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Betterments and Sewers
Previously all betterment taxes were billed by the departments where they originated and for the full amount, apportionments being made only on request of the taxpayer after receiving the bill. Now all street and sidewalk betterments are billed by the Assessors and all, including main sewers, are apportioned over a period of years. For this work a Deferred Assessments Revenue Book was installed which is comprehensive and requires considerable time to keep it accurate and up to date.
Transfers
Transfers of property, tax sales, and land court titles entail a great amount of detail work which is constantly increasing in volume.
Court Cases
Only one appeal from our decision on request for abatement of taxes was taken to court-this complaint being placed before the County Commissioner who, after hearing, dismissed the case.
Office
The office equipment is now substantially complete and up to date for immediate future needs, but a serious handicap to complete efficiency is the lack of needed room, which obviously grows more serious each year. If we could be provided additional quarters and in a way which we would like to suggest, we feel confident we could reduce the expense of this office the coming year sufficient to nearly, if not wholly, pay the cost of such work and this without seriously discommoding any other department.
Most respectfully submitted,
MICHAEL T. SULLIVAN, J. WINTHROP PRATT, ALBERT NELSON. Board of Assesors.
REPORT OF COLLECTOR OF TAXES
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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, 1930:
The amount of cash collected on the tax for the various years is as follows:
Tax of 1926
Amount uncollected January 1, 1930 ....
$258 70
Reconsideration of abatement by As-
sessors 2 00
$260 70
Amount abated in 1930
22 56
$238 14
Amount collected in 1930
41 16
Amount uncollected January 1, 1931
$196 98
Amount of interest collected 2 75
Main Sewer Apportionments of 1926
Amount uncollected January 1, 1930.
$96 50
Charge by Auditor 17 90
$114 40
Audit adjustment-credit
20 00
$94 40
Amount collected in 1930
94 40
94 40
Committed Interest on Main Sewer Apportionments of 1926
Amount uncollected January 1, 1930 .... $1 68
1 68
Street Betterment Apportionments of 1926
Amount uncollected January 1, 1930 ....
$648 47
Credit by Auditor
9 28
Amount uncollected January 1, 1931
$639 19
Committed Interest on Street Betterment Apportionments of 1926
Amount uncollected January 1, 1930 ....
$45 89
Credit by Auditor
5 73
Amount uncollected January 1, 1931
$40 16
Tax of 1927
Amount uncollected January 1, 1930 ....
$2,839 93
Reconsideration of abatement by As-
17 60
sessors
$2,857 53
Cash Received
$41 16
Amount collected in 1930 1 68
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Audit adjustment-charge ... 390 84
$3,248 37
Amount abated in 1930
1,618 24
Amount collected in 1930.
1,169 09
Amount uncollected January 1, 1931 ....
$461 04
Amount of interest collected 105 92
Main Sewer Apportionments of 1927
Amount uncollected January 1, 1930 ..
$42 87
Amount abated in 1930
42 87
Committed Interest on Main Sewer Apportionments of 1927
Amount uncollected January 1, 1930.
$1 23
Amount abated in 1930 1 23
Street Betterment Apportionments of 1927
Amount uncollected January 1, 1930 ....
$72 66
Amount abated in 1930
10 03
Amount uncollected January 1, 1931 ....
$62 63
Committed Interest on Street Betterment Apportionments of 1927
Amount uncollected January 1, 1930.
$11 52
Amount abated in 1930
3 48
Amount uncollected January 1, 1931 ....
$8 04
Street Oiling of 1927
Amount uncollected January 1, 1930 ....
$21 18
Credit by Auditor
2 04
$19 14
Amount abated in 1930
19 14
Tax of 1928
Amount uncollected January 1, 1930. ... $28,627 55
Additional Warrant by Assessors. 6 70
$28,634 25
Reconsideration of Abatement by As- sessors
2 01
$28,636 26
Audit adjustment-charge
175 43
$28,811 69
Audit adjustment-credit
45 52
$28,766 17
Credit by Auditor
1,853 55
$26,912 62
Amount abated in 1930
7,046 79
$19,865 83
Amount collected in 1930
16,061 32
16,061 32
Amount uncollected January 1, 1931 ... 3,804 51
Amount of interest collected. 2,194 63
1,169 09
$1,630 13
REPORT OF COLLECTOR OF TAXES
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Main Sewer Apportionments of 1928
Amount uncollected January 1, 1930 ....
