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March
1,071.06
878.25
1,263.87
3,213.18
April
1,156.11
929.91
1,382.30
3,468.32
May
1,149.13
913.31
1,384.96
3,447.40
June
1,143.53
907.08
1,379.99
3,430.60
July
1,089.46
877.07
1,301.85
3,268.38
August
1,213.69
962.05
1,465.34
3,641.08
September
1,216.03
958.05
1,474.01
3,648.09
October
1,336.82
1,215.56
1,458.07
4,010.45
November
1,328.31
1,241.51
1,415.12
3,984.94
December
1,344.23
1,242.00
1,446.46
4,032.69
TOTAL
13,942.09
11,692.87
16,191.35
41,826.31
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REPORT OF CITY INFIRMARY -- BOARD OF PUBLIC WELFARE
Board of Public Welfare:
Gentlemen:
We present the annual report for the year ending December 31, 1948.
No. of inmates cared for during year 33
No. of inmates at present time 22
Average no. 24
Unable to Work 11
Deaf Mute
1
Deaths
1
Money received and paid Treasurer $857.35 Wood delivered 410 bags
Wood on hand 15 cords
Livestock at present time 2 horses; 10 cows; - 6 hogs; - 150 hens
Poultry killed and used on farm 508 1bs. 5 hogs -- 1500 lbs .-- 1 steer 400 1bs.
Crops raised on farm:
50 tons hay -- 100 bu. potatoes -- 500 1bs. squash -- 35 bu. carrots -- 100 bu. corn on cob -- 35 bu. beets -- 1/2 ton cabbage -- 18 bu. onions -- 35 bu. turnips -- 20 bu. parsnips --
8 bu. kidney beans -- 40 bul swiss chard -- 15 bu. peas -- 27 bu. wax and green beans -- 36 bu. ripe and green tomatoes -- 11 bu. peaches -- 20 bu. summer cabbage -- 40 bu. sweet corn -- 5 bu. peppers -- 10 bu. cucumbers.
CANNED GOODS :
30 qts. mixed pickles -- 110 qts. piccalilli -- 140 qts. beets -- 270 qts tomatoes -- 50 qts. peas -- 210 qts wax and green beans -- 50 qts swiss chard -- 50 qts. peaches
912-20qt. cans milk -- 654 lbs. butter -- 1518 doz. eggs
Repairs for 1948:
Painted 11 bedrooms -- 2 toilet rooms -- 2 bath rooms -- 12 beds -- 14 chairs -- 6 dressers -- kitchen -- chapel -- ceilings -- woodwork -- floors -- stairways in halls of womens wing -- whitewashed all basement rooms and corridors.
Repaired ceiling in middle basement. New ceiling in corridor in west wing. Repaired pasture fence -- built new hen ward fence -- Concrete foundation under oil tank -- painted dump cart -- repaired wheel on dump cart.
Repairs on boiler -- packed handholes and man hole -- renewed fusible plug -- 20 new tubes. PURCHASES:
Purchased horse to replace one that had outlived its usefulness. Snowplow for use on tractor in clearing snow from driveways about the farm. 1 refrigerator -- 1 deep freeze unit.
Respectfully submitted,
Dudley T. Currier, Supt. Maude E. Currier, Matron
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INFIRMARY EXPENDITURES -JAN. - DEC. 1948
Jan.
Feb.
Mar.
Apr.
May
June
July
Aug.
Sept.
Oct.
Nov.
Dec.
