 Worthing absorbed the neighbouring area of West Worthing and parish of Heene.The first meeting of the new Borough Council (replacing the Worthing Local Board and the West Worthing Commissioners) took place on 10 November 1890, when Worthing elected its first mayor, Alfred Cortis.In 1893 an outbreak of typhoid fever caused 200 fatalities in the town, after 1,416 people caught the disease.