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*Dorma Paquette
*Luther Johnson
*Abby Price
*Ralph Lavender
*Carroll LeGro
*Kenneth Marshall
*James McCormack
*Thomas McCrae
*Christine Wellock
*Dorothy Young
*Ruth Young
*Franklin Robertson
*Richard Rogers
*Victor Smith
*John Solomon
*Simeon Sterling
*Julian White
*Warren Wilson
*Everett Young
*Forman Hunter
*Thelma Plant
*Christopher Kelley
*Marion Simonds Anna Smith
*Bessie Snow Florence Rankin
*Eric McKnight Theodore Nash
*Guenora McGee
*Kenneth Barrett John Deane
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SCHOOL REPORT
Eighth Grade, Lincoln School
*Marie Aitken
*Virginia V. Boyce Ida B. Brown
*Eleanor Clark ·
*Horace A. Gardner
*Marjorie H. Coburn
*Helen I. Driver
*Verna L. Hathaway
*W. Roy Kennedy
*Leroy C. Milliken
*Edith F. Luce
Richard F. Piper
*Helen Lucey
*Lillian McIlwraith
*Richard E. Smith
*Beulah Miller
*Wallace Sowyrda
*Clifford Stevens
*Cedric Thompson
Eighth Grade, Mary A. Livermore School
*Anna W. Burr
*Alice V. Dole
*F. Maurice Cleaveland
*Alice Hall
*Robert H. Dale
*Perley S. Heaton
*Harmon E. Given
*Helen L. Jepson
*Robert S. Harris
*Ruth M. Knapp
*Theodore Hutchinson Alexander G. Hyland
*Helen M. McFarland
*Dorothy L. Morrill
*Frank E. Johnson
*Marjorie A. Mosher Priscilla Page
*Richard C. Knight Gerald S. Krom
*William M. Pierce
Lawrence Simeone
*Lawrence E. Towne
*Ralph H. Warren
*Wilbur D. West
*Alvra A. Wilbur
Eighth Grade, Washington School
*Anna E. Allstrin
*Lewis M. Bishop
*Dorothy Babbidge
*Reginald C. Colcord
*Marjorie Berry Laura M. Brown Rosa Bucci
*Albert Davidson Earl R. Hiltz Arthur Kucherer
*Viola G. Lasky
*Hildegarde E. Lossone
*Warren Meehan
*Caroline A. Marnett
*Clifford H. Morse
*Evelyn Pack
*Harry Myers
Marion V. Muse Alice Perkins
*Ada D. Wortman
*Lloyd Burns
*Howard P. Cummings George Davis
*Carl F. Gnirke George U. Gross
*Sally Lovell
*Burke E. Richards
*George M. Bean
*Martha H. Rand
*Ruth Schofield
*Eleanor H. Winson
*Charles Coye
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CITY OF MELROSE
*Gladys Pratt
*Elmer T. Roberts
* Marion Proctor
*Carl Shorey
*Lillian Robbins
*Leslie Swift
*Isabel Thompson
James Swindlehurst
*Edward A. Whiting
Eighth Grade, D. W. Gooch School
* Mabel Bavier Lillian M. Cohen
*Clifford M. Chesley
*John Copp
Regina M. Donovan
*Thomas L. Foley
* * * Esther Edelstein Ruth G. Foley Dorothy C. Gladding
*Rubin Jacobson Ralph Kilday
Dorothy Hall *
*Lewis E. Rich
Mary Hudzik * Constance F. Kennedy * Mary E. McNeil
*Charles W. Roeder Burton J. Shaughnessey
* Kathryn Pope Ruth A. Thomas
*John T. Timlin, Jr.
