Inaugural address of the mayor, with the annual report of the officers of the city of Quincy for the year 1897, Part 20

Author: Quincy (Mass.)
Publication date: 1897
Publisher:
Number of Pages: 506


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39. Manual for the Genearl Court.


40. Horace Mann,


41-42 How to Know the Wild Flowers,


43-44 Elementary Physical Geography,


45. Flowers and their Friends,


46. Methods and Aids in Geography,


47. House of the Seven Gables,


48. Readings from the Bible, Edited by


W. J. Onahan, J. H. Barrows, C. C. Bonney. Heilprin. Mill. Cross.


49-50 The Earth and its Story,


51-52 The Realm of Nature,


53. Color Study,


54. The Use of Models,


55. A Few Familiar Flowers,


56.


Manual of Chemistry,


57. School Physics, 58. Lessons in Elementary Physics,


Moriey. Storer. Lindsey. Avery.


Balfour. Stewart. Burton, Fiske.


59. Historical Reader,


60. The War of Independence,


61. Paradise Lost, Book I-II.


62-63 Three Episodes of Mass. History,


C. F. Adams.


64-65 American Commonwealth, Bryce.


66. Beacon Lights of Patriotism, Carrington.


90. Report of the Public Schools of the City and County of San Francisco for 1896.


91. Fræbel's Square, Dr. Albert E. Maltby.


Murray. Kidd. DeGuimps. Froebel.


Winship. Dana. R. S. Tarr. Morley. King.


Hawthorne.


130


92. Outline of Elementary Geography, F. F. Murdock. Gilson.


93. A Chart History of the Civil War.


94. The Physiography of the U. S. 95. 'A Commercial Geography, Tilden.


96. "Report of the Mass. Board of World's Fair Managers.


97. The Grammar of English Grammars, Goold Brown.


131


CHAPTER 313, ACTS AND RESOLVES, 1886.


Section I. The School Committee of any city or town may elect any duly qualified person to serve as a teacher in the pub- lic schools of such city or town daring the pleasure of, such committee ; provided, that such person has served as, a teacher in the public schools of such city or town, for a period of not less than one year.


Section II. This act shall take effect upon its passage.


Adopted by School Commitsee, May 9, 1889.


Voted June 4, 1889, that no teacher shall, be eligible to election to serve upon a permanent tenure , until such teacher has taught at least three years in Quincy;


Number 23. June 22, 1891.


An Ordinance Concerning Truants.


Any minor between the ages of seven and fifteen years, convicted of being an habitual truint, or of wandering about in the streets or public places, having no occupation or business not attending school, and growing up in, ignorance, shall ba committed to the Plummer Farm School at Salem, or to the County Truant School at Walpole, for such time not exceeding two years, as the justice of the district court and of East Norfolk may determine.


Records of School Committee, Feb. 3, 1891.


AN ACT RELATIVE TO VACCINATION. [Acts of 1894, Chapter 5.15.];


SEC. 2. All children who shall present a certificate signed


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by a regular practicing physician that they are unfit subjects for vaccination shall not be subject to the provisions of Section 9 of Chapter 47 of the Public Statutes excluding unvaccinated children from public schools, and all children upon such a certificate shall be exempted from the provisions of this act, and the parents'and guardians of such children shall not be liable to the penalties imposed by Section 1 of this act.


Vaccination : "All pupils who enter the public schools of Quincy after Jan. 1, 1897, must furnish a proper certificate of vaccination which shall be kept on file in the school which the pupils attend." ..... Nov. 24, 1896.


Board of Health :


"REG. 9. The Board of Health considers the following diseases as dangerous to the public health, .within the meaning of the statute : Cholera, yellow fever, small-pox, varioloid, diph- theria, membraneous croup, scarlet fever, measles, typhoid fever, typhus fever, and epidemic cere- brospinal meningitus.


.REG. 16. No child shall be allowed to attend the public schools while any member of the family to which said child belongs, is sick with a disease dangerous to the public health, or during a period of two weeks after the death, recovery or removal of such sick person; and any pupil coming from such family shall be required to pre- sent to the teacher of the school the pupil desires to attend, a certificate from the attending physi- cian and endorsed by a member of the Board of Health, of the facts necessary to entitle such child


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to admission in accordance with the above regu- lation.


REG. 20. No patient affected with any con- tagious disease will be considered well and free from isolation until the attending physician, or a physician employed by the Board of Health, cer- tifies that he has personally inspected the patient and found that he is no longer a source of danger. No such certificate will be received by the Board of Health, in case of scarlet fever, until at least three weeks have elapsed from the beginning of the illness, and desquamation is complete. No certificate of recovery, unless endorsed by a member of the Board of Health, will admit said patient to attend any school in the city.


REG. 23. No pupil affected with whooping cough or mumps shall be permitted to attend school until fully recovered.


CHAPTER 496,-ACTS AND RESOLVES OF 1896.


