Town annual report of Middleborough, Massachusetts 1900, Part 1

Author: Middleboro (Mass.)
Publication date: 1900
Publisher: s.n.
Number of Pages: 168


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ANNUAL REPORT


OF THE


TOWN OFFICERS


OF


MIDDLEBOROUGH, MASS.,


FOR THE


YEAR 1900.


MIDDLEBORO, MASS. : MIDDLEBORO GAZETTE OFFICE. 1901.


ANNUAL REPORT


OF THE


TOWN OFFICERS


OF


MIDDLEBOROUGH, MASS.,


FOR THE


YEAR 1900.


MIDDLEBORO, MASS. : MIDDLEBORO GAZETTE OFFICE. 1901.


TOWN OFFICERS, 1900.


Town Clerk, Treasurer and Collector. AMOS H. EATON.


Selectmen and Assessors.


ALBERT T. SAVERY


Term expires 1902


EDWIN F. WITHAM


1901


CHARLES W. KINGMAN


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Overseers of the Poor.


SYLVANUS MENDALL


Term expires 1903


ANDREW M. WOOD


66


1902


ALVAN P. VAUGHAN


66


1901


School Committee.


BERT J. ALLAN .


Term expires 1901


JOHANNA T. LEONARD


1901


ANNIE DAVIS DEANE


66


1903


NATHAN WASHBURN


66 1903


WARREN H. SOUTHWORTH


66


1902


WILLIAM C. LITCHFIELD


1902


Superintendent of Schools. ASHER J. JACOBY.


Municipal Light Board.


T. S. HODGSON


Term expires 1902


JOHN A. MILLER


1901


HENRY W. SEARS


66


1903


Board of Health.


ALBERT T. SAVERY .


Term expires 1901


T. S. HODGSON


60


1903


JOHN S. WILLIAMS


66


1902


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1903


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Constables.


LEANDER M. ALDEN.


EVERETT T. LINCOLN.


WILLISTON B. CHANDLER.


SAMUEL S. LOVELL.


BENJAMIN W. BUMP.


SYLVANUS MENDALL.


GEORGE W. HAMMOND.


JOHN M. LUIPPOLD.


HERBERT L. LEONARD.


SAMUEL HATHAWAY.


JOSIAH T. CARVER ..


BRADFORD HARLOW.


WILLIAM McALLISTER.


Superintendent of Streets. SAMUEL N. SHIVERICK.


Registrars of Voters.


THOMAS C. COLLINS


Term expires 1903


PETER M. RAMSEY .


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66 1902


JAMES H. RUSSELL


1901


Fish Wardens.


ALBERT T. SAVERY.


EDWIN F. WITHAM. CHARLES W. KINGMAN.


Trustees of the Public Library.


C. D. KINGMAN


Term expires 1902


W. H. SOUTHWORTH


1902


NATHAN WASHBURN


190


GEORGE BRAYTON


66


1901


E. S. HATHAWAY


1901


ANDREW M. WOOD


66


1901


WARREN B. STETSON


66


1903


JOSEPH E. BEALS


66


1903


DAVID G. PRATT


66


1903


Fence Viewers.


CHESTER E. WESTON. WALLACE M. TINKHAM. JOHN N. MAIN.


Auditor. WILLIAM R. MITCHELL.


REPORT OF THE ASSESSORS For the Year Ending December 31, 1900.


APPROPRIATIONS MADE AT THE ANNUAL MEETING HELD MARCH 5, 1900,


And Adjournments held March 10, 1900, and special March 21, 1900, and April 4, 1900.


Support of schools .. $21,500 00


Repairs on schoolhouses 1,000 00


Forest street schoolhouse 300 00


School Committee's salary 150 00


Support of poor and insane


8,500 00


Military aid .


·


800 0.0


Soldiers' relief


.


3,000 00


Highways · ·


13,000 00


Town officers


3,000 00


Incidentals


2,500 00


Use of Post 8, G. A. R.


