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Under the Social Security Act, the policy of giving relief to Aid to Dependent Child- ren cases is definitely established by the State and Federal Governments and since they pay practically two-thirds of the gross cost then it would seem that they are within their rights in establishing a budget which we must use.
In analyzing the cost of Welfare to the City, you should, as a matter of equity, take into consideration the amount of reimbursement received through our depart- ment for the calendar year of 1941. These reimbursements should be deducted from our gross costs to find the true cost of relief to our citizens. To take the gross cost only is a pure evasion of the facts and will not give a true picture of the finances of the depart- ment.
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BOARD OF PUBLIC WELFARE
With the exception of Aid to Dependent Children, all our cases come under Chapter 117 of the General Laws and the duties of our Board is clearly defined therein and our action is obligatory and not optional.
Although the amount of reimbursement received by our department can be found in our itemized report, we would like to make a special note of it here and a word of explanation.
For the year 1941, the City of Newburyport received from the Welfare depart- ment, reimbursements from all sources and paid into the Treasurer the sum of $28,580.77, which is better than twenty-five percent of our gross cost. In addition, to the above amount, there is still due from the State for the year 1941, the sum of $9,843.20 for reimbursement on A.D.C. which we have been assured by the auditor of payrolls, will be paid in part at least within a few months.
The credit of this reimbursement belongs entirely to the employees of the Welfare department, for without their alertness and compliance with the laws governing re- imbursement, and sending bills and proper notices within the prescribed time, the City of Newburyport could not collect one penny of this money.
The problem of reimbursement is a very important function of the Welfare de- partment and the requirements of the State and Federal governments are getting more severe and exacting every month. Our accounts, at present, are in very good condition and have been for two years, when our department cleared up about fifteen accounts that had been dormant since 1931.
At the present time, the demands of the State are so exacting that it will take the full time of one employee to take care of A.D.C. and State cases alone.
At various times, it has been necessary to call upon other departments for records and data in these cases and we wish to thank them for their full co-operation.
The Horton Home report is appended to this report and is submitted as part of our general report.
Respectfully submitted,
GEORGE L. MARSHALL, Chairman of Board of Public Welfare, EDWARD F. MURPHY, ARNOLD W. COLLIS.
JAMES F. CREEDEN, Agent.
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PAYMENTS-RELIEF OF PERSONS Jan. 1, 1941-Dec. 31, 1941
Month
Cases
City
State
Other City
Total
January
309
$5,053.60
$1,350.89
$245.52
$6,650.01
February
230
4,787.83
1,318.29
128.50
6,234.62
March.
329
4,758.60
985.28
114.95
5,858.83
April
293
3,909.27
1,090.36
79.37
5,079.00
May
296
5,833.92
1,195.60
106.04
7,135.56
June .
258
5,365.70
1,132.31
77.82
6,575.83
July.
239
4,180.71
999.38
84.42
5,264.51
August .
289
4,169.50
858.20
42.20
5,069.90
September
291
3,793.72
856.20
38.39
4,688.31
October.
275
3,475.83
1,189.22
119.98
4,785.03
November
295
5,255.88
1,463.10
130.87
6,849.85
December.
305
7,202.80
1,541.55
239.03
8,983.38
Total.
$57,787.36
$13,980.38 $1,407.09
$73,174.83
PAYMENTS-1941 Administrative and General Expense
Month
Agent and Office and Clerks Incidental
Welfare Truck- Travel
Telephone
Total
January
$486.92
$6.30
$368.69
$6.25
$868.16
February
486.92
11.50
10.20
4.70
513.32
March.
593.65
53.11
23.31
6.55
676.62
April
477.84
1.15
56.15
4.85
539.99
May
597.30
70.93
16.66T
4.30
689.19
June.
477.84
39.30
25.00T
5.85
585.49
July
477.84
100.00 Com
25.00T
4.80
746.69
117.08
21.97
August.
597.30
62.05
13.60T
4,20
677.15
September
537.84
32.62
26.00T
700.68
October.
