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organizing and building rather than in educating. The
first new school erected by the Board was opened in July
1873, and it was some ten years later before the Board had
adequately provided accommodation for the population
of London of a school-age, and not otherwise provided for.
The following comparative statement of the cost of the
School Board during the second complete year of the Board
*
elected in November, 1885, and the second complete year of
the Board elected in November, 1888, illustrates the
alarming manner in which the cost of the Board is
increasing:—
Loans Account
(Principal and
Interest).
School Maintenance
(Day
Schools only).
Industrial
Schools and
Evening
Classes.
Office & Legal
Expenses and
Enforcement
of
Compulsion.
School Buildings
not
chargeable to
Capital, and
Stamp Duty.
Total.
£
s.
d.
£
s.
d:
£
s.
d.
£
s.
d.
£
s.
d.
£
s.
d.
Year 1887-8.
361,532
10
11
1,051,902
17
4
41,309
14
8
63,558
12
0
17,471
9
8
1,53,795
4
7
Year 1890-1.
403,010
9
5
1,253,500
0
0
56,830
0
0
73,249
0
0
21,750
0
0
1,808,345
9
5
Increase
41,463
18
6
201,597
2
8
15,520
5
4
9,690
8
0
4,278
10
4
272,550
4
10
In the month of October, the Vestry appointed two of
their members to represent them at a Conference convened
by the Hammersmith Vestry. At this Conference resolutions
were passed to petition for the appointment of a
Royal Commission to enquire into the cause of the extravagant
expenditure of the Board; endorsing the action of a
Committee of ratepayers in proposing to present, by deputation,
a memorial to the Board, complaining of extravagant
expenditure; and expressing an opinion that the Board
has not kept to the spirit of the Act by which it was
created.