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Decease of Officials.—The Vestry record with
regret the death of their Medical Officer of Health,
Dr. J. Glaister, on the 4th March, and of their
Senior Sanitary Inspector, Mr. W. J. Bartlett, on
the 13th March, Votes of sympathy was passed
with the widows and families in their bereavement.
Vote of Condolences. — On the 6th April the
attention of the Vestry was called to the terrible
calamity which occurred on the 30th March to the
s.s. "Stella" on the Casquet Rocks, off Alderney,
whereby the two sons of an old inhabitant and
ratepayer in the Parish—Mr. W. Thompson, of
41 and 43, St. John Street Road—were drowned,
when a vote of sympathy, under the Seal of the
Board, was passed with Mr. and Mrs. Thompson in
their sad bereavement.
The Vestry also passed a vote of sympathy with
Mrs. Robinson and family upon the death of the
Rev. A. D. J. Robinson, B.A., Vicar of St. Philip's,
Clerkenwell.
Meetings.—Under the Bye-laws of the Vestry,
Standing Committees are appointed at the first
Meeting of the Vestry after the Annual Elections,
and Special Committees are appointed from time to
time to deal with special questions, and it is at the
Meetings of these Committees that a very large
quantity of the detail work of the Vestry is carried
out. The following statement shows the number
of Meetings held by the Vestry and the various
Committees during the year, and will also show the
parishioners that the administration of their local
affairs is no light task, but is one which entails con-