200 00


Board of Health


500 00


Note due


.


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.


5,055 00


Interest


3,500 00


Night watch and police .


800 00


Town House Committee


.


500 00


Sprinkling streets .


300 00


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Water supply


1,500 00


Lighting bond


. 1,500 00


Interest on lighting bonds


3,340 00 ·


For suburban lighting


375 00


Construction, electric light plant


785 00


Salary for municipal light board


150 00


Repairs of concrete walks


200 00


New concrete sidewalks


300 00


Sewers


2,200 00


Suppression of crime


1,000 00


Moderator


15 00


Voted


9,950 00


$85,920 00


Less corporation and bank tax


7,000 00


Total amount appropriated Voted to hire


. 10,000 00


Voted by the Town to assess


. $68,920 00


State tax


2,310 00


County tax


5,172 85


Non-resident bank tax


134 81


Overlayings .


2,800 33


Total assessment


. $79,337 99


Poll taxes assessed


. $4,112 00


Taxes on personal property


. 12,314 21


Taxes on real estate


. 62,776 97


Non-resident bank tax


.


134 81


$79,337 99


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. $78,920 00


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Number of polls assessed, 2056. Value of buildings, excluding land $1,879,166 00


Value of land, excluding buildings


1,381,962 00


$3,261,128 00


Value of personal estate


639,670 00


$3,900,798 00


Persons, firms, etc., assessed on property,


residents


1,358


Persons, firms, etc., non-residents


302


Persons assessed for poll tax only 1,131


Total number persons assessed 2,791


Number of horses assessed


880


Number of cows assessed


543


Number of sheep assessed .


21


Number of neat cattle other than cows


98


Number of swine


36


Number of dwelling houses


1,478


Number of acres of land


·


39,338


Number of fowl '


800


Population of the town, 1900


6,885


Amount of taxes remitted for 1898


$257 23


Amount of taxes remitted for 1899


523 69


Amount of taxes remitted for 1900


532 48


Rate of tax, $19.25 on $1,000.


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ALBERT T. SAVERY, CHARLES W. KINGMAN, EDWIN F. WITHAM, Assessors of Middleborough, Mass.


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REPORT OF THE SELECTMEN For the Year Ending December 31, 1900.


The Selectmen have drawn orders upon the Town Treasury for the amounts hereinafter given under the several appro- priations made by the town.


TOWN OFFICERS.


Appropriation .


. $3,000 00


Unexpended .


116 72


$3,116 72


Orders drawn :


Amos H. Eaton, for treasurer and


collector, 1899 . $83 33


Amos H. Eaton, town clerk, treas-


urer and collector, including bond, 1,100 00 Amos H. Eaton, one of board of registrars, 60 00 A. T. Savery, selectman and assessor, 1899 . 107 50 A. T. Savery, selectman and assessor, 355 00


C. W. Kingman, selectman and as- sessor, 1899 222 68


C. W. Kingman, selectman and as- sessor 203 65


E. F. Witham, selectman and asses- sor, 1899 130 00


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E. F. Witham, selectman and assessor, $353 33


W. R. Mitchell, auditor, 1899 75 00


Election officers, precinct 2 94 00


Election officers, precinct 1


34 50


T. C. Collins, one of board of registrars, 51 75 Jas. H. Russell, one of board of registrars, 50 00 Peter M. Ramsey, one of board of reg- istrars 50 00 ·


S. N. Shiverick, tree warden . 75 00 ·


$3,045 74


Unexpended


$70 98


OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.


Orders drawn from appropriation for poor and insane for salaries :


Sylvanus Mendall .


$257 00


Alvan P. Vaughan .


·


73 00


Andrew M. Wood .


150 00


$480 00


.


INCIDENTALS.


Appropriation


. $2,500 00


Unexpended .


147 91


Received from Old Colony R.R. Co.


and State treasurer, account of


grade crossing .


.