TOTAL
Groceries
152.76
246.41
306.41
228.85
202.27
363.56
222.09
231.86
260.56
323.58
263.38
506.41
3,308.15
Fuel & Light
29.83
243.22
64.14
380.14
43.12
388.31
79.65
70.76
79.06
558.14
43.18
284.14
2,263,69
Feed & Grain
179.57
236.63
178.42
194.89
293.66
191.23
209.20
173.22
525.92
200.55
101.34
264.72
2,749.35
Shoes & Clothing
19.55
8.54
7.95
49.32
12.50
4.45
73.25
12.00
9.90
6.76
49.89
254.11
Slaughter
3.00
9.00
4.50
Pest Control
16.66
8.33
8.33
8.33
8.33
8.33
8.33
8.33
8.33
8.33
8.33
99.96
Tobacco
57.80
73.12
50.48
54.16
43.76
68.32
42.52
40.61
31.96
35.84
48.76
74.04
621.37
Telephone
5.32
4.97
6.17
5.27
5.42
4.62
9.09
10.34
4.72
4.97
60.89
Supplies
39.06
46.57
110.96
96.47
119.26
17.23
35.60
19.82
12.93
19.41
60.96
186.39
764.66
Medical
3.00
3.00
15.00
3.00
13:00
8.00
4.00
25.00
74.00
Miscellaneous
13.30
37.85
12.60
35.31.
14.10
59.45
7.70
7.80
11.57
3.40
7.48
3.40
11.47
103.22
Truck
2.70
Repairs
33.33
9.85
38.04
6.25
72.00
244.78
18.89
473.14
Barbering
24.00
30.00
24.00
18.00
30.00
24.00
24.00
30.00
24.00
30.00
48.00
306.00
Equipment
314.75
410.55
Dental
2.50
2.50
Salaries
265.00 280.00
280.00
280.00
280.00
280.00
280.00
280.00
280.00
280.00
280.00
280.00
3,345.00
TOTAL
789.33 1258.00 1387.06 1383.34 1151.62 1832.13 1006.31
992.71
1531.73
1501.31
854.83
2015.96
Board of Public Welfare
274.66
Drugs
4.48
8.66
2.50
26.60
8.16
16.45
22.50
32.29
4.85
39.84
197.00
922.30
15.00
15.00
Glasses
92
15,704.33
63.10
26.50
10.00
WELFARE EXPENDITURES-JAN. - DEC. 1948
Jan.
Feb.
Mar.
Apr.
May
June
July
Aug.
Sept.
Oct.
Nov.
Dec.
TOTAL
Groceries
503.00
691.50
540.50
776.00
348.00
292.50
373.00
251.00
497.50
583.00
758.00
1507.00
7,121.00
Fuel & Light
233.24
269.53
264.83
155.52
108.97
43.99
9.60
29.04
29.33
33.30
255.36
515.17
1,947.88
Rent
56.71
64.57
137.71
100.39
151.71
74.89
85.84
53.71
116. 34
65.20
53.14
115.12
1,075.33
Shoes & Clothing
6.80
42.49
53.80
4.85
1.95
5.90
73.50
ยท 55.60
59.23
304.12
Board & Care
295.86
40.00
216.88
329.00
45.00
12.86
170.25
159.78
65.71
56.43
501.02
506.90
2,429. 69
Medical
87.00
125.00
91.75
87.75
139.75
73.75
58.00
179.75
98.50
56.00
134.00
248.50
1,379.75
Drugs
9.85
42.52
49.98
39.77
55.48
25.41
87.46
44.442
43.64
64.73
100.45
195.77
749.48
Dental
2.00
15.00
47.90
31.53
76.19
58.31
149.59
12.60
27.50
2.35
30.00 4.88
425.85
Truck
9.00
2.70
6.25
58.86
76.81
Telephone
6.08
6.18
5.33
4.68
4.58
6.33
4.63
4.33
5.68
5.53
7.58
5.98
66.91
Travel
13.90
5.00
4.50
1.93
1.88
5.62
1.20
1.89
1.13
29.26
Transportation Burial
3.58
3.58
110.00
10.00
150.00
107.10
377.10
Temporary Aid
22.25 4.34
326.95 1791.39
48.00
121.50
762.83
3,072.82
Miscellaneous
4.34
Fospital
190.00
190.00
Postage
832.00
826.50
1294.86
1066.79
945.00
1130.50
923.00
873.47
1070.00
886.50
846.00
1267.50 11,962.12
Salaries
566.84
566.84
812.16
598.72
598.72
748.40
598.72
598.72
748.40
608.37
653.84
804.29 7,904.02
TOTAL
2623.38
2698.02 3470.77
3304.65 2540.43
2599.57
2800.77 4205.73 2900.60 2440.36 3599.56 6014.30 39, 198. 14
* Of this total of Salaries of $7,904.02, the city received reimbursement from the Federal government -- $1, 129.26.
