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3,000 00
Sale, Greenleaf Street property
10,000 00
Sale, Liberty Bonds, 4th
3,119 06
Sale, Central Vermont Railroad Bonds
10,500 00
Tuition at Institute
1,125 00
$60,267 47
Expenditures
Expenses of Institute
$13,445 70
Administration of Fund
176 00
Notes secured by mortgages
17,300 00
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CITY OF QUINCY
Certificate of Deposit, Granite Trust Company 6,000 00
Investment deposit, Quincy Savings Bank 10,000 00
Investment deposit, Weymouth Savings Bank
5,000 00
Investment deposit, Hingham Inst. for Savings
5,000 00
Cash on hand December 31, 1927
3,345 77
$60,267 47
Expenses of Institute
Pay rolls
$10,700 00
Books, supplies and sundries
633 75
Fuel
729 64
Lighting
206 77
Telephone
83 51
Improvements, repairs and fixtures
1,092 03
$13,445 70
Administration of Fund
Expenses on Property :
Water
$14 00
Repairs
71 95
$85 95
Insurance, safety deposit box, etc.
90 05
Return insurance premium,
Greenleaf Street house ..
23 47
$152 53
Income Account, 1927
Received from investments
$16,858 59
(Tuition not included)
Expenses of Institute
$13,445 70
Administration of Fund (net)
152 53
Unexpended income, 1927
3,260 36
$16,858 59
$16,858 59
Statement of Fund January 1, 1928
Total of Fund, January 1, 1922 $343,965 34
Addition to Fund, sale Salt Marsh
2,600 00
Addition to Fund, sale property, Greenleaf Street ....
3,173 08
Addition to Fund, sale Liberty Bonds 119 06
Addition to Fund, sale Central Vermont R.R. Bonds
1,286 00
$351,143 48
$176 00
$56,921 70
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REPORT OF TREASURER WOODWARD FUND AND PROPERTY
Tuition, 1927
$1,125 00
Tuition, previous
1,325 00
2,450 00
Unexpended income, 1927
3,260 36
Unexpended income, previous
2,282 45
5,542 81
$359,136 29
Invested as Follows:
$4,300 American Telephone & Telegraph Co. 4's.
$3,684 55
$7,500 Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 4's
7,500 00
$5,000 New England Tel. & Tel. 5's
4,906 25
$5,000 New England Power Co. 5's
5,000 00
$4,000 Pere Marquette Railroad 4's
4,000 00
$5,000 Union Pacific Railroad 4's
4,419 00
23 Shares American Telephone & Tel. Co.
1,526 10
27 Shares Boston & Albany Railroad
4,900 00
9 Shares Central Vermont Railroad
500 00
74 Shares Boston and Maine Railroad
8,060 98
120 Shares Pennsylvania Railroad.
7,200 00
Linden Place House
2,868 64
Granite Trust Co., Certificate Deposit
6,000 00
Quincy Savings Bank Deposit
10,000 00
Weymouth Savings Bank Deposit
5,000 00
Hingham Inst. for Savings Deposit
5,000 00
Mortgage Loans
216,325 00
$296,890 52
Institute land and building
58,900 00
$355,790 52
Cash on hand December 31, 1927
3,345 77
$359,136 29
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CITY OF QUINCY
REPORT OF ASSESSING DEPARTMENT
DECEMBER 31, 1927.
To His Honor, the Mayor, and the Honorable City Council :
The following is respectfully submitted as the report of the As- sessing Department for the year 1927:
ยท Valuation and Rate
The valuation of the city April 1, 1927, as determined by the Assessors, follows:
Real Estate
Value of buildings $76,707,525 00
Value of land 38,157,525 00
Value of land and buildings. $114,864,600 00
Personal Property
Value of personal property. $15,125,950 00 Total valuation of the city as determined April 1st, 1927 129,990,550 00
Amount to be raised by taxation 3,535,742 96
Tax rate 27 20
The valuation was also increased by omitted as- sessments levied in December 1927
135,700 00
The total valuation of the city upon which taxes were assessed for the year 1927, when all as- sessments had been made, was .. 130,126,250 00 The polls returned by the police and those registered for the year amounted to 19,835, at $2.00 each .. 39,670 00 The Assistant Assessors who returned the personal property were as follows:
1-1 Hattie C. Dunn 4-1 Emma L. Baldovin
1-2 Ellen E Johnson 4-2 Frank Bruce
1-3 Helen M. Hamilton 5-1 Clara M. Taylor
1-4 Lillian M. Martin 5-2 Stephen P. Casey
2-1 Joseph R. Moran 5-3 Anna E. Usher
2-2 Joseph Scarvo 5-4 Susan Noyes
3-1 Rose Marini 6-1 Pearl H. Watson
6-2 Sarah Gill
3-2 Charles Parker Sheldon 6-3 Ethel B. Rank
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REPORT OF ASSESSING DEPARTMENT
Stone Yards-Stock in Trade-Machinery-Boats
Timothy F. Ford Joseph P. Kerrigan William W. Jenness
Public Garages
Pauline Lalley
Elsie M. Ricker
Kino J. Maggiani
New Buildings
Ernest C. Fleet James F. Fryar
Summary from the Table of Aggregates
Resident property owners.
