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WILLIAM W JONES
WILLIAM S ELLIS
BEN JONES
CONSTABLES
WILLIAM C JONES
ERNEST S NEWCOMB
FREDERIC A RATHBUN
COLLECTOR OF TAXES
WILBUR N HILLS
AUDITOR
CYRUS H PENDLETON
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Order No.
Amount Amount Items. Order.
I903.
Dec. 19. 684 To Treasurer Fifth School District, Teacher's wages, Fall Term, 15 weeks at $6.00, 90 00
$100 IO
Pail 25c, dipper Ioc, dust pan Ioc, broom 25c. Wood, $8 oo, crayon and glass 40c, 10 IO
1904.
Mar. 30. 716 Teacher's wages 11 weeks at $6.50 Two cords wood, $8 oo, building fires, etc., $3.00 II 00
71 50
82 50
June 18 766 Teacher's wages 10 weeks at $6 50
65 00
$247 60
1904.
Jan. 26. 697 To Treasurer Sixth School District, Teacher's wages 16 weeks at $6 50, 104 00
115 50
3 1-2 cords wood, 10 50
Enumerating scholars, I 00
July 8. 783 Teacher's wages 20 weeks, Incidentals, 55
133 95
$250 00
1903.
Oct. 13. 639 To Treasurer Eighth School District Part of Fall Term.
25 00
Dec. 16. 681 Balance of teacher's wages 15 weeks, 72 00
1904.
Mar. 8. 708 Teacher's wages 10 weeks, 65 00
Wood for term, 12 00
May 31. 748 Teacher's wages 11 weeks, 71 50
July 25. 786 Cleaning school house, 1 00 Enumerating scholars, I 00
Incidentals for year, 2 50
$250 00
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Order No.
Amount Amount Items. Order.
1903. Nov. 28. 669 To Treasurer Ninth School District: Teacher's wages Fall Term, 11 4-5 weeks, at $6 50 $ 76 70
1904.
Mar. 26. 715 Teacher's wages, 15 2-5 weeks, 100 IO
Three cords wood, $12, building fires, $2 00, 14 00
June 7. 754 Teacher's wages, 8 4-5 weeks, 57 55 Enumerating scholars, I 00
Crayon 30, broom 25, dipper 10,
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$250 00
1903.
Nov. 18. 660 To Treasurer Tenth School District:
Teacher's wages 11 weeks, 77 00
81 80
Cleaning school grounds, I 50
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Cleaning school buildings, 2 00
Enumerating scholars, I 00
Three erasers, 30
Mar. 21. 711 Teacher's wages 16 weeks, 112 00
June 3. 751 Teacher's wages, 63 00
Wood $10.00, lock 35, crayon 12, IO 47
$267 27
SELECTMEN'S REPORT.
A. R. GILLETTE.
1903.
Sept: 21. To Andover on Town business, $ 1 50
22.' I day with Auditors, 2 00
23. Writing and posting notices, 2 00
23. Paid E. Thompson, I day cutting brush, 1 00
24. Paid Robert Hanna, I day working on road, 1 00
30. Writing and posting notices, 2 00
Oct. 4. Paid E. Thompson, 2 1-2 days cutting brush, 2 50
4. I day on Town business, 2 00
4. Paid express on Town Reports,
40
5. Writing letters and orders for year, 10 00
5. Making up Town Report, 10 00
Postage and stationery for 6 months,
66
Paid Auditors, - 6 00
From Dime Savings Bank, account of John Holbrook, 6 49 From State, account railroad bond, ยท 280 00
From J. N. Hewitt, for grass on Park, 2 00
6. To Andover on Town business, I 50
6. Paid W. S. Hewitt, Treasurer, from Griswold Burnham, for Order No. 634, 500 00
9. I day with Road Commissioner, 2 00 Use of team, I 50
10. 1-2 day looking after bridges, I 00
14. Paid Dan Beckwith, cutting brush, 1 15
15. Paid express on tax lists, 40
19. Self and oxen on road, 3 00
20. Self and oxen on road, 3 00
21. Self and oxen on road, 3 00
23. To Gilead and Jones Street, account State roads, 2 00
23. Oxen on road, I 50
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Oct. 26. To Gilead, account State road and bridges, $ 2 00
27. Keeping tramp over night, 50
28. To Columbia and Bolton, account State road, 2 00
28. Oxen on road 8 hours, I 20
29. Self and oxen on road, 2 85
30. Self and oxen on road, 2 85
31. To Gilead, account State road, 1 00
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Nov, 3. Looking after roads, 1 00
II. Paid Ben Smith, I day on road, I 50
16. Paid Geo. Austin, 8 hours on road, I 20
Dec. 1. Paid W. S. Hewitt, Treasurer, from G. F. Mitchell, for Order No. 675, 635 00
12, Paid W. S. Hewitt, Treasurer, from Commissioner MacDonald, 337 50
18. Down to Gull, account of ice, 1 00
Oct. 2. By cash paid, account of death of child of Edward Minor, 13 00
Dec. 21. To Gilead, account road and Town business, I 00
21. Paid W. S. Hewitt, Treasurer, from N. E. Lord. for Order No. 685, 600 00
24. Repairing washouts, I 00
1904.