Board of Public Welfare
93
6.00
6.00
Cash
3.00
7.00
42.00
Office Supplies
4.25
4.08
33.66
6.98
3.40
PUBLIC LIBRARY Ninety-third Annual Library Report
Newburyport, Mass.
Board of Directors for 1948
The Rev. Stanley E. Anderson James Burke
Mrs. Robert M. Driver
Miss Ellen G. Todd
Dr. Randolph C. Hurd John F. Leary Erving A. LeCain
Trustees of Building Fund and Permanent Members of the Board
William Balch John J. C. Coffin
Peter I. Lawton James E. Whitney Resigned August, 1948
Ex-officio John M. Kelleher, Mayor Edward G. Perkins, President of the Council
Librarian Katherine M. Kuechle
Library Staff
Ruth L. Anderson, Assistant
Grace Bixby, Assistant
Mary A. Cummings, Assistant
Olive Fogg, Children's Librarian Resigned December 15, 1948
Eleanor E. Gannon, Assistant
Bessie W. P. Hills, Perm. Part-Time
Eleanor M. Clancy, Children's Librarian Beulah E. Moody, Assistant
Catherine W. Parsons, Assistant
Marian G. Todd, Assistant
Vivian G. White, Assistant
Resigned November 15, 1948
Janitor C. Frank Kelleher
Report of the Librarian
To the Board of Directors of the Newburyport Public Library:
1948 was a year showing steady progress in use of the library in spite of extremes of weather. During the year a total of 86,432 books were is- sued to 9,212 borrowers as compared to 85,438 books to 8,661 borrowers in 1947. The total circulation of books (both adult and juvenile ) borrowed from the Main Library showed a gain of 3,723 over the number borrowed in the previous year. The total juvenile book circulation was 22,636 in 1948 as compared to 20,008 in 1947 - a gain of 2,628 over the previous year. Belleville Branch also showed a gain of 547 more books borrowed than in 1947. Andrews Branch, however, issued 3,276 fewer books in 1948 - the total circulation figures being 15,509 in 1947 as compared to 12,233 in 1948. The Andrews Branch loss in circulation would appear to be due to the extremely deep snow which prevailed during the winter months of 1948. One might say that the weather was the same all over the city and that, of course, is true. However, the Emma Andrews Branch faces on a fairly narrow street and access to the building was difficult although plowing and shovelling was kept up. On the other hand, the Main Library, located on State Street and the Belleville Branch at Chapel and High were more easily accessible during the months of unusually deep snow. It follows that once people have lost the habit of a regular weekly visit to the library it takes a while before the "library habit" is formed again. Another possible explanation may lie in a population shift to the north end of the city. The circulation figures at Andrews Branch for the lat- ter months of 1948 show that gradual gains are again being made. In both 1947 and 1948, 35% of the adult book circulation was of non-fiction books
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and 22% of the juvenile book circulation was non-fiction.
The number of borrower's cards increased from 8,661 in 1947 to 9,212 in 1948 - a gain of 551 over the previous year. Of these 9,212 cards 1,786 belong to children as compared to 1,585. in 1947 - again an increase of 201 over the number of the previous year. 64% of the residents of Newburyport are holders of library cards. It should be pointed out that the "life" of a library card is three years. Each month of the year cards are withdrawn as the three year period expires. By means of this continual process of withdrawal and registration an active record of cards in force is main- tained. The book stock increased from 83,281 at the end of 1947 to 84,536 at the end of 1948.
