NEARLY £8.000,000 IN CHARITY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 467, 27 March 1909, Page 12

NEARLY £8.000,000 IN CHARITY.

A YEAR'S BENEVOLENCE. There are no fewer than 899 charitable institutions having their headquarters in London, and of these the incomo is ascertainable in the case of 707. It makes a grand total of £7,742,916. _ Foreign missions, 24 in number, mako up the largest item, £1,479,559. • Homo missions, 61, come next, with,£1,049,028. But as thero aro 14 institutions which are both homo and foreign missions, and havo an incomo of £592,287, tho best idea of tho position may perhaps be formed when it is stated that the homo and foreign missions of overy kind have together an incomo of £3,120,874. This is more than double tho incomo of all the hospitals and nursing institutions, of which 161 receivo £1,252,542. The following aro leading figures of tho tablo: — £ Bible and Tract Societies 343,843 Home and Foreign Missions ... 3,120,874 Church and chapel building funds 22,436 Charities for blind, deaf, dumb, incurables, idiots, etc. 248,425 Hospitals, dispensaries, and nursing institutions 1,252,542 For thc_ aged 674,876 Institutions for food and goneral rolicf (not including Mansion Houso funds) 509,567 Voluntary homos 317,446 Orphanages, etc. 203,769 Institutions for reformation and prevention 61 0 324 Institutions for education 603,879 Institutions for social improvement 615,535 Institutions for protection ... 218,400 Numorous provincial charities whoso headquarters aro not in London aro not included in tho above figures.