12,483
Non-resident property owners
2,322
Poll tax only
19,530
Number of horses assessed
367
Number of cows
93
Number of dwelling houses
15,503
Number of acres of land
6,000
The clerical work of the Assessing Department has been ma- terially changed during the year. The type of tax bill which had been in use for two years was discarded in favor of a bill which has been in use for many years in Quincy and which gave the taxpayer more information than he received under the dis- carded bill. The method of preparing it in longhand gave a better appearing bill and in many ways added to the accuracy of the statements contained therein. From every angle the departure was very satisfactory and it is felt that the present method of pre- paring the tax bills serves the interest of the taxpayer and the city far beyond what was possible under the other bill.
In other ways the work of the Assessing Department has been brought up to a modern standard with the result that under the present system of doing work the Quincy department ranks with the best conducted departments in the state. The changes that were made were the result of experience and of long study of vari- ous methods and all steps finally taken toward bettering the service were submitted for approval to the State Commissioner of Taxa- tion.
Respectfully submitted,
MICHAEL T. SULLIVAN, J. WINTHROP PRATT, ALBERT NELSON, Assessors of the City of Quincy.
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CITY OF QUINCY
REPORT OF COLLECTOR OF TAXES
To His Honor, the Mayor of the City of Quincy:
I have the honor to submit the following report of the Tax Col- lector's Department for the year ending December 31, 1927.
The amount of cash collected on the tax for the various years is as follows:
Tax of 1923
Amount uncollected January 1, 1927.
$4,946 87
Charge by Auditor
1,678 34
$6,625 21
Credit by Auditor
4,434 14
$2,191 07
Amount abated in 1927
1,858 47
$332 60
Amount of interest collected.
Tax of 1924
Amount uncollected January 1, 1927. ... $19,512 89 1,083 03
Charge by Auditor
$20,595 92
Credit by Auditor
16,807 38
$3,788 54
Amount abated during year 1927
2,949 59
$838 95
Amount collected during year 1927.
838 95
Amount of interest collected.
Sidewalk Apportionments of 1924
Amount uncollected January 1, 1927. .... $230 00
Credit by Auditor 220 46
$9 54
Amount abated during year 1927
9 54
Cash Received
Amount collected during year 1927. 332 60 $332 60 61 61
838 95 87 78
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REPORT OF COLLECTOR OF TAXES
Committed Interest on Sidewalk Apportionments of 1924
Cash Received
Charge by Auditor $2 19
Amount abated during year 1927. ... 2 19
Street Betterment Apportionments of 1924
Charge by Auditor
$7 94
Credit by Auditor
7 94
Committed Interest on Street Betterment Apportionments of 1924
Charge by Auditor
$2 38
Credit by Auditor 2 38
Street Oiling of 1924
Amount uncollected January 1, 1927 ......
$142 06
Credit by Auditor
122 36
$19 70
Amount abated during year 1927. 19 70
Tax of 1925
Amount uncollected January 1, 1927 ..
$39,292 79
Charge by State Auditor 204 16
$39,496 95
Credit by State Auditor
115 81
$39,381 14
Additional warrant by Assessors.
73 59
$39,454 73
Reconsideration of abatement by As-
sessors
2 00
$39,456 73
Credit by Auditor
4,766 91
$34,689 82
Amount abated during year 1927.
