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includes hot water and the use of drying apparatus, mangle,
&c., avoid the inconveniences inseparable from "washing
day" in lodgings. The clergy, district visitors, temperance
advocates, and others interested in the social improvement of
the poor, might find the facilities and conveniences offered by
the public laundry a valuable auxiliary in raising the condition
of life among the poorer working classes.
A list of Commissioners in whom the establishment is
vested is found on page 12. The only change which
occurred among the Commissioners during the year arose
from the death of Mr. A. T. Spyrng; this vacancy was
filled up by the appointment of Mr. W. Jenkins. A
statement of the receipts and expenditure of the Commissioners,
and of the number of bathers and washers, during
the past year is given on page 214.
ARCHBISHOP TENISON'S UNITED SCHOOLS,
For the Parishes of St. Martin-in-the-Fields and St.
James, owe their origin, so far as the latter Parish is concerned,
to the gift, in 1700, by Dr. Tenison, the first Rector
of St. James's, and also Rector of St. Martin's at the time
of the constitution of St. James's Parish, and afterwards
Archbishop of Canterbury, of certain property upon trust,
among other objects, to provide one schoolmaster or more to
teach poor boys, natives and inhabitants of this Parish.
The property in question comprises Nos. 172a, 174, and
176, Regent Street, No. 91, King Street, and the vaults
under St. Thomas's Church, and the trusts with which the
property is charged are as follows:—(i.) To find and provide
two able and orthodox ministers of God's Word to be
preachers in the chapel; (ii.) To find and provide a reader
to say divine service in the chapel daily throughout the