$123 18
Additional Warrant by Assessors. 2 00
$125 18
Audit adjustment-charge
17 74
$142 92
Audit adjustment-credit
4 61
$138 31
Amount abated in 1930
4 80
$133 51
Amount collected in 1930
98 30
Amount uncollected January 1, 1931 ....
$35 21
Committed Interest on Main Sewer Apportionments of 1928
Amount uncollected January 1, 1930 ....
$36 38
Additional Warrant by Assessors
40
$36 78
Audit adjustment-charge
3 15
$39 93
Audit adjustment-credit
1 36
$38 57
Amount abated in 1930
2 16
$36 41
Amount collected in 1930
24 74
Amount uncollected January 1, 1931 ....
$11 67
Street Betterment Apportionments of 1928
Amount uncollected January 1, 1930 ....
$377 11
Audit adjustment-charge
32 68
$409 79
Audit adjustment-credit
11 81
$397 98
Credit by Auditor
34 52
$363 46
Amount abated in 1930
18 71
Amount collected in 1930
216 9
Amount uncollected January 1, 1931 ....
$127 76
98 30
24 74
$344 75
216 99
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Committed Interest on Street Betterment Apportionments of 1928
Amount uncollected January 1, 1930 ....
$105 93
Audit adjustment-charge 11 01
$116 94
Audit adjustment-credit
2 05
$114 89
Credit by Auditor®
13 98
$100 91
Amount abated in 1930.
4 28
$96 63
Amount collected in 1930.
68 03
Amount uncollected January 1, 1931 ....
$28 60
Sidewalk Apportionments of 1928
Amount uncollected January 1, 1930 ....
$450 33
Audit adjustment-credit
17 88
$432 45
Credit by Auditor
7 98
$424 47
Amount collected in 1930
97 77
Amount uncollected January 1, 1931 ....
$326 70
Committed Interest on Sidewalk Apportionments of 1928
Amount uncollected January 1, 1930 ....
$126 05
Audit adjustment-credit
2 14
$123 91
Credit by Auditor
1 27
$122 64
Amount collected in 1930
22 26
22 26
Gypsy Moth of 1928
Amount uncollected January 1, 1930 ....
$135 70
Audit adjustment-charge
11 30
$147 00
Amount abated in 1930
2 50
$144 50
Amount collected in 1930
84 30
84 30
Amount uncollected January 1, 1931 ....
$60 20
68 03
97 77
Amount uncollected January 1, 1931 ....
$100 38
REPORT OF COLLECTOR OF TAXES
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Tax of 1929
Amount uncollected January 1, 1930 .. .$1,494,284 38 Additional Warrant by Assessors. 161 88
Charge by Auditor $1,494,446 26
495 90
Audit adjustment-charge
42 14
Audit adjustment-credit
8 70
$1,494,975 60
Credit by Auditor
70,590 29
$1,424,385 31
Amount abated in 1930
11,503 63
$1,412,881 68
Amount collected in 1930 1,388,718 46
Amount uncollected January 1, 1931 ....
$24,163 22
Amount of interest collected.
Main Sewer Apportionments of 1929
Amount uncollected January 1, 1930 .... $7,366 56
Additional Warrant by Assessors 2 00
$7,368 56
Audit adjustment-charge
5 81
$7,374 37
Audit adjustment-credit
11 54
$7,362 83
Credit by Assessors
9 52
$7,353 31
415 23
Amount abated in 1930
50
$6,937 58
Amount collected in 1930.
6,840 95
Amount uncollected January 1, 1931 ....
$96 63
Committed Interest on Main Sewer Apportionments of 1929
Amount uncollected January 1, 1930. $1,669 90
Additional Warrant by Assessors 30
$1,670 20
Audit adjustment-charge
1 07
Audit adjustment-credit
1 02
$1,670 25
Credit by Assessors
1 30
$1,668 95
Credit by Auditor
81 69
Amount abated in 1930
45
$1,586 81
Amount collected in 1930
1,551 72
Amount uncollected January 1, 1931 ....