13,804 66
$20,885 16
Amount collected during year 1927
19,914 44
Amount uncollected January 1, 1928 ...... $970 72 Amount of interest collected. 1,551 29
19,914 44
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Main Sewer Apportionments of 1925
Charge by State Auditor
$48 28
Credit by State Auditor.
42
$44 86
Credit by Auditor
6 19
$38 67
Amount abated during year 1927.
18 76
$19 91
Amount collected during year 1927.
19 91
19 91
Committed Interest on Main Sewer Apportionments of 1925
Charge by State Auditor
$10 25
Credit by State Auditor
2 57
$7 68
Credit by Auditor
1 24
$6 44
Amount abated during year 1927
2 34
Amount collected during year 1927.
4 10
4 10
Street Betterment Apportionments of 1925
Amount uncollected January 1, 1927 ...
$104 73 11 84
$116 57
Credit by State Auditor
38 97
$77 60
Amount abated during year 1927.
39 43
$38 17
Amount collected during year 1927. ..
38 17
38 17
Committed Interest on Street Betterment Apportionments of 1925
Amount uncollected January 1, 1927 ......
$22 25
Charge by State Auditor
3 82
$26 07
Credit by State Auditor
11 08
$14 99
Amount abated during year 1927.
3 55
$11 44
Amount collected during year 1927.
11 44
Cash Received
11 44
Charge by State Auditor.
$4 10
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REPORT OF COLLECTOR OF TAXES
Sidewalk Apportionments of 1925
Cash Received
Amount uncollected January 1, 1927. .... $46 89
Credit by State Auditor
21 58
$25 31
Amount abated during year 1927.
25 31
Committed Interest on Sidewalk Apportionments of 1925
Charge by State Auditor
$20 77
Credit bv State Auditor
16 21
$4 56
Amount abated during year 1927.
4 56
Street Oiling of 1925
Amount uncollected January 1, 1927.
$118 91
Charge by State Auditor. 2 50
$121 41
Credit by State Auditor
17 64
$103 77
Credit by Auditor
93
$102 84
Amount abated during year 1927.
89 94
Amount collected during year 1927.
...
12 90
Gypsy Moth of 1925
Amount uncollected January 1, 1927. ... $96 71
Charge by State Auditor 4 17
$100 88
Credit by State Auditor
20 00
Amount abated during year 1927.
80 88
Tax of 1926
Amount uncollected January 1, 1927 .. .$1,227,952 27
Charge by State Auditor. 523 86
$1,228,476 13
Credit by State Auditor.
166 73
$1,228,309 40
Additional warrant by Assessors
294 90
$1,228,604 30
12 90
$12 90
$80 88
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CITY OF QUINCY
Cash Received
Reconsideration of abatement by As-
sessors 12 78
Credit by Auditor $1,228,617 08
18,768 69
$1,209,848 39
Amount abated during year 1927. 25,450 64
$1,184,397 75
Amount collected during year 1927. 1,158,404 44
1,158,404 44
Amount uncollected January 1, 1928 .. .. $25,993 31
Amount of interest collected 40,088 68
Apportioned and Unapportioned Main Sewers of 1926
Amount uncollected January 1, 1927 ....
$18,114 31
Charge by State Auditor 205 01
$18,319 32
Credit by State Auditor
204 66
$18,114 66
Credit by Auditor
200 43
$17,914 23
Amount abated during year 1927.
49 95
$17,864 28
Amount collected during year 1927.
$17,138 16
Amount uncollected January 1, 1928.
S726 12
Committed Interest on Apportioned and Unapportioned
Main Sewers of 1926
Amount uncollected January 1, 1927 ...... $1,572 90
Charge by State Auditor 22 81
$1,595 71
Credit by State Auditor
5 83
$1,589 88
Credit by Auditor
15 20
$1,574 68
Amount abated during year 1927.
6 47
$1,568 21
Amount collected during year 1927
1,519 53
Amount uncollected January 1, 1928.
$48 68
17,138 16
1,519 53
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REPORT OF COLLECTOR OF TAXES
Apportioned and Unapportioned Street Betterments of 1926
Amount uncollected January 1, 1927.
$11,983 10
Charge by State Auditor 107 13
$12,090 23
Credit by State Auditor
111 09
$11,979 14
Credit by Auditor
98 75
$11,880 39
Amount abated during year 1927.
