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£5 to £100, in succession to Mr. T. H. Hooper who resigned
the position on obtaining a Sanitary Inspectorship under
the Lambeth Vestry.
Special Committee.—The Special Committee, to which
reference was made in the last Annual Report as having
been appointed to enquire into the duties of all officers of
the Vestry, and as to the desirability or otherwise of steps
being taken to prevent a Sanitary Inspector or other
officer holding house property in the Parish in which he
acts, or acting as a Collector of Rents or Agent in respect
of other property in such Parish, submitted their report to
the Vestry in July last.
The Committee, in the first instance, stated that they
did not understand the reference to mean a general inquiry
into the duties of every member of the staff, say with a
view to re-arrangement, but simply an enquiry into such
duties the efficient discharge of which might possibly be
incompatible with the owning or holding of house property
in the same district as that in which the officer acts. On
these lines the Committee reported that two officers, viz
Mr. W. H. Watson, the Chief Sanitary Inspector, and
Mr. J. Flint, the Caretaker of St. James's Dwellings, owned
or were interested in tenement house property in the
district, and expressed the opinion that it was incompatible
with the satisfactory and efficient discharge of the duties
of the holders of these offices that they should be interested
in tenement property in the Parish. The Vestry,
after consideration, adopted the Committee's report and
decided to determine the engagement of the Sanitary
Inspectors and Caretaker of St. James's Dwellings, with a
view of making new engagements with any officers who could
comply with the Vestry's requirements. Accordingly, the
two Inspectors and the Caretaker of St. James's Dwellings