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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A statement of the Accounts of the Schools for the year
1888 is given on page 126.
BURLINGTON SCHOOL.
This School is administered under a scheme established by
the Charity Commissioners in the year 1875, and two of the
Governors are elected by the Vestry. The present representative
Governors are Mr. William Cox and Mr. F. H.
Bingham.
A statement of the Accounts of the School for the year
1888 is given on page 127.
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. W. 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 may be
sent by the Trustees.
A copy of the Accounts of the Charity for the year 1888 is
given on page 128.