Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Parish of St. Mary ]
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ANNUAL REPORT.
PERSONNEL.
Messrs. Greorge Samuel Elliott and Samuel Rayson were re-elected
Churchwardens on Easter Tuesday, April 8th, 1890, Mr. Charles
Edwiu Watts being elected as their colleague.
Messrs. Robert Stephens Cufflin, Arthur Robert Chamberlayne, and
William Henry Walkley, having been duly nominated by the Vestry,
were appointed Overseers by the local Justices on the 16tli April, 1890.
The following appointments were made by the Vestry on
Easter Tuesday, 1890 :—
As Commissioners of the Burial Board.—Messrs. Henry Samuel
Friend, John Lawrence, and Samuel Price.
As Assessors.—Messrs. Edwin Cox, Henry Charles Dove, George
S. Elliott, H. S. Friend, John S. Furlong, William Groodman, Thomas
Hollyman, James Kerry, W. Hepple Peacock, James May Stroud,
William Henry Walkley, and William Wells.
As Solicitor.—Mr. William Lewis
-As Sexton.—Mr. Horace Baker.
Inspector of Houses for Slaughtering Horses pursuant to
26 Geo. III., Ch. 71.—Mr. H. J. H. Tuck.
The Assessment Committee was appointed on April 18th, 1890,
pursuant to the Valuation (Metropolis) Act of 1869, and consisted of
Messrs. Henry Abrahams, William Adams, Frederick Thomas Bailey,
Joseph Harrison Brown, John Thomas Johnson, Samuel Lambert, James
May, William Thomas Niblet.t, Arthur Rumbelow, William Smith
Joshua Thompson and John Young.
The nomination of Vestrymen and Auditors took pi ice on Monday,
May 19th, 1890. At the polls, which were held on the following day in
wards 3, 5, and 8, about 1,200 persons recorded their votes, 1 he constituencies
being estimated to contain 12,000 persons qualified to vote.
There were 44 vacancies altogether, and these were tilled up by
the re-election of 29 old members and by the election of 13 entirely
new to office.