Memoranda, references, and documents relating to the royal hospitals of the city of London / prepared and printed under the directions of the Committee of the Court of Common Council appointed in relation to the said hospitals.
- London. Court of Common Council. Committee in Relation to the Royal Hospitals.
- Date:
- 1836
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Memoranda, references, and documents relating to the royal hospitals of the city of London / prepared and printed under the directions of the Committee of the Court of Common Council appointed in relation to the said hospitals. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.
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![( 160 ) view of the governors is to keep up the expenses as nearly as they can with propriety. Do you inckicle in those expenses the estimated cost of those thirty- six children ?—Certainly. Are any of these pensions directed to be given to the blind ?—No ; we have a large establishment for the blind, quite unconnected with Mr, and Mrs. West's donation. Is any part of the fund destined for pensions, as far as it will reach? —Certain estates are set apart for the payment of pensions. Is the whole produce of those estates paid in pensions ?—We be- lieve rather more than less. Has there been an increase, since you came to Christ's Hospital, in the number of pensioners ?—We think there has. Can you tell to what amount ?—^No. You could ascertain it ?—Yes, we could, but we cannot do it to- day. How have these lands been let?—^The estate wholly consists of houses, except the Sherbourn fund, which is a rent-charge ; and there is also funded property. How has that funded property arisen ?—There was a sale of an estate, and some by the will. Has there been any accumulation of rents vested in the funds ?— No, not that we know of. This estate itself has been under the consideration of Parliament in 1806, when a Bill was passed for the government of it ?—Here is the Act [producing an Act intituled, An Act for regulating the cha- rities of John West, of London, gent., and Frances his wife, both deceased,] dated in 1806. Do the schedules to this Act contain the whole estate in question, except the money in the funds and the rent-charge in Dorsetshire ?— We apprehend so. Are any of the present leases of an old date ?—There may be some few, but not many. Do you apprehend that, if the property were let over again, a con- siderable rise of rent might be expected ?—We apprehend not. ^fhey have been let very lately ; they were in a very ruinous state ; a large part is in Westminster, which has been let upon long leases for the purpose of building and repairing. You cannot take fines ?—No. If they were to be let now as they are, they would be let for more money, as a great many are upon a lease for years. At the time they were let, they were deemed to be let extremely well. If upon the expiration of the present leases there were a consi-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21468576_0292.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
