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Respectfully submitted, JOHN P. DIXON, Chairman JAMES F. FOLEY JOHN J. BAYER Board of Health, Norwood, Mass.
REPORT OF HEALTH AGENT
The General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts made several changes in the subdivision control law, Chapter 41-G, section 81-K-81-Y, this year.
The new law, Chapter 674 of the Acts of 1953, provides that the local Planning Board is required, within ten days after a submission of a real estate subdivision plan to it, to consult with the local Board of Health. If the local Board of Health is in doubt as to whether any of the land in the subdivision can be used as building sites without injury to the public health they are required to notify the Planning
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Board in writing within thirty days. This act repealed Chapter 134 of the Acts of 1952 which gave the Board of Health great responsibility in approving the proposed method of providing for a sanitary water supply, sewage disposal and drainage in each subdivision.
The Board of Health approved the plans for 8 new subdivisions in 1953.
There were a total of eighteen patients hospitalized for Pulmonary Tuberculosis at the Norfolk County Hospital and other Institutions throughout the state.
It is the policy of the Board of Health to recommend the extension of the public sewer, whenever possible, to any newly developed area of the town, before actual construction begins. Under the policy the plumbing inspector cannot issue any plumbing permits for any building to be constructed in an unsewered arca of the town until an application is presented to the Board of Health for a permit for the disposal of sewage. Upon receipt of the application a study of the area is made by the Board of Health and approval of the disposal of sewage by local means is given only if the public sewer is unaccessable or too costly to extend.
Sanitary inspections of restaurants, food stores and business establishments were conducted by local and state Inspectors throughout the year.
Institutions approved by the Board were inspected before licenses were issued. They included: Hospitals, Homes for the Aged, Nursing Homes, Day Nurseries. and Funeral Homes.
BARTLEY J. KING Health Agent
REPORT OF MILK INSPECTOR
Following is the report of the Milk Inspector for 1953.
Licenses were issued for the sale of milk and cream.
Permits were issued for the sale of oleomargarine.
Licenses were issued for the manufacture of ice cream and frozen desserts.
Licenses were issued for establishments for the pasteurization of milk.
A set of rules and regulations for the handling and sale of milk and milk products was drawn up and presented to the Board of Health for approval.
Four hundred seventy-six (476) laboratory tests were made on one hundred nine (109) samples of milk and cream. The results of these tests indicate that milk and cream of satisfactory quality is being sold in Norwood. The respective milk dealers were notified of the results of all tests made on their products.
Two sanitizing tests were performed on milk bottles. The purpose of sanitizing tests is to determine the efficiency of the bottle washing. In each case the bottles were within the allowable limits.
Respectfully yours, LEONARD E. CURRAN Milk Inspector
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REPORT OF PLUMBING INSPECTOR
The following is the report of the Plumbing Inspector for the year 1953: The following permits were issued during the year.
January 22
July 38
February
34
August 29
March
24
September 31
April
41
October
35
May
26
November 20
June
40
December
28
Total number of permits issued during 1953
368
HARRY A. SHANNON Plumbing Inspector
REPORT OF PAROCHIAL SCHOOL NURSE
It is my privilege to present my second annual report explaining my program at St. Catherine's School.
School Physican
Dr. Thomas O'Toole visited the school two days each week and examined the children recommended for examination plus routine work. This year he examined 790 children and the following defects were noted:
Throats
186
Feet
0
Heart
24
Lungs
0
Speech 25
Twelve children have had their tonsils removed since school started in the fall and many have appointments to have them removed during the summer vacation.
Diphtheria Control
Schick tested 183
Positive reactors .. 40
Toxoid injections 120
Communicable Disease
The following rules regarding the exclusion of children are still in effect. Children will be excluded from school for the following reasons:
Temperature under 97 degrees or over 99 degrees Skin eruptions-until diagnosed as not contagious Evidence of a sore throat Vomiting
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Returning to school without a certificate from the doctor after having had a communicable disease.