1,515 30


Received from herring account


·


308 77


$4,471 98


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Orders drawn :


A. T. Savery, use of team and travel-


ing expenses for 1899 . $14 00


C. W. Kingman, use of team, travel- ing expenses, 1899 38 39


E. F. Witham, use of team, traveling expenses, 1899 . 18 50


Nathan Washburn, legal services, 1899, 100 00


A. M. Bearse, postmaster, envelopes, 96 80


Southern Massachusetts Telephone . 32 91.


New York & Boston Despatch Ex- press Co. 2 50


M. M. Copeland, printing 173 50


Amos H. Eaton, town clerk, record- ing births, deaths, etc. 139 65


Amos H. Eaton, town clerk, office supplies 17 05


C. P. Keith, V.S., inspection milch cows and provisions 208 50


J. F. Shurtleff, M.D., recording births and deaths 3 00


H. L. Thatcher & Co., printing poll list, etc. 141 66


C. S. Cummings, M.D., returning births and deaths 14 50


W. F. Fryer, M.D., returning births and deaths . 5 75


William F. Dean 2 50


Wood & Tinkham, printing town re- ports, etc. . 504 92


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Dennis D. Sullivan, on account of


damages to Daniel Cornell's horse, $25 00 A. T. Savery, use of team, traveling expenses 85 00


Sarah A. Phinney, election suppers, 6 50


Estate of F. W. R. Emery, binding books ·


14 75


A. C. Wilbur, M.D., return of births, 75


E. H. Cornish, M.D., return of births, 50


A. V. Smith, M.D., return of births . 7 75


A. B. Paun, M.D., return of births . 1 25


A. P. Thompson, M.D., return of births, 25


Charles E. Ryder, typewriting 5 00


Walter T. Bryant, forest fire ward . 33 60


Herbert L. Leonard, keeper of lock- up, etc. 170 00


Samuel Ward Co., printing, etc. 5 02


S. S. Lovell, fighting fire 1 80


A. M. Hinkley, fighting fire . 10 95


George R. Sampson, forest fire ward,


22 80


Charles F. Cushman, inspector vinegar, 61 85


George Soule, return of deaths 17 25


N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. Co. . 1 00


Nathan Washburn, legal services 166 10


Nathan Washburn, legal services, suppressing crime 10 00


L. M. Fuller, forest fire ward . ·


1 60


A. S. Buckman, repairs to pump ·


10 00


Thomas F. Denham, damages re- ceived on highway . 50 00 ·


12


Lyman P. Thomas, engineering . $1,515 30 Nathan Washburn, account of grade crossings 600 00


Abner Wood, forest fire ward . 2 80


E. H. Cromwell, forest fire ward


44 70


Lloyd Perkins, 2d, sealer weights and


measures 7 00


Municipal Engineering Company 2 00


Theodore N. Wood, copying ' . 18 60


Edwin F. Witham, use of team and


traveling expenses 50 00


Charles H. Thomas, teams


34 00


Carolyn H. Parker . 2 70


Mae Witham, copying 53 40


Josiah H. Thomas, forest fire warden,


10 00


Francis G. Pratt estate, error in tax,


11 36


C. W. Kingman, chief of fire de- partment, fire at N. Middleboro 12 00


Nancy Werner, error in tax 9 63


Commonwealth of Massachusetts,


counting machine ·


5 00


James A. Burgess, suppression of crime 10 00


Benjamin W. Bump, serving summons, 26 00


Robert S. Robson, repairs to ballot box, 10 00


Charles W. Coffin, error in tax 2 00


Estate of Hosea Kingman, legal ser- vices 82 00


A. W. Brownell, printing, etc. ·


3 60


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C. W. Kingman, forest fire ward $10 00


C. E. Weston, engineering . 5 00


$4,749 94


Overdrawn


$277 96


HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT.


Appropriated for repairs of highway,


snow bills, etc., including super -.


intendent's salary . $13,000 00


Unexpended


100 69


Received as per report of superintend-


ent of streets


.