$35 09
1,388,718 46 46,193 61
6,840 95
1,551 72
Credit by Auditor
$6,938 08
$1,671 27
$1,587 26
$1,494,942 16
$1,494,984 30
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Street Betterment Apportionments of 1929
Amount uncollected January 1, 1930 .... $16,117 14 Charge by Assessors 17 53
Additional Warrant by Assessors $16,134 67
9 54
$16,144 21
Charge by Auditor
15 70
$16,159 91
Audit adjustment-charge
5 17
$16,165 08
Audit adjustment-credit
17 53
$16,147 55
Credit by Auditor
822 56
$15,324 99
Amount abated in 1930
21 19
$15,303 80
Amount collected in 1930
15,042 56
15,042 56
Committed Interest on Street Betterments Apportionments of 1929
Amount uncollected January 1, 1930
$6,198 35 9 47
$6,207 82
Additional Warrant by Assessors
5 15
$6,212 97
Charge by Auditor
8 48
$6,221 45
Audit adjustment-charge
2 98
$6,224 43
Audit adjustment-credit
9 65
$6,214 78
Credit by Auditor
313 57
$5,901 21
Amount abated in 1930
6 89
$5,894 32
Amount collected in 1930
5,786 64
Amount uncollected January 1, 1931 ....
$107 68
5,786 64
Amount uncollected January 1, 1931 ....
$261 24
Charge by Assessors ..
REPORT OF COLLECTOR OF TAXES
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Sidewalk Apportionments of 1929
Amount uncollected January 1, 1930 .... $4,816 20 Charge by Assessors 21 23
Charge by Auditor $4,837 43
39 21
Audit adjustment-charge
10 32
$4,886 96
Credit by Auditor
158 70
$4,728 26
Audit adjustment-credit
50 15
$4,678 11
Amount abated in 1930
62 90
$4,615 21
Amount collected in 1930
4,519 70
Amount uncollected January 1, 1931 ....
$95 51
Committed Interest on Sidewalk Apportionments of 1929
Amount uncollected January 1, 1930 ....
$1,602 86
Charge by Assessors. 4 95
$1,607 81
Charge by Auditor
16 63
$1,624 44
Audit adjustment-charge
1 02
$1,625 46
Audit adjustment-credit
23 42
$1,602 04
Credit by Auditor ....
49 25
$1,552 79
Amount abated in 1930
24 02
$1,528 77
Amount collected in 1930
1,486 28
Amount uncollected January 1, 1931 ..
$42 49
Gypsy Moth of 1929
Amount uncollected January 1, 1930 ....
$795 87
Charge by Auditor
2 50
$798 37
Credit by Auditor
5 00
$793 37
Amount abated in 1930
7 50
$785 87
Amount collected in 1930
785 87
785 87
4,519 70
1,486 28
$4,876 64
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Tax of 1930
Total amount committed by Assessors .. $4,013,878 70 Charge by Auditor 696 30
$4,014,575 00
Credit by Auditor
58,174 72
$3,956,400 28
Amount abated in 1930
17,411 62
$3,938,988 66
Amount collected in 1930 2,414,148 00
Amount uncollected January 1, 1931 .... $1,524,840 66 Amount of interest collected
Main Sewer Apportionments of 1930
Total amount committed by Assessors $15,054 25
Credit by Auditor
480 62
$14,573 63
Amount abated in 1930
10 37
$14,563 26
Amount collected in 1930
5,831 58
Amount uncollected January 1, 1931 ....
$8,731 68
Committed Interest on Main Sewer Apportionments of 1930
Total amount committed by Assessors . $4,342 85
Credit by Auditor
140 34
$4,202 51
Amount abated in 1930
3 64
$4,198 87
Amount collected in 1930
1,641 85
Amount uncollected January 1, 1931 ....
$2,557 02
Street Betterment Apportionments of 1930
Total amount committed by Assessors $35,310 14
Credit by Auditor 853 24
$34,456 90
Amount abated in 1930
25 22
$34,431 68
Amount collected in 1930
14,017 51
Amount uncollected January 1, 1931 .... $20,414 17
2,414,148 00
2,529 04
5,831 58
1,641 85
14,017 51
REPORT OF COLLECTOR OF TAXES
123
Committed Interest on Street Betterments Apportionments of 1930
Total amount committed by Assessors $13,462 12
Credit by Auditor. 348 09
$13,114 03
Amount abated in 1930
18 89
$13,095 14
Amount collected in 1930
5,111 63
Amount uncollected January 1, 1931 ..
$7,983 51
Sidewalk Apportionments of 1930
Total amount committed by Assessors
$9,647 84
Credit by Auditor
182 26
$9,465 58
Amount abated in 1930
10 99
$9,454 59
Amount collected in 1930
4,144 80
Amount uncollected January 1, 1931 ....