The Children's Room of the Main Library and the Andrews Branch, and the children's corner of the Belleville Branch, are perhaps more thoroughly used and enjoyed than any other department of the Library. Many of the books show signs of extreme wear and should be replaced with new clean copies. The amount of $500 as included in the estimated budget for 1949 is urgently needed and would at least make a start toward providing new copies of wornout favorite books and also some new titles. Five hundred dollars at the average price of $2.00 a volume, after discount, would pur- chase only 250 children's books or, in other words, only about 20 books a month - a very small number in comparison with the needs of the children's rooms in the main library and the two branch libraries in the north and south ends of the city. The Ethel Parton Fund, sponsored by the Friends of the Library will be welcome indeed in helping to meet some of the ur- gent need for children's books. The income from the fund will be used solely for the purchase of children's books. On December 31, 1948 the fund had reached $1,887.93 toward its goal of $2,000.
Several of the activities of the Children's Room at the Main Library, which had to be discontinued in 1947 during the building repairs, were resumed in 1948. The Saturday morning story hours at the Main Library proved popular, as did the Wednesday afternoon story hour at Andrews Branch. During 1948 a total of 44 State Reading Certificates were award- ed as compared to 32 awarded in 1947.
The Summer Reading club, omitted in 1947 due to the emergency housing of the Reading Room in the Children's Room, proved to be popular when re- sumed in 1948. 21 children completed the required reading of 15 books and each was thus entitled to place a golden apple, bearing his name, upon the "Quest of the golden apple" tree.
Book Week which opened November 15 was observed with displays of new books, programs of games, stories, and record playing. The week was high- lighted with a talk by Miss Sarah E. Mulliken on "How I came to write the Voyage of the Anna E. Smith." Miss Mulliken, always a favorite with the children, was received with great interest and enthusiasm.
Miss Fogg gave library instruction in the use of the library catalogue and reference books to all of the fifth grades in the public schools. Each class came once for instruction, accompanied by their teacher, to either the Main Library Children's Room or to the Belleville Branch. There were 13 school deposits (school sets) lent to teachers in schools in 1948.
The statistics on books circulated give only a partial picture of the use of the Library and no indication at all of the number of times the Library is consulted for reference questions. These questions frequently come via telephone, and the answers can be quickly supplied - questions such as publisher's addresses, what nations are in the World Court, who are members of the President's Cabinet, how do you pronounce - spell - or define a certain word. Other questions involve considerable research, re- quire the use of many books or magazines and tax the librarian's ingenuity in tackling the question from various angles.
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Not infrequently the inter-loan facilities of the State Division of Public Libraries have come to our rescue with a particularly involved reference question. A local laboratory, working out specifications for a new tube, called upon the library for detailed information on the effects of Violet Ray on Vitamin D. Exhaustive search of our own book collection disclosed nothing on the subject. We passed along the question to the State inter- loan and within a very short time received a specially prepared three-page bibliography on the subject from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The borrower who had requested the material looked over the bibliography, marked three or four titles which seemed to be exactly what he wanted. These titles were then requested for loan and were supplied by the Boston Medical Library. Other subjects on which books were borrowed to supple- ment our own collection were: higher mathematics; college texts on the British colonial system (for a college teacher ); Polish-English grammars; books on time study, production handbooks, industrial engineering and fac- tory management; commercial baking; sets of books in foreign languages books on psychology and safety education for use in connection with Even- ing Adult classes at the High School. 122 books were borrowed in 1948 and we lent books to the State Library in Concord, New Hampshire, to Boxford and Ame sbury.
An unusual reference project extending over approximately five months involved the use of 100 years of the Newburyport Daily News and Herald. Various members of the Immaculate Conception parish spent hours in the Reading Room going through, page by page, one hundred years of the local newspapers as their contribution to the compilation of the history of the parish. Our custodian, C. Frank Kelleher, deserves special commendation for his part in carrying so many heavy volumes up from the basement vault. The index of Newburyport newspapers for local history items, initiated and carried on by Miss Grace Bixby, also proved very helpful to the parish history as well as for many other questions during the year.