477.84
11.32
27.00T
6.65
526.56
3.75
65.29 Com
November
597.30
10.00 Proj
27.00T
8.75
800.66
9.05
83.27
December.
477.84
110.62 Com
25.00T
39.08
96.54
4.70
753.78
Total.
$6,286.43
$739.40
$990.86
$61.60
$8,078.29
7-Travel Com-Commissary
37.50
104.22
INFIRMARY EXPENDITURES-JANUARY 1, 1941-DECEMBER 31, 1941
Month
Salaries
Ins.
Food
Fuel Light
Grain
Lumber
Shoes Cloth'g
Medical Drugs
Tel.
Rep. Equip.
Misc.
TOTAL
Jan. .
$265.00
$143.32
165.82F
$111.32
$54.83
$6.28
$16.45M
$5.08
$59.00
$117.97
$989.38
Feb. .
265.00
179.86
194.45F
133.48
10.13
8.99
7.96M
4.73
35.01
78.78
952.90
March
265.00
$97.58
181.03
204.00W
142.81
4.84
4.20
15.51M
4.58
10.06
65.23
1,115.99
April .. ..
265.00
155.12
414.05W
87.34
1.54
11.15
4.00Den. 8.36M
4.33
6.31
135.86
1,193.29
May .. . .
265.00
136.00
82.00W
190.89
20.26
7.80
11.73M
4.73
54.80
107.25
984.37
June. . . .
265.00
194.06
16.95F
148.20
10.65
4.38
44.46
78.84
788.53
July .
265.00
150.47
17.70F
148.68
21.23
14.65
4.30Doc. 29.09M
5.18
150.00
76.64
916.88
Aug . . . .
265.00
272.83
27.00F
82.00
2.00
12.21Doc.
4.23
26.40
105.42
815.99
Sept.
265.00
125.00
95.86F
69.30
2.55
13.75
14.63M
43.85
40.65|
700.35
Oct. .
265.00
58.00
229.14
146.00W
117.01
2.00
11.45M
5.08
2.23
56.33
1,013.32
Nov
265.00
192.20
123.13F
118.61
57.61
16.72M
4.58
150.33
88.32
1,056.71
Dec .. . .
265.00
236.18
104.00W
5.44Doc.
30.59
163.06F
305.49
198.81
37.87
41.69M
9.06
10.96
193.13
1,672.72
BOARD OF PUBLIC WELFARE
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Total
$3,135.00$155.66|$2,195.21|$2,471.17
$1,655.13 $314.19 $176.95 $227.64
$55.96|$634.10|$1,179.42|$12,200.45
73.39F
25.91L
18.00Den.
60.00F
25.99L
23.84L
10.10
28.90L
35.00
29.76L
31.07L
5.10Doc.
84.83F
38.21L
2.00Den.
71.44L
$44.31L
31.51L
3.00Den.
121.15F
26.84L
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ANNUAL REPORT AID TO DEPENDENT CHILDREN
Month
Cases
Payments
Federal
State
City
January
39
$2,042.21
$630.25
$680.74
$731.22
February
39
1,950.32
636.25
650.10
663.97
March.
44
2,220.78
731.67
740.26
748.85
April
45
2,201.00
711.00
733.67
756.33
May
41
2,109.00
687.50
703.00
718.50
June
38
2,038.81
648.50
679.60
710.71
July.
40
2,045.50
674.75
681.83
688.92
August
39
2,128.94
651.50
709.65
767.79
September
44
2,342.00
729.00
780.67
832.33
October.
43
2,318.70
729.00
772.90
816.80
November
43
2,314.58
729.00
771.53
814.05
December.
47
2,517.75
727.50
839.25
951.00
Total.
$26,229.59
$8,285.92
$8,743.20 $9,200. 47
REIMBURSEMENTS
Aid to Dependent Children:
Bills:
June to Dec. 1940.
$3,510.04
1939-1940.
577.56
$4,087.60
A.D.C. Federal Grants:
1940:
November and December
$1,162.67
1941:
January, February, March
$1,847.97
April, May, June .