3,067 42


-- - $16,168 11


Orders drawn :


General highway and snow bills ap-


proved by superintendent of streets, 15,641 72


Unexpended


$526 39


WATER SUPPLY.


Appropriation .


. $1,500 00


Orders drawn


$1,500 00


SOLDIERS' RELIEF.


Appropriation


. $3,000 00


Overdrawn


£


1,062 58


$1,937 42


Credit by cash received .


613 11


$2,550 53


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Orders drawn :


Simeon Harlow $15 00


Town of Sandwich, account of H. P.


Lovell, 1899 146 14


William F. Thompson · ·


20 00


Town of Weymouth, account of Har- riet Mellen, 1899 96 00


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A. P. Rogers


96 00


John M. Luippold, F .. H. Tobey's children 96 00


A. O. Standish


24 00


Mrs. Hannah Bates . 96 00


Mrs. C. H. Crandall


48 00


Mrs. Solomon Kitterell


96 00


Eliza Wood .


4 00


Mrs. Eugene Blackwell, account of


Alvan Howland . 210 00


Mrs. Louisa Parry . 65 00


B. F. Lane, for care of Mrs. Hannah Bates 12 50


James E. McMann


20 00


Bernard Glancey 16 00


T. S. Hodgson and A. C. Wilbur,


M.D., account of B. F. Lane 100 00


Drs. Hodgson and Wilbur, account of Mrs. Hannah Bates 124 50


James L. Jenney, account of C. Pittsley, 2 56


Ira Tinkham, account of C. Pittsley, 84 00


W. F. Fryer, M.D., account of C. Pittsley 42 50


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Isaac M. Foye $28 00


George Soule, burial of Martha Whitcomb, 45 00 A. P. Thompson, M.D., account of Alvan Howland . 8 50°


Mrs. B. F. Lane, account of Mrs.


Hannah Bates 10 00


W. F. Fryer, M.D., account of Amos D. Dorr 74 00


Theodore P. Holmes . .


26 00


Stephen Hammond 4 00 . .


Abial Gibbs . 23 00


Alphonso Bliss . 58 00


Wilson Orr 16 00


Samuel Williams 28 00


Daniel F. Wilbur


75 00


Charles O. Cook


22 00


W. F. Fryer, M.D., account of Otis Standish 160 00


Henry A. Eaton .


.


10 00


Charles A. Howes


15 00


Sanford Weston


30 00


George F. Bryant, account of C. P.


Pittsley


1 50


Geo. F. Bryant, account of Alphonso Bliss 13 26


Lysander W. Fields


15 00


Sparrow Brothers, account of Artemas Morse 12 75


William S. Staples


5 00


Eben H. Atwood . 56 00.


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C. S. Cummings, M.D., account of


W. F. Thompson $7 50


John S. Williams & Co., burial of Charles Englestead 35 00


Charles Pittsley


8 00


Charles W. Clark


35 00


Town of Bourne, account of Esther Gibbs 24 00


Thomas E. Wilmot


17 00


Mrs. Mary L. Capen · .


10 00


Joseph Nichols, Jr.


21 00


George L. Finney .


20 00


C. S. Cummings, M.D., account of Abiel Gibbs 1 50


Shaw & Childs, acc't of C. Pittsley . 8 08


T. C. Savery, account of A. Bliss .


1 87


W. F. Fryer, M.D., account of A. Bliss . 18 00


Amos B. Paun, M.D., account of Eliza Wood ·


108 00


C. S. Cummings, M.D., account of A. Otis Standish 2 75


John N. Main ·


20 00


Caleb F. Perry


20 00.


John S. Williams & Co., burial of Jos. Nichols, Jr. 35 00


Mrs. Fred Packer, account of Jos. Nichols, Jr. ·


10 00


A. Vincent Smith, M.D., account of A. L. Dorr .


12 00


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C. A. Howes, acc't of C. F. Perry . $14 25 Charles W. Turner, making out State aid papers . .


