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May 30. Charles O. Hawkins Maud O. Sickmund
June 1. Harry Beniah Thompson Grace Ella Brugg June 8. Fred Carrol Dart Elsie Isabelle Grinnell
June 9. Warren Fletcher Snell Ethel May Brown
June 22. Byron Sweet Gardiner Florence Lillian Sherman
July 27. George Edward Hartman Harriet Louise Greenlay Aug. 9. Charles Bragg Massie Selena Whiting
Sept. 21. Willis Edgar Chace Rose Beatrice Beaulac
2. Norman Pearse Angus Emily Louise Ware Oct.
Oct. 14. Thomas William Waterson. Eleanor Susan Maintien
Oct. 19. Leon Joseph Jacques Margaret Hartman (Dingle)
Nov. 9. Linwood Collins Chase Ethel Maude Phillips
Dec. 24. Henry A. I. Hollis Addie Mabel Willard
THEODORE E. A. FULLER,
Town Clerk.
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BIRTHS RECORDED IN PLAINVILLE IN 1912.
Date. Name.
Father's Name.
Mother's Maiden Name.
Jan. 3. Stillborn (male).
Jan. 16. Annie Rose Tevis
. John Tevis
Jessie Palmer.
Feb. 2. Marie Theresa Rosanna Landry, Philip Landry
Dora Pratt.
Feb. 26.
Charles Edward Randall ..
. Charles Randall
Maud Marion McElvaney.
Mar. 11.
Merrill Nelson Falk .. George Falk
. Grace Audworth.
Mar. 27. Robert Welles Root Charles C. Root . Elizabeth Burt.
April 14. Miriam Beatrice Barney
Frank E. Barney
Ethel Fuller.
June 20. Blanche Irene White.
Charles H. White.
Emily Geoulx.
July 12.
Eva Desautelle
Adelard Desautelle
Aurora Desautelle.
July 21.
Milton Fort White
William White . Flora Fort.
July 24.
Vincent Ballou Franklin
Jesse W. Franklin
. Bertha A. Ballou
Aug. 11.
Vernon Whiting Young
Leslie Grover Young
. Albertine Augusta
Pherson.
Sept. 5.
Eleanor Kendall Barney
Edward C. Barney . Emily Kendell.
Sept. 11. Ada Robina Warren
George H. Warren . Edna Folland.
Sept. 21. Caspen Joseph Blaisdell
Casper Towle Blaisdell
. Flora Devreaux.
Sept. 23. Ethel Marion Nerney
Raymond Nerney
. Ethel Olney.
Oct. 4.
Stillborn (male).
Oswin Clifford Woodward .. Marion Jeannette King.
Oct. 28. Etta Theodora Nelson . Nels Svante Nelson .... . Sarah Adelea De Wolf.
Nov. 18. Charles Franklin Breen, Jr.
Charles Franklin Breen . Louise A. Egar.
Nov. 21. Edward Alden Gardner
Edward Gardner . Jennie A. Nash.
Nov. 29.
Carpenter
Oliver Carpenter . Almy Randall.
Dec. 10.
Henrietta Cora Boyd ..
. Thomas F. W. Boyd . Mary E. Morrison.
Dec. 11.
Clifford Hartman
Frederic Hartman . Anna Augusta Wroe.
ADDITIONAL BIRTHS RECORDED IN 1911.
Jan. 28. Reginald Bassett Keyes
. Leroy Walter Keyes .... .. Effie Myra Bassett.
Sept. 1. Gordon Gray Northup Gordon Gray Northup ..... Elizabeth Slater.
Nov. 10. Mae Louise King ..
Frank King ·
Mae Elizabeth Stevens.
THEODORE E. A. FULLER, Town Clerk.
Oct. 27.
Clifford Winston Woodward ...
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DEATHS RECORDED IN PLAINVILLE IN 1912.
Died.
Name.
Age Y. M. D.
Cause of Death.
Jan. 3. Male (Stillborn).
