Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St James's, Westminster]
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Governors are elected by the Vestry. The vacancy caused
by the death of Mr. T. H. Elam was filled by the election of
Mr. F. H. Bingham.
A statement of the Accounts of the School for the year
1886 is given on page 121.
THE CRAVEN PEST-HOUSE CHARITY.
Five Parishes participate in the benefits of this Charity,
viz., St. Martin-in-the-Fields, St. George, Hanover Square,
St. Clement Danes, St. Paul, Covent Garden, and St. James.
Four of the Trustees are appointed on the nomination of the
Vestry, the present representatives of the Parish being Mr.
F. Crane, Mr. J. Bonthron, Mr. R. AY. Burgess and Mr. W.
Winnett.
The income of the Charity is applied, under an order of the
Court of Chancery, to the maintenance of beds in King's
College Hospital and Charing Cross Hospital, for the
reception of poor patients from the five parishes mentioned.
The hospitals are also required to afford out-treatment to all
poor persons resident in any of the five parishes, who maybe
sent by the Trustees.
A copy of the Accounts of the Charity for the year 1886
is given on page 122.
MRS. ANN NEWTON'S CHARITY.
This Charity, for the apprenticing of one poor boy of St.
James's annually from the Union School, is administered by
the Board of Governors and Directors of the Poor.
A copy of the Accounts for the year 1886 is given on
page 125.