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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 :—
1885-6.
1886-7.
1887-8.
£
s.
d.
£
s.'.
d.
£
s.
d.
Metropolitan Asylums District
9,920
11
11
5,650
2
7
5,035
0
0
Central London Sick Asylum
2,560
0
0
2,785
13
4
2,684
0
0
Metropolitan Common Poor
Fund
9,858
5
5 1
3,279
1
7
8,901
12
11
Police
14,332
5
4 1
4,607
1
10
14,501
5
4
County and Lunatic Asylums
Bates
3,583
1
3
3,615
12
7
3,625
6
3
Expenses of School Board
24,745
12
11 2
5,573
6
4
24,241
9
6
Expenses of Metropolitan
Board of Works
21,052
7
5 2
0,155
8
2
22,036
1
3
£
86,052
4
3 £8
5,666
6
5 ;
£81,024
15
3
The payments to Central Authorities last year amounted to
£5,632 15s. 9d. more than for the previous year,
and to £605 6s. 9d. more than for the year 1885-6.
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 £86,657 l1s. Od. of
the total of £143,781 10s. 8d. having been paid over during
the year to various authorities over whose expenditure the
vestry and other Parochial Boards have no control. In
other words, out of every shilling raised as local rates in St.
James's, less than fivepence is spent by the Parochial 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:—
I879-80
1880-1
1881-2
l082-8
1883-4
1684-5
i886-6
1806-7
1887-8
18
Metropoltan Board
of Works
14,008
15,357
16-546
17,614
17,583
18,361
21,052
20,155
22,036
24,40
School Board for
London
13,115
15,064
15,941
16,466
19,075
22,328
24,501
25,573
24,241
23,42
Total
27.123
30.421
32.487
34 080
36,658
40.689
45,553
45.728
46,277
47,831