*Emma A. Whittier
Emily T. Wilson
Advanced Eighth Grade, High School
* Elsie A. Anderson
*Frederick R. Atwood
Josephine Bowdren
*Philip E. Brown
*Helen Earl
*Earle R. Carle
*Evelyn J. Emery
*Sherman Mendall
*Tillie Harris
*John F. Mollins Edgar E. Palmer
*Edith F. Leavitt
*Albion A. Raynes
*Marion B. Monegan Martha Tarbox
*Richard D. Sturges
*Albert P. Waltz
*Doris B. Trites
Chester M. Clark
*Annie M. Matheson
*Ralph H. Johnson
*Entered High School in September-82%
*Mary D. Turner
*Helen B. Wyman
*Gordon R. Hope
Edward Solomon
*Gertrude A. Levy
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Assessors' Report
TAXABLE VALUATION OF THE CITY
Real Estate.
$17,431,400.00
Personal Estate
1,644,975.00
Rate of Taxation $23.40 per $1,000.00.
$19,076,375.00
Amount Raised on Property and Polls as Follows:
Real Estate.
$407,894.76
Personal Estate.
38,492.42
5,043 Polls at $2.00 each .
10,086.00
$456,473.18
Divided as follows:
State Tax
$43,450.00
County Tax
21,532.85
Met. Sewer Tax
18,851.06
Met. Park Tax
10,597.62
State Highway Tax
208.65
Charles River Basin Tax.
2,007.80
Fire Prevention Tax
205.30
City Budget
413,680.07
Overlay .
11,719.08
$522,252.43
Less amount due from Income Tax
65,779.25
$456,473.18
$456,473.18
Supplementary Assessments
$184.84
Street Sprinkling Assessed
8,860.79
Moth Tax Assessed.
95.38
Excise Tax Assessed (Bay State Street Railway)
2,079.81
Number of residents assessed .
3,195
Number of non-residents asssesed .
675
Number of persons assessed for Poll Tax only.
3,600
Number of horses assessed.
192
Number of cows assessed.
282
Number of swine assessed
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CITY OF MELROSE
Valuation of Exempted Property
Houses of Religious Worship. $370,775.00
Literary and Benevolent Institutions
200,225.00
Respectfully submitted, FRANK R. UPHAM JOSHUA T. NOWELL
Assessors
Year
Census
Dwell- ings
Polls
Value Buildings
Value Land
Total Val. Real Estate
Value Personal Estate
Total Valua- tion
Rate per $1,000
City Appro- priation
Sewer- age Tax
Park Tax
State Tax
County Tax
Overlay
Total Tax Levy
$237,310.57
1900
12,781
3,248
3,711
7,610,850
5,993,025
13,603,875
1,286,890
14,890,765
16.20
206,635.82
9,727.23
7,437.50
13,388.55
*11,463.29
248,652,39
1901
1902
13,369
3,280
3,931
7,781,400
5,927,575
13,708,975
1,656,505
15,365,480
17.20
237,107.27
10,561.13
$1,977.83
6,375.00
13,365.88
2,861.15
272,148.26
I902
1903
13,641
3,312
4,052
7,865,250
5,915,375
13,780,625
1,397,005
15,177,630
18.00
237,087.74
10,808.84
5,169.59
10,625.00
13,917.89
3,692.28
281,301.34
1903
1904
14,021
3,319
4,137
7,945,700
5,867,625
13,813,325
1,424,530
15,237,855
17.40
225,003.32
11,744.15
5,696.87
11,625.00
15,716.05
3,627.28
273,412.67
1904
1905
14,559
3,334
4,235
8,020,150
5,845,800
13,865,950
1,463,745
15,329,695
18.00
227,044.58
12,077.04
5,922.31
18,600.00
15,272.57
5,488.01
284,404.51
1905
1906
14,572
3,363
4,235
8,131,450
5,787,100
13,918,550
1,559,330
15,477,880
17.80
229,006.55
12,222.49
6,183.01
16,275.00
16,188.40
4,100.81
283,976.26
1906
1907
14,860
3,382
4,318
8,288,850
5,781,500
14,070,350
1,664,060
15,734,410
17.00
219,753.24
9,264.95
7,183.32
18,000.00 }
15,880.08
6,038.36
276,120.97
