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Permits have been granted for new construction and alterations up to an estimated value of nearly $260,000 divided as follows :
40 New Dwellings $176,700.00
52 Garages 45,675.00
67 Alterations 37,020.00
II Other buildings 445.00
$259,800.00
All of these are either finished or are in process of construction with the exception of a Public Garage on Main Street and three two- flat dwellings on the Lynn Fells Parkway near Bellevue Avenue.
This with the increased cost of labor and material is not a bad showing.
There is very little difficulty in getting people to live up to a posi- tive ordinance, but there are many questions that have to be decided on the intent of an ordinance, and many times the Department is puzzled to make a decision that will in no way conflict with a positive ordinance governing a similiar case. More so this year than ever be- fore.
Part IV, Sec. 34 of the Building Ordinances, entitled "Water from Roofs," has been brought to the attention of the citizens in various ways and in some cases complied with, as one may see by walking along Main Street. It is not perfect but it is a beginning.
Owing to the small revenue derived from money invested in real estate and the increased cost of repairs, there has been great objection to complying with the Ordinance at this time. It is hoped, however, that before long every citizen will come to feel that it is for his own as well as for the City's interest that this be complied with.
The Department has been able to get some of the objectionable old buildings torn down during the year and the owners in every case have been willing to co-operate.
I am still of the opinion that the additions to the Ordinances as recommended in last year's report ought to be passed and that complete ordinances be printed and distributed.
WILLIAM S. ALLEN,
Inspector of Buildings.
Report of Sealer of Weights and Measures
Number of Scales Adjusted 57 Number of Scales Scaled 815
Number of Scales Condemned II
The Scales in use in the Stores arc kept in good condition and most of the many complaints we get are found to be errors which are cheer- fully remedied when attention is called to the fault. The Scales in the Stores are under the supervision of this Department and are kept in first class weighing condition.
There are very few unfair Dealers in the City and we hope to be able to stop them all soon. They are all under supervision and if the public will call us in before trying to fix it up themselves we will stand a better chance of catching the culprit.
Most of the complaints are without foundation and in many cases the Scales at Home are wrong. If people will watch the Scales in the Stores when in doubt there would be less complaint.
Respectfully, CHARLES E. MERRILL,
Şealer.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
BOARD OF HEALTH
OF THE
CITY OF MELROSE
FOR THE
YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31st,
1917
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CITY OF MELROSE
MAYOR Honorable Charles H. Adams
BOARD OF ALDERMEN COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION, HEALTH AND CHARITY
Goodwin, Noyes, Howard, McLean, Frame, Hayden, Woodward
MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH
Dr. Clarence P. Holden Dr. Ralph R. Stratron
Philip B. Carter, Esq.
21 Vine Street 654 Main Street 26 Poplar Street
OTHER OFFICERS
Verna L. Vinton, Clerk
Andrew J. Burnet, Plumbing and Sanitary Inspector
Frank P. Sturges, V. S. Inspector of Animals and Slaughtering
David O. Parker, Inspector of Slaughtering
Henry E. Berger, Inspector of Milk
Dr. Arthur T. Gage, Dr. Joseph H. Fay, Dr. Albert E. Small, Medical Inspectors of Schools. Dr. F. Robertson Sims, Acting Medical Inspector of School.
Miss Jennie M. Irving, Public Health Nurse.
Report of the Board of Health
General Health -The general health of the city during the year so far as transmissible disease is concerned has been very good.
Diphtheria .- There was a total of eighty-five cases, the largest number of cases reported in any year during the past ten years except in 1914, when there was eighty-six. There were four deaths resulting from these cases. A large number of the cases were mild and un- recognized, many of them affecting the nose alone.
The epidemic began in the Lincoln School during the latter part of the summer term and at the close of school was apparently under control. Results proved, however, that this was not so. During the summer vacation cases were cropping out, nearly all of them in boys who were in the habit of visiting the bath house at Ell Pond. Finally a number of these mild, unrecognized cases were located among these boys. During August twenty cases were reported and in September twenty-three, but the opening of school gave opportunity for a closer supervision of the children, and during October, November and De- cember the epidemic was checked.
Scarlet Fever .-- There were forty-two cases as against eleven in 1916, but no deaths.
Typhoid Fever .-- The smallest number of cases of typhoid fever wes reported of any year during the past ten years, there being only three, with no deaths.
Whooping Cough .- Only six cases of whooping cough occurred during the whole year, these being all of foreign origin.