Jan. 6. Work on road, 50
7. Paid W. S. Hewitt, Treasurer, from G. F. Mitchell, for Order No. 692, 175 00
II. Work on road, account of snow, I 50
12. Work on road, account of snow, I 50
13. Work on road, account of snow,
75
14. Paid for work, account of snow,
52
21. Keeping tramp over night, 50
50
31. Keeping tramp over night,
50
Feb. 11. Keeping tramp over night, Enrolling militia, 4 00
12. To Jones Street, to open road, 75
15. Paid freight on scraper edge, 35
20. Work on Andover road, account of snow, 35
21. Work on Jones Street road, account of snow, 75
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March 4. To Gilead, to let State road, $ 1 00
S. Work on road, account of rain, 75
Io. Paid W. S. Hewitt, Treasurer; from J. N. Hewitt, for use of Park, 2 00
II. To Colchester to meet Selectmen from Lyme, I 00
Expenses, 60
12. To Colchester to meet Selectmen from Lyme, I 00
Expenses, 40
24. Work on road, pair horses, 10 hours, 3 50
24. Paid Frank Brown, 5 hours on road, 75
25. Meeting of Selectmen, to let roads, 2 00
Posting dog notices, 4 00
April
7. To Gilead, account of State road, 75
7. Hauling plank and work on bridge, I 50
21. Self and team 5 hours on road, I 50
23. Hauling tile and plank 10 hours, horses, 3 50
25. Work on road 9 hours, I 35
26. Work on road 7 hours, I 05
30. Hauling plank and work on bridge, Gull, 3 50 Posts, railing and plank furnished, 3 44
75
IO. Work on road 10 hours, I 50
23. Work on road and bridge, I 50
Posts and railing, I IO
28. Going after scraper and work on same, 2 60
Paid freight on ox shovels,
60
Man and team to Turnerville to repair bridge, 50
Man and team to repair bridge, Marlborough road,
25
30. Work on bridge 1-2 day,
75
June I. Work on road 8 hours,
I 20
2. work on road 10 hours,
I 50
3. Hauling plank,
I 75
4. Work on road 10 hours,
I 50
6. Work on road 10 hours,
I 50
8. Work on road 10 hours,
I 50
9. Work on road 10 hours, I 50
IO. Work on road 10 hours, I 50
May 4. Time spent account of roads,
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June 11. Work on road 10 hours, $ 1 50
13. Self and horse on road, 2 50
14. Self and horse on road, 2 50
15. Self and horse on road, 2 50
16. Self Io hours, 2 horses 5 hours,
2 50
17. Self on road, I 50
18. Self and 2 horses 10 hours, 3 50
20. Self and I horse, 10 hours, 2 50
22. Self and oxen, 3 00
23. Self and oxen, 3 00
24. Self and oxen, 3 00
25. Self and oxen and horse, 4 00
27. Self and oxen, 3 00
July II. Work on bridge, 75
Aug.
2. Time spent account of poor, 50
5. Time spent account of State roads with Deputy Commissioner Bowen,
2 00
Use of team, I 00
IO. 'Time spent account of poor, 2 00
Io. Paid A. Glading, care of C. E. Lockwood, 7 50
15. Self and oxen on road, 3 00
16. Self and oxen on road, 3 00
17. Self and oxen on road, 3 00
18. Self and oxen on road, 3 00
22. Self and oxen on road 1-2 day,
I 50
26. Self and oxen on road 4 hours, I 20
27. Self and oxen on road 10 hours,
3 00
29. Self and oxen on road,
3 00
30. Self on road,
I 50
31. Self and oxen on road,
3 00
Sept.