The value of this newspaper file, dating back to 1790 cannot be over- estimated. It is referred to countless times and for a variety of re- search purposes. An interesting example of its use was in supplying, through the cooperation of Mr. John Connors of the Veterans Bureau a pho- tostat copy of the issue of the paper which contained the article describ- ing the reception given General Lafayette in Newburyport. The gentlemen who had requested it, a Dean Emeritus of Miami University, was delighted to receive it. The work of microfilming the early newspapers has con- tinued throughout 1948, and we now have the papers for the years 1870 through 1902 preserved on film. We are grateful to the News Publishing Company for their cooperation in paying half the photography costs.
The Library played host at two meetings in 1948. On a May evening, the annual meeting of the Friends of the Library was held in the Reading Room of the Main Library. Mr. Charles L. Bowlby spoke informally on recent im- pressions of the Netherlands.
On June 2, the Children's Room was the scene of an all-day meeting of the Merrimac Valley Regional Library Club. Mrs. Raymond Blake, first president of the Newburyport Friends of the Library, reviewed the national scope and some of the achievements of our local group; Mr. Joseph Curtin, president of the Graphic Microfilm Company of New England, spoke on the various applications of microfilm and demonstrated the Library's micro- film reader; Miss Sarah E. Mulliken gave a delightful paper on Newbury- port authors; and Miss Olive Fogg reviewed new books for children.
The librarian in an effort to acquaint people with the library and its resources addressed the following groups : on "Community Vocational Re- sources" at Newburyport High School Career day; the annual meeting of Worcester Memorial Hospital board; the Y.W.C.A. Mother's Club; the Eastern Star program for the blind; the Young Adults Club at Central Church; the Unitarian Women's Alliance; and St. Peter's guild.
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All of the staff members deserve special thanks for the interest, en- thusiasm and skill with which they have carried out all assignments. Their personal qualifications, and loyalty to the Library, and to its ideals of service is out of all proportion to the extremely low salaries received for their services.
Two changes were made in the Library staff in 1948. Miss Vivian G. White, librarian at Emma Andrews branch and Miss Olive Fogg, Children's librarian at the Main Library, resigned from the staff to be married. The resigna- tions of these valued staff members were received with sincere regret for their loss to the Library. To fill the two vacancies occasioned by the resignations, Mrs. Ruth L. Anderson and Miss Marion . Todd were elected to the library staff. Miss Eleanor M. Clancy was transferred to the Chil- dren's Room of the Main Library and started her new duties as children's Librarian on December 16.
No occasion could be more suitable than that of the Annual Report for the expression of the Librarian's gratitude to each member of the Board of Library Directors, for his or her individual contribution to the success- ful formulation of progressive long-range library policies and goals.
The Directors, the staff, and the librarian were all saddened by the death of Dr. T. Raymond Healy in February 1948. Although Dr. Healy was not a Director at the time of his death, he had served on the Library Board at various intervals over a thirty year period. His interest in li- brary progress, problems, and policy was unflagging and unselfish. We are all greatly indebted to him for the hours he devoted in his lifetime to the Newburyport Public Library. The terms of Dr. Healy's will provided for the establishment of a fund in his name.
There is nothing spectacular about library achievements in 1948. Rather they present a picture of healthy, normal growth in use. And for a public institution now entering its 94th year and soon to be a centenarian, isn't that a hopeful, an encouraging challenge to the future?
Respectfully submitted,
Katherine M. Kuechle, Librarian
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STATISTICS
For the year ending Dec. 31, 1948
13,916
Assessed valuation
13,256,100
Number of days open during the year
304
Hours open each week for lending
66
Hours open each week for reading
66
Hours open each week for Andrews Branch
10
Hours open each week for Belleville Branch
10
BORROWERS
Adult
Juvenile
Total
January 1, 1948
7,076
1,585
8,661
Added during 1948
788
332
1,120
Totals
7,864
1,917
9,781
Withdrawn during 1948
438
131
569
Total December 31, 1948
7,426
1,786
9,212
CIRCULATION
Adult
Juvenile
Non-Fict.