1907
1908
15,122
3,393
4,344
8,450,675
5,788,475
14,239,150
1,733,810
15,972,960
18.50
234,100.42
14,397.93
7,868.56
*19.75 }
15,606.50
7,444.60
304,187.76
1908
1909
15,246
3,416
4,438
8,627,425
5,775,725
14,403,150
1,746,675
16,149,825
19.30
250,100.51
13,567.95
8,158.34
20,250.00 }
17,350.17
11,220.90
320,567.62
1909
19IO
15,735
3,447
4,490
8,865,325
5,771,450
14,636,775
1,827,090
16,463,865
19.40
255,567.13
14,834.95
8,494.76
23,760.00 }
16,478.32
9,224.31
328,378.98
1910
*19.51 )
16,118
3,503
4,515
9,164,225
5,757,450
14,921,675
1,975,950
16,897,625
20.40
276,517.13
15,496.52
11.634.39 }
23,760.00
15,170.07
7,067.28
353,741.55
1912
16,241
3,564
4,596
9,452,650
5,757,150
15,209,800
2,213,000
17,422,800
20.40
283,731.71
15,804.48
9,412.75 }
27,000.00
14,860.33
12,466.03
364,617.12
1912
1913
16,612
3,611
4,620
9,791,425
5,791,425
15,582,625
2,420,900
18,003,525
20.40
289,544.80
17,103.24
10,262.39 }
32,640.00
16,466.40 }
7,316.90
376,511.91
1913
1914
17,037
3,674
4,685
10,144,550
5,816,700
15,961,250
2,606,080
18,567,330
21.70
316,917.47
17,437.18
10,558.39 )
35,700.00 }
19,577.92 }
10,154.95
412,281.06
1914
1915
17,096
3,748
4,850
10,494,300
5,823,300
16,317,600
2,623,780
18,941,380
23.70
359,106.29
17,201.57
10,796.50 }
39,780.00 }
20,682.55 }
9,236.85
458,610.70
1915
1916
17,317
3,864
4,949
10,957,650
5,891,700
16,849,350
2,795,800
19,645,150 -
22.00
350,771.03
16,153.54
8,183.80 }
32,000.00 ) *200.00 |
20,650.93 }
12,008.66
442,091.30
1916
1917
17,275
3,958
5,061
11,326,050
5,916,700
17,242,750
1,530,000
18,772,750
23,40
379,561.18
10,464.99
43,450.00
19,871.65
14,833.40
449,404.35 ) 1917
1,974.84
200.54
225.67
* 38,835.14 §
1918
17,353
3,964
5,043
11,519,250
5,912,150
17,431,400
1,644,975
1,9076,375
23.40
413,680.07
18,851.06
10,597.62
43,450.00
21,532.85 }
11,719.08
522,252.43 } 1918
2,007.80
208.65
205.30 )
*65,779.25 5
1900
12,715
3,237
3,650
$7,582,525
$4,398,150
$11,980,675
$797,690
$12,778,365
$18.00
$199,837.41
$9,431.01
.....
$6,645.00
$11,857.11
$9,540.04
.....
*Charles River Basin. State Highway. Miscellaneous.
Income Tax Deducted.
*4,076.16 5
*20.00
*1,323.37 )
*18.75
*1,655.79 )
*20.00
*1,502.39)
1,731.045
67.65 J
136.465
1,621.29 5
52.40 S
133.25 5
*289.30 )
*1,834.04 )
17,657.22
*102.00 J
24,750.00
*19.75
Year
Report of Inspector of Wires
FIRE ALARM SYSTEM
The Fire Alarm System has been in first class condition, having pulled in two miles of weatherproof wire which was insulated where passing through trees.
One hundred and two four pin and sixty-three two pin arms have been replaced with new.
Nine hundred and five inspections of box movements were made, five hundred and three key guard glasses were replaced.
POLICE SIGNAL SYSTEM
Twenty-five two-pin and thirty-one four-pin arms have been replaced with new ones.
One mile of wire has been run in and protected from trees.
Each police box has been inspected twice a month and the movement cleaned and oiled.
At Police Headquarters the machines have been kept in first class conditions.
INSPECTION OF WIRES
Five hundred and forty inspections were made of old and new houses issuing three hundred and eighty-seven permits allowing current to be turned on.