297 70
$11,582 69
Amount collected during year 1927. 10,639 61
10,639 61
Committed Interest on Apportioned and Unapportioned Street Betterments of 1926
Amount uncollected January 1, 1927.
$2,304 34
Charge by State Auditor
14 42
$2,318 76
Credit by State Auditor
11
$2,311 65
Credit by Auditor
40 32
$2,271 33
Amount abated during year 1927.
25 52
$2,245 81
Amount collected during year 1927.
2,136 40
Amount uncollected January 1, 1928.
$109 41
Apportioned and Unapportioned Sidewalks of 1926
Amount uncollected January 1, 1927 ..
$89 60
Charge by State Auditor
1,236 33
$1,325 93
Credit by State Auditor
30 00
$1,295 93
Amount abated during year 1927.
70 88
$1,225 05
Amount collected during year 1927
1,199 74
Amount uncollected January 1, 1928
$25 31
2,136 40
1,199 74
Amount uncollected January 1, 1928 ......
$943 08
Cash Received
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CITY OF QUINCY
Committed Interest on Apportioned and Unapportioned Sidewalks of 1926
Amount uncollected January 1, 1927. ... $101 70
Charge by State Auditor 40 53
Amount abated during year 1927. $142 23
2 62
$139 61
Amount collected during year 1927.
136 57
Amount uncollected January 1, 1928.
$3 04
Street Oiling of 1926
Amount uncollected January 1, 1927. .... $5,388 70
Charge by State Auditor. 7 14
$5,395 84
Credit by State Auditor
17 90
$5,377 94
Credit by Auditor
18 84
$5,359 10
Amount abated during year 1927.
36 37
$5,322 73
Amount collected during year 1927.
5,237 47
Amount uncollected January 1, 1928 ....
$85 26
Gypsy Moth of 1926
Amount uncollected January 1, 1927 .. ... $711 86
Additional warrant by Assessors. 18 40
$730 26
Amount collected during year 1927.
730 26
Tax of 1927
Total amount committed by Assessors .. $3,579,766 00 Amount abated during year 1927. 25,313 34
$3,554,452 66
Amount collected during year 1927. 2,247,758 05
2,247,758 05
Amount uncollected January 1, 1928. $1,306,694 61 Amount of interest collected. 2,485 66
Unapportioned Main Sewers of 1927
Total amount committed by Assessors .... $7,285 12
Amount abated during year 1927. 87 99
$7,197 13
Cash Received
136 57
5,237 47
730 26
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REPORT OF COLLECTOR OF TAXES
Cash Received
Amount collected during year 1927. 1,445 82 1,445 82
Amount uncollected January 1, 1928.
$5,751 31
Committed Interest on Unapportioned Main Sewers of 1927
Total amount committed by Assessors .... $197 42
Amount abated during year 1927 2 40
$195 02
Amount collected during year 1927 .. 40 43
40 43
Amount uncollected January 1, 1928 ......
$154 59
Main Sewer Apportionments of 1927
Total amount committed by Assessors ..
$8,017 21
Amount abated during year 1927
15 89
$8,001 32
Amount collected during year 1927
3,574 96
Amount uncollected January 1, 1928. ..... $4,426 36
Committed Interest on Main Sewer Apportionments of 1927
Total amount committed by Assessors .. $2,189 51
Amount abated during year 1927. 6 21
$2,183 30
Amount collected during year 1927.
1,005 97
Amount uncollected January 1, 1928 ..
$1,177 33
Unapportioned Street Betterments of 1927
Total amount committed by Assessors .. $12,180 16
Amount abated during year 1927. 196 95
$11,983 21
Amount collected during year 1927
2,101 66
Amount uncollected January 1, 1928. .... $9,881 55
Committed Interest on Unapportioned Street Betterments of 1927
Total amount committed by Assessors .. $737 98
Amount abated during year 1927 11 63
$726 35
Amount collected during year 1927
111 63
Amount uncollected January 1, 1928.
$614 72
3,574 96
1,005 97
2,101 66
111 63
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CITY OF QUINCY
Street Betterment Apportionments of 1927
Total amount committed by Assessors .. $13,260 56
Cash Received Amount abated during year 1927. 39 60
Amount collected during year 1927 $13,220 96
6,342 32 6,342 32
Amount uncollected January 1, 1928.