Infantile Paralysis .- No cases were reported during the whole year.
Tuberculosis .- There remained on the list of cases December 31, 1916 twenty-three, and eighteen new cases were reported during the year and two cases were removed from the arrested list to the active list, making a total of forty-three cases on the list for the year 1917.
The disposition of these cases was as follows: arrested two, deaths eleven, removals two, leaving twenty-eight cases on the list at the close of the year, December 31, 1917, as against twenty-three cases in 1916. Of the new cases reported, one was abdominal and the rest were all pulmonary. Fifteen of these cases are classified as originating in Mel- rose, and five as having originated outside. The total amount ex- pended in the care of Tuberculosis cases was $818.66 as against $1,635.71 in 1916.
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Tuberculosis Dispensary .- The Tuberculosis Clinic maintained by the Melrose Hospital for the City of Melrose under the supervision of the Board of Health was open during the year. The difficulty of main- taining a tuberculosis clinic or dispensary in Melrose is the lack of any considerable number of dispensary cases, so that the principal work of the clinic has been the examination of children in families where a case of tuberculosis had occurred.
Bacteriology .- The bacteriological examination of milk is done by the Milk Inspector and full results will be found in his annual report. The other bacteriological work to wit: the examination of sputum for the diagnosis of tuberculosis, the examination of blood and other se- cretions for typhoid fever, malaria, and ophthalmia neonatorum, also the examinations of throat cultures for diphtheria have been done, as heretofore, by the State Department of Health.
Antitoxin .- Antitoxin for the treatment of diphtheria, furnished without charge by the State Department of Health, has been distribut- ed to physicians as heretofore.
Vaccination .- Fifty-three successful vaccinations have been per- formed at this office and seventy-eight certificates of successful vac- cination have been issued.
Disinfection .- The Board has largely discontinued disinfection by formaldehyde gas at the close of cases of contagious disease. So far as our experience goes no secondary cases occurred thus far which could have been supposed to have resulted from infection by the room where a patient had been kept or by any articles contained therein.
SCHOOL INSPECTION
Medical inspection of the schools in Melrose is under the super- vision of the Board of Health.
The services of two valuable Medical Inspectors have terminated during the year to the regret not only of the Board but also to the Schools to which they have for years given efficient service. Doctor Ralph R. Stratton, by resignation, was succeeded by Doctor Joseph H. Fay, Doctor Albert E. Small asked for a leave of absence upon enter- ing the Army Medical Service and was succeeded by the appointment of Doctor F. Robertson Sims as acting School Physician.
It was deemed wise that the Board should take over the medical inspection of St. Mary's School and this was done with the cordial approval of Rev. Father Glynn.
The outbreak of diphtheria in the Lincoln School, as detailed in account of diphtheria, was the most serious outbreak in the schools during the year.
There has been a notable decrease of the contagious skin diseases.
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A larger number of school children than in previous years has been examined for working certificates, the number being 115.
GARBAGE AND RUBBISH
Chapter 6, Section I of the Regulations of the Board of Health has been amended and reads as follows, viz :
"Householders and the proprietors of stores, groceries and mar- kets, or any other places where garbage is made, kept or stored, and the landlords of all apartments and tenement houses shall provide sepa- rate receptacles, of sufficient size, for household waste and garbage.
First .- A covered, watertight, flyproof bucket for offal, refuse, animal and vegetable waste, such receptacles to be kept covered, in a place secure from the depredation of dogs and other animals, and con- venient of access. The contents thereof to be removed only by the persons authorized by the Board of Health.
Second .- All garbage must be drained and water kept out of the garbage bucket. No tin cans, broken crockery or glass bottles shall be put in the offal bucket but these should be put in the ash barrel. Raw meat, fish or fowl or any parts thereof shall be wrapped in paper be- fore placing them in a garbage receptacle. OFFAL ON THE GROUND WILL NOT BE COLLECTED.
Third .- Barrels, preferably of iron, shall be provided for ashes and other dry household waste, to be removed by or under the super- vision of the Superintendent of Public Works. All paper should be securely bundled or baled, and kept separate from the ashes."
The Board has continued the system of collection of garbage by contracts, dividing the city into three districts, and contracts for the term of three years ending May 1, 1920 have been made. It is the opinion of the Board of Health that the collection of garbage has been more satisfactory during the past year under this system than ever before.
It may be noted here that the quantity of garbage collected during the year under the very high prices of all food products has probably decreased 40 per cent.