The following is a list of reported cases of contagious diseases this year:
Scarlet Fever 1
Infantile Paralysis 0
Pertussis
41
Measles 4
Chicken Pox 33 Mumps 8
Rhuematic Fever
0
German Measles 2
We wish to thank the parents for their fine co-operation in the matter of communicable disease control.
Audiometer Tests
The children from the first to the eighth grades had their hearing tested with the audiometer this year.
Number tested 793
Number failed
10
Notices sent home 10
Recommended for lip reading
0
Attending classes for lip reading
4
Eye Clinic
Dr. Reimer and the public school nurse, conducted the Eye Clinic each week at the Norwood Junior High School. Usually we are allowed five appointments each week.
All the children at St. Catherine's received the Massachusetts Vision Test this year. This test is divided into three parts. Part I is the test for acuity, Part II is the test for farsightedness, Part III is the test for muscular imbalance. Two partial failures in any one part of the test means failure of the test and these children are recommended for examination by an eye doctor.
Number given Massachusetts Vision Test 791
Number failing 47
Number needing new glasses 7
Number who did not need glasses 40
Number to report next year
4
Number wearing glasses
91
Dental Clinic
The Dental Clinic is held each week at the Norwood Junior High School. In September Dr. Curtin, assisted by Mrs. Curran, examined the teeth of all the children in the school. Clinic permission slips were sent to parents of all children needing care. We send twenty children each week and all dental work on the children was finished for the year.
Weighing and Measuring
The children are weighed and measured twice a year. A record is kept of all gains and losses and the parents are notified.
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Speech Correction
Mrs. Rose C. Nicholson instructs the children in elocution. She works especially with those children who have speech imperfections, such as lisping, baby talk. tongue-tied, stuttering and many others.
I am very grateful to all who gave me such kind assistance in my work during this school year.
Respectfully submitted,
PATRICIA M. CASHEN (R.N.) Public Health Nurse
REPORT OF SCHOOL DENTIST
Herewith is submitted the report of the School Dentist for the year ending December 31, 1953:
Public School
Number of children completed 480
Number of children not completed 11
Number of temporary fillings
987
Number of temporary extractions 226
Number of permanent fillings 472
Number of permanent extractions
11
Number of cleanings
391
Number of children examined
2761
Number of children O.K. at examination
1428
Parochial School
Number of children completed 142
Number of children not completed 2
Number of temporary fillings 304
Number of temporary extractions
66
Number of permanent fillings 184
Number of permanent extractions 4
Number of cleanings
109
Number of children examined 761
Number of children O.K. at examination 347
Respectfully submitted,
T. J. CURTIN School Dentist
Board of Health 1953-Bartley J. King, Health Agent; Nora P. Hayes, Secretary; James F. Foley; John P. Dixon, Chairman; John J. Bayer.
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REPORT OF PUBLIC HEALTH NURSES
During the year 1953 the Public Health Nurses and the Visiting Nurse averaged 450 calls a month. These calls were made under the supervision of the doctors and treatments and medications given as ordered by them. These calls included general bedside care, post-natal care and instruction, administration of hypodermics and other treatments.
Office hours are held daily in Room 8, Municipal Building every afternoon Monday through Fridays from 1:00 to 2:00 P. M. This is for the benefit of ambu- latory patients who would prefer to come to the office.
The Tuberculosis Clinic, conducted by Dr. Walter A. Griffin was held every Thursday afternoon at 5:15 P. M. at Room 8, Municipal Building. There is no charge for this Clinic and it is purely diagnostic, no treatments are given.
Miss Mary McKeown, Public Health Nurse, entered the Nurses Corps of the U. S. Army in October and Mrs. Marion O'Neil was appointed to take her place.
MARY CONNOLLY, R.N.
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REPORT OF PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
Mr. John B. Kennedy General Manager Norwood, Massachusetts
Dear Sir:
I herewith submit the report of the Public Works Department for the year ending December 31, 1953.
HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
Maintenance
The following streets were treated with RC5 Asphalt and covered with 3%" crushed stone.
Concord Avenue -- Washington Street to end.
St. John Avenue - Washington Street to end.
Folan Avenue - Washington Street to end.
St. George Avenue - Washington Street to Pond Avenue.
Heaton Avenue - Washington Strect to end.
Sturtevant Avenue - Washington Street to end.
Pond Avenue - Dean Street to St. George Avenue.
Oolah Avenue --- Washington Street to end.
Weld Avenue - Washington Street to end.
Atwood Avenne - Washington Street to end.
Austin Street - Washington Street to Hartford Street.
Hartford Street - Austin Street to Tremont Street.
Tremont Street - Hartford Street 200' toward Washington Street.
Construction and Reconstruction
The clearance under the railroad bridge at Water Street was increased by two feet in 1952 by dropping the grade of the highway two feet at that point.
High ground water existed from early Spring until June, because we had an abnormal amount of rainfall. A large number of heavily loaded trucks pass this point going to and from Bird and Son Roofing Mill.
The new road surface was unable to withstand this combination of heavy traffic and water. This department laid drains, raised the existing catch basins and manholes to a new grade, reinforced the bridge footings with concrete and capped the street with hot top.
The gutter grade was raised in front of the Shur-Fine Market at the corner of Nahatan Street and North Avenue for a distance of forty (40) feet to make
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the height of curb at that point six (6) inches. Automobiles can now pull up to the sidewalk opposite the market and open the doors without striking the curbing.
Cemetery Street (Winter Street Dump Roadway) was scarified, shaped, rolled and treated with MC-3 asphalt for a distance of 900 feet.
Achorn Street between Neponset Street and Earle Street was scarified, graded and then rolled. Then crush bank gravel added and again the surface was rolled. An application of MC-3 asphalt was applied and the road then covered with sand.
Neponset Street from Route No. 1 to Leonard Fisher's house was scarified, graded and then rolled. Crush bank gravel was then added and again the surface was rolled. An application of MC-3 asphalt was applied and the road covered with sand.
Pleasant Place for its entire length was scarified, graded and then rolled. Crush bank gravel was added and again the surface was rolled. An application of MC-3 asphalt was applied and the road was covered with sand. The final procedure was to construct gravel sidewalks on both sides of the road.
Considerable work was done to the following streets, such as patching broken surfaces, raising low service trenches with patch and raising and lowering catch basins, manholes and water roadway box castings before resurfacing the streets in the following manner.
A hired Cape Cod Spreader laid a two and one-half inch (21/2") mixed in place surface of crushed bank gravel mixed with RC-3 asphalt. This surface was rolled and then sealed with asphalt and sand.
Glendale Road - Dean Street to Edgehill Road.
Lancaster Lane - Dean Street to Edgchill Road.
Windsor Road - Dean Street to Edgehill Road.
Edgehill Road - Dean Street to end.
Everett Street - Route No. 1 to the Westwood Line was widened with a grader and 34" stone was treated with RC-5 asphalt and laid by a hired Cape Cod Spreader. The surface was rolled and the stone then keyed in, using 1/4" stone and sand.
The following streets were capped with hot-top after all catch basins, manholes and water roadway box castings were raised to grade.
East Vernon Street - Broadway to Central Street. Central Street - East Vernon Street to Guild Street.
Guild Street - Broadway to Lenox Street.
Lenox Street - Guild Street to Cross Street. Nichols Street - Winter Street to Bond Street.
Bond Street -- Nichols Street to Beech Street.
Walpole Street Shoulders - both sides - Christian Science Church to Willett Driveway 3' - 5' width.
Washington Street Car Tracks - Dr. Allen's house to Railroad Ave.
Dean Street - Washington Street to Pleasant Street.