1
7
6 Convulsions, Pneumonia.
Jan. 25. James Belotti
85
9
23 Cancer of Stomach.
Feb. 8. Louisa Young
14 Entero Colitis.
Feb. 16. Frederick Donald Wood
2
-
Feb. 24.
Thomas Warren Bishop
93
5 28 Heart failure due to old age.
Mar. 14. Miriam Margaret White
. .
6 Prob. convulsions associated with intestinal hemorrhages.
April 1.
Mary Thayer Maxcy
89
10
6 Unknown chronic disease.
April 6.
Florence Landry
-
2
4
Catheixa.
April 6. Freeman Eldredge Chase
82
3
2 Senile Gangrene.
April 30.
Frances A. Spooner
72
2
16 Acute Bronchitis.
May 7. Daniel Crotty
69
8 29
Convulsions, Diabetes Mellitus.
July 1.
Eva Desautelle
83
10 16 Uracmia.
June 8.
Alexander Munroe
4 hours.
1
Found dead, natural causes.
July 23.
Mary V. Barrington
80
9
15
Apoplexy
Aug. 28.
Joseph Merritt Parker
80
7 25
Probably Embolism (Pulmonary?)
Aug. 29. Joseph G. Cowell
79
-
Pericarditis.
Sept. 23.
Ethel Marion Nerney
27
8 10
Eclampsia.
Sept. 30. Oct. 4. Male (Stillborn).
34
8 27
Uhthisis pulmonalis.
Nov. 2. Clinton E. Gay
31
5
AAcute Miliary Tuberculosis.
Nov. 18.
Edwin Thomas Rhodes
83
9
2
Prob. Mitial insufficiency.
Nov. 23.
Jennie B. Crook
40
7
30 Mammary Carcinoma.
Dec. 5. Zora Battersby
65
10
8 Catarrhal Pneumonia.
Dec.
7. Arthur Ellis Fisher
67
3
19 Inanition.
Dec. 13. John Edward Grant
74
3 27 Cancer (Epithelioma) of the nose and ear.
Dec. 24. Juliette Maria Young
68
25
8 Lobar Pneumonia.
THEODORE E. A. FULLER.
Town Clerk.
72
5
Malformation of the heart.
July 25.
Mary Ann Temple
Charles E. Cunningham
3
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Annual Report of the School Committee, Town of Plainville MASSACHUSETTS
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For the Year Ending January the 31st, 1913
JO NMOL WREN 1673- ¥-1564
School Officials
RUFUS KING, Chairman, 1914. GARDNER WARREN, Secretary, 1915. CHARLES C. ROOT, 1913.
E. WRIGHT SARGENT, Truant Officer. H. L. RICH, M. D., School Physician. IRA A. JENKINS, Superintendent.
Report of School Committee
To the Citizens of the Town of Plainville :
In reporting the school work for the past year, we ask that the parents take into consideration the many changes we have been obliged to make in our teaching force, no less than four in the Grades, the High School Principal and the Superintendent of Schools, which naturally necessitated a somewhat disordered condition of the school system for a while.
In the loss of Mr. E. I. Bartlett, as Principal of the High School, the Town and school suffered keenly, but Mr. Leroy M. Handy, a graduate of Clark University, has taken up the work in a highly creditable manner, and the high stand- ard of Mr. Bartlett promises to be maintained.
Mr. Ira A. Jenkins, who succeeded Mr. Ernest P. Carr as Superintendent of Schools, is a man who has given us excellent service, shown fine executive ability, and will keep the schools at the usual standard.
It was thought best to make a change in the School Phy- sician, Dr. Foster having intimated his inability to con- tinue.
The taxpayers and parents are to be congratulated upon the fact that we were able to procure the services of so good a man as Dr. Rich, who has given freely of his time, ad- vice and service.
The welfare, physically, of the scholars has been put on a new basis, and we trust the parents will understand that anything done along that line is entirely for the good of the pupils.
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Too much stress cannot be laid upon the fact that each year brings its attendant increasing expenses, such as re- pairs on school buildings, the increasing scale of teachers' wages, the better grade of text hanks used. The coming year will be no exception.
