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Scheme whereby the funds of the Charity were to be
divided between the interested parishes in the following
proportions, viz. : one-fourth to the parish of St. James,
one-fourth to the parish of St. Clement Danes, onefourth
to the parish of St. Paul, Covent Garden, oneeighth
to the parish of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, and
one-eighth to the parish of St. George, Hanover Square,
to be applied by the several parishes in such manner as
they should think fit for the benefit of such of the
poor Inhabitants of those parishes requiring relief in
cases of sickness.
This Scheme was submitted to the Master of the
Rolls, who declined for the present to sanction it, but
directed that applications should be made to such
Hospitals as were situate in or near the interested
parishes, in order that it might be ascertained to what
extent they would give hospital accommodation to the
poor of the five interested parishes in case the whole of
the funds were appropriated to one Hospital.
His Honour intimated a strong opinion that if
any Hospital situated in a locality convenient for the
use of the Sick Poor of all the five parishes, could be
found willing to take in general patients, including
those who might be infected with contagious or infectious
diseases, he should be disposed to approve of
a Scheme for that purpose.
In conformity with the views thus expressed, applications
have been made to nine of the principal Hospitals
in the Metropolis and to the Sea Bathing Infirmary
at Margate, and answers having been received from each
of them, those answers are now under consideration.
THAMES EMBANKMENT.
At the period of the Report of the Proceedings of
the Vestry during the year ending 25th March, 1862,
a petition to the House of Commons was pending, for