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St James's 1895

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St James's, Westminster]

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32
SIDESMEN.
The Vestry also appointed Sidesmen on the 18th April,
when the undermentioned gentlemen were selected to fill
the office :—
Mr. Edmund Thomas Morgan, 20, Marshall Street.
Mr. Julien Grace Bennett, 55, Great Marlborough
Street.
Mr. Benjamin Frederick Hawkins, 108, Jermyn Street.
Mr. Alfred Winnett, 71 and 73, Wardour Street.
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR,
In accordance with the local Act of Parliament, the
Vestry on the 18th day of April nominated eight
parishioners to serve the office of Overseers of the Poor.
The names of these gentlemen wore submitted to the
Justices of the Peace, at a Petty Sessions held at the
Vestry Hall, when the following were appointed Overseers
for the year 1895-6 :—
Mr. James Pearce, 20, Crown Court.
Mr. Henry Morley Hemsley, 4, Albany Court Yard.
Mr. Alfred Banister Court, 46, Poland Street.
Mr. Leonard Elston Macqueen, 35, Great Pulteney
Street.
PUBLIC BATHS AND WASHHOUSES.
In the Annual Report of last year it was mentioned
that the Vestry had applied to the Local Government Board
to issue an Order under section 33 of the Local Government
Act, 1894, for transferring to the Vestry the powers, duties
and liabilities of the Commissioners for Public Baths and
Washhouses, together with the properties and undertakings
of that Board, but that up to the close of that report the