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second, and from Grove street to the brook near the Police Station the drain would be 87 inches in diameter with a capacity of 387 cubic feet per second. The estimated cost of this con- struction would be $31,723.
3rd. The construction of a storm water drain in Elm street as outlined in the second project with the addition that instead of connecting'said drain with the present channel of the brook in Elm street, near the Police Station, a new drain would be constructed through Oliver street crossing Main street, through Putnam street and in the proposed location of Broad street to the Cushing Mill pond at or near the private bridge across the river. In this project the waters of the whole drainage area need to be provided for between Main street and the Cushing Mill pond and in addition it would be necessary to build the drain from the point in Putnam street, where it crosses the tail race from the Putnam Machine Co.'s wheel to the river, sufficiently large to also take the water from the water wheel. This project is the most radical treatment of the whole problem and is the most expensive. It would do away with any pro- vision for any of the waters of the brook on any private land below Academy street. Possibly this project might appeal to some of the owners of land affected by the channel of this brook, yet if it were decided to undertake such a scheme of treatment it seems no more than just to the tax payers as a whole that some proportion of this cost should be paid for directly by the owners of the property along the channel of the brook, as such property would unquestionably be benefited far beyond any benefit which might accrue to the city as a whole. This project would require the same construction in Elm street between Academy street and Oliver street as project 2. In Oliver and Putnam streets from Elm street to the Putnam Machine Co.'s tail race the drain would be 90 inches in diameter and in Put- nam street and Broad street to the Cushing pond the construc- tion would be a box culvert six feet high and 10.6 feet wide. A serious objection to this project is the amount of space this box culvert would occupy in Putnam and Broad streets. This would take in Putnam street about 14 feet of a total width of 26 feet between curbs and it would be so near the surface of the streets that no pipes of any kind could be laid over it. In a street of the importance of Putnam street it does not seem
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desirable to occupy so much of the available space for under- ground works by a channel for this brook. The estimated cost of this project is $56,108.
The above three projects provide for the waters of this brook in a location substantially parallel with the location of the present channel. For nearly the whole distance the course of Punch Brook below Academy street runs parallel with the course of the Nashua river and it seems desirable to divert a portion of the flow of the brook from a point in Academy street directly to the river by the shortest feasible route and allow the remainder of the flow to be cared for in the present channel below Academy street, or to build a drain in Elm, Oliver, Put- nam and Broad streets of sufficient size to care for the water on the drainage area tributary to the brook below Academy street. With this end in view the following three projects are con- sidered.
4th. The construction of a drain in Academy street to Main street and in Main street to a point between the Wallace building and the Fitchburg Hotel, thence in land of the Park- hill Mfg. Co., passing Fire Station No. 3, to the river, this drain to be of sufficient size to carry an estimated maximum flow of the brook at Academy street of about 325 cubic feet per second. This is the location recommended by Mr. Coffin and Mr. Barnes. The estimated construction cost of this project is $28,921 and in addition there would be the damage for easements on land of the Parkhill Mfg. Co. for a distance of about 500 feet. As this easement would be an incumbrance upon the property fronting Main street and would interfere somewhat with the possible ex- tension of Mill B of said Company it is probable that the cost of the easement would add considerably to the total cost of this project. As a suitable location can be found wholly in public ways at a probable total cost less than this project, it does not seem desirable to recommend this location although it has much to commend it.
5th. The construction of a storm water drain in Academy, Main and Circle streets to the river. This is the shortest loca- tion which could be selected between the junction of Academy and Elm streets and the river, but as the elevation of the water in the Parkhill Mill pond at Circle street is only one foot lower than the bottom of the Punch Brook culvert in Academy street
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the drain would need to be built of a much larger diameter than any of the other projects.
To care for the estimated maximum flow at Academy street would require in this project a sewer nine feet in diameter and the estimated cost is $39,502.
6th. The construction of a storm water drain in Academy, Main and Rollstone streets to the river below the dam of the Parkhill Mfg. Co. This location is about 100 feet longer than the Circle street location but as the outlet would be below the dam of the Parkhill Mfg. Co., the construction would allow so much better grade as to reduce the size of the sewer to 69 inches if built to pass under the Parkhill Mfg. Co.'s power pipes in Rollstone street and 87 inches if built to pass over said pipes. The estimated cost of this project is $31,422.