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SEWER DEPARTMENT
Maintenance
All Sewer Mains and Laterals were cleaned in the Town with the Flexible Sewer Rod Equipment. During the year, different sections of the system were flushed out, especially the dead end mains as occasion demanded.
Total number of service connections put in by contractors 10.
Total number of new sewer connections added this year by the Public Works Department 102.
The Department had twenty-eight (28) plugged sewer services which were caused by tree roots, growing into the pipes. These were opened up satisfactorily.
Construction
Sewer mains installed by contractors:
Tamworth Road - Forrest Construction Company
Belnap Road - Forrest Construction Company Prescott Road - Forrest Construction Company Cranmore Road - Forrest Construction Company Fied Line Westview Drive - Forrest Construction Company
Franklin Street - Forrest Construction Company
Rock Street Extension - Forrest Construction Company
DRAINAGE
Maintenance
All drains, catch basins and drain manholes were cleaned during the year with the use of the catch basin Educator.
Construction
Lincoln Street - 150' of 12" Plain Concrete pipe was laid east from Spruce Road and one additional catch basin built.
Achorn Street -- Two (2) Catch Basins were built and 78' of 8" Plain Concrete pipe was installed.
Oliver Street Extension - Twenty feet (20') of 12" Concrete pipe was installed to tie in the drain on Oliver Street Extension with the East Rock Street Extension drain.
Nahatan Street - (Front of Shur-Fine Market). The drainage system was changed in front of the Shur-Fine Market by opening up an abandoned catch basin and piping this basin into the catch basin that was there and making this basin into a drain manhole.
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Pleasant Place - One (1) catch basin was enlarged and 128' of 12" Plain Concrete pipe and 6' of 10" Plain Concrete pipe was installed.
Neponset Street - Near Route No. 1. Four (4) catch basins were built and 102' of 12" Plain Concrete pipe and 51' of 8" Plain Concrete pipe was installed.
Pleasant Street - Front of 519 Pleasant Street. One (1) catch basin was built and 72' of 8" Plain Concrete pipe was installed to connect into another catch basin.
Water Street - (Under Railroad Bridge). Two (2) catch basins and two (2) drain manholes were lowered. Eighty (80') feet of 6" steel pipe and eighty- seven (87') feet of 8" steel pipe was installed under the Water Street bridge along side of the bridge abutments to drain the ground water into the catch basins.
WATER DEPARTMENT
Miles of Main at end of year 71.13
Total number of Services 4476
Total number of Services in use at end of year 4415
Total number of Meters in use at end of year 4415
Number of new meters set 156
Number of meters replaced
368
New Water Services added 77
Water Service renewals
14
Hydrants Replaced
Fulton Street near High Street 1
Pleasant Street near Oxford Road 1
Washington Street near Achorn Street 1
Washington Street near Margaret Street . 1
Dean Street near Pellana Road 1
West Street at Crescent Avenue
1
Front of 33 Tremont Street 1
Clapboardtree Street at Forbes 1
Hydrants Raised
Five (5) hydrants were raised in the following development:
Washington Street near Achorn Street 1
Washington Street near Ellis Avenue
1
Codman Road at Madelyn Road 1 Woodbine Road 1
Codman Road at Ellis Avenue 1
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WATER STATISTICS Monthly Consumption in Gallons
1953
Ellis
Westwood Old Westwood
Total
January
44,525,000
21,250,000
65,775,000
February
43,507,000
18,900,000
62,407,009
Marclı
49,739,000
23,800,000
73,538,000
April
45,639,000
28,650,000
74,289,000
May
48,894,000
31,000,000
79,894,000
June
54,249,000
32,600,000
86,849,000
July
53,013,000
34,200,000
87,213,000
August
44,394,000
38,635,000
83,029,000
September
35,653,000
31,597,000
9,533,000
76,783,000
October
36,689,000
35.527.000
1,673,000
73,889,000
November
35,136,000
36,175,000
71,311,000
December
45,748,000
15,750,000
61,498,000
537,185,000
348,084,000
11,206,000
896,475,000
Greatest amount pumped or used in any one day: June 17, 1953
3,122,000 Gals.