$5,309 79
Committed Interest on Sidewalk Apportionments of 1930
Total amount committed by Assessors
$3,162 18
Credit by Auditor
60 33
$3,101 85
Amount abated in 1930
9 64
$3,092 21
Amount collected in 1930
1,289 09
Amount uncollected January 1, 1931 ....
$1,803 12
Gypsy Moth of 1930
Total amount committed by Assessors
$2,128 44
Charge by Auditor. 32 10
$2,161 04
Credit by Auditor
2 50
$2,158 54
Amount abated in 1930
37 93
$2,120 61
Amount collected in 1930
1,132 29
Amount uncollected January 1, 1931 ....
$988 32
5,111 63
4,144 80
1,289 09
1,132 29
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Motor Excise Tax of 1929
Amount uncollected January 1, 1930 .... $60,600 20 Additional Warrant by Assessors. 287 05
Reconsideration of abatement by As- sessors
25 49
$60,912 74
Audit adjustment-charge ...... 2 19
$60,914 93
Audit adjustment-credit
71 93
$60,843 00
Charge by Auditor
66 91
$60,909 91
Credit by Auditor
2 38
$60,907 53
Amount abated in 1930
3,472 87
$57,434 66
Amount collected in 1930
44,589 89
44,589 89
Amount uncollected January 1, 1931. $12,844 77
Amount of interest collected. 1,361 97
Motor Excise Tax of 1930
Total amount committed by Assessors in 1930
$174,804 77
Reconsideration of abatement by As- sessors
62 32
$174,867 09
Charge by Auditor
$5,394 27
$180,261 36
Credit by Auditor
46 30
$180,215 06
Amount abated in 1930
10,848 48
$169,366 58
Amount collected in 1930
111,675 12
111,675 12
Amount uncollected January 1, 1931. $57,691 46
Amount of interest collected. 83 64
Sewers
Amount collected during year 1930 on sewer con- struction 8,713 04
Amount of interest collected 71 20
$60,887 25
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Permanent Sidewalk
Amount collected during year 1930 on Permanent Sidewalks
Amount of interest collected
9,066 97 44 18
Street Betterments
Amount collected during year 1930 on Street Bet- terments
27,240 49
Amount of interest collected
113 31
Costs collected during year 1930
5,763 11
Bank Interest collected during year 1930.
582 97
Total amount collected during year 1930. $4,150,360 81
Respectfully submitted,
JAMES B. WHITE,
Collector of Taxes.
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REPORT OF DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
JANUARY 31, 1931.
HON. THOMAS J. MCGRATH, Mayor, Quincy, Massachusetts.
DEAR SIR :- The following is my fourth and last report as Health Commissioner for the City of Quincy. Owing to discontin- uance of my duties in the Health Department, I have been unable to score the work of the Health Department activities for 1930 as has been done in the three previous years. However, I might say that, except in a few particulars, the standard of work done in 1930 is as high as that done in 1929.
"The Appraisal Form for City Health Work" as published by the American Public Health Association recognizes fourteen major di- visions in city health work. This Appraisal Form, unfortunately, is not yet in common use, so that comparisons with other cities of comparable population is rather difficult. However, I shall mention some salient feature of each one of these divisions of public health work as carried out in Quincy during the year 1930.
Vital Statistics
No criticism-considerable credit due to City Clerk Emery Crane.
Communicable Disease Control
For the first time in the history of the city, there was no death from diphtheria. This is all the more remarkable when one con- siders that in 1888, when Quincy was incorporated as a city, the population was comparatively small. There was no case of diph- theria reported for five months. This was due to the constantly increasing use of toxin-antitoxin. On February 19th of this year it was reported at the White House Conference (on Child Health and Protection) that Quincy was at the head of the list in this state in cities between 65,000 and 104,000 as to the percentage of children that had received immunization against diphtheria. This percentage was about 31. When the anti-diphtheria campaign was first started in 1926 there were four deaths.
Venereal Disease Control
The clinic was divided into two divisions-one for each sex. An attendant was furnished in each clinic to help the physician. Be- cause of the very few visits made by the average gonorrhea pa- tient, it seems as if this phase of Venereal Disease Control in Quincy were hardly worth while. Many such cases cease treat- ment uncured or wander to other agencies. The syphilis patients, however, continued treatment. Many cities are doing much better work in this health activity.
