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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

St James's 1891

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St James's, Westminster]

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Table: LIST OF THE PAROCHIAL CHARITIES, &c.

LIST OF THE PAROCHIAL CHARITIES, &c.

Benefactor.OBJECT.By whom Administered.Annual Income.SOURCE OF INCOME.
£ft.d.
1 Earl Craven. 1687.Under an Order of the Court of Chancery, the income of the Charity is applied as follows:—Three-fifths (not exceeding £600) of the net annual income to be paid to the Treasurer of King's College Hospital, Portugal Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, and two-fifths (not exceeding £400) to be paid to the Treasurer of Charing Cross Hospital, Agar Street, Strand. The Governors of King's College Hospital to set apart '24 beds; and the Governors of Charing Cross Hospital 16 beds for the reception of patients suffering from infectious, contagious, or other diseases (small-pox excepted) to be admitted by orders from the Trustees, from the Parishes of St. Martin-in-the Fields, St. George, Hanover Square, St. Clement Danes, St. James, Westminster, and St. Paul, Covent Garden, provided there are vacancies. The Governors to receive and supply with advice and medicines, as out-patients, all poor Persons resident in the said Parishes, who shall be sent by the Trustees with out-patient orders.Trustees, viz: the Incumbent of the said Parishes, and four resident Householders for the Parishes of St. Martin-in-the-Fields and St. George, Hanover Square; and four resident Householders for each of the Parishes of St. Clement Danes, St. James, Westminster, and St. Paul, Covent Garden ; one Trustee from each parish to go out of office by rotation every fourth year, but to be eligible for re-election. 163628£16,639 7s. 2d. Consols.
£395 7s. 8d. Consols.
Rent of Ground, houses, and coachhouses at Craven Hill, Paddington, £183 14s.