I. Self on road,
I 50
2. Self and oxen on road,
3 00
3. Self on road,
I 50
5. Self on road, I 50
6. To Gilead and Turnerville, Town business, 2 00
7. Self and oxen on road, 3 00
8. Self on road, I 50
15. To Gilead after load of plank, I 00
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Sept. 9. Self and oxen on road, $ 3 00
Io. Self and oxen on road, 3 00
14. Self and oxen on road, 3 00
16. Self and oxen on road. 3 00
19. Self and oxen on road, 5 hours, I 50
20. Self and oxen on road, ro hours,
3 00
22. Self on road, 5 hours, 75
$2,802 96
CONTRA.
I903.
Oct. 6. By cash from G. Burnham, for order No. 634, $ 500 00
Dec. I. By cash from G. F. Mitchell, for order No. 675, 635 00
21. By cash from N. E. Lord, for order No. 685, 600 00
I904.
Jan. 7. By cash from G. F. Mitchell, for order No. 692, 175 00 By cash from State account, Highway, 337 50
By cash from Dime Savings Bank, account of John Holbrook, 6 49
By cash from State account, R. R. Bond, 280 00
By cash from grass on park, 2 00
By Town Order No. 636, .
41 06
By Town Order No 673, 27 45
By Town Order No. 693, 18 70
By Town Order No. 747. 49 36
By Town Order No. 784, 47 70
By Town Order No. 804, 30 20
By Town Order No. 814, 52 50
$2,802 96
HEBRON. CONN., September 24, 1904.
Personally appeared, Arthur R. Gillette, Selectman of Town of Hebron, Conn., and certified under oath that the foregoing report is true and correct according to the best of their knowledge and belief. DANIEL W. WHITE, Town Clerk.
This certifies that we have examined the accounts of the Treas- urer and Selectmen of the Town of Hebron for the year ending Sep- tember 23, 1904, and find them correct.
A. W. HUTCHINSON, CYRUS N. PENDLETON,
Auditors.
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Recapitulation of Selectmen's Account.
Paid W. S. Hewitt, Treasurer,
$2,535 99
For births, deaths and burials,
31 25
Damage to sheep by dogs,
21 33
Support and medical attendance of poor,
559 73
Hebron Library Association,
50 00
Repairing of roads and bridges previous to September 22, 1903, 187 86
Repairing roads and bridges from September 22,
913 81
For state roads,
838 13
Support of schools,
3,125 00
Cutting brush,
57 IO
Bridge plank,
84 00
Miscellaneous,
341 63
OFFICERS.
Assessors $40.00, Board of Relief $32.00,
72 00
Auditors $6 00, Town Clerk 59.45,
65 45
Selectmen $100 00, Collector 56.50,
156 50
Registrars 59.10, Treasurer 35.00,
94 IO
Town Health Officer,
II 25
School Visitors $55.00, Secretary School
Board $II.25,
66 25
$9,21I 38
CR.
By orders drawn during the year,
$7,380 84
By cash for grass on park,
2 00
By cash from State for schools,
1,484 55
By cash from State for state roads,
337 50
By cash Dime Savings Bank account, J. Holbrook,
6 49
$9,21I 38
1903, to September 23, 1904,
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The Indebtedness of the Town and Estimat- ed Expenses of the Year Ending, viz:
Town orders drawn previous to September 23, 1904,
unpaid,
$7,943 2I
Interest on $27,400 bonds,
959 00
Interest due on loans $9,600 at 4 per cent.,
384 00
Interest due on other orders,
274 00
Interest due on School Fund,
26 32
Abatement on rate bill, 50 00
Bridges $110.00, roads $1,000.00,
1, 100 00
Required for support of poor,
500 00
Due and to become due for work on road,
150 00
Required for support of schools,
3,125 00
County tax, 308 18
Collector $50.00, Treasurer $35.00,
85 00
Registrars $90.00, Town Clerk $60.00,
150 00
Assessors $40.00, Board of Relief $32.00,
72 00
Report of deaths, births and burials.
