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making a renewed effort to procure the opening of the galleries
as suggested, and asking for the support of the Board The
Board accordingly, again petitioned the President and
Council on the subject, but without success, as the following
letter will show:—
" Royal Academy of Arts,
" London, W.
"May 8th, 1891.
" Sir,
"Iunreply to your letter of the 5th instant enclosing
a petition from the Board of Works for the St. Saviour's
District praying that the Royal Academy Exhibition maybe
open on Saturday evenings at a reduced charge, I am desired
by the President and Council to refer you to mv letter of
June 21st. 1889 and to inform you that nothing has occurred
in the meantime to lead them to alter the decision then
arrived at, and which was communicated to you in my letter
of that date The whole matter, as I then informed you,
was most carefully considered, and the reasons which governed
the decision then arrived at were such as no circumstances
are likely to alter.
"I am, Sir,
"Your obedient Servant,
"FRED. A. EATON,
Secretary.
" W. H. Atkins, Esq. Clerk,
" Board of Works for the St. Saviour's
District, Southwark, S.E.
The Returns for St. Saviour's (preliminary) of the Census Census
taken on the 6th April, 1891, have lately been published and ReturnB
are as follows :—
INHABITED HOUSES.
INCREASE.
POPULATION.
DECREASE.
Christchurch 1,485
66
13,264
399
St. Saviour 2,139
93
13,898
1,101
3.624
159
27,162
1,500
An increase in the number of inhabited houses being inconsistent
with a reduction in the population, the Clerk ^iote
calling the attention of the Census Officials thereto, and
suggested that probably the blocks of Artizans' Dwellings,
several of which had been erected during the decade, might
have been wrongly enumerated as sepaiate we
This was found to be the case, as the following letter
will show:—