We recommend the following appropriations :
Teachers' wages, care, fuel and transportation
$5,800 00
Books and supplies
500 00
Incidentals
500 00
Industrial work
100 00
School Superintendent
350 00
School Physician
50 00
Respectfully submitted, RUFUS KING, GARDNER WARREN, CHARLES C. ROOT, School Committee.
MONEY AVAILABLE FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES.
Teachers' wages, care and fuel
$5,600 00
Incidentals
500 00
Books and supplies
400 00
Superintendent
330 00
State school fund
2,497 11
Dog tax
391 31
Interest on town school fund
29 09
State for High School
500 00
State for teachers' wages
100 00
School Physician
50 00
$10,397 51
TEACHERS' WAGES, CARE AND FUEL.
Appropriated
$5.600 00
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Teachers' wages from State
100 00
High School support from State
500 00
Dog tax
391 31
Interest on town school fund
29 09
From town for coal used
24 00
Tuition
66 00
Transferred from State fund
1,465 24
$8,175 64
EXPENDED.
Teachers' wages
$5,619 27
Care
624 00
Fuel
754 37
Transportation
1,178 00
$8,175 64
INCIDENTAL ACCOUNT.
Appropriated
$500 00
Expended
405 14
Unexpended balance $94 86
BOOKS AND SUPPLIES.
Appropriated
$400 00
Received from sale
75
Transferred from State
166 73
Expended
567 48 $567 48
SUPERINTENDENT'S SALARY.
Appropriated Expended
$330 00 $330 00
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SCHOOL PHYSICIAN.
Appropriated
$50 00
Expended
25 00
Unexpended balance
$25 00
STATE FUND.
On hand
$1,127 06
Received from State
1,370 05
$2.497 11
Transferred to school accounts
1,631 97
Balance in State fund
$865 14
BOOKS AND SUPPLIES.
Remington Typewriter Co.
$1 00
D. C. Heath & Co. 4 46
Ginn & Co. 110 47
L. E. Knott App. Co.
48 73
American Book Co.
47 51
Milton Bradley Co.
35 02
J. L. Hammett Co.
150 33
Fischer Bros.
6 64
Reporter Press
8 10
White, Smith Co.
1 32
E. E. Babb Co.
73 19
Oliver Ditson
2 29
Young Folks League
16 25
Charles Bush Co.
15 79
Phnographic Inst. Co.
3 42
Henry Holt Co.
2 08
Mason Box Co.
2 25
Dodd, Mead Co.
4 50
Benjamin Sanborn Co.
94
F. J. Barnard Co.
8 60
Silver Burdett Co.
24 59 .
$567 48
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INCIDENTAL ACCOUNT.
Remington Typewriter Co.
$40 00
Mrs. A. L. Keyes
5 50
E. Wright Sargent
3 00
E. C. Barney
26 93
J. A. Sharp
15 38
T. Shepardson
4 00
E. J. Carr
5 54
Reporter Press
14 00
Chase & Son
15 00
W. H. Nash
3 95
Providence Telephone Co.
1 10
F. W. Kling & Co.
25 00
C. Chase
6 00
WV. M. Hall & Co.
22 45
N. A. Chronicle
3 75
M. F. Edwards
35 00
J. Miner Co.
9 90
Milwaukee Dustless Brush Co.
16 20
LeRoy Handy
10 00
C. N. Moore
8 50
H. P. Olney
1 25
Ira Jenkins
3 50
Hall & Lyon
1 15
John Sullivan
9 25
Charles Joy
2 50
A. M. Sperry & Co.
16 00
H. E. Thompson
13 74
$318 59
INDUSTRIAL ACCOUNT.
J. L. Hammett
$2 33
Belcher Loomis
14 35
Peck Hardware Co.
16 07
Worthington & Raymond
29 60
N. J. Magnan,
21 02
Milton Bradley
3 18
$86 55
Report of the Superintendent
To the School Committee of Plainville;
GENTLEMEN :- I have the honor to submit for your consideration and that of the inhabitants of Plainville my first annual report, and the eighth in the series of superin- tendents' reports of the schools of Plainville.
