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Males.
Females. 47
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Newburyport
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Newbury
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Massachusetts
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New Hampshire
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Other states.
16
Foreign countries
52
In order to compare weekly rate of deaths with meteorological changes we annex for each week end- ing Saturday .
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SUMMARY OF METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS, FROM JUNE, 1879, TO JANUARY, 1880.
WEEK.
BAROMETER.
THERMOMETER.
REL. HUMIDITY.
RAIN FALL
WIND.
Commencing.
Ending.
Mean.
Max'm. Min'm. Range
Mean Max.
Min.
Range
Mean Max.
Min. Range
Inches. Hours
Prevailing.
Obs'v's
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1
June ..... 7
8
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. 468
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70.2
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63
. 030
1:30
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10
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. 748
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46
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56
1.282
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8
66
22
28
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71 5
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55
38
75.7
95
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51
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3:15
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8
29.980 30.232 29.634 .598
68.51
93
55
38
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60
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8
July ...... 6
66
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. 605
66.8
86
47
39
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29.833|29.919 29.680
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55
36
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33
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9
. 525
62.2
87
51
36
75.1
95
47
48
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S.W. & N.E.
12
441
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87
50
37
80.9
94
46
48
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7:10
N. E.
6
September 6
29.955 30. 106 29. 791
. 315
65.6
88
50
38
79.5| 100
40
60
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16:50
N. W.
7
September 7
14
20
30.058 30.312 29.780
. 532
58.3
74
46
28
79.0
97
42
55
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6
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70
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34
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59
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30.101 30.526 29.598 .928 37.4
56
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December
66
13
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63
23
40
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96
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6
66
21
27
30.205 30.701 29.870 .831
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100
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68
1.350 34:00
N.W. &S.W.
14
28
January . . 3
30.223 30:714 29.829
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47
4
43
65.81
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50
518
5:00
S. W.
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METEOROLOGICAL STATISTICS.
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9
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29.933 30.101 29.660
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60.2
REGULATIONS OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH.
The Board of Health of the City of Newburyport, appointed under provisions of the Acts of 1877, Chapter 133, hereby make and publish, as required by law, the following regulations for the public health and safety :-
[EXTRACTS FROM GENERAL STATUTES, Chap. 26, Sect. 5.]
The Board shall make such regulations as it judges necessary for the public health safety, Whoever violates any such regulations shall forfeit a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars.
PREVENTION OF DISEASE .- PRIVIES, DRAINS, &c.
REGULATION 1. No privy or water closet, not having a water-tight vault, or such vault with a water-tight drain to carry the contents to a proper reser- voir, shall be established within two rods of any well, spring or other source of water used for culinary purposes; and such reservoir shall be at least two rods from any such water source ; provided, however, that earth privies or closets, where dry earth or ashes is daily added to the deposit vaults, in suffi- cient quantity to absorb all moisture, and the entire contents are removed weekly, may be so established.
REG. 2. No ashes, bricks, stones, garbage or other refuse shall be thrown into any vault or cess-pool, and the utmost vigor of the board will be given to the enforcement of this regulation.
REG. 3. No night-soil shall be removed from any vault within the city from the first day of April to the first day of November, without permission of the board, and then only between the hours of ten o'clock, p. m. and sun- rise.
REG. 4. Within the limits bounded by Ashland street on the northwest, by Merrimac river on the northeast, by Marlborough street on the southeast, and by High street on the southwest, including the premises on both sides of
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said street, (which area shall constitute health limits), no night-soil shall be removed from any vault from the first day of November to the first day of April, only between the hours of six p. m. and sunrise.
Parties removing night-soil without the limits specified can do so during the day ; provided they do not pass through the health limits.
REG. 5. Persons removing night-soil must have their carts water-tight and their loads so securely retained as to prevent any overflow, waste or dropping upon the streets of this city ; and all carts conveying any decomposing or of- fensive substance inust be effectually covered. The board will vigorously en- force the provisions of this regulation in every case.
REG. 6. No ashes, house offal, dead animals, or refuse of any kind shall be thrown upon the street by any resident; and no butcher, fishmonger, or vendor of merchandise, shall leave any refuse on the streets of the city.
REG. 7. No hogs or goats shall be kept within the limits specified in Reg- ulation 4, except in pens kept free from standing water, and regularly and freely disinfected : and no hog shall be kept within three rods of any dwelling elsewhere, except the pens be kept free from standing water. The board will order the removal of such animals within the specified limits in any case where they may appear to be prejudicial to public health, safety or comfort.
