THIS STONE WAS LAID ON OCTOBER 24TH, 1912
BY
ALDERMAN SIR SCOTT FOSTER, J.P.
MAYOR OF PORTSMOUTH
 
TO COMMEMORATE THE CLEARANCE BY THE CORPORATION
OF PORTSMOUTH OF AN INSANITARY AREA LYING BETWEEN
QUEEN STREET AND KENT STREET, PORTSEA AND THE CONSTRU
CTION UNDER AN IMPROVEMENT SCHEME OF NEW DWELLINGS
 
COUNCILLOR B. MURTOUGH. J.P. CHAIRMAN HEALTH COMMITTEE
COUNCILLOR F.T. SHORT, VICE-CHAIRMAN HEALTH COMMITTEE
 
PORTSEA IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE
COUNCILLOR J. TIMPSON, CHAIRMAN
ALDERMEN SIR GEORGE E. COUZENS J.P. AND J. MULVANY J.P.
COUNCILLORS M. GILL J.P. A. HEMINGWAY H. PALIN H.R.PINK J.P.
J.E. PINK. C.F. SAUNDERS. R. WINDIBANK
 
C. HAMMOND ETHERTON, TOWN CLERK
ARTHUR W. WARD, BOROUGH ENGINEER
A. MEARNS FRASER, MEDICAL OFICER OF HEALTH