No days of grace, according to the custom of merchants, shall be allowed on any note, draft, check, acceptance, bill of exchange, bond or other evidence of indebtedness made, drawn or accepted by any person, or corporation after this act shall take effect, unless expressly stipulated therein, but the same shall be due and payable as therein expressed, without grace : provided, that this act shall not apply to any draft or bill of exchange drawn payable at sight.


To take effect Jan. 1, 1897.


1:35


School Committee For 1898.


At Lurge.


MR. FRANK C. FIELD,


Term expires' 1898


MR. FRANK A. PAGE,


.. 1899


DR. HENRY C. HALLOWELL


1900


By Wards.


Ward 1. HON. CHARLES H. PORTER


Term expires 1900


Ward 2. REV. WALTER R. BREED .


66 1898


Ward 3. MISS MABEL E. ADAMS .


66


1898


Ward 4. DR. JOHN H. ASH .


1899


Ward 5. DR. WELLINGTON RECORD


66


1900


Ward 6. DR. FREDERICK J. PEIRCE


.


.


66 1899


Chairman of the School Board, HON. CHARLES H. PORTER.


Secretary of the Board and Superintendent of Schools, HERBERT WARREN LULL. Office, No. 1 Faxon's Block, Hancock Street.


Hours : Monday, 8. to 9 p. M. ; Tuesday. and Thursday, 5 to 6 P. M. ; Friday, 12 to 1 P. M.


The regular meetings of the School Board are held at eight o'clock p. M. the last Tuesday in each month.


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STANDING SUB-COMMITTEES FOR 1898.


FOR THE DIFFERENT SCHOOLS.


HIGH


ADAMS


CODDINGTON


GRIDLEY BRYANT


JOHN HANCOCK


LINCOLN .


MASSACHUSETTS FIELD


QUINCY


WASHINGTON


WILLARD


WOLLASTON


Messrs. Porter, Hallowell, Breed Miss Adams, Messrs. Field, Breed Messrs. Hallowell, Breed, Porter Messrs. Porter, Ash, Field Mr. Field, Miss Adams, Dr. Ash. Messrs. Field, Ash, Miss Adams Messrs. Page, Record, Peirce, Messrs. Peirce, Record, Hallowell Messrs. Breed, Porter, Miss Adams . Messrs. Ash, Hallowell, Page . Messrs. Record, Page, Peirce


Finance and Salaries. Messrs. Porter, Page, Hallowell.


Books and Supplies. Messrs. Hallowell, Breed, Record.


Transportation. Messrs. Record, Ash, Field.


Evening Schools. Messrs. Peirce, Breed, Field.


Text Books. Messrs. Page, Peirce, Miss Adams.


Special Subjects. Miss Adams, Messrs. Field, Ash.


489


Index.


PAGE


Administrative Boards


4


Address of Mayor, 1898


11


Animals and Provisions-Report of Inspector _-


159


Adams Academy-Report of Managers -


299


Appropriations, Expenditures and Balances"of 1897


109


Assessors-Report of Board


133


Births of 1897


239


burial Places, Report of Managers -


143


City Auditor, Report of -


33


Advertising,'Printing and Stationery


45


Almshouse


41


Annual Appropriations -


33


Assessors-Miscellaneous


48


Assessors-Books. Binding and Postage


49


Assessors-Transfers


48


Assessors-Clerical Services


47


Board of Health-Miscellaneous


66


Board of Health-Inspection


69


Board of Health -- Abating Nuisances


67


Board of Health-Inspection of Plumbing


69


Bridges


49


Burial Places


50


Burial Places-Perpetual Care Fund


29


City Debt -


54


Clerk to Executive Departments


55


Clerk to City Clerk


98


Clerk to Tax Collector


99


Clerk to Trersurer


98


Contingent Fund - -


51


Copeland Street Paving -


96


490


L'AGE.


City Auditor, Report of (Continued.)


Debt Statement - 118


Decoration Day Expenses


26


Debt Due in 1898 -


118


Enforcement of Liquor Laws


77


Engineering


56


Faxon Road


96


Fire Department-Repairs


57


Fire Department-Pay of Men -


57


Fire Department-Miscellaneous Expenses


-


59


Fire Department-Horse Shoeing and Keeping Fire Department-Firemen's Clothing -


63


Fire Department-Fuel -


63


Fire Department-Lighting Engine Houses


59


Fire Department-Fire Alarm


63


Fire Department-New Hose, Horses and Harness


62


Fire Department-Keeping Chief's Horse


63


Fountains


73


Garbage


-


65


Highways - -


86


Interest Account -


39


Law Library


69


Library, Thomas Crane Public-Books -


69


Library-Salaries and Assistants


-


36


Library-Fuel and Lighting


70


Library-Periodicals, Printing and Binding


70


Library-Insurance


71


Library-Miscellaneous -


71


Library-Catalogue Fund


72


Miller Stile Road - -


95


Miscellaneous City Expenses


72


Newcomb Street-Extension


98


Pay of City Officers


52


Parks


79


Playgrounds


55


Playgrounds Debt -


-


118


Police-Special


78


Police Station


78


Police-Permanent


37


Police, Chief of -


37


Poor out of Almshouse


43


Quincy City Hospital


35


Removal of Snow -


101


-


-


-


-


-


-


58


-


-


491


PAGE.