REG. 8. No animals affected with an infectious or contagious disease shall be brought within the limits of the city. No diseased animal, or its flesh, shall be sold or offered for sale; and no decayed, diseased or unfit meat, fish, vegetables, fruit or other article of food shall be sold or offered for sale.
REG. 9. No person shall sell, or offer for sale, adulterated milk, or milk produced by animals improperly fed; and whoever is supplied with milk, which there is good reason to believe is adulterated, or is so produced, shall at once submit the same, with the name of the seller, to the Inspector of Milk.
REG. 10. No slaughter-house or abattoir shall be established or used as such within the limits specified in Regulation 4, and none elsewhere within the limits of the city, unless kept free from all obnoxious smells, and all offa, be removed daily, and notice be given to the board of its establishment.
REG. 11. No manufacturing or other establishment, giving rise to obnox - ious or injurious odors, shall be established, except in such locations as this board shall assign; and all existing manufactories, stables, etc., shall use all means available to render themselves inodorous and non-objectionable.
REG. 12. All putrid or decaying animal or vegetable matter must be re- moved from all cellars and outbuildings, on or before June 1, and if not buried must be deposited at least five roads from any highway.
REG. 13. No fish, slaughter-house offal, or other decaying animal matter,
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shall be left upon land for purposes of fertilization, without being ploughed n or otherwise rendered inoffensive.
VACCINATION.
REG. 14. Every child must be vaccinated before Two years of age. The board earnestly recommend that all children shall be vaccinated before six months of age, and that all persons be re-vaccinated as often as once in five years.
REG. 15. All persons above two years of age who have never been vacci- nated must be vaccinated immediately.
REG. 16. All incorporated manufacturing companies in this city shall cause each new employe to be vaccinated on entrance, unless proof is fur- nished of successful vaccination within five years.
REG. 17, The provisions of the 16th regulation shall also apply to the keeper offthe almshouse and jail in reference to each new permanent occu- pant.
REG. 18. No person, teacher or scholar, shall become a member of any public school till vaccinated, unless furnishing to the school committee the certificate of a regular physician of this city that he or she has been success- fully vaccinated within five years.
REG. 19. The school committee are required to demand such certificates before granting permits to scholars or appointments to teachers.
RESTRICTION OF DISEASE.
REG. 20. Any householder, in whose dwelling there shall break out a case of cholera, yellow fever, or small-pox, shall immediately notify the board of health of the same, and, until instructions are received from the board, shall not permit any clothing or other property that may have been exposed to in- fection, to be removed from the house, nor shall any occupant take up res- idence elsewhere without the consent of the board.
REG. 21. Any physician who may be called to a case of either of the dis- eases specified in the foregoing regulation, shall at once report such case to the board and receive their instructions in regard thereto; and whenever there shall come under the observation of any physician such number of cases of scarlet fever, measles, typhoid fever, dysentery, "cerebro-spinal menin- gitis," or diphtheria, as in his opinion to justify the belief that a considerable epidemic thereof exists, he shall at once report the same to the board, with such suggestions in regard thereto as may seem to him expedient.
REG. 22. No person sick with any of the diseases specified in Reg. 21,
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shall be removed at any time except by permission and under direction of the board of health.
REG. 23. Persons affected with either of the diseases specified in Reg. 21, and all articles infected by the same, must be immediately separated from all persons liable to contract or communicate the disease, and none but nurses and physicians will be allowed access to persons sick with these diseases.
REG. 24. All vessels used by such patients must be emptied immediately after use, and cleansed with boiling water.
REG. 25. Persons must not leave the premises until they, together with their clothing, etc., shall have been disinfected, and permission given by the board of health.
REG. 26. All bedding and personal clothing affected by contagion or infec- tion, which can without injury, must be washed in boiling water.
REG. 27. Infected feather-beds, pillows and hair mattresses must have their contents taken out and thoroughly fumigated, and their ticks washed in boiling water. Infected straw and excelsior mattresses must have their con- tents removed and buried, and their ticks washed in boiling water. Infected blankets, sheets and pillow-cases, and all articles in contact with or used by the patient must be washed in boiling water.
REG. 28. Personal clothing and bedding, particularly comforters, which cannot be wet without injury; must be disinfected by baking or fumigation ; but no article must be burned without the direction of the board of health, and all disinfection and fumigation not specified in Reg. 26, 27, and 28, must be done by or under the direction of the board of health.
REG. 29. No person or article liable to propagate a dangerous disease shall be brought within the limits of the city, without the special consent and di- rection of the board; and whenever it shall appear to any person that such person or article has been brought into the city, immediate notice thereof shall be given to the board, and, if such person article remains within the city, the location thereof.
BURIAL GROUNDS AND INTERMENTS.