As projects 4, 5 and 6 only provide for so much of the drain- age area as is tributary to the brook at or above Academy street, it would be necessary in order to grant the full relief petitioned for to provide further construction to care for the waters of that portion of the drainage area below Academy street, or about 80 acres.
Such provision could be made by construction of a drain in Elm, Oliver, Putnam and Broad streets, from Grove street to Cushing Mill pond, increasing the size from 42 inches to 69 inches. This would include not only the surface water of the lower part of the drainage area but also the water from the Put- nam wheel. This construction would cost $21,605. This amount should be added to the estimates given for projects 4, 5 and 6 in order to compare with projects 1, 2 and 3.
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PROJECT 1. Improvement of present channel is not deemed advisable or desirable.
PROJECT 2. New drain in Elm street from Academy street to a point 70 feet east of Oliver street, but no change in condi- tions between Elm street and the Cushing pond. Estimated cost $21,723.
PROJECT 3. In addition to project 2 this provides a chan- nel in Oliver, Putnam and Broad streets to care for water of
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whole drainage area and Putnam wheel. Estimated cost Aca- demy street to Cushing pond, $56,108.
PROJECT 4. A drain in Academy and Main streets and land of Parkhill Mfg. Co. to river, and provision in Elm, Oliver, Putnam and Broad streets for lower portion of drainage area, at a total cost of $50,526, with an additional cost for easement on private land.
PROJECT 5. A drain in Academy, Main and Circle streets to the river, and provisions in Elm, Oliver, Putnam and Broad streets for lower portion of drainage area at a total cost of $61,107.
PROJECT 6. A drain in Academy, Main and Rollstone streets to the river, and provisions in Elm, Oliver, Putnam and Broad street for lower portion of drainage area at a total cost of $53,207.
If any construction is attempted to provide for the waters of Punch Brook we would recommend that project six be adopted.
From both an engineering and financial point of view it seems to be the most satisfactory. Furthermore if the proposed provisions for the waters of Punch Brook were undertaken next year in conjunction with work to be done in Putnam street on the improved sewer system it would effect a considerable saving on the estimated cost of $53,207.
Accompanying this report is a plan, showing the section of the city contiguous to the brook upon which are indicated the various projects outlined.
DAVID A. HARTWELL, Chief Engineer.
HARRISON P. EDDY, Consulting Engineer.
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TWENTY-FIRST
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
TRUSTEES OF
BURBANK HOSPITAL
OF THE
CITY OF FITCHBURG
MASSACHUSETTS 1911
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A TOWN, FEB.
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FITCHBURG: H. M. DOWNS PRINTING CO. 1911
BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE BURBANK HOSPITAL FOR THE YEAR 1912
His Honor, Mayor Frank O. Hardy, Chairman, ex-officio. John W. Dooling, President of the Common Council. Herbert G. Morse, City Treasurer.
For one year. Henry A. Willis,
Albert H. Burgess,
Charles F. Baker,
Elliot N. Choate, Henry McGrath.
For two years. Benjamin D. Dwinnell,
Frederick H. Thompson,
Ernest P. Miller,
Charles H. Rice, Frank O, Hardy.
For three years. Alvah Crocker,
Herbert I. Wallace,
Charles E. Ware,
Charles T. Crocker, Daniel Simonds.
WILBUR W. HENRY, Clerk of Board of Trustees and of Executive Committee.
ALVAH CROCKER, Vice-Chairman. WILBUR W. HENRY, Treasurer. ELLIOT N. CHOATE and ALBERT H. BURGESS, Auditors.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
Mayor, Chairman, President Common Council, ex-officiis. Charles T. Crocker, three years. Charles F. Baker, two years. Albert H. Burgess, one year.
FINANCE COMMITTEE. Mayor, Chairman, City Treasurer, ex-officiis. Henry McGrath, three years. Frank O. Hardy, two years. Herbert I. Wallace, one year.
HOSPITAL STAFF. Surgeons.
Dr. W. F. Sawyer, Dr. A. P. Lowell, Dr. F. H. Thompson, Jr. Assistant Surgeons. Dr. R. A. Rice, Dr. R. A. Morgner, Dr. G. P. Norton. Consulting Surgeons.
Dr. E. P. Miller, Dr. F. H. Thompson.
Physicians.
Dr. E. L. Fiske, Dr. E. J. Tully, Dr. L. F. Baker. Assistant Physicians. Dr. F. M. McMurray, Dr. C. B. Gay, Dr. B. W. Carey. Consulting Physician. Dr. C. H. Rice. Consulting Orthopedic Surgeon. Dr. W. R. MacAusland, Boston. Visiting Oculists and Aurists.