8 00


W. F. Fryer, M.D., acc't of George Powers 7 00


2,594 16


Overdrawn


$43 63


NIGHT WATCH AND POLICE.


Appropriation


$800 00


Unexpended .


17 10


Received from 4th District Court 351 06


$1,168 16


Orders drawn :


William L. Wade


$6 00


David Pushee


12 00


Williston B. Chandler


122 50


E. F. Witham


20 00


H. L. Leonard


668 00


Benjamin W. Bump


38 50


Everett T. Lincoln


20 00


Ira Tinkham .


10 00


James A. Burgess


36 00


Samuel Hathaway


·


18 00


Samuel S. Lovell


31 00


Frank C. King


51 50


George W. Hammond


15 00


Sylvanus Mendall .


.


17 00


1,065 50


Unexpended


$102 66


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TOWN HALL ACCOUNT.


Appropriation


$500 00


Unexpended .


.


55 60


Cash received


1,116 37


$1,671 97.


Orders drawn :


Sprinkling streets . $11 80


H. A. Sparrow


4 50


Middleboro Gas & Electric Plant 535 28


Amos H. Eaton, Agent .


591 19


India Alkali Works


6 50


J. A. Sargeant


5 00


Thomas W. Pierce .


3 23


George F. Bryant .


267 50


Masury, Young & Co.


15 00


William E. Bump .


1 50


A. G. Hayes . ·


5 00


B. F. Johnson, care of lawn and extra work 37 00


Highway Department


24 00


J. & G. E. Doane . . .


42 09


Unexpended .


$122 38


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1,549 59


ALBERT T. SAVERY, EDWIN F. WITHAM, CHARLES W. KINGMAN, Town House Committee.


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SEWERS.


Appropriation


. $2,200 00


Unexpended . 166 05


Received from sewer permits 197 78 ·


Orders drawn :


Martin O. Rounseville


$995 07


John A. Miller


5 00


Note .


1,300 00


2,300 07


Unexpended .


$263 76


SPRINKLING STREETS.


Appropriation .


$300 00


Assessed on abuttors


.


300 00


$600 00


Credit to Highway Department.


$600 00


NEW CONCRETE SIDEWALKS.


Appropriation


$300 00 $300 00


Orders drawn :


Shiverick & Thomas


197 60


Unexpended


$102 40


REPAIRS ON CONCRETE SIDEWALK.


Appropriation


$200 00


Unexpended


.


.28 65


$228 65


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$2,563 83


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Orders drawn :


Shiverick & Thomas $240 00


Overdrawn


$11 35


SUPPRESSION OF CRIME.


Appropriation


. $1,000 00


Overdrawn from old account


·


126 92


$873 08


Orders drawn :


S. S. Lovell ·


.


$7 50


H. L. Leonard


60 00


Nathan Washburn


25 00


Samuel Hathaway .


20 00


112 50


Unexpended


$760 58


BOARD OF HEALTH.


Orders drawn from appropriation for Board of Health for salaries :


A. T. Savery, agent $80 00


John S. Williams .


50 00


$130 00


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LIST OF JURORS.


The Selectmen propose the following persons to serve as Jurors the ensuing year, viz. :


Jared F. Alden. Albert Deane.


Emery F. Atwood.


Orin E. Deane.


F. Austin G. Atwood.


Arad R. Dunham.


Harrison W. Atwood. George A. Earle.


Wm. F. Atwood, France st. Lucius M. Fuller. Otis L. Barden.


George T. M. Gammons.


Walter L. Beals.


William M. Haskins.


Grover Bennett.


Arthur M. Hinkley.


John L. Benson.


Thomas J. LeBaron.


Howard M. Bishop. Clarence E. Libby.


Joshua K. Bishop. Thacher B. Lucas.


George F. Bryant.


Nathan B. Maxim.


Charles E. Bump.