2,046.75
July, August, September.
2,055.25
October.
714.00
$7,826.64
A. D. C .- Administrative :
Adjustment for 1940
$28.38
January, February, March
85.84
April, May, June.
94.36
July, August, September.
100.64
$309.22
Total
$12,223.46
Other City Collections:
1940:
Waltham
$51.67 $51.67
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1941:
Amesbury.
$315.46
Beverly.
175.91
Byfield .
71.20
Gloucester
182.75
Hamilton
55.24
Haverhill .
69.00
Ipswich.
185.94
Lawrence
142.29
Methuen.
4.00
Newbury
462.41
North Andover
8.08
Rowley
27.00
Salem .
302.24
Salisbury
324.80
Waltham
12.21
$2,338.53
Total.
$2,390.20
State:
Temporary Aid:
1937-1938.
$325.46
1938-1939.
1,123.04
1939-1940.
302.93
1940-1941.
11,832,63
$13,584.06
Burials:
1939-1940
$200.00
$200.00
$13,784.06
Returned Aid:
By individuals :
A. D. C.
$20.12
Welfare.
162.93
$183.05
REPORT OF CITY INFIRMARY-1941
Gentlemen:
We present the annual report for year ending December 31, 1941:
Number of inmates cared for during year 40
Number of inmates at present time 31
Number of inmates unable to work. 14
Deaf mutes . 2 Average for year. 29
Money received and paid to treasurer, $306.50.
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Wood purchased-Hard wood 64 cords-Pine wood 169 cords.
Wood delivered-8,335 bags and 4 cords, 4 ft. wood.
Wood on hand-60 cords hardwood-50 cords pine slabs-50 cords pine slabs sawed and split.
Livestock at present time:
1 pr. horses-7 cows-4 heifers-1 bull-7 hogs-8 shoats-241 hens.
Vegetables raised :
300 bu. potatoes, 20 bu. beets, 40 bu. carrots, 25 bu. turnips, 25 bu. onions, 8 barrels apples, 8 bu. parsnips, 3 tons cabbage, 1 ton pumpkin and squash, 6 bu. dry beans, 12 bu. swiss chard, 10 bu. peas, 18 bu. string beans, 10 bu. cucumbers, 31 bu. to- matoes, 1 bu. sweet peppers, 78 doz. corn, 15 doz. cantaloupe.
Canned goods:
180 qts. tomatoes, 262 qts. beans, 151 qts. peaches, 91 qts. pears, 79 qts. apple sauce, 16 qts. blueberries, 43 qts. cucumber pickles, 115 qts. picalilli.
Housed 100 tons ice.
Repairs:
Laid floor in calf pen, built new door for garage, hung door on garage, with pipe hangers and trucks; installed two new tubes in boiler and have six new tubes on hand. Built body for truck, dug out and hauled off 10 apple tree stumps. New pair shafts in jigger, new pole in dump cart, repaired manure spreader and hay loader, built two new sink closets in kitchen, built 2 rose trellisses, built garden fence, built 10 screens, re- paired ice chest door and casing. New stools and casings for 11 windows, bought sawing machine without engine, and made alterations and installed 6 horse international en- gine. Bought new washing machine and bought radio.
Repairs under W. P. A. Project ยท
Painted side walls, ceilings, wood work on 18 rooms, 3 floors in men's quarters, paint- ed 70 windows on outside. Painted fire escape, laid 2 floors in basement rooms, metal lathed and plastered boiler room ceiling, painted 2 halls and stairways men's quarters. Built new porch and stairway to kitchen entrance-painted porch.
Respectfully submitted,
DUDLEY T. CURRIER,
Superintendent.
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PUBLIC LIBRARY
Eighty-sixth Annual Report of the Public Library NEWBURYPORT, MASSACHUSETTS
February 4, 1942.
Board of Directors for 1941
Dr. P. Loring Weed.
