Bournemouth: 1810-1910, the history of a modern health and pleasure resort . , with the added title of foreman, for whichhe received £l per week. The office of Inspector, to allintents and purposes Sanitary Inspector, was held successivelyby George Light (1867), WilHam Macey (1869), WilliamCowley (1871), and Maurice OConnell (appointed in 1871,remained an official of the Board for many years). OConnellcame to Bournemouth in 1860 as Drill Sergeant to theRifle Volunteers, then newly established. Shortly after taking office the Commissioners ascertainedthe legal net value of the property within t
Bournemouth: 1810-1910, the history of a modern health and pleasure resort . , with the added title of foreman, for whichhe received £l per week. The office of Inspector, to allintents and purposes Sanitary Inspector, was held successivelyby George Light (1867), WilHam Macey (1869), WilliamCowley (1871), and Maurice OConnell (appointed in 1871,remained an official of the Board for many years). OConnellcame to Bournemouth in 1860 as Drill Sergeant to theRifle Volunteers, then newly established. Shortly after taking office the Commissioners ascertainedthe legal net value of the property within the district as abasis of an Improvement Rate, and re-assessed and re-valuedthe whole of the buildings. Until a permanent loan wasarranged for a temporary loan of £200 was obtained fromthe Treasurer with which to carry out those improvementsmost necessary and of urgent importance. The intention ofthe Commissioners to negotiate for a loan of £5,000 raisedthe ire of the principal residents, who rose up as one manand held a meeting at the Belle Vue Hotel to protest against. BOURNEMOUTH: 1810-1910. 113 this and the increased assessment. This meeting was heldm less than three months after the first meeting of theCommissioners, Colonel Simmonds presiding over what wasthen a large and influential meeting. After a long discussionIt was resolved that the meeting viewed with alarm sucha proposition as tending to depreciate the properly atBournemouth, and in other respects prove highly prejudicialto the interests of the ratepayers. They made respectfulrepresentation to the Conmaissioners to confine their improve-ments to the repairing of roads, drainage and lighting,other works contemplated by the Act (principally the Pier)to be for the present left in abeyance. £3,000 was consideredto be a sufficient sum for all necessary improvements anddischarging one moiety of the expenses attending the pro-curing of the Act. The outcome of this was the abandonmentof the principle of a low rate and
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