Tuberculosis Control
The budget item for control of tuberculosis is by far the largest in the Health Department expense sheet. It is to be hoped that in a few years this expense will be decreased, due to efforts now being made to prevent the childhood case which eventually becomes the adult case.
Maternity Hygiene
Very recently the Quincy Hospital has opened a Pre-Natal Clinic. A tremendous amount of the infant mortality in Quincy
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is due to conditions existing before or at the time of delivery. It is hoped that this new clinic will help to reduce the high infant mortality in the early days of life.
Infant Hygiene
The truest test for the efficiency of Public Health work in any community is the infant mortality. During 1930 Quincy had the lowest infant mortality during its existence as a city. In other words, out of one thousand babies born during the year only forty- six died.
The average infant mortality during the last eight years has been 53. It is interesting to note that in the babies registered in the clinics during the same period that the mortality average has been slightly over 4.
Pre-School Hygiene
One weekly clinic at Woodward Institute.
School Hygiene
This is under the care of the School Committee.
Food and Milk Control
The percentage of pasteurized milk dropped from 96 per cent to 93 per cent. There should be a full-time food inspector, due to the fact that there is no restaurant inspection in Quincy whatso- ever. A constant increase in the use of drug stores as restaurants makes this advisable.
Sanitation
There have been three sanitary inspectors during the year; therefore the work has been somewhat unsettled. Industrial nui- sances continue to give trouble.
Laboratory
Regular routine work as in preceding years.
Popular Health Instruction
Acting on your orders, the monthly bulletin of the Health De- partment was discontinued early in the year. This had been pub- lished since June, 1927, and had a mailing list of 750. More space has been given in the "Quincy Daily Ledger" and "Quincy Evening News" to public health and to the education of the public in health matters than ever before. Transition from policeman to teacher has affected both the work and point of view of health officials. So true is this that nearly every activity of a State Department of Health attempts more or less directly to instruct, interest and lead local officials and citizens to do the right thing for their own well being and that of their neighbors.
Cancer Control
The health department has not even made a start in this weighty problem.
Heart Disease Control
The commonest cause of infectious heart disease arise during school life. Therefore, the campaign against heart disease is largely in the hands of the family physician and the school de- partment.
The salary of a Nutrition worker was paid from city funds dur- ing October, November and December.
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Your Health Commissioner, at his own expense, attended the White House Conference on Child Welfare in November. Quincy was one of eleven cities in this State covered by a searching and exhaustive nation-wide study made of the medical care of children. These cities were Boston, Fall River, Springfield, Lowell, Lynn, Newton, Brockton, Pittsfield, Holyoke, Somerville and Quincy.
It is recommended that both the nutrition work and the work in preventive dentistry should be continued. The first activity was ably carried out by Miss Dorothy Lane and Dr. A. E. O'Malley demonstrated most thoroughly the ease and economy with which one could do dental work on pre-school children.
Mr. Alexander Robertson resigned as sanitary inspector in May, 1930, to accept a much better position as health officer in Bar Har- bor, Maine. Mr. Robertson showed considerable vision and enthu- siasm in his work, and the change was a marked loss for the Health Department. The loyalty and cooperation of Health De- partment employees during the year has been most gratifying to the Commissioner.
In closing this report I should like to repeat a statement that I made in the first Health Department Bulletin in June, 1927. "Em- phasis is to be laid on two principal activities of the Department- first, the prevention of disease; second, the health of the child."
How efficiently this has been done during the last four years you and the citizens of Quincy know.
Truly yours,
E. B. FITZGERALD, M.D., Health Commssioner.
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REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT
JANUARY 1, 1931.
DR. EDMUND B. FITZGERALD, Health Commissioner.
DEAR SIR: I hereby submit my annual report of the Department of Health for the year ending December 31, 1930.
The personnel of the department is as follows :-
Commissioner of Health and Inspector of Milk
Dr. E. B. FitzGerald
Superintendent
Thomas G. Smith
Clerk
Verna M. Kelley
Sanitary Inspector
A. A. Robertson
Inspector of Meats and Provisions
Howard Rogers
Dispensary Physician
Dr. C. J. Lynch
Child Welfare Physician
Dr. Rachel L. Hardwick
Venereal Disease Physician
Dr. E. E. Smith
Bacteriologist Dr. E. E. Smith
Tuberculosis Nurse
Gertrude T. Russell, R.N.
Tuberculosis Nurse
Mary E. Keeley, R.N.
Contagious Nurse
Catherine F. Coleman, R.N.