20 00
Selectmen $100.00, School Visitors $100.00,
200 00
Making Electors $24.00, Auditors $6.00,
30 00
Miscellaneous, 100 00
$15,476 71
From above deduct the following : Cash in Treasury September 23, 1904,
$2,236 82
Taxes as due and unpaid, 3,240 00
State appropriation for schools, 1,482 55
Interest due on P. W. Turner's note from Dec 1, 1900, to June 1, 1905, less $96.25 paid,
605 52
Due from B. S. Bliss for support of Mrs. Dwight Bliss, 218 15
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Due from State for tax on bank stock,
$ 119 55
Due from State for work on road, Leaves to be raised by taxation,
750 00
6,824 12
$15,476 71
STATE ROADS.
Doane Hill, appropriation,
$250 00
Cost,
$250 00
Chestnut Hill appropriation,
300 00
Cost,
$250 00
Clark Hill appropriation,
453 00
Cost,
$453 00
Acting School Visitor's Report
To the Board of School Visitors of the Town of Hebron, Conn .:
With June, 1904, ended another year for the public schools in Hebron. In reference to the schools visited by me during the past year, I herewith respectfully make my report.
It is my pleasant duty, as one of the Acting Visitors, to visit the districts in the southern part of the town. In each district has been maintained a school of thirty-six weeks. In the Fifth District, however, a school of ISo actual school days has been maintained. For the future, in the Town of Hebron at any rate, I am glad to state there can be no difference of opinion about the law defining the length of the school year. It isa year of ISo actual school days, all regard- less of the number of weeks. I believe the Board has acted wisely in this matter. This will be at once obvious, when we remember the teachers wages have been increased. When we consider also, the short time some pupils are permitted to remain in school, tbe mo- ment they reach the age of 14, they are put to work. Ought they not then to have every day possible for school attendance? Let out school for the holidays of course, but make them up so that the school shall be in session ISo actual school days.
Turn now to the teachers. In the First District, Mr. I. Z. Allen and Miss Daisy White were the teachers; In the Second, Miss Adelle White was teacher; In the Fourth Miss Isabell M. Crawford; In the Fifth, Miss Deborah Shea taught 'till the first part of the last term, then Miss O'Connor taught and finished the term; In the Sixth, Miss Jennie E. Loomis was teacher.
Let me commend all these teachers. They have done conscien- tious work. This conviction is based on six visits, in compliance with the law to these schools. At these visits I have been impressed with the earnestness and patience of each teacher. I have tried by public and private work to show these teachers and their schools, that we of the School Board were deeply interested in them, cared for their work and their true success. Permit me to name especially Miss Daisy White, who with her pupils earned money to pay for new black-boards of natural state and put them in their places in the school room. Miss Crawford too and her pupils by similar efforts purchased a new stove for their school room. I want to add a word of approval for the First District, the school building having been put in excellent repair.
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Everyone in sympathetic touch with education and schools knows well the importance of keeping in repair the school buildings. I am convinced a well kept school building, a clean, neat, tidy school room is an inspiration to the pupils, an incentive to keep themselves clean, neat and tidy. When with all this, the school room is well ventilat- ed and properly heated, the teacher and pupils can do hard work and attain happy results.
This suggests the matter of expenditure. The schools the past year have been at a greater cost, not at a greater cost to the Town, nor have the school taxes been in the least increased; no, let it be dis- tinctly understood, while the school expenditure the past year, has been greater than ever before, the school taxes of the town are not higher; no, they are the same as in the past, I am assured for years past. There has been raised and expended on the public schools in the town a four mill tax. This being true, Hebron with other small towns has complied with the conditions to a state grant for the public schools. Hebron having received this state grant, which for the past year amounted to $1,048.05, therefore our increased school expendi- ture was paid without increased cost to the town. The conditions to the state grant are, that the grand list of the town be less than $500,000. and that a town school tax of four mills be raised and ex- pended on the public schools. One other condition, that this state grant for the public schools be used only for teachers' wages. In regard to the amount of the state grant, that depends upon the general average of the attendance; the larger the general average, the larger the amount of the state grant for support of the schools.