Fiction
Non-Fict.
Fiction
Total
Main Library
17,410
30,501
3,098
12,337
63,346
Andrews Branch
3,480
6,212
532
2,009
12,233
Belleville Branch
1,334
4,859
1,107
3,553
10,853
Total
22,224
41,572
4, 737
17,899
86,432
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BOOK STOCK
Adult
Juvenile
Total
No. of vols. Jan.1, 1948
77, 728
5,553
83,281
No. of vols. added in 1948
1,214
180
1,394
Totals
78,942
5,733
84,675
No. of vols. withdrawn in 1948
50
89
139
Total Dec. 31, 1948
78,892
5,644
84,536
EXHIBITIONS OF HOBBIES
Children's toys and games
Lent by
Mrs. John B. Atherton
Handmade dolls
Mrs. Edward K. Piel
Maine minerals
11
=
Mr. Osmond Hunt
Mexican crafts
11
Pan American Society of N.E.
Penn. Dutch fraktur recipes (re- production), & Penn. Dutch crafts
=
Miss Katherine M. Kuechle
Playing cards
11
Mrs. Russell B. Hoyt
Sea shells
H
Miss Sylvia Wentworth
DONORS TO THE LIBRARY IN 1948
Abbe, Mr. Roy H.
Dodge, Mr. Laurence P.
Atkinson, Mrs. Susan
Driver, Mrs. Robert M.
American Acad. of Applied Nutrition
Federal Reserve System
American Petroleum Institute
Foundation for Economic Education
Bartlett, Miss Elizabeth
Fuller, Mr. Robert G.
Bartlett, Mr. John H.
General Electric
Bates, Hon. George J.
General Motors Corporation
Beal, Mr. George B.
Goethe, Mr. C. M.
Belth, Mr. N. C.
Green, Mr. Fred E.
Churchill, Mr. Richard
Grace Line, Inc.
Climax Molybdenum Company
Gue, Mr. Gurney C.
Cummings, Mr. Osmond R.
Harvey, Mrs. John
Davis, Miss Florence
Hatfield, Mr. Lewis
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Miss Grace C. Moody
Souvenir spoons
1
Population served
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Hicken, Mr. Edward E. Hoxie, Miss Elizabeth
Hussey, Mr. and Mrs. George
Immaculate Conception Parish
Pettingell, Miss Grace
International Auxiliary Language Asso. Pike, Miss Agnes
Jackson, Mr. Russell Leigh Jacoby, Miss Elizabeth Jordan, Mrs. Cyril Ladies of the Rotary
Little, Miss Eliza
Little, Mrs. Sumner
Longley, Mrs. Andrew
Longley, Mrs. M. C.
Lowell, Mrs. William
Lull, Mr. Robert W.
MacDuffie, The Rev. William L.
Maroni, Mrs. Lorenzo
Murphy, Miss Betty
Murphy, Miss Eleanor
Union Corporation
Mustard, Mrs. Ann
Volpone Motor Company, Inc.
Walsh, Mr. Henry
Wilding-White, Mrs. C.
Newburyport High School Record Staff
Woods, Mrs. Margaret
N.Y. State Dept. of the Commonwealth
Zecchini, Miss Mary F.
BOOKS PURCHASED FROM INCOME OF FUNDS
Andrews, Emma L.
14
Bradbury, John M.
2
Colby, Lucy G.B.
46
Coffin, Winthrop 0.
133
Currier, John
10
Dodge, Nathan D.
13
Dodge, William H.P.
75
Foster, Daniel
4
Fro thingham, Joseph A.
13
Green, Sarah A.
15
Haskell, George
11
Marston, Stephen W.
5
Moseley, Edward S.
1
Moulton, Alice C.
7
Pathe, Paul
6
Peabody, George C.
93
Pettingell, George B.
11
Plumer, Wilhelmina
28
Sawyer, Matthias P.
18
Spring, John Rand
243
Stickney, Elizabeth H.
270
Stone, Eben F.
