FOR CHARITY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 122, 15 February 1908, Page 12

FOR CHARITY.

♦ — THE RECORD OF 1807. OVER SEVEN AND A HALF MILLIONS. More than £7,500,000 was contributed in Great Britain for charitable purposes. Eight hundred and oighty-livo institutions gave returns to L'ho "Classified Directory of tho Metropolitan Charities," edited by Mr. TV. IT. Howe, and their total incomes amounted .to £7,529,977; tho total for 1906 was £7,533,252, distributed among 916 institu-, tions. Last year's Teturns thus show that thoro were fewer charitable agencies at work than tho previous year, but that individually they received greater support. Last year s total is divided as follows: — ,1907. 1906. £ £ ' Biblo and tract societies 341,892 325,120 H rons aUd 3,010,233 2,902,415 Church and chapel ' ■ building 21,220 37,604 Charities for blind, , deaf, dumb, incurnbles, idiots, etc. ... 241,206 «75,00 l Hospitals 1)147,105 1,166,458 For the aged 6/0,330 Institutions' for' food' : and general relief ... , 521,500 581,018 Voluntary homes ...... 278,661 2/2,118 Orphanages 191,090 190,082 Institutions for reformation and provention 67,146 , 68,294 Institutions for education ..... 593,096 562,832 Institutions for social ' . improvement 189,191 230,810 Institutions for protec-' ' • • ' tion 206,843 250,565 £10,500,000 IN BEQUESTS. During the past two years the record sum of ten and a half million pounds has beon bequeathed for charitable purposes. The annual average total before 1906 was not more than £2,500,000. 1 The total for 1907 included six bequests of £100,000 and upwards, and twenty-one more of • £40,000 and upwards..-. Tho six largest bequests are as follow.:—: . i Approximate value of: — Bequest; Estate. Mr. W.illiam "Whiteley, . , aged 7a, for "Whiteley Homes'' : 1,008,000 1,452,000 Mr. George Herring, 75,' : ■ chielly for tho Hospi- ■ ■ ,tal: Sunday Fund ... 900,000 1,371,000 Sir William Georgo ; Pearco, Bart.; 46, fpr , • .Trinity-College. Cam- >' . , bridge - 405,000 463,000 Edmund. Ist Baron ■ . Grimthorpe, ,89, for . . ' 1 churches .. 170)000 2,112,000 .Miss Helen Perry, 86, chiefly for hospitals ■ 150,000 / 321,000 Mr. Honry ' Calcott 1 Bruiining, chiefly for • Masonic -institutions and orphanages ...... u 100,000 116,000 Lady Brampton's will,, under which, it'is expected that Roman Catholic institutions will benefit largely, has. not yet been proved.