Adam P. McKeen.


Marshall P. Burgess.


John M. Casey. Frederic P. Chace.


John Merrihew. Andrew W. Miller. J. Frank Peirce. Isaac E. Perkins. Robert S. Phillips.


Abisha T. Clark, Jr. George S. Clark. James M. Coombs.


George A. Cox.


George H. Place. David G. Pratt.


Nathaniel S. Cushing, Jr. Enoch Pratt.


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Luther B. Pratt. James F. Roberts. John C. Robinson. Edmund S. Russell. John H. Ryder. Albert T. Savery.


Truman C. Savery.


Benjamin C. Shaw.


Albert W. Smith.


Seneca T. Weston.


William L. White, Jr.


Walter H. Smith.


Walter M. Snow.


Edwin E. Soule.


Orlando Soule.


Warren H. Southworth.


George E. Standish.


Myron R. Sturges.


David S. Surrey.


John J. Sullivan.


Hiram Whittemore.


Warren B. Stetson. Charles F. Cole.


Isaac M. Foye.


Carleton W. Maxim,


George F. Bourne.


James A. Thomas.


John B. Thomas.


Lazell E. Thomas. Henry A. Thompson.


George F. D. Tinkham.


Alvan P. Vaughan. William L. Wade.


Asaph F. Washburn.


Edwin F. Witham.


Edward C. Wood. Edward F. Wood.


Louis D. Churbuck.


Herbert W. Cornish.


Horace A. Vaughan. George H. Wilbur.


Charles M. Thatcher. Alfred E. Thomas.


Charles H. Thomas.


Ichabod B. Thomas.


Charles E. Ryder.


Lorenzo Wood.


ALBERT T. SAVERY, EDWIN F. WITHAM, CHARLES W. KINGMAN, Selectmen of Middleborough, Mass.


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ESTIMATE FOR A TAX, 1901.


For support of schools, current expenses and


Superintendent's salary . $22,850 00


Music, special teacher 500 00


Ordinary repairs, alterations and permanent im- provement of school property 1,000 00


School Committee's salary . .


150 00


Support of poor and insane 8,000 00 . .


Soldiers' relief 2,000 00


Military aid . .


1,300 00


Town Officers


3,000 00


Incidentals


2,700 00


G. A. R. for Memorial Day


200 00


Town House Committee


500 00


Water supply for fire district


1,500 00


Town debt note due


5,000 00


Lighting bonds due


1,500 00


Interest on bonds ·


3,328 00 .


Suburban lighting .


400 00


Light Commissioners' salary


150 00


Construction .


772 00


Interest


3,920 00


Board of Health .


2,000 00


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Highway Department, including general repairs, clearing highways of snow and Superintend- ent's salary ·


. $13,000 00


Night watch and police ·


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800 00


Sprinkling streets . . 300 00


$74,870 00


Less corporation and bank tax, estimated


7,000 00


$67,870 00


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REPORT OF FISH WARDENS.


Balance from '98 and '99


$323 47


By cash received 1900


195 00


$518 47


Orders drawn :


Edwin F. Witham, for 1899


$5 00


Charles W. Kingman, for 1899


5 00


Charles F. Cornish


2 00 .


William B. Thomas


130 00


Charles H. Tobey .


5 00


Katherine A. Sproat


10 00


A. T. Savery


5 00


Town of Lakeville, for '98 and''99


30 70


Everett T. Lincoln


5 00


C. W. Kingman


5 00


E. F. Witham


5 00


Town of Lakeville .


2 00


209 70


Credited to incidental account .


$308 70


ALBERT T. SAVERY, EDWIN F. WITHAM, CHARLES W. KINGMAN, Fish Wardens of the Town of Middleboro, Mass.


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REPORT OF INSPECTOR OF ANIMALS.


To the Honorable Board of Selectmen :


I respectfully submit the following report.