Dr. A. F. Rodrick, Dr. J. A. Barton.
Bacteriologist, Electro-Therapeutist and Patholgist. Dr. C. H. Jennings. Non-Resident Consulting Surgeons.
Charles L. Scudder, Boston. Fred B. Lund, Boston. John T. Bottomley, Boston. Non-Resident Consulting Physicians.
Harry W. Goodall, Boston. Arthur K. Stone, Boston. Charles H. Dunn, Boston. STAFF ORGANIZATION. President. DR. E. L. FISKE.
Secretary. DR. W. F. SAWYER. Training School Committee. Dr. E. L. Fiske,
Dr. W. F. Sawyer.
OFFICERS OF THE HOSPITAL. Superintendent and Resident Physician. FREEMAN A. TOWER, M. D. Superintendent of Nurses. Miss Jessie A. Clarke.
Assistant Superintendent of Nurses and Operating Room Nurse. Miss Helen Parks.
Housekeeper. Mrs. Howard Emerson.
Internes.
Dr. L. M. Hagopian.
Dr. Morris Frank.
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REPORT OF TRUSTEES OF BURBANK HOSPITAL
FITCHBURG, MASS., January 31, 1912. To His Honor, the Mayor, and the City Council of Fitchburg :
GENTLEMEN : - The Trustees of Burbank Hospital beg leave to, submit their twenty-first annual report in compliance with the provisions of Section 3 of Chapter 422 of the Acts of the Legislature of Massachusetts, passed in the year 1890.
A special meeting of the Board of Trustees was held Janu- ary 26th, to act upon the request of the Board of Health, that they be allowed the use of the old hospital for contagious dis- eases during the diphtheria epidemic. The request was granted and the Superintendent proceeded to make the repairs necessary to put the old hospital in condition to be used during the winter months.
February 1st, the wards were opened for the reception of patients. Thirty-three were admitted, of which twenty-eight recovered and five died. The wards were closed May 18tl1. The Board of Health had charge of the wards, but the expenses of the same were paid from the current funds of the Hospital. $1,193.02 were expended for repairs, nurses, necessary additions to equipments, etc., and the estimated cost of fuel, gas, provi- sions and groceries, etc., amounted to $1,211.64, making a total estimated expense of the "Isolation Hospital" maintained for the Board of Health of $2,404.66.
At the April meeting a committee was appointed to con- sider the advisability and feasibility of accepting tuberculosis patients in the Hospital, and if advisable consider arrangements necessary to be made and report. This committee at a special meeting in June reported favorably on the question of accepting such patients and presented plans for a Hospital to care for the same. The Trustees voted to present the report to the City Government at its next regular meeting and defer action on
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adopting the report until the City Government had expressed its sentiment on the proposition. Later in the year at the October meeting an unfavorable report was presented by the City Gov- ernment and no further action was taken by the Board of Trustees.
At the special meeting in June a recommendation by the Medical Board was presented, that physicians, members of the Medical and Surgical Staff and ex-members, and no others, be allowed to treat patients at the Hospital. The recommendation was not accepted by the Trustees.
At the October meeting a motion was passed that the rooms adjacent to the wards be reserved for the use of ward patients and be used for private patients only when they are not needed by ward patients, and then at the discretion of the Superintendent of the Hospital.
On recommendation of the Medical Board it was voted at the January meeting that all ward patients shall be treated by members of the Medical and Surgical Staff without compensa- tion.
At the October meeting the rates of the private rooms were raised five dollars on each class, making the rates now $20.00, $25.00 and $30.00 per week.
At the regular meeting in April an offer of $300.00 was received for about 1/2 acre of land on Whittemore street. The offer was accepted and the land was later deeded to the pur- chaser.
During the year a bequest was made to the Hospital of money to be used to furnish a room in memory of Francis Dascomb Wright, of Ashby, Mass., a former patient of the Hospital, Room No. 5 was assigned for the purpose, and was furnished ready for inspection at the January meeting, 1912.
Several changes in the personel of the Board of Trustees have occurred in the part twelve months. Death removed two loyal and faithful members, C. T. Crocker who had served on the Board continuously from its organization, and Henry T. Page who had been a member for ten years.
