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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:—
1883-4.
1884-5.
1885-6.
£
s.
d.
£
s.
d.
£
s.
d.
Metropolitan Asylums District
8,714
10
7
11,701
5
8
9,920
11
11
Central London Sick Asylum
3,242
0
0
2,329
7
6
2,560
0
0
Metropolitan Common Poor
Fund
6,891
2
9
8,137
1
4
9,858
5
5
Police
14,145
4
8
14,173
3
4
14,332
5
4
County and Lunatic Asylums
Rates
4,189
2
2
4,251
19
0
3,583
1
3
Expenses of School Board
19,074
14
10
22,328
0
2
24,745
12
11
Expenses of Metropolitan
Board of Works
17,583
5
5
18,361
5
7
21,052
7
5
£73,840
0
5
£81,282
2
7
£86,052
4
3
The payments to Central Authorities last year amounted to
£385 17s. 10d. less than for the previous year, and to
£4,384 3s 10d more than for the year 1883-4. It will he
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 £85,666 6s. 5d. of the total of
£147,449 6s. 4d. 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:—
1877-8
1878-9
1879-80
1880-1
1881-2
1882-3
1883-4
1884-5
1885-6
1886-7
Metropolitan Board
of Works
11,442
11,594
14,008
15,357
16,546
17,614
17,583
18,361
21,052
20,155
School Board for
London
12,364
12,195
13,115
15,064
15,941
16,466
19,075
22,328
24,501
25,573
Total
23,806
23,789
27.123
30,421
32,487
34,080
36,658
40,689
45,553
45,728