The examination of all animals suspected by their owners or others of having some contagious disease during the year and the annual inspection ordered by the cattle commission- ers of the State of all herds and buildings where same are kept.


During the year have had seven head of cattle killed and buried afflicted with tuberculosis.


C. P. KEITH, V.S.,


Inspector.


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REPORT OF BOARD OF · HEALTH.


To the Citizens of the Town of Middleboro :


The Board of Health submit their report for the year ending December 31, 1900.


The Board has had an unusually busy year as scarlet fever prevailed in the spring, small-pox in the summer, and diph- theria in the fall and winter. There have been twelve cases of scarlet fever, three of small-pox and fourteen of diphtheria reported to the Board during the year.


There were no deaths from infectious diseases in this town during the year.


On July 1, 1899, the Board held a hearing in the Town House on a petition of Lorenzo Wood and others, alleging that certain banks and flats in the Nemasket river at Mut- tock are wet, spongy, rotten and injurious to the public health. The Board expected that the heirs of the Philander Washburn estate would build a dam and cover said flats, as they held the water privilege and would be required by law to keep said dam in repair. But at the hearing their attor- ney stated that they relinquished all right and title to said privilege and would not build a dam or spend any money on that property. As it was September 1 before this con- clusion was reached, the Board did not follow the matter any further that year, but receiving several complaints in


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June, 1900, decided to build a dam at their expense, and hired Martin Rounseville to build one for them. It was con- sidered advisable to build one which would last three or four years and see if the town would not make an appro- priation for a permanent structure after the present one decays.


SMALL-Pox. .


On June 14, 1900 Dr. A. V. Smith reported a case of small-pox, in the house of Mrs. John Wholley, to the Board of Health. The Board immediately quarantined the house and hired two watchmen to prevent anyone entering or leav- ing it. On the next day Dr. Morse, assistant physician of the State Board of Health, came to Middleboro and ex- amined all the inmates of the house where the small-pox existed and reported three cases, John McCarthy, aged 35, George Pinder, 9 years, and Eddie Pinder, 7 years.


The Board thought it advisable to employ a doctor to take charge of all the the patients we might have during the epi- demic. On Saturday, June 16, a pest house was built on land owned by John LeBaron, situated on West Grove street. It was built, furnished and occupied before 8 P.M. of said Saturday, as the Board could not find a house suit- ably isolated to use as a pest house.


After the patients had recovered and been released, the pest house was disinfected with Formaldehyde gas and then taken to pieces and washed with solution of corrosive sub- limate and the material given to the town highway depart- ment, as the Board could get no offer for it, and the highway department could use it in constructing sheds.


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The Board took every precaution to prevent the spread of the disease and were in position to handle twenty patients if required. The Board requested the scholars to be present at the different public schools in the village on Monday morning, June 18, 1900, and had physicians in attendance to vaccinate free of charge all those who desired to be vaccinated. Over two hundred availed themselves of the privilege.


There was a large family at Mrs. Wholley's as she had six men boarders who worked in the LeBaron foundry, who were quarantined at her house.


The Board supported fifteen persons for more than a month and as many as eighteen at different times.


The Board places the following financial report before you showing first the regular expenses of the Board except the small-pox expenditures, then those caused by the small-pox.


We expect a small rebate from the State Board of Charities on account of John McCarthy, as he did not have a residence in Middleboro.


We would say in closing that the expense of small-pox, though large, is smaller per individual than that of Fall River, New Bedford, or any of the towns in this section of the State, and if the disease had spread we were in position to take care of ten to twenty patients with but a small in- crease in expense.


Respectfully, JOHN S. WILLIAMS,


Clerk Middleboro Board of Health.


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CASH PAID OUT BY MIDDLEBORO BOARD OF HEALTH JANUARY 1, 1900, TO JANUARY 1, 1901.