$6,878 64
Committed Interest on Street Betterment Apportionments of 1927
Total amount committed by Assessors .. $4,567 68
Amount abated during year 1927. 24 76
$4,542 92
Amount collected during year 1927.
2,085 00
2,085 00
Unapportioned Sidewalks of 1927
Total amount committed by Assessors .. $1,973 47
Amount collected during year 1927. 504 06
Amount uncollected January 1, 1928 ..
$1,469 41
Committed Interest on Unapportioned Sidewalks of 1927
Total amount committed by Assessors .. $69 10
Amount collected during year 1927. 17 64
17 64
Amount uncollected January 1, 1928 ...
...
$51 46
Apportioned Sidewalks of 1927
Total amount committed by Assessors .. $1,743 87
Additional warrant by Assessors. 59 54
$1,803 41
Amount collected during year 1927.
1,143 96
1,143 96
Amount uncollected January 1, 1928 ......
$659 45
Committed Interest on Apportioned Sidewalks of 1927
Total amount committed by Assessors .. $397 20
Additional warrant by Assessors. 2 36
$399 56
504 06
Amount uncollected January 1, 1928.
$2,457 92
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REPORT OF COLLECTOR OF TAXES
Cash Received
Amount abated during year 1927. 6 30
$393 26
Amount collected during year 1927. 241 79
241 79
Amount uncollected January 1, 1928.
$151 47
Street Oiling of 1927
Total amount committed by Commis- sioner of Public Works $11,076 15
Amount abated during year 1927 181 38
$10,894 77
Amount collected during year 1927.
6,262 72
6,262 72
Amount uncollected January 1, 1928.
$4,632 05
Gypsy Moth of 1927
Total amount committed by Commis- sioner of Public Works.
$2,155 46
Amount abated during year 1927 15 69
$2,139 77
Amount collected during year 1927.
1,279 72
1,279 72
Amount uncollected January 1, 1928. $860 05
Sewers
Amount collected during year 1927 on sewer con- struction
8,385 41
Amount of interest collected .. 24 31
Permanent Sidewalks
Amount collected during year 1927 on permanent sidewalks 7,232 54
Amount of interest collected. 11 35
Street Betterments
Amount collected during year 1927 on street bet- terments
10,693 68
Amount of interest collected.
82 00
Costs collected during year 1927
7,259 25
Bank interest collected during year 1927.
480 82
Total amount of cash collected in 1927. $3,570,674 80
JAMES B. WHITE, Collector of Taxes.
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CITY OF QUINCY
REPORT OF DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
JANUARY 1, 1928.
To His Honor the Mayor and the President and Members of the City Council.
GENTLEMEN :- The following report of the activities of the Health Department during the past year is modelled on the scor- ing system adopted by the American Public Health Association. The Appraisal Form recognizes eight major headings in city health work. A definite value is assigned to these headings, the total equaling 1,000 points. If the heading under "Health of the Child" is further subdivided we get eleven major health activities.
Activities
Possible Score
1926 Score
1927 Score
Vital Statistics
60
57
60
Communicable Disease Control.
175
136
149
Venereal Disease
50
30
26
Tuberculosis Control
100
67
80
Health of the Child
Pre-natal
75
48
50
Infant
75
45
48
Pre-school
50
33
42
School
150
91
Sanitation
175
135
145
Laboratory
70
57
65
Popular Health Instruction
20
12
18
Totals
1000
711
The appraisal of the public health activities in Quincy for the year 1926 was made by Dr. W. F. Walker, Field Director of the American Public Health Association. The appraisal of the public health activities for the year 1927 has been made by the depart- ment itself, with the assistance of Dr. Clarence L. Scammon, Di- rector of the Division of Communicable Diseases, State Depart- ment of Health. Dr. Walker suggested many improvements which it has been the policy of the department to follow wherever pos- sible. It will be possible to make some further improvements without much additional expense, but many of the suggested im- provements will require considerable increase in the budget. These suggestions are worthy of consideration and the problems involved must be met sooner or later. A comprehensive public health pro- gram demands an expenditure of about $1.00 per capita. During 1927 it cost 841/2 cents per capita, reckoning the city population as 65,275.
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Vital Statistics
"A classification of deaths under one year and births by nativity of mothers should be made in order to learn the influence of the several different nativities present upon the infant mortality rate." This has been done.