REG. 30. During the month of February, or within sixty days thereafter, he board of health shall appoint, for the period of one year from the first day of March in the year in which they shall be appointed, such a number of fun- eral undertakers as the said board shall deem it expedient, who shall be re- sponsible for the decent, orderly and faithful inanagement of the funerals un- dertaken by them, and a strict compliance with the rules and regulations of the board of health in this behalf. Said undertakers shall always be remova- ble at the pleasure of the board of health, and each of them shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, give a bond in a sum not less than five
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hundred dollars, with sufficient sureties, to be approved by the board of health, for the faithful performance of the duties thereof and a strict compliance with the rules and regulations of the said board concerning burial grounds and in- terments within their limits. No person not appointed and not having given bonds as aforesaid shall undertake the management of any funeral ..
REG. 31. No person shall bury or inter, or cause to be buried or interred, any corpse at any other time of the day than between sun rising and sun set- ting, except when otherwise permitted by the board of health or the clerk of the board. The corpse of every person of ten years of age or upwards shall be conveyed to the grave or tomb in a funeral car to be drawn by not more than two horses.
REG. 32. No person shall carry or cause to be carried in a public carriage the corpse of any person dying from a contagious or infectious disease.
REG. 33. No grave shall be opened or dug in any of the burying grounds of the city unless by permission of the board of health or its clerk.
REG. 34. No conductor on any railroad, no master of any steamboat or other vessel, no hack driver or other person, shall remove or cause to be re- moved from the city the corpse of any person, unless by written license from the board of health or its clerk.
REG. 35. No person shall remove the corpse of any person or the remains of any such corpse from any of the graves or tombs in this city, or shall dis- turb any corpse in any grave or tomb therein without the written license of the board of health or of its clerk.
REG. 36. No grave or tomb shall be opened from the first day of June to the first day of October, except for the purpose of interring the dead, without the written license of the board of health or of its clerk.
REG. 37. The clerk of the board of health shall have authority to grant or withhold permission or license touching the matters mentioned in the 33d, 34th, 35th and 36th of the foregoing rules and regulations of the board of health, subject always to the direction, authority and control of the board of health.
REG. 38. During the month of February, or within sixty days thereafter, the board of health shall appoint a superintendent of burial grounds, who shall have the care and custody of all the burying grounds in the city, except- ing those otherwise regulated by law, and it shall be his duty to keep the same in good order and condition, secured from trespassers, and to prevent any and all nuisances therein; to point out the place, depth, width, and range of all graves to be dug in the several burying grounds under the city, and to declare the limits in such grounds within which no grave shall be dug, which in his judgment would be dangerous to the public health. He shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, give a bond in a sum not less
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than five hundred dollars with sufficient sureties to be approved by the board of health, for the faithful performance of the duties of his office.
REG. 39. No person shall bury or inter, or cause to be buried or interred any corpse within the city limits, without first having obtained a license so to do from the board of health or its clerk, or in violation of any direction or order of the superintendent of burial grounds given in accordance with the next preceding rule and regulation.
REG. 40. No person shall inter or cause to be interred the corpse of any person in a grave which shall be less than three feet deep from the surface of the ground surrounding the grave to the top of the coffin.
REG. 41. The superintendent of burial grounds shall have authority in all matters relating thereto contained in the 38th regulation hereof, subject al- ways to the direction, authority, and control of the board of health.
REG. 42. Any place of deposit for house, shop, or other rubbish or refuse matter; and any drain, privy, or vault, in any part of the city, which shall appear to this board to be unfit, insufficient, or not properly situated, con- structed, or cleansed ; and any cellar or vacant ground, and any hog pen or deposit of manure in the compact part of the city; may, in the discretion of the board be declared and deemed a public nuisance, and as such be held subject to all the provisions concerning the removal or abatement of the same pro- vided by the laws of the commonwealth.
REG. 43. No vault or privy shall hereafter be constructed so that the in- side thereof shall be less than three feet distant from the land of an adjoining proprietor without his consent, nor less than six feet from any public street or way ; and if constructed at a less distance in either case, the same shall be deemed a public nuisance and treated as such.
REG. 44. No person shall cast any dead animal, fish entrails, decayed veg- etables, house or other rubbish, or any other foul or offensive matter, into any pond within the city, or into any dock or landing place within the city, or any of the waters of the river or sea adjacent thereto, except at a point below low water mark, or at such place or places above the same as may be designated by the board of health.
REG. 45. After April 1, 1879, no swine shall be kept within the limits bounded by Ashland street on the northwest, by Merrimac river on the north- east, by Marlborough street on the southeast, and by High street on the south- west, including the premises on both sides of said streets, without a special permit from the board of health. Such permits will be issued free of charge, and any violation of the conditions named therein will cause a revocation of the same. Anything in Regulation 7th of the regulations of this board, in- consistent with this regulation, is hereby repealed.