ORDINANCES RELATIVE TO HEALTH An Ordinance Relative to Cesspools and Privies
Section I. No cesspool shall hereafter be constructed and after May I, 1917, no cesspool shall be maintained within the limits of the City of Melrose, unless the same shall conform to the following re- quirements : Where the ground is suitable, a leaching cesspool shall be built of concrete construction within three feet from the top, tightly
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covered and made fly proof; where the ground is not suitable for a leaching cesspool, a water tight cesspool shall be constructed, tightly covered and made fly proof. The kind and size of cesspool shall be determined by the Board of Health and shall depend upon the soil foundation and the amount of sewage or drainage to be emptied into such cesspool. No cesspool shall be covered until inspected and ap- proved by an agent or inspector of the Board of Health.
Section 2. No privy shall hereafter be constructed and after May I, 1917, no privy shall be maintained within the limits of the City of Melrose unless the same shall conform to the following requirements : The privy vault shall be water tight with eight inch concrete wall, sides, ends and bottom and properly covered at the rear and made fly proof, the size to be four feet by four feet by four feet, inside measurements. Provided, however, that this section of the ordinance shall not apply to temporary privies constructed by contractors or builders who re- ceive a permit from the Board of Health to maintain a vault for the use of employees ; such temporary privy, however, to be kept and main - tained under such restrictions and regulations as the Board of Health may from time to time prescribe.
INSPECTION OF RANGE BOILERS
Section 9. No range boiler shall be installed unless its capacity is plainly marked thereon in terms of the Massachusetts Standard Liquid Measure, together with the maker's business name in such man- ner that it may easily be identified.
No copper, iron or steel pressure range boiler, whether plain or galvanized, or other vessel or tank in which water is to be heated under pressure, shall be installed without having stamped thereon the maker's guarantee that it has been tested to not less than two hundred pound hydraulic pressure to the square inch.
And no such boiler or other vessel or tank in which water is to be heated under pressure shall be installed if the working pressure is greater than forty-two and one-half per cent of the guaranteed test pressure marked thereon by the maker.
And no such boiler or other vessel or tank in which water is to be heated under pressure, shall be installed unless it has safety and . vacuum valves to prevent siphonage and expansion or explosion, satis- factory to the Inspector of plumbing.
The Plumbing Inspector must be notified when this work has been completed.
Note .- For further report see the report of the Plumbing Inspec- tor.
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MOSQUITOES
The mosquito nuisance was very much less prevalent than during the year of 1916. The Board continued on a small scale the practice of treating stagnant pools with petroleum oil to prevent the hatching of mosquitos.
BARBER SHOPS
The barber shops have been inspected, and are rated from a sani- tary viewpoint as good, fair and unclean.
8 are rated good; I is rated fair; o are rated unclean.
BAKERIES
Bakeries have been inspected as required, and all were found in good, sanitary condition.
DAIRY INSPECTION
Dairies in Melrose and nearby, supplying milk to Melrose inspected by the Board of Health are not scored but are rated as excellent, good, fair and unclean.
Number rated excellent, I; Number rated good, 13; Number rated fair, 5; Number rated unclean, o; Total number inspected, 19; Licenses issued, 68; To sell milk from stores, 28; To sell milk from wagons, 26; To sell oleomargarine, 14.
It is obviously impossible for the Board to inspect dairies in Ver- mont, New Hampshire, and Maine supplying milk in Melrose. This has not been done.
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NUISANCES
The following is the list of nuisances abated by order of the Board of Health or its agents, during the year and in parallel column, nuis- ances abated during the previous year.
1916
1917
Privy Nuisances
2
4
Privies abolished
6
5
Cesspool nuisances
II
IO
Cesspools abolished
I4
9
Premises connected with sewer by order of Board
2 0
Hen nuisances
4
4
Dumping nuisances
17
19
Pig nuisances
0
2
Stable nuisance and exposed manure
4
IO
Stagnant Water
4
4
Insufficient Sanitary provision
I 2
Defective Plumbing
4 9
Defective drainage
I 6
Animals in apartments
I
0
Committing nuisance
O
3
Flies
I 0
Exposed garbage
0
IO
Exposed Food
O
2
City water offensive
0
I
Complaints investigated and no cause for complaint
I2
3
Dead animals buried
62 50
Other nuisances
9 4
12
Uncleanly premises
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BOARD OF HEALTH REPORT
Table I FINANCIAL STATEMENT
Total Appropriations.
