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Department, a large and satisfactory reduction o£ adulteration was 

 effected in Georgetown, more especially in regard to milk supply, 

 mainly through the untiring efforts of Professor J. B. Harrison, 

 C.M.G , Government Analyst and Director of Science and Agricul- 

 ture. 



1902. — The suburban district of Wortmanville incorporated with the city 

 as part of the Werk-en-Rust Ward, involving the opening up and con- 

 struction of new streets and the erection of several bridges and 

 culverts. 



1905-06. — A Mortality Commission appointed by His Excellency Sir 

 Frederic M. Hodgson, K.C.M.G., on which I had the honour of serv- 

 ing. The report was a comprehensive one dealing wish all aspects of 

 the question and had far-reaching results, ultimately leading to my 

 own retirement and 



1910. — The establishment of a Health Department for Georgetown, em- 

 bracing all sanitary administration, undercharge of a " whole-time " 

 Medical Officer of Health, as separate and distinct from the Town 

 Superintendent's Department, the latter to be confined in future to 

 engineering and general constructional works. 



1912. — Incorporation of the Albouystown village suburb with the city of 

 Georgetown as a portion of the Charlestown Ward. 



The history of the sanitary administration of Georgetown is inter- 

 esting in association with any story of its Municipality. 



When I first arrived in Denierara in the year 1870, Dr. Whitlock 

 was in charge of the department as Sanitary Superintendent, old Dr. 

 Dalton being at the same time the consultant Health Officer of the city. 



Some years later on the death of Dr. Whitlock, the charge of the 

 sanitary staff", or Inspectors of Nuisances, as the officers were then 

 termed, was passed over to the Town Superintendent ; and this was how 

 1 found the arrangements when I joined the municipal service in 1878, 

 and they so continued up to the time of my retirement in 1910. After 

 the coming into force of the Public Health Ordinance in 1879, Mr. 

 George Bury was appointed Chief Sanitary Inspector, and I had that 

 gentleman's assistance up to the time of his death in 1884, but no further 

 appointment to that position was made. 



During the interval between 1878 and 1910 I had the pleasure of 

 working in perfect accord with no fewer than seven medical colleagues, 

 who filled successively the post of consultant Health Officer for the city 

 and were always available when required for consultation and advice on 

 all sanitary matters. In the early part of 1909 the colony was favoured 

 with a flying visit from the late Sir Rubert Boyce, an acknowledged 

 authority on Yellow Fever, Malaria and Mosquitoes, who had been duly 

 accredited to the West Indies by the Secretary of State for the Colonies 

 on a tour of inspection, 