Term expires December 31, 1941
T. Joseph Mannix.
December 31, 1942
Miss Retta V. Marr
. December 31, 1943
Miss Ellen G. Todd.
December 31, 1944
Herbert W. Fogg.
December 31, 1945
Mrs. Arthur C. Peabody
December 31, 1946
Dr. T. Raymond Healy
December 31, 1947
Trustees of the Building Fund and Permanent Members of the Board
William Balch Peter I. Lawton James E. Whitney
Ex-officio James F. Carens, Mayor Edward G. Perkins, President of the Council
Secretary and Librarian Irving S. Cole
REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN FOR THE YEAR 1941
To the Board of Directors:
Herewith I submit the 86th Annual Report of the state of the Library for the year ending December 31, 1941. The usual statistics are tabulated at the end of this report.
Number of Borrowers Increase
During the year, 98 technical and scientific books were bought to meet the requests of those trying for new defense jobs in Portsmouth, Lynn and elsewhere, or training in the Machine Shop Course at the High School. Several key volumes were duplicated and placed on a long term loan in the High School.
The Library has an excellent representative collection of vocational material -- both books and pamphlets-and this was added to extensively. Demands from senior students and others seeking new employment proved their usefulness.
Various exhibitions of the work done by members of the local Red Cross Chapter
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were displayed. In the roll call for membership the Librarian directed the publicity campaign.
The work accomplished by the British War Relief Committee was likewise dis- played.
Newburyport was selected as depository for collecting books for the U.S.O. Later it was made the collection center for the surrounding towns of Amesbury, Salisbury, Rowley, Ipswich, West Newbury and Newbury in the Victory Book Campaign with the Librarian as director.
WORLD NEWS OF THE WEEK-a large weekly map, giving the status of the war on all fronts and current defense news, has proved successful in keeping the public informed.
Foreign language books totaling 131 were obtained for Armenian, Greek, Italian, Polish and Russian readers of the city. In addition 45 books were borrowed from other libraries for the benefit of Newburyport residents.
Several bibliographies, including a four page list of books on South America, were compiled for local clubs, high school teachers and individuals. All were available in the Library.
For the grade school pupils, deposits were sent to the schools, and story hours and special exhibits were arranged in the Children's Room. The three talks by two authors of juvenile books and a professional story teller were well attended. During the summer a Vacation Reading Club was again formed with 128 members. At a party for the child- ren diplomas were granted the 56 boys and girls who completed all the requirements. State Reading Certificates were also awarded in 1941. For Book Week a literary contest was held and books given as prizes.
The library messenger service to shut-ins was expanded by utilizing the services of Boy Scouts through the courtesy of Commissioner Wilbur Littlefield.
The Librarian reviewed several books before various organizations and gave a talk on "The Functions of a Library" to the Kiwanis Club.
Circulation
Circulation of books dropped from 130,948 in 1940 (the highest ever recorded in this Library) to 117,521, a loss of 13,427. The decrease may be attributed to re-employ- ment, defense activities and less money for books. The book income shrank even more and Friends of the Library contributions are allocated to a microfilm project. Yet there was an increase in the following classes: General (60%); Religion (7%); Philiosophy (3%); and Phonograph Recordings (2%). Circulation was 8 per capita while the average for the country is 6. The actual circulation per registered borrower was 14.
Friends of the Library
This year the Friends of the Library Association again gained several new members and held two meetings. In April, Marie Peary Stafford, daughter of the discoverer of the North Pole, lectured in the High School Auditorium, to an audience of approximately 450 persons, on Greenland, a timely topic since the United States had just occupied the island shortly before. In November, Ralph Tracy Hale, editor and publisher, spoke on "Famous Authors I Have Known." In 1942 it is hoped to have sufficient funds to start microfilming Newburyport newspapers. The war makes the project imperative.
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Library Progress
In January new wooden floors suitable only as bases for linoleum or rubber tile were laid in the Reading Room and most of the upstairs sections. Later in the year linoleum was added to the Reading Room floor, but the large area in the circulation and reference departments where the greatst wear comes still lacks a protective covering. I strongly urge the Board of Directors to find some means whereby linoleum or tile may be laid soon.