Marcus Copeland, printing


$6 66


Charles Tribou, work at dump


5 00


Middleboro National Bank


30 90


E. T. Lincoln, Treas. C. C.


5 00


Richard Jeffers, work at dump


7 15


Martin O. Rounseville, building dam


150 00


Wood & Tinkham, printing


13 50


H. L. Thatcher


6 75


Richard Jeffers, care of dump


32 75


M. M. Copeland, printing


6 66


L. Deane


2 50


M. M. Copeland, printing


6 66


Wood & Tinkham


10 00


$283 53


Salaries to date


130 00


$413 53


Following is a list of expenditures due to the small-pox :


A. L. Champlin, house rent $10 00


Whitman, Sparrow & Co., bedding 22 33


C. A. Englested, provisions 1 90


Smith & Hathaway, drugs


11 62


Charles H. Thomas, carriage


24 00


Samuel Smith, milk' ·


1 44


M. O. Rounseville, taking down pest house, 25 00


Range, etc, in trade 13 00


12 00


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Melvin & Badger, formaldehyde


6 25


John S. Williams, telephone, car fares, etc. 17 16


F. H. White, shoes 5 75


M. H. Cushing & Co., lime, etc. 4 20


Frank Potter, property used 8 50


J. B. LeBaron, land rent, ice, etc. 18 56


Mrs. Beech, nurse


7 00


Clark & Lovell, groceries ·


.


2 26


Sparrow Bros., clothing


28 10


Charles H. Tribou, watchman .


33 00


Dr. D. H. Holmes, physician


50 00


Starbuck & Whittemore, pest house .


342 60


Leonidas Deane, watchman


35 87


Dr. D. H. Holmes, physician


310 00


Ira Tinkham, groceries


31 00


John S. Williams & Co., furniture for pest house


57 80


Patrick Moran, cleaning Wholley's


7 50


Frank King, provisions


4 39


John Driscoll, nurse .


144 00 .


Mrs. Driscoll, nurse


22 00


T. W. Clark, milk


10 68


Mrs. John Wholley, furniture


80 00


Thomas Washburn, tent 17 00


Shaw & Childs, drugs .


15 95


Paztor & Klar, provisions ·


16 90


C. D. Marble, fish ·


2 30


Thomas W. Pierce, range, dishes, etc. 37 86


Warren B. Stetson


2 50


Total


$1,403 42


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Henry Swan, vaccination


$11 70


Hodgson & Wilbur, vaccination 83 20


Amos B. Paun,


29 90


Winsor Fryer, ce


30 55


N. E. Vaccine Co., vaccine points


42 00


$197 35


$1,600 77


Board of Health expenses not including small-pox,


413 53


Total expenditures


$2,014 30


VALUATION OF PROPERTY.


Soil cart


$60 00


Cart for cleaning gutters


10 00


Formaldehyde lamp, fluid and pellets


40 00


$110 00


CASH.


Unexpended, 1899


$120 08


Appropriations


.


.


.


500 00


Total


$620 08


Total expenditures . $2,014 30


Deficit .


$1,394 22


Also bills which have been paid in January, to


the amount of


200 00


Total deficit


$1,594 22


ALBERT T. SAVERY, THOMAS S. HODGSON, JOHN S. WILLIAMS, Clerk, Board of Health of Town of Middleborough.


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REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF STREETS.


To the Honorable Board of Selectmen:


The following are highway, State highway, snow and town team bills, etc., as rendered since January 1, 1900 :


Appropriation for highways, 1900 . $13,000 00


Unexpended balance, 1899 100 69 ·


Received for repairs of State highway, 1900 77 46


Received of East Taunton Street Railway Co. . 642 48


Received of Brockton & Middleboro Street Railway, 86 69


Received of town house committee . 24 00 ·


Received of Hobart & Daley, for gravel 51 90


Received of C. H. Thomas, for gravel ' 20 00.


Received of F. C. King, for hogs 53 76


Received of C. H. Shaw, for manure 13 57


Received of John Chace, for manure 24 00


Received of S. M. Shiverick, for lumber, etc. 11 00




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