City Auditor, Report of, (Continued.)


Repair Public Buildings -


. 79


Repairs, Schoolhouses


-


82


Schoolhouses, Wards 4 and 5


-


-


99


School Appropriations


37


Sewer Debt -


118


Sewer Expenses -


90


Sidewalks and Edgestones


102


State Aid-Chapter 301


37


State Aid-Chapter 279


-


37


Statements of Appropriations, Expenditures, Balances, etc.


109


Statement of City Debt.


116


Street Lighting


-


-


-


100


Temporary Loans


-


-


-


41


Tide Gate at Almshouse -


-


- -


96


Water Debt


-


-


-


, 55


Watering Streets - -


101


Water Supply-Extension 1897 -


106


Water Supply -- Maintenance


103


Whitwell Street -


96


City Clerk, Report of


-


-


237


Marriages of 1897


-


-


261


Deaths of 1897


-


-


-


271


Election Returns, 1897


-


-


283


Jury List for 1898


291


City Council, 1898


6


City Government-1898


3


City Physician, Report of


149


City Treasurer-Report of -


21


Report of Woodward Fund and Property


307


Report on Rock Island Fund


29


Report of Cotton C. Johnson Fund


29


Report of Perpetual Care Fund -


-


29


Premium Account, Sewerage Loan


30


Commissioner of Public Works, Report of


121


Department Officials


-


-


3


Debt Statement


-


-


118


Election Returns -


-


-


-


283


Executive Officers -


-


1


3


Fire Department-Report of Chief


-


-


ʻ


-


179


Fire Alarm, Boxes


-


-


-


181


-


Births of 1897 -


-


-


-


-


.


-


Deaths of 1897


-


271


-


239


Soldiers' Relief-Chapter 447


37


-


492


PAGE.


Fire Department .- Fires, Losses, etc., in 1897


Losses and Insurance


184 184


Alarms in 1897 - - - -


184


Days of Alarms - -


184


Permanent Force -


181


Financial Report of Auditor


57


Health Department-Report of Board - Inspector's Report


-


151


Inspector of Plumbing, Report of


157


, Johnson Fund, Cotton C .- Report of Treasurer


29


Jury List for 1898


291


Law Department-Report of City Solicitor


233


Legislative Department


6


Marriages for 1897 -


261


Mayor's Address of 1898 -


11


Milk Inspection-Report of Inspector -


163


Park Commissioners-Report of


139


Playgrounds


139


Police Department


7


Police Department-Report of Chief


169


Police Department-Inspector's Report


176


Poor Department-Report of Overseer Auditor's Account -


41


Public Works, Department of-Report


121


Public Library, Thomas Crane-Report of Trustees Treasurer's Statement -


-


203


Rock Island Fund-Report of Treasurer


-


29


School Committee-See Index Page 494


225


Tax Collector-Report of -


-


-


.21


Water Department-Report of Commissioners


209


Report of Superintendent


213


Maintenance Account


210


Construction Account


210


Pipe Laid -


220


Gates in Use -


-


-


217


Debt for Water


211


Financial Report of Auditor


103


Receipts and Expenditures


210


Woodward Fund-Report of Managers -


305


Report of Treasurer of Fund


307


-


.


199


Sewerage Commissioners, Report of


137


Treasurer's Report -


-


-


219


Location of Hydrants


-


165


-


155


493


PAGE


Woodward Fund .- Continued.


Cost of Institute - -


309


Maintenance of Institute


-


-


-


-


312


312 Income Account - -


Woodward Institute-Report of Board of Directors


317


Course of Study -


342


Report of Principal


-


-


319


-


-


-


-


.


.494


Index == School Committee.


PAGE.


Schools -- Report of School Committee


Report of Superintendent -


-


-


-


9


School Committee of 1897 -


3


School Committee of 1898 -


135


Standing Committees of 1897


4


Standing Committees of 1898


136


Census of Children


18


Evening Schools -


-


24


Financial Report - -


53


Attendance of Pupils -


69


Teachers


83


Resignations of Teachers in 1897 -


-


89


Training Class -


91


High School Graduation -


93


High School Report of Head-Master


41


Fourth Prize Speaking Contest


-


-


97


High School Alumni Association -


105


Teachers' Association


106


Grammar School Graduation


-


-


107


Data of Quincy


113


Books for Teachers' Reading


-


-


-


123


Teachers' Library -


128


-


-


-


-


-


-


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