Child Welfare Nurse
Nettie D. Fowler, R.N.
Child Welfare Nurse
Mary E. Marr, R.N.
Inspector of Animals and Slaughtering. Dr. E. A. de Varennes Statistician
Abraham Pactovis
Under date of June 15th Mr. A. A. Robertson resigned to ac- cept a position as Health Officer in Bar Harbor, Maine. His posi- tion was filled by the temporary appointment of Abraham S. Pac- tovis. Mr. Pactovis assumed the duties of Statistician and Sani- tary Inspector until October 1st, when he resigned to resume his study in college. He returned under date of November 1st and was appointed as Statistician, part-time.
Miss Dorothy M. Lane was appointed Nutritionist, March 1st, under the auspices of the Red Cross, until October 1st, at which time this department procured an appropriation until the close of the year.
Under date of November 1st, Roy W. Cramond was appointed as Deputy Commissioner and he assumed the duties of Sanitary Inspector.
Appended you will find the report of the various nurses and inspectors.
See Auditor's report for statement of receipts and payments.
Respectfully submitted,
THOMAS G. SMITH,
Superintendent.
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REPORT OF CONTAGIOUS DISEASE NURSE
JANUARY 1, 1931.
DR. EDMUND B. FITZGERALD, Health Commissioner.
DEAR DOCTOR :- I herewith submit my sixth annual report of contagious disease work for the year ending 1930.
1594 cases of notifiable diseases were reported as follows:
Measles
771
Scarlet fever
343
Chickenpox
106
Mumps
78
German measles
78
Whooping-cough
88
Dog bite
39
Anterior poliomyelitis
13
Lobar pneumonia
51
Influenza
8
Diphtheria
7
Septic sore throat
5
Typhoid fever
3
Rabies
1
Ophthalmia
1
Malaria
1
Cerebro-spinal fever
1
Nursing Visits
By Contagious Disease Nurse
By Other Nurse
Scarlet fever
972
104
Measles
1,447
207
Diphtheria (cultures 68)
64
10 (cultures 23)
Whooping-cough
107
Anterior poliomyelitis
19
Typhoid fever (cultures 10)
10
Venereal disease
14
Chickenpox
1
2,634
321 Total 2,955
Scarlet Fever
The majority of these cases were of a mild type and occurred in Ward 6. Thirty-five cases were cared for in the hospital. One child died at home.
Diphtheria
There were seven cases reported during the year, eleven less than last year. As in the year previous, prevention clinics were held in the various wards. Continuing the policy adopted three years ago, this department cooperated with the School Depart- ment in giving these treatments in all the Grammar Schools. A total of 1,231 children were immunized during the year.
Anterior Poliomyelitis
Of the thirteen cases reported, eight were cared for in the hos- pital. There were four deaths from this disease. The majority of these cases occurred in Wards 5 and 6. There were four cases in one family, a very unsual occurrence.
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DIPHTHERIA COMPARATIVE MORBIDITY RATES
-1930
NEWTON
6
HOLYOKE
9
QUINCY
10
11.1
LAWRENCE
CoWELL!
BROCKTON
MALDEN
MEDFORD
79
NEW BEDFORD
142
SOMERVILLE
187
LYNN
20 H- 40 50 . 80.|00||120|0|0||180
RATES BASED ON CASES PER 100000 POPULATION
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DIPHTHERIA
MORBIDITY RATES
27.
24-
-: 24
22
22
20
16
TAY IMMUNIZATION
:FROMRATSTARTED
83
8
4
28-
.26
.97
:1921: 1-19225
-1923 -1924 1925 -1926
17927 - 1928:
1929
-1930
RATES PER 10,000
POPULATION
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DIPHTHERIA
MORTALITY
RATES
259
25
5
3.1
3.0
2.9
1921;
:/922.
.1923 ..
1924 1925
1926
1927
1928 \ 1929
1930
RATES PER 100,000 POPULATION
12.1.
73
6.6
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Measles
This was one of the important diseases to show an increase over last year, 771 cases being reported. The majority of these cases were in Wards 1 and 2. There were three deaths from this dis- ease.
Typhoid Fever
Three cases reported, two of which were hospitalized. One of these cases was a contact. No definite history of the source of infection could be obtained in the other cases.
Whooping-cough
There were three deaths from this disease.
One hundred and sixty-one various clinics were attended during the year. Assistance was given at the physical examination, as well as the dental examination of the children in the first grade of the Parochial Schools.
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