Most of the old books in the basement were sold after careful examination in order to permit erection of new wooden stacks. It is hoped that the W.P.A. will finish the few shelves lacking. Magazines and older books not commonly called for will be shelved in the new stacks. Additional lights will be necessary there.
The Librarian and the Staff served on various committees at the National Con- ference of the American Library Association in Boston and attended several meetings. Miss Carter took courses in Cataloguing and Reference and Miss Castle in Reference and Book Selection at the summer school of the University of New Hampshire.
Respectfully submitted,
IRVING S. COLE, Librarian.
American Library Association Form for Uniform Statistics Annual Report for the Year Ending December 31, 1941 City of Newburyport; County of Essex; State of Massachusetts Newburyport Public Library, Date of Founding: 1854
Librarian : Irving S. Cole
Population: 13, 916 (1940 Census)
Assessed valuation of city: $12,414,130.00
Terms of use: Free for lending and reference
Number of hours open per week :
For circulation. 66
For reading and study. 74
Number of days open during year. 354
Hours required of staff per week 40
Agencies:
Main Library.
1
Emma L. Andrews Branch. 1
Belleville Branch. 1
Deposits in schools. 7
Deposits in Home for Aged Men and Home for Aged Women. 2
Total number of agencies
12
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Circulation and Use
Number of volumes of adult non-fiction lent for home use.
26,279
Number of volumes of adult fiction lent for home use. 64,102
Number of books for children lent for home use.
27,140
Total number of volumes lent for home use
117,521
Period of loan for majority of adult book stock.
14 days
Number of inter-library loans: Volumes lent
14
Volumes borrowed .
45
Circulation per capita .
8
Circulation per registered borrower.
14
Registration
Adult Juvenile
Total
Total number of registered borrowers.
6,888
1,523
8,411
Borrowers registered or re-registered during year.
1,096
401
1,497
Length of registration period-3 years
Percent of population registered as borrowers-60
Book Stock
Number of volumes at beginning of year.
73,769
3,548 77,317
Number of volumes added by purchase .
1,490
Number of volumes added by gifts.
391
Total number of volumes added during year.
1,494
387
1,881
Total.
75,263
3,935
79,198
Number of volumes withdrawn during year
2,446
233
2,679
Total number of volumes at end of year
72,817
3,702
76,519
Number of newspapers received excluding duplicates
36
Number of periodicals received excluding duplicates
154
Circulation
Juvenile
Adult
Totals
Main Library.
16,054
55,656
71,710
Andrews Branch.
6,262
23,459
29,721
Belleville Branch.
4,824
11,266
16,090
Total.
27,140
90,381 117,521
Circulation by Classes
Class
No. of Volumes
General Works
135
Philosophy
477
Religion
363
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Sociology
1,162
Language
55
Science .
487
Useful Arts.
1,752
Fine Arts
1,473
Literature
1,290
History.
1,552
Travel.
2,356
Biography
3,710
Periodicals
10,194
Foreign.
179
Recordings.
312
Pamphlets
271
Deposits
80
Inter-loan.
14
Pictures .
380
Clippings
37
Total Non-Fiction
26,279
Fiction
64,102
Juveniles.
27,140
Grand Total.
117,521
Registration
Active registrations, December 31, 1940.
8,145
Borrowers registered during 1941:
New adult registrations.
274
New children's registrations
227
Adult re-registrations. .
822
Children's re-registrations.
174
Adult cancellations
848
Children's cancellations.
209
Active registrations, December 31, 1941.
8,411
(of which 1, 523 are children's)
Cataloging
Cataloged
Recataloged Adult Juvenile
Class
Titles Cataloged
Adult
Juvenile
000
General.
39
5
8
100
Philosophy.
5
31
200
Religion
10
1
1
1
300
Sociology
68
7
9
3
400
Language
4
1
500
Science
15
4
6
6
600
Useful arts.
73
8
14
3
700
Fine arts.