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The board earnestly bespeaks the co-operation of every individual in securing the desirable sanitary con- dition, to promote which the foregoing regulations are framed.
All citizens are requested to notify the board of any existing nuisance or cause of injury to health.
WARREN CURRIER, r Board HENRY M. CROSS, of
GEORGE W. SNOW. Health.
Newburyport, Feb. 2, 1879.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
CITY OF NEWBURYPORT
FOR THE YEAR
1879.
CITY OF NEWBURYPORT.
TERRA MARIQUI MDCCCLI
NEWBURYPORT : WILLIAM H. HUSE & CO., PRINTERS, 42 STATE STREET. 1880.
ANNUAL REPORT.
SALARIES.
A reduction of $1700 was made in the annual sala- ries of school teachers by the School Committee the present year. Of this reduction, one quarter, $425, was made on the salaries of the four teachers of the High school; $300 on the eight teachers of the Kelley school; $175 on the Jackman boys' grammar school; $75 on the Currier boys' grammar school; $75 each on the three female grammar schools; and on twenty-one primary school teachers, $25 each, making for these $525 in all; on the Plains school the reduction was $50, a total of $1775. In the Bromfield street boys' grammar school an increase of $100 was made in the salary of the principal, and a reduction of $25 in that of the assistant, a total in- crease of $75, and bringing the reduction on the sala- ries for the whole corps of teachers to the sum named, $1700.
FROM REPORTS OF SUB-COMMITTEES.
PRIMARY SCHOOLS BELOW STATE STREET.
The Temple street primary, of which Mrs. W. S. Gray is principal and Miss S. N. Badger assistant,
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now numbers about 80 scholars, which is fully as many as two teachers can do complete justice to, and the discipline and progress of said school are satisfac- tory.
The Jackman primary schools in School street are now quite full, the three rooms numbering between 85 and 90 scholars. Miss H. M. Currier is the principal, and Miss E. H. S. Pike the assistant in the upper room and Miss H. H. Page in the room on the lower floor. The condition of these schools is excellent. Miss Currier's room is noticeable for the excellence of its deportment and the large average attendance, as well as for the interest that the scholars take in their studies, and the success they attain in the same. It would indeed be difficult to suggest any change in the management of this room which would materially improve its condition. Miss Pike, who is the regular assistant, is temporarily absent from sickness, and her work is continued by Miss Belle Emerton as efficiently as could be ex- pected. In the lower room, of which Miss Page has charge, there is a good attendance, and the pupils almost uniformly present an array of bright eyes and intelligent faces such as is pleasing in any school.
The girls' primary school in Purchase street is also doing good work, and represents a very creditable state of scholarship and deportment. Miss Susie B. Lowell the principal, and Miss Mary E. Estes the as- sistant, are both faithful and conscientious in the per- formance of their duties, and strive to elevate their school to an equality with any of the same grade in the city. The attendance in both departments is about 75. The Charles street school merits more than a passing notice. A year ago, when the present
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teacher, Miss Annie S. Wheeler, took charge, it was in a somewhat demoralized condition. In the first place the school building was and is an exceedingly poor one, and ought either to be rebuilt or thorough- ly put in order. A good airy and pleasant school room is a great stimulus to good work, and a car- dinal condition toward any meritorious success. Here the condition of the building is deplorable. In addition to this influence to contend against, the boys attending this school are among the most unruly in the city, and the representation of several nationali- ties. They are a class who require a teacher of peculiar tact, firmness and decision of character, in order to maintain any discipline among them, or to secure their attention sufficiently to make their instruction at all profitable. Miss Wheeler seems to answer these requirements. She has to an eminent degree succeeded in establishing good deportment, and in reducing the school to a proper state of disci- pline and obedience. And now it is submitted that the Charles street school is one of the most orderly and best managed primaries in the city. The maxi- mum attendance is 40, and the progress made in the branches there taught is fully up to the standard re- quired.
The primary school in Bromfield street still main- tains its high standard of merit. Miss RhodaTilton, the principal, is an experienced and efficient eacher, and her success is too well known to need comment now. Her pupils number 41, which is one more than the number of seats in the room, and the average attendance for a considerable time was about 38 which is certainly as large an average as the record of any school in this city or elsewhere will
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show. The deportment is all that could be asked for, and the efficiency and thoroughness of the instruction is easily apparent to any one visiting the school. The room of the assistant, Miss Carrie M. Clement, is also well kept, and much that has been said in re- gard to the principal is applicable to the assistant also.
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