liabilities of
the Vestry at the end thereof, together with the Report of their
Surveyor for the same period, and of their Medical Officer of
Health for the year 1883. With a view to affording the ratepayers
as complete a knowledge as possible of the administration of
parochial affairs generally, the Vestry have appended to their
Report, Statements of Accounts relating to the Guardians of the
Westminster Union, the Commissioners of Public Baths and
Wash-houses, and the Trustees of Charitable Endowments in
which the Parish is interested.
THE PARISH
occupies an area of 164 acres (or, according to the report of the
Registrar-General, 162 acres), and was formed by Act of Parliament
in the year 1685, out of the Parish of St. Martin-in-theFields.
At the last census (April, 1881) the resident population
was ascertained to be 29,865, and the number of occupied houses
3,018.