EXPENDITURES
General Administration
1,199.14
1,199.68
Salaries of Board
650.00
650.00
Salary of Clerk
310.51|
291.84
Telephone
51.16
63.27
Stationery and postage
48.27
62.55
Office Furnishings
30.54
Reports and Ads
73.62
Transportation
103.97
Sundries
35.04
28.05
Other Expenses
Plumbing Inspection
660.75
649.96
Sanitary Inspection
34.30
193.73
Examination of throat cultures
4.00
14.00
Fumigation and disinfection
.86
Burial of dead animals
41.00
56.50
Dumps
9.40
13.40
Medicine
14.21
Serving notices
4.60
Office Supplies.
61.46
Transportation
6.81
3.50
Care of insane
46.00
Inspection if Ice
28.50
Ads and Reports
56.04
Office Furnishings.
49.08
49.68
Tank Wagon and Cesspool cleaning
92.82|
65.85
Educational
45.93
Sundries
28.78
11.01
Quarantine and Contagious Disease Hosp
2,498.89
Maintenance of patients at hospital
1,100.61
2,136.84
Reimbursement of other cities
51.00
84.29
Transportation
109.50
115.50
Outside Aid
1.20
22.4
Nurse
112.29
Printing
7.75
Repairs on hospital
48.35
Sundries
27.49
Inspection
875.00
1,104.75
Inspection of School Children
273.00
393.75
Public Health Nurse
100.00
Inspection of animals and slaughtering
102.00
111.00
Inspection of milk
100.00
100.00
Milk analyses
400.00
400.00
Refuse and Garbage Disposal
2,299.18
3,847.85
Tuberculosis
1,635.71
818.66
Outside Aid
239.11
136.68
Board and supplies in hospitals
1,375.88
679.98
Sundries
20.72
2.00
TOTAL EXPENDITURES
8,375.67
10,663.77
Revenues of Board of Health
491.13
365.07
Licenses
43.00
38.00
Reimbursements
448.13
327.07
Reimbursed to other expenses
42.12
1916
1916 Totals $8,475.00
1917
1917 Totals $10,997.85
1,193.94
1,048.23
1,318.41
TABLE II CASES AND DEATHS OF DISEASES DANGEROUS TO THE PUBLIC HEALTH BY MONTHS
This table includes all cases (with their deaths) irrespective of whether cases were transported into the city from elsewhere or were contracted outside of the city: also all deaths of Melrose cases dying in hospitals out of town.
Tuberculosis
Diphtheria
Scarlet
Fever
Typhoid
Fever
Measles
Whooping
Smallpox
Ophthalmia
Neonatorum
Poliomyelitis
Pul. and
Miliary
Meningeal
Other
Forms.
Totals for Month
Cases
Deaths
Cases
Deaths
Cases
Deaths
Cases
Deaths
Cases
Deaths
Cases
Deaths
Cases
Deaths
Cases
Deaths
Cases
Deaths
Cases
Deaths
Cases
Deaths
Cases
Deaths
January
. .
. .
. .
..
. .
·
.
. .
. .
. .
. .
69
1
February
.
. .
.
. .
. .
. .
·
.
. .
. .
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..
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..
103
1
March
2
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..
·
.
. .
. .
AWN
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·
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. .
. .
52
3
April
N.
1
4
. .
. .
.
·
. .
. .
. .
·
. .
. .
. .
26
1
May
1
. .
. .
. .
..
23
1
1
31
2
June
1
1
. .
.
. .
. .
.
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. .
. .
.
. .
49
3
July
N
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..
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.
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.
·
·
.
13
August
20
1
. .
.
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.
.
26
N.
September
23
1
5
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.
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.
23
1
November
7
1
4
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.
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.
20
1
. .
00
1
3
1
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·
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.
-
-
-
Totals
85
4
42
3
290
2
a
16
18
10
1
1
461
17
. .
.
. .
. .
3
1
·
.
. .
2
3
1
. .
·
11
100
1
34
1
October
9
10
1
1
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..
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. .
.
. .
5
2
1
. .
. .
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15
1
1
-
-
--
-
-
-
-
3
1
·
. .
1
·
1
·
.
. .
4
. .
December
1
.
..
33
1
2
. .
. .
1
11
6
62
5
95
1
47
. .
. .
. .
1
3
·
1
2
. .
4
1
.
1
·
15
Cough
Months
Table III CASES AND DEATHS OF CERTAIN DISEASES EACH YEAR FOR TEN YEARS
This table includes all cases (with their deaths) irrespective of whether cases were transported into the city from elsewhere or were contracted outside of the city; also all deaths of Melrose cases dying out of town.