The Malden Electric Co. made one hundred and thirty-five inspec- tions during the five months I was in the United States Army.
RECOMMENDATIONS
The purchase of an eight circuit repeater to be installed at Fire Alarm Headquarters.
The city wires on Main Street from Goodyear Avenue to the Wakefield line be pulled in underground.
The purchase of a Diaphone Horn to be installed at Fire Department Headquarters.
The purchase of ten new boxes to take the place of some old ones, the movement of which is not positive.
FRED A. EDWARDS, Wire Inspector
Report of Inspector of Buildings
The whole number of permits issued during the year was 109, as follows:
7 dwellings $35,800.00
34 garages.
17,800.00
10 other buildings · 28,050.00
58 alterations.
10,135.00
The estimated value of which is $91,785.00
With the opening up of new building enterprises there will be a need of more building ordiances to govern the same.
I am more and more convinced that it will be for the best interests of the city if the Wire Inspection, Plumbing Inspection and Building Inspection be placed in one department called the Building Department, with separate heads as now. This would give the inspectors an opportunity to keep in close touch with each other, as it is almost impossible to do under the present organization.
I wish I could report that Part IV, Sec. 34 entitled "Water from Roofs" had been fully complied with. I can only report progress.
Owing to the existing conditions many of our citizens have felt that it would be a hardship to be compelled to make the change during the past year, hence the delay. With the return to more normal conditions there is no reasonable excuse why this ordinance should not be complied with, and I look for this matter to be taken care of this present year.
WILLIAM S. ALLEN,
Inspector of Buildings
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
BOARD OF HEALTH
OF THE
CITY OF MELROSE
FOR THE
YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31 st,
1918
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MAYOR
Honorable Charles H. Adams
BOARD OF ALDERMEN
COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION, HEALTH AND CHARITY
Mr. Angier L. Goodwin, Chairman; Llewellyn H. McLain, John W. Huse, John Dike, H. Ray Wilson, Edwin C. Kirk, Frederick W. Patten.
MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH
Dr. Clarence P. Holden Dr. Ralph R. Stratton Philip B. Carter, Esq.
21 Vine Street 654 Main Street 26 Poplar Street
OTHER OFFICERS
Mrs. Verna L. Vinton, Clerk.
Andrew J. Burnett, 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, Dr. F Robertson Sims, Medical Inspectors of Schools.
Dr. Elizabeth Hirst, Acting-Medical Inspector of Schools.
Miss Jennie M. Irving and Mrs. Myrtle Meriam, Public Health Nurse.
Report of the Board of Health
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DISEASES DANGEROUS TO THE PUBLIC HEALTH
General Health .- The general health of the city excepting the epidemic of influenza was good.
Influenza .- While the war appeared to be the great event in health, as in all other affairs in the year 1918, yet in many ways the world-wide epidemic of Influenza overshadowed it. The general wastage of disease and death of the epidemic far exceeded the wastage of war not only in America and in the world at large but in Melrose. There are many factors which cannot be analyzed at this time, to wit, the mental stress due to the war, the high cost of living, higher wages for many workers, and more general employment of women and children in gainful work. Unques- tionably these are all factors in the health of every community but they are so overshadowed by the great epidemic that they cannot at this time be analyzed and their effects estimated.
Some other factors appear worthy of notice. There were 430 births in Melrose in 1918 as against 339 in 1917, apparently not affected by the war or the epidemic. The story as to deaths is different. The total number of deaths of infants under one year of age in 1918 was twenty-eight as against twenty-three in 1917. There were 284 deaths in 1918 and 269 in 1917. There was a total of sixty-six deaths due to Influenza and its accompanying pneumonia, and only twenty-six deaths from all causes from men in the military and naval service of the United States, and five of these deaths were due to the epidemic.
It is impossible to exaggerate the distress due to the epidemic at its height. The Board of Health, as well as the Board of Charity was able to give relief in some cases by sending patients to the Malden Contagious Hospital and to the Melrose Hospital. They also provided nurses and workers, food, fuel, and other assistance, yet the total amount expended by the city was very small as compared with the very great expense incurred by other municipalities.
