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The total amount raised with the local rates for these two
Boards alone, during the ten years, is £315,536, being an
average of £31,553 per annum. These precepts, which, in
the year 1876-7, represented a rate of less than 9d. in the
pound, had increased to a rate of nearly 1s. 4d. in the pound
in 1885-6, and in actual amount have more than doubled in
ten years. The precepts for the year 1886-7 show a decrease
of £896 19s. 3d. in the demand of the Metropolitan Board
of Works, and an increase of £1,071 12s. 9d. in that of the
School Board for London.
VESTRY PROPERTY.
vestry Hall.—No repairs of importance have been required
during the year.
Stoneyard.—Some small additional space has been
gained by the removal of the old disinfector, and the fixing
of a new apparatus on a more convenient site.
Disinfector.—A disinfecting apparatus of Mr. W. Lyon's
manufacture has been fixed in the stoneyard, to replace a worn
out apparatus of obsolete construction, at a cost of £236 12s. 6d.
Sheds for the apparatus, trucks &c., were erected at a further
cost of £40 10s. The disinfecting apparatus has been used
on 36 occasions during the year, as compared with 93
for the previous twelve months. It may be remarked that
from early in November 1885 until the close of the parochial
year in March, the Parish was singularly free from zymotic
disease.
Mortuary.—The bodies of 32 persons have been received
into the Mortuary during the year, as compared with
43 during the previous twelve months.
Medical men, the clergy, district visitors, and others he
are specially brought into contact with the poor, are invited to