41
6
11
3
800
Literature.
49
7
6
2
900
History
159
8
99
1
120
ANNUAL REPORT
910
Travel.
95
1
26
3
920
Biography
142
12
93
1
Total
700
60
304
23
Fiction
799
239
93
287
Totals
1,499
299
397
310
Titles Volumes
Total cataloged.
1,794
1,798
Total re-cataloged.
668
707
Pamphlets added .
1,059
Cards Made and Filed
Filed in main catalog.
16,760
Filed in children's room catalog.
1,667
Filed in A. Br. catalog.
704
Filed in B. Br. catalog.
488
19,619
Reference cards made
106
Total.
19,725
Cataloging, Accessioning and Registration Report for 1941 Accessions
Purchased from Income of Funds:
Titles Volumes
Colby
41
41
Currier
18
18
N. D. Dodge
16
16
W. H. P. Dodge.
41
41
Foster.
5
5
Frothingham
16
16
Green
16
18
Haskell
16
16
Pathe
17
17
Peabody
167
168
Pettingell
8
8
Plumer
52
52
Sawyer
32
32
Spring
627
627
Stone.
29
29
Sweetser
107
107
Todd.
13
20
Wiggin
44
44
Williams.
20
20
1,285
1,295
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Added by General Fund
139
139
Added by Special Funds
56
56
Total purchased .
1,480
1,490
Added by gifts.
390
391
Total books accessioned.
1,876
1,881
(Of these, 51 books were replacements)
Withdrawals
Lost and mutilated.
63
63
Worn and withdrawn.
2,443
2,487
Missing and withdrawn.
59
69
Unused gifts.
60
60
Board of Health.
0
0
Total withdrawn.
2,625
2,679
Summary
No. volumes reported Jan. 1, 1941
77,317
No. volumes added in 1941.
1,881
No. volumes withdrawn in 1941.
2,679
No. volumes in library, Dec. 31, 1941.
76,519
Donors to the Library in 1941
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Abbe
Janet Milner
Wallace Adams
Mrs. Ernest Mitchell
Mrs. Frank Akerman
Raymond Mitchell
American Antiquarian Society
National Broadcasting Co.
American Legion, Mass. Dept.
National Home Library Foundation
American Petroleum Institute
New Hampshire
John W. Arbuckle
New Jersey State Library
Mrs. Susan Atkinson
Newbury, Mass.
Everett B. Barlow
Newburyport, Mass.
Bernard Baruch
Newburyport High School
Mrs. Ernest H. Noyes
Victor H. Berger Alan Bernstein
H. Greenleaf Noyes
Mrs. Pauline Berwick
Otis Noyes
Miss Grace Bixby
Old American Co.
Mrs. Charles Bliss
Mr. and Mrs. Frank S. Osgood
Mrs. Charles C. Bolton
Mr. and Mrs. Parker Miss Ethel Parton
Clement Burnhome
Miss Helen Pearson
Miss Mary J. Carey Carnegie Corporation Ernest Carroll
Rev. John C. Perkins
Hon. Charles I. Pettingell
Fred W. Piper
Mr. and Mrs. Colin Clements Mrs. William Collis Jeron Criswell
Charles E. Preble
Kenneth Reynolds
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Mrs. Ernest M. Currier Mrs. Warren Currier Miss Margaret Cushing Mrs. A. K. Dixon Laurence P. Dodge Mrs. Edith Doran
Harry Rocker Rotary Club C. A. Sahlberg
Sears, Roebuck and Co.
Miss Vinnie Sellers
Moses H. Douglass
John J. Shillaber Alfred D. K. Shurtleff
Mrs. Robert M. Driver
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.
Llewellyn N. Edwards
Mrs. Edith L. Sloman
Dr. Philip Eichler
Soc. Preservation of N. E. Antiquities
Norman Espovich Arthur L. Faubel
Miss Maud W. Sprague
Mrs. Earl F. Fillmore
Miss Emily A. Steer
Richard Foley Miss Margaret Furlong Gimbel Brothers
L. S. Tapman
Mrs. Lucy Tebbetts
Mrs. Fred Goodwin
Mrs. Mildred Thomas
Grand Army of the Republic Mass. dept. Miss Ellen G. Todd
Miss Laura Greenleaf
Towle Manufacturing Co.