Greatest amount pumped or used in any week:
June 14 - June 20, 1953
20,777,000 Gals.
Gallons supplied to distributing main during year: 896,475,000 Gals.
Gallons supplied through Service Meter:
63,736,800 Cu.Ft.
WATER CONSTRUCTION
The following Mains were installed by Contractors. Hydrants Set
Hillshire Lane - John Bevalaqu Company ....
0
Cameron Road - Stiveletta Construction Company
1
Woodland Road - Shagoury Construction Company
2
Hillside Avenue Extension - Shagoury Construction Company 1
Pellana Road - Shagoury Construction Company
Union Street - Forrest Construction Company
1
Ridgewood Drive Extension ·-- John Rizzo
1
Westwood Station to Bellevue Avenue Tank -- Del Preto
0
FORESTRY
1. Elm trees were given a D.D.T. mixture spray in the early Spring before leafing.
2. All trees on public streets in the Town were sprayed with D.D.T. mixture in early May.
One hundred and twenty (120) trees were set out in front of taxpayers liomes.
The Joseph Hart Company of Randolph, Massachusetts contracted to remove and trim the following number of trees throughout the Town.
1. Remove forty-eight (48) Elm trees that had Dutch Ehn Disease.
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2. Remove six (6) Elm trees in order to do the Achorn Street Highway work.
3. Cut below the ground and remove eleven (11) Maple trees.
4. Sixteen (16) Maple trees were trimned.
Two (2) separate blocks of trees with approximately thirty (30) trees to each block were trimmed in the Nichols Street, Cottage Street, Vernon Street, Florence Avenue section. Also Railroad Avenue, Pleasant Street, Nahatan Street and Monroe Street secttion.
The Public Works Department removed and trimmed trees in sundry loca- titons during the year where necessary.
PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS
The Parks and Playgrounds in all sections of the Town were cleaned, given a treatment of lime and fertilizer, loam added where needed, rolled and mowed. Also all shrubbery in all Parks and Playgrounds were trimmed and shaped.
Over a thousand (1,000) crocus, daffodils and other flowering bulbs were planted in the Town Square lawn, Memorial Building lawn and Band Stand lawn.
The Civic Baseball Diamond was regraded.
The Civic Tennis Courts were graded and put in shape for use.
All swings, see-saws, slide, etc. were painted and erected at the various Play- grounds.
A parcel of land was cleared of trees, brush and the area levelled for a new playlground in the Richland Road section of the Town.
Sand boxes were made and benches were placed there as well as a set of swings set up for the children. At this playground a new one (1) inch water line was installed with a bubbler.
The Baseball Diamond at Eliot Park was regraded,
New portable bleachers were set up at First and Third Base sides at the Civic Baseball Field. Also new portable bleachers were set up at Eliot Park Baseball Field.
The seats of the above portabe bleachers were treated with a wood preserva- tive in order to prevent rot and each plank was bolted to the iron framework of the bleachers.
RUBBISH COLLECTION
Rubbish Collection has grown in the Town to the extent of three weeks in each month. One crew is used solely for Rubbish Collection. This is an increase of four (4) days per month over three (3) years ago.
We are still having a great deal of trouble with people placing garbage in the Rubbish barrels. Many taxpayers fill large oil drums so full, that no two men can lift them.
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SNOW REMOVAL
During the year 1953, the Snow Removal was light, but considerable salting and sanding of streets and sidewalks was done.
MISCELLANEOUS WORK
Senior High Field
The Baseball infield at the Senior High was regraded with loam, rolled and seeded. The basepaths were dug up, the dirt sifted and more material added and put in shape for use.
Cinders were purchased and spread over the entire running track at the Senior High Field, then compressed with a roller to make a firm surface.