Copy of the resolutions adopted expressing the apprecia- tion of the services rendered to the Hospital and loss sustained by it in their death is printed elsewhere.
THE NURSES' HOME
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C. T. Crocker was elected to fill the vacancy made by his father's death; Daniel Simonds was elected to fill the vacancy made by the death of Henry T. Page.
Frank O. Hardy and C. T. Crocker were elected to the Executive Committee.
Henry A, Willis who had served continuously as treasurer of the Hospital since its incorporation declined reelection. On motion of C. E. Ware seconded by Alvah Crocher, a rising vote of thanks was passed as an expression of the deep appreciation felt by the Board of Trustees for the long, faithful and efficient service rendered by M. Willis as treasurer of the Hospital, given often to the detriment of his private interests, but always will- ingly and to the great advantage of the Hospital.
Albert H. Burgess who had served as Clerk of the Board of Trustees for two years declined reelection. Wilbur W. Henry was elected Treasurer and Clerk.
At the annual meeting Elliot N. Choate and Albert H. Burgess were elected Auditors.
Henry McGrath was re-elected a member of the Finance Committee for three years.
At this meeting H. O. Cook, of the State Forestry Depart- ment, and W. H. Colton, City Forester, presented written re- commendations for treating the large grove of mature hard- wood in the rear of the Hospital and the young pine stand north-east of the Hospital. The matter was referred to the Executive Committee with full power.
During the year Dr. L. M. Hagopian and Dr. Morris Frank were elected Internes. At the annual meeting all the officers of the Hospital were reelected.
The resignation of Dr. F. H. Thompson as visiting surgeon was accepted with great regret and sincere appreciation of his long service with the Hospital. As appears in the list of mem- bers of the Staff, Dr. F. H. Thompson, Jr., was appointed to succeed his father as visiting Surgeon, Dr. G. P. Norton was added to the Staff as Assistant Surgeon, Drs. C. B. Gay and B. W. Carey were added as Assistant Physicians.
A service for eye and ear cases was established and Drs. J. A. Barton and A. F. Rodrick were elected visiting Oculists and Aurists to have charge of this service.
Dr. F. H. Thompson was elected Consulting Surgeon.
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Boston consultants were added to the Staff, Drs. Charles L. Scudder, Fred B. Lund, and John T. Bottomley were elected Consulting Surgeons, Drs. Henry W. Goodale, Arthur K. Stone, and Charles H. Dunn were elected Consulting Physicians.
In July, 1901, Sarah W. Burbank placed in trust, funds sufficient to build a home for the nurses of Burbank hospital. In the fall of 1909 work was begun and in the summer of the following year (1910) the Home was so nearly completed that the nurses moved in.
The building has a capacity sufficient to accommodate thirty nurses besides the superintendent of nurses, with sepa- rate quarters for night nurses. Each nurse has a room to her- self. There are spacious bath rooms on each floor, living room and reception rooms on the first floor, and the building is thoroughly and comfortably furnished. A full description in detail was published at the time in the daily papers, and the building was officially turned over to the Trustees on the six- teenth day of January nineteen hundred and eleven. The total cost of building and furnishings was a trifle under forty thou- sand dollars.
It is hardly necessary to dwell upon the benefits of this beautiful home. Its presence simply adds to the debt of grati- tude which Fitchburg owes to the memory of that public- spirited citizen, Gardner S. Burbank, and his equally public- spirited wife.
Respectfully submitted, WILBUR W. HENRY, Clerk for the Trustees.
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VISITING COMMITTEE OF TRUSTEES.
The executive committee elected the following :
John W. Dooling,
March 1 to May 1
Henry McGrath,
Frank O. Hardy,
Henry A. Willis,
Charles E. Ware,
Daniel Simonds, Charles T. Crocker,
Alvah Crocker,
Herbert I. Wallace,
Elliot N. Choate,
Benjamin D. Dwinnell,
April 1 to June 1 May 1 to July 1 June 1 to August 1 July 1 to September 1 August 1 to October 1 September 1 to November 1 October 1 to December 1 November 1 to January 1 December 1 to February 1 January 1 to March 1
In Memoriam
On Thursday, January fifth, nineteen hundred and eleven Charles T. Crocker died. He was a trustee of this institution continuously from its inception. In 1890, when certain of the friends of the late Gardner S. Burbank petitioned the Legisla- ture for the incorporation of the Burbank Hospital, Mr. Croc- ker's name appeared among the petitioners, and he became one of the fifteen incorporators.
