St. Johnston, Sir Reginald

Acting Administrator of Dominica (1925), Governor of the Leeward Islands. As part of his career in the British Colonial Service across the Empire, Reginald St. Johnston was asked to serve in Dominica for six months during 1925 to see what he could do to deal with the economic crisis on the island immediately following the collapse of the lime industry. To balance the budget he made "retrenchments in expenditure" and introduced 22 new tax measures. As a former medical doctor he was also concerned about sanitation. He established a new quarantine station on Morne Daniel and turned the old one near the Roseau River mouth into an infirmary, which survived there until the 1980s. He also laid out proper streets through the unorganized group of huts at what is today Pottersville, and one of these is still called St. Johnston's Avenue today.

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