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The following is a statement of the sums paid to Metropolitan
and County Authorities from the rates of this Parish
during each of the three preceding years :—
1882-3
1883-4
1884-5.
£
s.
d.
£
s.
d.
£
s.
d.
Metropolitan Asylums District
8,900
0
0
8,714
10
7
11,701
5
8
Central London Sick Asylum
3,550
0
0
3,242
0
0
2,329
7
6
Metropolitan Common Poor
Fund
7,750
0
0
6,891
2
9
8,137
1
4
Police
13,532
9
10
14,145
4
8
14,1 73
3
4
County and Lunatic Asylums
Rates
4,168
2
0
4,189
2
2
4,251
19
0
Expenses of School Board
16,465
16
2
19,074
11
10
22,328
0
2
Expenses of Metropolitan
Board of Works
17,613
17
5
17,583
5
5
18,361
5
7
£71,980
5
5
£673,840
0
5 i
281,282
2
7
The payments to Central Authorities last year amounted
to £9,776 17s. 1d. more than for the previous year,
and to £19,078 14s. 3d. more than for the year 1882-3.
It will be seen that of the total sum raised under the name
of local rates, a very small proportion is applicable to strictly
local expenditure, no less than £91,058 19s. 8d. of the
total of £148,530 2s. 3d. having been paid over during the
year to various authorities over whose expenditure the
Vestry and other Parochial Boards have no control. The
efforts of the Vestry to reduce the rates by an economical
administration in local affairs are thus to a large extent
neutralised by the growing expenditure of Central
Authorities.
The following statement illustrates the enormous increase
in the demands of the Metropolitan Board of Works
and the School Board for London during the last ten
years :—
1876-7
1877-8
1878-9
1879-80
1880-1
1881-2
1882-3
1883-4
1884-5
1885-6
Metropolitan Board
of Works
10,956
11,442
11,594
14,003
15,357
16,546
17,614
17,583
18,361
21,052
School Board for
London
9,974
12,364
12,195
13,115
15,064
15,911
16,466
19,075
22,328
24,501
Total
2 1,930
23,806
21,789
27,123
30,421
32,487
34,080
36,658
40,689
45,553