The work of the Melrose Hospital during the epidemic was invaluable. With a large part of their nursing force incapacitated with Influenza, yet still the wards were crowded and the work went on. The labors of the Red Cross under the charge of Mrs. Harry Vaughan, furnishing nursing, and work in the homes, food and other aid, was of the utmost value. The work of nurses, both professional and volunteer, was beyond praise and did very much to relieve the distress and suffering.
While the Board has neither space nor full information as to many other agencies contributing relief during the epidemic, yet it seems impossi- ble to exaggerate the debt of gratitude due to the Melrose Hospital and to the Red Cross workers by the people of Melrose during this time of dire
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distress. The conditions under which some people were living, or rather trying to exist in Melrose was a very sad revelation to the volunteer work- ers which will, it is hoped, bear fruit in better conditions in the future.
Diphtheria .- Total twenty-four cases with two deaths. One of these deaths was from laryngeal diphtheria or membraneous croup. It is re- gretable that any case in these times should die from diphtheria, because if recognized and treated early as it should be with antitoxin there ought not to be any deaths from diphtheria.
Scarlet Fever .- Twenty cases with one death.
Typhoid Fever .- We again have a low record for typhoid fever, having only three cases with one death.
Whooping Cough .- Only ten cases with two deaths.
Tuberculosis .- There remained on the list of cases December 31, 1917, thirty-one cases: twenty-one new cases were reported during the year; one case removed from another city, and two cases were removed from the arrested list to the active list, making a total of fifty-five cases.
The disposition of these cases was as follows:
Arrested five, deaths 13, removals 7, leaving December 31, 1918, thirty cases. Twenty-two cases during the year were cared for in different hospitals. The total amount expended in the care of Tuberculosis was $1,553.49 as against $818.66 in 1917.
Four Melrose men were either discharged from service or exempted from service by the examining board by reason of Tuberculosis. Two of these men were on our list of arrested cases and the subsequent history of the other two cases has indicated that these did not have Tuberculosis. Eleven other cases were rejected as suspicious; of these one case was not a resident of Melrose, and subsequent investigation and examination did not authorize the Board in placing them on the list of actual cases. One Melrose man is known to have died from Tuberculosis following Influenza after entering the service and doubtless there are other cases of which the Board has no positive knowledge.
Bacteriology .- The Board of Health has continued the bacteriological examination of milk, as for several years past, and full details are given in the report of the Milk Inspector. The other bacteriological work is done by the State Department of Health.
Vaccination .- Forty-four successful vaccinations have been per- formed at this office, and eighty-eight certificates of successful vaccinations have been issued.
For some unaccountable reason there were a large number of failures of primary vaccinations not only by the Board of Health but by physicians in general in Melrose.
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Work Certificates .- Health certificates to work were given to one hundred and nineteen children.
Disinfection .- The discontinuance by the Board of disinfection by formaldehyde gas at the close of contagious diseases has proved conclu- sively that the danger in the transmission of contagious diseases lies in the infected patient and not in the room which he may have occupied or the things which he may have handled or used.
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SCHOOL INSPECTION
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The service during the year was a great deal broken up by reason of the absence of the regular school physicians, two being in the service and one removing from the state. Except from the enforced closing of all the schools during the epidemic of Influenza attendance at school has been very little affected by reason of contagious diseases. There is much work along the lines of education and conservation of the health of school chil- dren that ought to be taken up and will be with the return of the regular force of school physicians.
GARBAGE COLLECTION
The collection of garbage is under contract, the city being divided into three districts. The service has been satisfactory in all distracts except No. 3, which was good until the contractor was called into military service, when it was seriously embarrassed by his enforced absence. The total amount of garbage collected was at least thirty per cent less than before the era of high prices and scarcity of food.
GARBAGE AND RUBBISH
Chapter 6, Section 1, of the Regulations of the Board of Helath has been amended and reads as follows, viz .:
" Householders and the propriators of stores, groceries and markets, or any other places where garbage is made, kept or stored, and the landlords of all apartment and tenement houses shall provide separate 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 convenient of access. The contents thereof to be removed only by the persons authorized by the Board of Health.
