HC Deb 29 June 1903 vol 124 cc774-7
SIR JOHN GORST (Cambridge University)

To ask the President of the Local Government Board in which of the Poor Law Schools of the Metropolis expenditure on the buildings has been sanctioned since 1896; what, in each case, is the amount of such expenditure; for what purpose was it sanctioned; and what is the reduction in the number of children to be accommodated?

(Answered by Mr. Walter Long.) I append a statement showing the amounts which have been sanctioned by the Local Government Board since March, 1896, in connection with the buildings of the Metropolitan Poor Law Schools, and in each case the purpose

School. Amounts sanctioned. Purpose.
£
Bethnal Green - - - - 683 Additions to infants' schoolrooms.
St. George in the East - - 2,463 Day room and lavatory accommodation.
354
120 Additions to Superintendent's rooms.
552 Boundary walls.
3,489
Hackney - - - - - 60 Screens in schoolrooms.
450 Laundry machinery.
450 Sanitary works.
235 Hot water supply, etc.,
300 Water tanks.
62 Alterations.
1,100 Store rooms and servants' accommodation.
2,250 Sanitary works, etc.
5,764 Workshops, boiler house, etc.
10,671
Holborn - - - - - 9,803 Laundry, etc.
1,560 Waiting room and engineer's house.
62 Drainage works.
11,425
Islington - - - - - 269 Lavatory accommodation.
Lambeth - - - - - 60 Play shed for boys.
226 Bathrooms.
2,043 Boundary walls.
800 Fire escape stairs.
3,129
St. Marylebone - - - 180 Workshop.
400 Fencing.
13,107 Receiving wards, etc.
2,291 Boilers, etc.
15,978
St. Pancras - - - - 332 Fire escape stairs.
1,342 Probation wards.
340 Drainage works.
2,060 Laundry buildings.
4,074
Poplar - - - - - 984 Receiving wards.

for which it was sanctioned. The statement does not include the schools belonging to the South Metropolitan school district which is now dissolved. In 1896 the total accommodation of the schools referred to in the statement was, according to the Report of the Poor Law Schools Committee, 8,655. The present accommodation, as fixed by the Board, is 7,702.

School. Amounts sanctioned. Purpose.
Shoreditch - - - - 200 Alterations in infirmary.
28 Paving yards.
177 Tar paving.
405
Strand - - - - - 475 Receiving house.
230 Lavatory accommodation.
705
Central London - - 5,690 Infants' school.
133 Repairing gable.
2,975 Rainwater storage, etc.
8,798
Kensington and Chelsea (Banstead) - - - - - 400 Lavatory accommodation.
2,000 Drill hall, etc.
2,400
Kensington and Chelsea (Hammersmith) - - - - 792 Superintendent's house.
2,250 Enlarging schoolrooms.
3,300 Class rooms and infants' dormitories.
550 Entrance lodge.
6,892
West London - - - - 5,365 Boilers, etc.
330 Lavatory accommodation.
1,830 Electric lighting.
170 Enlarging committee room.
11,182 Schoolrooms.
1,000 Water supply.
19,877