As to the distribution of this money, the School Board has had in mind the problem, how to give all the pupils in town equal school privileges. The larger and more advanced pupils required a man teacher, and from the nature of things, as the report of the State Board of Education shows, the man teacher receives higher wages. Hence the greater cost of the schools in the First District. But then the graded school is open to all pupils in the town qualified, and in this way, the larger and more advanced pupils have equal school privi- leges with the smaller and not so advanced. I wish the teachers in all the schools had larger wages. The state has made it possible that our teachers have larger wages, and with time, I am sure this matter will receive the thoughtful attention of the Board, and teach- ers' wages will be correctly adjusted according to the number, age and ability of the pupils in school attendance.
All of which is respectfully submitted, JOHN H. FITZGERALD,
Hebron, Conn., Sept. 20, 1904. Acting School Visitor. Read and accepted,
CYRUS H. PENDLETON, Secretary.
Acting School Visitor's Report.
To the Board of School Visitors of the Town of Hebron :
As one of the acting visitors, and as secretary of the School Board, I would respectfully report for the past school year as fol- lows, viz :
A school of thirty-six weeks was maintained in all the districts except the Eleventh. The school in this district was discontinued and joined to that in the Tenth, and provisions made for the trans- portation during the winter term of such as needed or was supposed to need, transportation.
The school in the Third. Fifth, Eighth, Ninth and Tenth Dis- tricts was of 180 actual school days. In the remaining schools the number of actual school days was somewhat smaller, the teachers, in view of the published opinion of the States attorney, taking ad- vantage of some of the legal holidays. There was no change of teachers during the year in any of the districts except the Fifth and Ninth, in the former of which, the teacher resigned her position to engage in other business, and in the Ninth the teacher of the fall term found it inconvenient to teach the remainder of the year. The number enumerated in October, 1903, and number registered in the several districts was as follows, viz: First District, enumerated 42, registered, first grade, 40, second grade, 24; Second District, enumerated 10, registered 9; Third District, enumerated 15, reg- istered 12; Fourth District, enumerated 36, registered 27; Fifth District, enumerated 21, registered 13; Sixth District, enumerated 13, registered 21; Eight District, enumerated 15, registered 11; Ninth District, enumerated 19, registered 15; Tenth District, enumerated 15, registered 21; Eleventh District, enumerated 8, but no separate school was maintained. Of the registered, six were registered in more than one school. The total of different pupils registered was 187, some few of whom, however, were in attendance hardly long enough to be considered pupils at all. Nine were over sixteen years old and four were from other towns, and four enumerated and con- tinuing in Hebron were in school elsewhere.
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The yearly average attendance was, in the First District, first grade, 23,028, second grade, 19,525; Second District, 4. 72 ; Third Dis- trict, 9.10; Fourth District, 19,745; Fifth District, 6.15; Sixth Dis- trict, 10.46; Eighth District, 8,558; Ninth District, 9.50; Tenth Dis- trict, 14.55. The aggregate yearly average for the whole town was 125,336. The total cost of the schools of the town for the past year was $3, 190. 34, of which $2,956.42 was for wages of teachers, $188.92 for fuel and incidentals, and $45 for transportation. The cost per scholar in average attendance by districts was, for the First Dis- trict, $25; Second, $52.96; Third, $27.47; Fourth, $15.51; Fifth, $40. 24; Sixth, $23.90; Eighth, $29.21; Ninth, $26 31; Tenth, $18.36.
The total amount drawn from the town treasury, including the $45 paid for transportation from the Eleventh to the Tenth District, was $3, 148.95, of which $436.50 was received from the State on the basis of the enumeration of October, 1903, and $1,048.05 under the recent average attendance law, leaving the amount raised by tax- ation $1,664.40, or if we deduct interest on town orders to the Town Deposit Fund at 6 per cent., on those in which the rate of interest is not specified and 4 per cent. on the others, amounting to $242.39 the amount raised expressly for schools was $1,422.01. It seems that in estimating the amount to be paid under the average attendance law no account is made of the income of the Town Deposit Fund.
The schools under my more immediate supervision were in the Third, Eighth, Ninth and Tenth Districts. The teachers in these schools were Miss Julia H. Kneeland in the Third, Miss Clara F. Watkins in the Eighth, Miss Flora E. Lord and Miss Edna A. Post in the Ninth, and Miss Mildred H. Fenouillet in the Tenth. Miss Fenouillet was the only new teacher among the number. None were Normal school graduates. Miss Kneeland had had a partial Nor- mal school training, having spent one year in the Normal school at Willimantic.