Tuberculosis
Diphtheria
Scarlet
Fever
Typhoid
Fever
Measles
Whooping
Smallpox
Ophthalmia
Neonatorum
Poliomyelitis
Pul. and
Miliary
Meningeal
Other Forms
Cases
Deaths
Cases
Deaths
Cases
Deaths
Cases
Deaths
Cases
Deaths
Cases
Deaths
Cases
Deaths
Cases
Deaths
Cases
Deaths
Cases
Deaths
Cases
Deaths
1908
58
2
89
13
2
379
1
7
1
1
124
·
. .
.
39
17
4
1
1909
18
106
1
15
3
24
1910
41
w.
32
14
1
18
·
129
1
39
.
. .
. .
. .
·
.
17
9
1
381
1
94
1
. . ·
.
. .
·
w.
1913
17
2
71
7
2
46
1914
86
3
69
3
5
2
29
1
.
. .
. .
. .
·
1915
41
1
62
2
15
476
1
16
1916
14
-
11
1
14
1
11
·
290
2
a
·
.
16
. .
·
.
18
10
. .
. .
1
1
1917
85
4
42
.
· ·
107
4
3
17
22
12
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1
1
. .
2
15
13
1
3
1
1
·
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.
Na
1
15
11
1
3
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.
31
1
..
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-GWH
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27
17
. .
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1911
20
36
1
6
. . .
2
1912
18
1
. .
4
22
13
1
2
1
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. .
12
15
10
. .
15
10
. .
·
15
· ·
.
.
.
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3
2
1
·
. .
1
2
·
·
N.
.
.
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w.
3
Cough
Years
28
4
Table IV CONTAGIOUS DISEASES Age and Sex
Diseases
Under
5 yrs.
5-10
10-15
15-20
20-25
25-35
35-45
45-55
55-65
65-75
Over 75
Totals
M
Actinomycosis
F
M
Anterior Poliomyelitis.
F
M
Anthrax
M
Asiatic Cholera
F
M
Cerebro Spinal Meningitis .
F
59
M
11
31
13
1
2
1
F
13
38
8.
3
62
Chicken Pox
M
4
20
15
1
1
3
2
1
47
Diphtheria
F
5
19
8
1
1
2
2
38
M
Dysentery (Amebic and Bacillary). .
F
M
4
6
4
3
4
3
1
25
German Measles
F
2
8
4
3
2
2
1
1
1
24
M
Glanders
F
M
Hookworm Disease
F
M
Leprosy
1
F
·
·
F
Table IV-(Continued) CONTAGIOUS DISEASES Age and Sex
Diseases
Under
5 yrs.
5-10
10-15
15-20
20-25
25-35
35-45
45-55
55-65
65-75
Over 75
Total
M
Malaria
F
152
M
41
90
11
3
2
3
2
F
37
77
8
6
4
4
1
1
138
Measles
M
1
Mumps
M
9
7
Ophthalmia Neonatorum
F
7
M
F
Pellegra
M
Plague
M
2
1
F
1
1
1
1
Pneumonia Lobar
M
Rabies
M
6
11
4
20
Scarlet Fever
F
3
13
3
1
2
1
F
Septic Sore Throat
M
Smallpox
F
5
M
5
4
Suppurative Conjunctivitis
F
4
F
7
1
1
2
1
5
F
22
1
4
M
1
1
F
1
.
1
9
Table IV-(Continued) CONTAGIOUS DISEASES Age and Sex
Diseases
Under
5 yrs.
5-10
10-15
15-20
20-25
25-35
35-45
45-55
55-65
65-75
Over 75
Totals
Tetanus
F
M
Trachoma
F
M
Trichinosis
F
M
2
1
1
1
5
Tuberculosis (Pulmonary)
F
3
4
2
2
1
1
13
Tubercular Meningitis
F
M
Tuberculosis (other forms)
F
1
1
M
1
Typhoid Fever.
F
1
1
2
M
Typhus Fever
F
M
1
1
Whooping Cough
F
2
3
5
M
Yellow Fever
1
F
M
M
1
Table V INFANT MORTALITY
AGES
YEAR 1917
Total
under
1 yr.
