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14 GENERAL REPORT.
lightly swept down with a soft house broom. Under the
proposed New Regulations it would have been impossible
to clean out the cistern without getting into it, and
mopping out the last inch of water with a house flannel.
A cistern so planned is, of course, objectionable.
During the years in which Mr. John Percy Folland and
Mr. Thomas Winter Calverley have held office as Sanitary
Inspectors for the district of St. James's, I have invariably
found them valuable and trustworthy colleagues. These
gentlemen have always given me cordial and efficient
assistance in Sanitary work. They are amply qualified
in all respects for the duties of Sanitary Inspectors, and I
have always found them assiduous, energetic and perfectly
trustworthy. I believe that, under the auspices of the
Council of the new City of Westminster, they will prove
valuable officers. During the year 1900 the sanitary work
of the District has been efficiently and carefully done.
I have to thank Mr. Henry Clement Oliver for uniformly
efficient, intelligent, and cheerful assistance as Clerk in
the Sanitary Department.
The duties of Medical Officer of Health have been discharged
by me throughout the whole of the year.
Mr. James Huntingford Morgan was the first Sanitary
Inspector appointed by the Vestry of St. James's. He
was appointed in 1856, and he retired in 1883, after serving
the Vestry for 27 years. In the annual report for
St. James's for the year 1883 (page 28), the Vestry Clerk
made the following note:—
"In consequence of failing health and increasing years, Mr. J. H.
Morgan, who had held the office of Sanitary Inspector for 27 years,
tendered his resignation, which was accepted with much regret by the
Vestry, who felt that they were thus deprived of the valuable services
of an experienced and upright officer. A Superannuation allowance of
£86 6s. 8d. per annum, being the maximum allowed by law, was
unanimously granted to Mr. Morgan on the 29th November."