Winslow School
All the existing walks around the school were repaired and recapped with hot-top. An area in the rear of the school where a new oil tank was placed under- ground was also capped with hot-top and a new black-top driveway constructed into the rear of the school from Winslow Avenue.
West School
Black-top was placed around the West School on the Walpole Street side, Eliot Street and west side for about twenty (20) feet beyond the building, into the playing area.
MAINTENANCE AND CONTROL OF TRAFFIC
Street signs and all regulartory traffic signs, crosswalks and traffic lines were painted during the year. Many new signs of all descriptions were also erected in different sections of the Town.
In conclusion, I wish to express my appreciation for the cooperative spirit given me by the personnel of the Department and al lofficials and personnel in other departments of the Town.
Respectfully submitted,
ALBERT E. CASEY
Superintendent of Public Works
In Retirement
WILLIAM KALER
William Kaler started work for the Town of Norwood on June 25, 1928 as a laborer and became yardman or caretaker of the Town Yard on July 27, 1931. He worked as yardman until his retirement on June 1, 1953.
EDGAR WEBBER
Working Foreman Edgar Webber began his employment with the Town of Norwood in 1930 as a chauffeur and worked faithfully on all types of mainten- ance and construction work until his retirement on September 3, 1953.
COLEMAN MCDONOUGH
Coleman McDonough started work as a Utility Man in June 1916 and worked on different maintenance and construction work until his retirement on November 30, 1953.
The Town of Norwood wishes to take this opportunity to thank the above- mentioned men for their loyalty in the past years and to wish them a very happy and long retirement.
ANNUAL REPORT
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FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31
1953
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REPORT OF THE NORWOOD PUBLIC SCHOOLS
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE 1953
School Committee
Term Expires 1954
Frances L. Blanchot
226 Vernon Street, NOrwood 7-0299-W
Thomas R. Bowler 1954
112 Winslow Avenue, NOrwood 7-1180-R
John J. Cavanaugh 1955
235 Railroad Avenue, NOrwood 7-0679-M
Edward H. Thompson 1955
9 Gardner Road, NOrwood 7-1735-R
John F. Kiley 1956
14 George Street, NOrwood 7-0198
C. James Cleary 1956
60 Bellevue Avenue, NOrwood 7-
Organization
John F. Kiley, Chairman Elizabeth Syverson, Clerk
Standing Committees
Appointment of Teachers: Mr. C. James Cleary; Mr. Thomas R. Bowler; Mr. John F. Kiley.
Educational Program, Purchase of School Books and Supplies: Mr. Thomas R. Bowler; Mr. C. James Cleary; Mr. John F. Kiley.
Finance: Miss Frances Blanchot; Mr. John J. Cavanaugh; Mr. Edward H. Thompson. Custodians, Schoolhouses, and Grounds: Mr. John J. Cavanaugh; Miss Frances Blanchot; Mr. Edward Thompson.
Committee Meetings
The regular meeting of the School Committee is held in the Committee room, Roomn 100, Junior High School Building, at seven-thirty o'clock on the third Wednesday of each month.
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Superintendent of Schools
Lincoln D. Lynch, 21 Florence Avenue
Telephone NOrwood 7-1266
The Office of the Superintendent of Schools is at the Junior High School, and is open from 8 A. M. to 5 P. M. every day, from Monday through Friday, inclusive, Telephone NOrwood 7-0133.
Secretary and Clerks
Elizabeth Syverson, 15 Park Street Telephone NOrwood 7-0021 Principal Clerk and Secretary to Department Head, and Clerk of School Committee.
Elvie A. Schaier, 44 Highview Street Telephone NOrwood 7-2227-R Junior Clerk and Stenographer
School Calendar
Tuesday, September 8, 1953 - All Schools Open
Holidays:
Monday, October 12, 1953 - Columbus Day
Wednesday, November 11, 1953 - Armistice Day
Thanksgiving Recess: Schools close at noon Wednesday, November 25th, and re-open Monday, November 30, 1953.
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