Under
1 day
1-2 days
2-3 days
3 days to 1 week
1-2 weeks
2-3 weeks
3 weeks to
1 month
1-2 months
2-3 months
3-6 months
6-9 months
9-12
January
0
February
3
1
1
March
2
1
1
April
3
1
1
1
May
2
1
1
June
1
1
July
1
·
3
2
1
September
1
1
2
1
1
November
3
2
1
December
2
1
1
Male
15
4
2
2
1
2
2
1
1
Female.
8
5
1
1
1
White.
22
9
3
1
2
1
2
2
1
1
Colored
1
.
.
.
1
August
October
.
.
1
months
Table VI INFANT MORTALITY
AGES
YEAR 1917
Total
under
1 yr.
Under
1 day
1-2 days
2-3 days
3 days
to 1 week
1-2 weeks
2-3 weeks
3 weeks to
1 month
1-2 months
2-3 months
3-6 months
6-9 months
9-12
months
Class No. Cause of Death
20 Purulent Infection and M F
2
1
1
Septichaemia
M
1
1
1
1
89 Acute Bronchitis
M
2
F
104 Diarrhoea and Enteritis under 2 yrs.
M F
1
1
M
2
1
150 Congenital Malforma- tions (Stillbirths not included) . .
F
1
1
151 Congenital Debility, Icterus, and Sclerema
F
7
5
1
152 Other Causes Peculiar to Early Infancy ...
M
1
1
F
1
177 Starvation
M ₣
1
M
5
2
1
64 Cerebral Haemorrhage, Apoplexy F
M F
1
92 Pneumonia
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BOARD OF HEALTH REPORT
Table VII INFANT MORTALITY
Year
Births
Deaths of Children under 1 year
Rate of Mortality of children under 1 year per 1,000 of children born
1911
325
18
55.40
1912
305
10
32.40
1913
331
19
62.30
1914
333
22
66.10
1915
393
26
66.10
1916
384
22
56.70
1917
339
23
67.84
There were eight stillbirths during the year 1917.
TABLE VIII ESTIMATED POPULATION JULY 1, 1917, 17,517
1912
1913
1914
1915
1916
1917
Apparent death rate per
1,000 population
10.33
11.30
II.59
12.58
12.13
15.35
Corrected death rate per
1,000 population
II.88
12.91
11.84
12.00
12.70
15.29
Note .- The corrected death rate is found by eliminating the records of all non-residents dying in Melrose and adding the records of all Melrose residents dying elsewhere, as shown by the records of the City Clerk.
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CITY OF MELROSE
UNDERTAKERS
The following named undertakers have been licensed: Albert J. Walton, John H. Gately, Stephen W. Harvey, Fred T. Churchill, Henry W. Clark and F. Sears Stetson.
BOARDING HOUSES FOR INFANTS
The Board has approved the applications of the following named persons to maintain boarding-houses for infants : Phoebe E. A. Morris, Mary E. Silver, Ada R. Atwood, Agnes Thompson, Annie Broderick, Nellie M. Crosby, Marie Fester, Jane Dieter, Clara J. Manley, Mary A. Whiting, Victoria Hobart.
Respectfully submitted,
CLARENCE P. HOLDEN,
RALPH R. STRATTON,
PHILIP B. CARTER,
Board of Health.
Report of Inspector of Plumbing
January 1, 1918.
To the Board of Health, City of Melrose :--
Gentlemen :- I submit the following as the annual report of plumb- ing inspection for the year ending December 31, 1917.
Number of applications received
159
Number of permits granted
159
Number of sinks installed 65
90
Number of wash trays installed
II5
Number of bath tubs installed
85
Number of wash bowls installed 94
Number of traps replaced 45
Number of urinals installed
0
Number of drinking fountains installed
2
Number of shower baths installed I Number of floor drains installed 0
Number of lead bands replaced
I
Number of old buildings connected with sewer
9
Number of old buildings connected with cesspools
5
Number of new buildings connected with sewer .
29
Number of new buildings connected with cesspools 13
Number of refrigerator connections I
2
Number of Soil pipes, renewed
I2
Number of pressure boilers replaced
Number of pantry sinks installed 4
Total number of fixtures installed 574
Respectfully submitted, ANDREW J. BURNETT, Inspector of Plumbing.
Number of water closets installed
Report of Inspector of Animals
To the Melrose Board of Health :---
Gentlemen :- I herewith submit my report for the year 1917.
Made physical examination of 325 cattle, approximately 200 swine, and 3 goats. Quarantined and condemned I cow for tuberculosis, caused her to be killed and carcass rendered.
Inspected premises in regard to sanitary conditions in which all milch cows are kept, in this respect find a decided improvement over previous years.
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