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the Imperial Exchequer for Teachers in Poor Law
Schools, Public Vaccinators, Registrars of Births
and Deaths, Pauper Lunatics, Poor Law Medical
Officers, and the Metropolitan Police. The balance
of the Exchequer Contribution Account remaining
after payments of these grants is carried to the
General County Account, and from this Account
the Council have to pay to the Guardians of every
Poor Law Union wholly in London a sum equal to
4d. per head per day for every indoor pauper
maintained in that Union. The share of the Parish
of Clerkenwell of the latter amount for the year
ending Lady-day 1893 is £7,886, the amount
being based for the first five local financial years on
the average number of indoor paupers so maintained
during the five financial years ending on the 25th
March, 1888.
The precept of the School Board for the year
1892 amounted to the sum of £15,869 10s. l1d.,
including £102 15s. 2d., an arrear charge consequent
on the increase of the totals of the rateable
value of the Parish.
The Police precepts for the year amounted to
£7,558 0s. 7d.
It will thus be seen that of the £100,190, raised
during the year, the sum of £70,313 was required
by bodies beyond the control of the Vestry; or in
other words, of the total rates of 5s. 10d. in the pound
for the year, 4s. 1d. was for other bodies, and 1s. 9d.
for the local administration, paving, lighting, dusting,
slopping, &c.
An average of 1,416 summonses have been issued
for the recovery of the rates in each quarter of the
year. This appears a large number, but it is quite
evident that a very large proportion of the persons