MELROSE PUBLIC LIBRA
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Second .- All garbage must be drained and water kept out of the gar- bage 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 before 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 supervision of the Superintendent of Public Works. All paper should be securely bundled or baled, and kept separate from the ashes."
ORDINANCES RELATIVE TO HEALTH An Ordinance Relative to Cesspools and Privies
Section 1 .- No cesspool shall hereafter be constructed and after May 1, 1917, no cesspool shall be maintained within the limits of the City of Melrose, unless the same shall conform to the following requirements: Where the ground is suitable, a leaching cesspool shall be built of concrete construction within three feet from the top, tightly 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 cesspoll 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 approved by an agent or inspector of the Board of Health.
Section 2 .- No privy shall hereafter be constructed and after May 1, 1917, no privy shall be maintained within the limits of the City of Melrose unless the same shall conform to the following requirements ;- the priv y 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, how- ever, that this section of the ordinance shall not apply to temporary privies constructed by contractors or builders who receive a permit from the Board of Health to maintain a vault for the use of employees: such tem- porary privy, however, to be kept and maintained 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 manner that it may easily be identified.
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No copper, iron or steel pressure range boiler, whether plain or gal- vanized, or other vessel or tank in which water is to be heated under pres- sure, shall be installed without having stamped thereon the maker's guarantee that it has been tested to not less than two hundred pound hy- draulic 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, satisfactory to the In- spector of Plumbing.
The Plumbing Inspector must be notified when this work has been completed.
Note .- For further information see the report of the Plumbing In- spector.
BARBER SHOPS
The barber shops have been inspected, and are rated from a sanitary viewpoint as good, fair and unclean.
8 are rated good 1 is rated fair O are rated unclean
BAKERIES
Bakeries have been inspected as required, and all were found in good, sanitary condition.
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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.
Thirteen were rated good; 3 were rated fair; 0 were rated unclean. Total number inspected 16.
Fifty-seven licenses, were issued: 22 to sell milk from stores; 22 to sell milk from wagons; 13 to sell oleomargarine.
The Board wishes again to emphasize the fact that even at the present price of milk there is no food so wholesome and economical as milk. It is the opinion of the Board that the milk supply of Melrose is very much improved over a few years ago and the Board regrets very much that the number of local dairies supplying milk to Melrose seems to be continually decreasing.
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NUISANCES
The following is the list of nuisances abated by order of the Board of Health or its agent, during the year, and in parallel column, nuisance abated during the previous year.
1917
1918
Privy nuisance
4
2
Privy abolished
5
1
Cesspool nuisance
10
6
Cesspool abolished .
9
9
Premises connected with sewer by order of Board.
0
1
Hen nuisances .
4
6
Dumping nuisances
12
11
Uncleanly premises
19
16
Pig nuisance
2
5
Stable nuisances and exposed manure
10
0
Stagnant water
4
1
Insufficient sanitary provision
2 0
Defective plumbing.
9
5
Defective drainage
6
4
Committing nuisance
3 0
Exposed or offensive garbage.
10
4
Exposed Food
2
0
No water or defective supply
1 8
Collecting garbage without a permit.
0
6
Other nuisances.
4
4
1
Complaints investigated and no cause for complaint
3 6
Dead animals buried.
50
50
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BOARD OF HEALTH REPORT
Table I
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
Total Appropriations.
1917
1917 Totals $10,997.85
1918
1918 Totals $11,125.00
EXPENDITURES
General Administration .
$1,199.68
$1,190.97
Salary of Board.
650.00
$650.00
Salary of Clerk.
291.84
327.00
Telephone
63.27
59.05
Stationery and Postage.
62.55
43.32
Transportation
103.97
97.45
Sundries
28.05
14.15
Other Expenses
1,099.45
Plumbing Inspection .
649.96
650.00
Sanitary Inspection .
193.73
250.00
Burial of Dead Animals.
56.50
34.00
Examination of Throat Cultures
14.00
Dumps.
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