75
Sweetser, Benjamin G.
95
Wiggin, Mary C.
31
Wightman, Annie S.
28
Williams, Abraham
5
Total
1252
1252
Special
56
56
GRAND TOTAL
1308
Price, Mr. Stanley R.
Public Health Institute
Reynolds, Mr. Richard J.
Richardson, Mrs. Henry
Rogers, Mr. Henry Rosicrucian Press
Rowland, Mr. Charles
Salvatore, Rosalyn
Southworth, Mr. George
Standard Oil Company
State Street Trust Company
Tibbetts, Mrs. A. H.
Toppan, Mr. Louis H.
National Association of Broadcasters National Broadcasting Company
Nicholas, Comdr. N. J.
Noyes, Mrs. H. Greenleaf Osgood, Mrs. Frank
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Report of Water Commissioners
February 12, 1949
To His Honor the Mayor and the City Council, City of Newburyport, Mass.
Gentlemen:
The Fifty-third annual report of the Board of Water Commissioners is respectfully submitted herewith.
Board of Water Commissioners,
Willard S. Little
Daniel J. Reardon
John F. Cutter
Margaret Leary, Junior Clerk
Financial Statement, 1948
Balance December 31, 1947
$15,060.50
Receipts
Water Rates
$63,275.35
Meter Rates
14,650,61
Artichoke River Maintenance
50.00
General Distribution
492.67
City of Newburyport
5,000.00
Newbury Service Pipe Construction
315.96
Newbury Service Pipe Maintenance
16.20
Sundries
752.50
Service Pipe Construction
880.29
Service Pipe Maintenance
173.31
Truck Maintenance
1.80
85,608.69 $100,669.19
Payments Maintenance
Artichoke River
$ 479.71
Artichoke Station
10,076.53
Filter Bed
2,118.40
Gate
876.07
General
4,577.14
General Distribution
3,593.42
Hydrant
1,505.89
Mains
2,294.11
Meter
626.26
Newbury -- Hydrant
2.55
Newbury -- Service Pipe
118.96
Main Pumping Station
37,919.60
Service Pipe
5,354.07
Standpipe -- Coffins Court
1,466.79
Trucks
1,449.60
$72,459.10
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Report of Water Commissioners
Construction
Hydrant
$ 112.88
Mains
1,479.20
Meter
674.21
Newbury -- Service Pipe
1,232.60
Newbury -- Extension Mains
423.24
Service Pipe
1,305.48
$ 5,227.61
Water Mains
$ 2,533.64
Federal Works Advanced Planning Funds Returned
$ 700.00
Bonds
$8,000.00
Interest
1,495.00
Retirement
2,321.00
11,816.00
Balance December 31, 1948
Respectfully submitted,
Gertrude C. Gorwaiz
Clerk
Construction & Maintenance Division 1948
Services:
Thirty-eight new Services were laid:
Twenty-one requiring 1054'-1" Cement Lined Pipe
One requiring 10'-10" of 4" Cement Lined Pipe
Six requiring 222'-8" of 3/4" Copper Pipe Ten in Newbury requiring: 534'-1" of 1" Cement Lined Pipe
133'-2" of 1}" Cement Lined Pipe 76'-8" of 3/4" Copper Pipe
Fifteen leaks in services were repaired requiring 54' of 1" Cement Lined Pipe
Forty-one services were repaired, three being in Newbury, two services were thawed and one replaced requiring: 414'-2" of 1" Cement Lined Pipe 51-6" of 12" Cement Lined Pipe 22' of 2" Cement Lined Pipe 11'-3" of 3/4" Copper Pipe
Meters:
Three new meters were set during the year. Seventeen meters were replaced, one removed, three frozen and replaced.
Hydrants:
One new hydrant set on Farrell Street. Five were repaired and four replaced.
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$92,736.35
$92.736.35 $ 7,932.84
Report of Water Commissioners
Mains:
New Mains in the following streets:
Coolidge Street 177' - of 6" Cast Iron Cement Lined Pipe
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