These teachers, I am confident, all made an honest effort to do good work. They will all, I think, make at least, fairly successful teachers. Miss Watkins has been re-employed for the present year, and one of the others, it appears, would have been, only that she has now entered the Normal School at New Britain.
For the improvement of the schools there occurs to me little to recommend beyond the suggestions of previous years,-more co- operation of parents with teachers, elimination as far as possible of irregularity and tardiness, a more liberal supply of school apparatus, including globes, for schools not already having a globe, maps, books of reference and libraries, and the employment, as far as possible, of teachers with a normal school training. Perhaps more attention should be given to reading, as it is questionable if our schools are
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turning out as good readers as they ought to. Especially, I think, the older pupils, at least, should be so trained in distinctness of ut- terance that in case of reading in public the audience will find no difficulty in understanding what is read. A little more training also in good manners and politeness, I think, would not be amiss. It is a matter which in recent years, it seems to me, has received but little attention.
Respectfully submitied, CYRUS H. PENDLETON, Acting School Visitor.
Hebron, Conn., Sept. 20, 1904.
Read and accepted, Attest: CYRUS H. PENDLETON, Secretary.
Health Officer's Report.
To the Inhabitants of the Town of Hebron:
As Town Health Officer I would respectfully report for the year ending August 31, 1904, as follows, viz:
During the year there was no epidemic of any contagious disease. Of measles, there was one case in April, three cases in May and one in July. These cases originated, the one in April probably in Man- chester; the primary May case was in a family recently coming from New York or Brooklyn, and was probably contracted in the family's previous residence or on their journey from it. The other two May cases were secondary, and were contracted from exposure before the primary case was recognized as measles. The July case was in a child coming here from Willimantic, where the disease was con- tracted. None of the cases were especially severe. There was one case of diphtheria, occurring in September not especially severe, and recovering under the use of anti-toxine. Of scarlet fever, there were two mild cases in the family of Dennis Keefe, Jr., in the month of February, followed by two secondary cases of scarlatina angina in the same family. As the two cases came on at just about the same time they probably originated in the same unknown source, possibly from washing taken in by the mother, though there were at the time no known cases in any of the families from which she received wash- ing, though in one of the families there was a death from the disease during May, 1902, in which case the premises and all contaminated clothing, as it was believed, had been thoroughly disinfected. There were no cases during the year of membranous croup, and, so far as known, none of whooping cough. Of typhoid fever there were three cases, developing in September, secondary, apparently, to a case coming from Crescent Beach during the previous August, and reported last year. These cases were in the mother, a sister and a brother of the one taken sick at Crescent Beach. The mother and sister assisted in nursing the previous August case and the brother in disposing of the slops from the sick room, including the discharges from the patient. The case in the mother terminated fatally in about seven weeks. The sister was taken to the hospital at New Haven,
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and died in about two weeks. The brother had the disease in a less severe form, and recovered, but was hardly convalescent till after about nine weeks. There were no cases of cerebro-spinal fever and, fortunately, none of smallpox, though there are a larger number in the Town not immune to the disease than there ought to be. Of those of school age probably nearly one-half are unprotected by vaccination, from neglect or shirking to having it done, or prejudice against it on the part of parents. The health rule approved by the State Board of Health requiring all school children to have been successfully vaccinated, to avoid possible if not probable friction, and in part by suggestion of County Health Officers, I have deferred promulgating and putting in force, perhaps unwisely. Of consump- tion, no cases were reported to me, and, so far as I know, there was only one case in the Town at the close of the year, and that a case of some years' standing.
During the month of August the committeemen in the several school districts were notified to clean out and air the school rooms and have the school premises, including outbuildings, in good sani- tary condition and ready for inspection before the opening of the fall term of school. The inspection has since been made, and the con- dition, as far as sanitation is concerned, found reasonably satisfac- tory. The condition of the railroad station at Turnerville was found unsatisfactory, owing to the location of the water closets, by which the air in the building, upon its being opened in the morning, was rendered disagreeably offensive. The condition was reported by me to the County Health Officer, and through his influence, I suppose. the condition was finally remedied by the removal of the closets to outside of the building and to some little distance.
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