To the councils of this corporation he gave more than a proportionate share of his time which was so filled with a mul- titude of duties. He was a constant and interested attendant at all meetings. Questions concerning the Hospital, whether of policy or of detail, received the same painstaking, careful thought that he was accustomed to bring to bear upon his own business undertakings. Throughout this institution's twenty years of life, both in routine matters and in the more involved considerations of recent years, Mr. Crocker's steady, calm and accurate judgment was of the utmost value. In his judgment of men he was ever fair minded and democratic, testing his fellows by the true standard of personal worth.
In this attempt to record upon a printed page our sense of loss, we realize that mere rhetoric is inadequate to express more than coldly our warm feelings of regard for Mr. Crocker. We appreciate that the loss is not solely ours, nor this institution's ; that it is vastly more far-reaching-a loss to be shared by many -business associates, friends and relatives. Reverently and sincerely we join with these others in a common tribute to him who still can counsel and guide us by the strong example of a good life lived. This generation and subsequent generations must be influenced for good by the unusual strength and direct- ness of Mr. Crocker's life. To the end that his name shall not be soon forgot, we spread this Memorial upon the records of this Corporation.
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Henry T. Page died on the twenty-third day of September nineteen hundred and eleven. He was elected a Trustee of the Burbank Hospital January 16, 1899, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Amasa Norcross, and remained on the Board until his death.
Throughout his term of service he gave to the Hospital the same faithful, conscientious attention which he bestowed upon every enterprise with which he was connected.
His interest was expressed by his regular attendance at the meetings of the Board, from which only serious illness ever kept him.
His advice, drawn from his thorough business training, was ever ready and always helpful.
His loyalty to the Hospital, to those in authority, and to those who spent their time in the routine duties of physician or nurse, was unfailing. His appreciation of the large place the Hospital filled for the good of the general public was well known and marked.
His term of service as a Visiting Trustee was no empty title for it found him performing the duties called for by the By-Laws.
His strictures, which were few, were received with the deference they deserved, and his praise was valued the more because it was the result of the personal inspection of a man familiar with all the seeming petty details which go to make up good management.
His cordial, loyal friendship for his associates on the Board will long be remembered and missed.
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TREASURER'S REPORT
To the Trustees of the Burbank Hospital :
The twenty-first annual report of the Treasurer for the year ending December 1, 1911, is herewith respectfully sub- mitted :
H. A. Willis in account with Burbank Hospital :
RECEIPTS.
For General Accounts :
From lumbering, lumber and wood sold, $1,746 35
From sale of real estate,
300 00
From sale of American Tel. & Tel. Co. rights, 270 00
From sale of Boston & Maine rail- road rights, 134 90
$2,451 25.
For Income Accounts :
City of Fitchburg, appropriation,
$16,000 00
Income from investments, 13,689 59
10,066 95
Board and care of paying patients, Free beds :
Boston & Maine Railroad, $300 00
G. W. Wheelwright Paper Company, 250 00
Fitchburg & Leominster St. Ry. Co., 250 00
H. I. & G. R. Wallace, 250 00
Crocker, Burbank & Co., 250 00
$1,300 00
Sale of books, supplies, use of opera- ting room, ambulance, telephone, radiographs, postage, etc., $1,052 65
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Sale of farm products, $585 67 61 00
Rents,
$42,755 86
Cash balance, December 1, 1910,
7,495 56
Total
$52,702 67
PAYMENTS.
For General Accounts : American Tel. & Tel. Co.,
stock, 40 shares at $151, $6,040 00
New hospital buildings, (Wiley & Foss, exten- sion of chimney), 524 79
Lumbering, (C. H. Greene, teaming), 131 06
$6,695 85
For Expense Accounts :
Hospital expense account, $41,069 50
General expense account, 894 54
$41,964 04
$48,659 89
Cash balance, December 1, 1911,
$4,042 78
Accounted for as follows :
Sales of real estate, balance,
$2,189 23
Lumbering, net proceeds,
767 63
Burbank fund,
441 79
Sorosis fund,
10 50
Balance, running expenses,
633 63
$4,042 78
PAYMENTS IN DETAIL.
GENERAL EXPENSE ACCOUNT.
W. E. Putney, insurance, $287 68
Wilbur W. Henry, services,
200 00
Massachusetts Collecting & Rating Agency, commissions, 156 75
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Charles F. Wilson, insurance, $51 11
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