Miss Lillian Greenleaf
Townsend Club
Ralph Tracy Hale
United Spanish War Veterans, Mass. dept.
Mrs. Dorothy Houle.
United States Government Printing Office
Miss Louise Howard
United States War Department
Miss Edith Howe
Mrs. William Webster
Kiwanis Club
Mrs. Orrin J. Welch
Benjamin Kray
Frank Whaland
Miss Grace Langmaid
Miss Camilla Whitney
Library of Congress
James E. Whitney
Mrs. Lena Littlefield
Francis C. Woodman
Robert W. Lull
Arthur E. Manson Massachusetts, Commonwealth of Mass.
W.P.A. Music Project
Miss Cara Sprague
Dr. Frank Sweeney
123
WATER COMMISSIONERS
Report of Water Commissioners
February 4, 1942.
To His Honor the Mayor and the City Council,
City of Newburyport, Mass.
Gentlemen:
The forty-sixth annual report of the Board of Water Commissioners is respectfully submitted herewith:
For the first time in the history of the Department emergency regulations were adopted by the Board of Health for the curtailment in the use of water. This emergency was caused by a combination of the driest year in point of rainfall on our records and the loss of the lower Artichoke Basin for the past three years as a source of supply. The water in the upper basin dropped to a point sixty-nine inches below the top of the dam which, translated into gallons of water available, was a month's supply. The rain- fall for the year was 8.07 inches less than the average rainfall for the twenty-nine year period of 1913-1941.
The Board appreciates the whole hearted co-operation of the citizens in abiding by the emergency regulations.
Plans for an emergency supply were studied by the Board and Whitman & Howard, consulting engineers. Possible connections with Salisbury, Amesbury and West New- bury were considered as well as driving test wells. The latter method was decided on and D. L. Maher of Cambridge was awarded a contract to drive test wells. One location was found to be satisfactory both as to quality and quantity but no action has been taken by the Board to develop the well as a permanent or emergency supply.
At the request of the Department of Public Health, the Board has taken certain necessary steps to meet the war emergency.
Respectfully submitted,
DANIEL J. REARDON, JOHN F. CUTTER, CHARLES F. A. HALL, WILLARD S. LITTLE THOMAS F. MCGRATH,
Board of Water Commissioners.
Clerk of Board :
Gertrude C. Gorwaiz
124
ANNUAL REPORT
Financial Report, 1941
Balance, December 31, 1940.
$2,077.23
Receipts
Water Rates
$50,289.89
Meter Rates.
11,066.33
Sundry Water Receipts.
595.83
City of Newburyport.
5,000.00
Artichoke River Maintenance.
47.30
Artichoke Station Maintenance.
64.36
Gate Maintenance
14.80
General Distribution
26.87
Hydrant Maintenance
107.37
Mains Maintenance
5.00
Pleasant Street Main.
69.14
Service Pipe Maintenance.
272.81
Service Pipe Construction.
534.72
Service Pipe Construction. Newbury
72.05
Truck Maintenance.
.60
Total Receipts.
$68,167.07
$68,167.07
$70,244.30
Payments
Artichoke River Maintenance
$1,008.08
Artichoke Station Maintenance.
5,591.94
Filter Bed
2,288.59
Gate Maintenance
71.41
General Maintenance.
3,523.55
General Distribution
3,540.95
Hydrant Maintenance.
283.88
Mains Maintenance
173.93
Meter Maintenance .
398.97
Service Pipe Maintenance, Newbury
71.00
Pleasant Street Main.
1,893.60
Pumping Station Maintenance.
22,480.43
Service Pipe Maintenance
3,599.82
Standpipe-Coffin's Ct.
104.53
Truck Maintenance
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