Communicable Disease Control
"The suggestions made for the improvement of this service are: 1. An extension of the information gathered on epidemiological case histories made of communicable diseases. The card at pres- ent shows only residence; name of patient; age; date of report; school; by whom reported; disposition, such as hospitalization or death; date of release and such other notes as the nurse may care to make upon the reference side of the card.
In order to obtain sufficient information for the conduct of epi- demiological studies or to study the effect of toxin anti-toxin or other immunizing procedures, the history ought to be considerably extended. To cover these items the following suggestions are made in conformity with the forthcoming report of the Committee on Record Forms of the American Public Health Association:
'There should be place for entry of the source and qual- ity of the milk, water and ice supplies. In intestinal dis- orders-typhoid or para-typhoid-the ingestion of raw fruits, vegetables, and sea food for the past three weeks should be noted as a possible source. There should be a complete listing of persons with whom the patient was intimately associated in proximity of the date of infection.
Likewise, all immediate family and other intimate con- tacts should be listed, so that they may be known and supervised.
The control measures applied to these contacts should be noted, including immunization, active or passive, as well as isolation during the incubation period. The date of onset and the date of using biologicals in the treatment of the case, and the amount of such products used should be carefully recorded.'
2. During 1926 it was not routine practice to make instructive nursing visits to cases of whooping cough. Good practice indicates the desirability of two such visits, the object of which is to give instruction concerning the nursing care of the cases and protection of contacts.
3. It would seem desirable that the consulting diagnostic serv- ice offered by the Health Department for the use of private physi- cians should be somewhat more generally advertised to the pro- fession than is apparently the case at present.
4. Probably the most important recommendation in connection with communicable disease control is the extension of toxin anti- toxin immunization against diphtheria. It would seem advisable in this connection that use be made of such potent educational material as the diphtheria films published by the Metropolitan and John Hancock Life Insurance Companies and other organi- zations."
In discussing these four recommendations we may say that new complete history cards for communicable diseases are now in use. Mimeographed instruction sheets are left in the home where con- tagious disease is present.
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Two instructive nursing visits are made in cases of whooping cough.
The consulting diagnostic service has been somewhat extended, particularly as far as assistance from the State Department of Health in the recent infantile paralysis epidemic was concerned.
An extensive and energetic campaign has been waged against diphtheria. An extra physician is attending the baby clinic in each ward for three successive weeks. His duty is to immunize, against diphtheria, all children brought to the clinic for that purpose. It takes him eighteen weeks to make the circuit of the city and then he starts over the same route again. From the spring of 1927 until the end of the year 3,100 children were immunized against diphtheria. This included a large number of children in the first two grades of the schools. The school program of diphtheria pre- vention was carried out very smoothly by means of the assistance of the School Department and Dr. Edward Lane of the State Health Department.
Venereal Disease Control
1. "It is recommended that an effort be made to encourage reporting of venereal infection and that likewise physicians be encouraged to report cases discontinuing treatment while still in the infectious stage.
2. It is suggested that the Health Department maintain either through its nursing service, its Sanitary Inspector, or with the aid of the Police Department, facilities for following up venereally intected persons and returning them to medical supervision, pref- erably to their private physicians, but to the clinic if the former is not feasible."
An attempt has been made to follow out these suggestions, but the results have been discouraging.
Tuberculosis Service
"It is suggested:
1. That additional nursing service be provided for the super- vision of the home care of cases and contacts and to stimulate the periodic examination and clinical follow-up of contacts as an aid in the detection of cases.
2. That additional facilities be provided for the care of children suspected of tuberculosis. Such facilities might be open air class- rooms, preventoria or day camps. In providing these facilities consideration should be given to adjusting the child's daily activ- ities in school or otherwise to his physical capacity. The ten- year program outlined by the State Department, which will be undertaken by Quincy in the fall, should furnish the children to be cared for in such a manner."
It is to be hoped that the Department of Health may be able to provide additional nursing service in 1928. It was possible, however, to give ten underweight children an additional six-weeks' vacation at the Norfolk County Health Camp.
Pre-natal Service
"It would seem within the possibility of Quincy, in which the Visiting Nurses Service is so well accepted, that the maternal death rate could be materially decreased if Quincy mothers became sufficiently interested in this service.
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1. It is suggested that efforts be made through women's clubs and other organizations to bring this possibility to the attention of local mothers and receive their endorsement and cooperation.
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