TEACHERS.
There have been several changes in the corps of teachers since last year. Mr. E. I. Bartlett, the efficient principal of the high school, resigned to accept a better position. Mr. LeRoy M. Handy, a graduate of Clark College and a teacher of several years' experience, was selected to fill the vacancy. Mr. Handy's work shows that no mistake was made in choosing Mr. Bartlett's successor. Miss Lillian M. Patter- son of the fifth and sixth grades was succeeded by Miss Mabel A. M. Bond. Miss Bond resigned in the fall term, and Miss Vivian M. Taft of the Framingham Normal school was secured for the position. In the third and fourth grades Miss Florence R. Brasser, a graduate of Miss Symond's Training school succeeded Miss Ethel M. Phil- lips. Miss Dora E. Cole, a graduate of Goddard Seminary, succeeded Miss Alice T. Lee in grades two and three.
So many changes in the teaching force are to be regretted. It is impossible to attain the best results in any school sys- tem when 44 per cent. of the teachers resign at the end of the school year, as was the case in Plainville last year. By the time a teacher is able to do her best work, she goes elsewhere. What is the remedy? Is it more salary? The grade teachers who resigned last year received an equiva- lent of $8.50 per week, 52 weeks in the year. How many girls are there in the manufacturies of Plainville who get a wage of only $8.50 per week? A teacher who is worth more to some other town is worth more to Plainville. Would it not be economy and good business management to retain the good teachers?
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HIGH SCHOOL.
The courses of study of the high school are being re- vised, and will be ready for the opening of school next September. The parents and pupils should make a careful study of these and consult the teachers before selecting courses. Success or failure may depend on a right selec- tion. Note the report of the supervisor of drawing for the work done in jewelry making in the high school; also the report of the teacher of industrial education on the work done by the high school girls in cooking and dress- making. A larger space for benches would make it possi- ble to teach the boys of the high school the rudiments of carpentry.
Never has a high school education meant so much as at the present time. Every boy or girl who can should avail himself of the opportunity to complete a high school course. Dr. C. N. Schaeffer, state superintendent of schools of Penn- sylvania recently said, "There are today at least 40 voca- tions, which require a high school education by way of preliminary training, and the boy who quits school before finishing the four years high school course, shuts against himself the door of opportunity.
"He makes it impossible for himself to enter the voca- tions which aspire to be ranked with the professions, and which have within their ranks the leaders of American civilization.
"The European school condemns 'the children of the peasants and middle classes to ordinary trades. The Ameri- can school means equal opportunity for every boy and every girl, regrdless of wealth or social position.
"At the rate at which foreigners are coming to our shores, that their children may have the benefit of the free schools of our country, there is but one possible outcome.
"If the American high school boy will continue to waste his time upon fraternity functions, society pleasures and student activities which merely aim at gratification of self, while foreign boys study with unprecedented zeal at school and in the evenings at home, the outcome will be that 10 to 20 years hence the foreign-born boy or boy born of foreign parentage, will fill the places that might be occupied by boys of American descent."
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SANITATION.
More money should be appropriated for the care of the school buildings. The rooms and corridors are not swept and dusted as often as necessary. They should be swept every day and all dust carefully removed. Dusting means not only removing the dust from the furniture, but also from all places where it can collect. A generous use of some disinfectant or germ destroyer would result in much good. Examination will reveal many moderate cases of throat trouble among pupils and teachers, due no doubt to the unsanitary condition of the buildings.
The floors and windows should be washed frequently, once a month is none too often. The blackboards should be sponged frequently and all chalk dust removed from the chalk throughs daily.
Since the common towel is prohibited by state law, the town should provide a substitute. Paper towels are used in many towns and are proving satisfactory. Some sort of towels should be provided at once. Habits of cleanliness should be formed. The books and supplies should be kept clean. These things cannot be done when the children have to go all day without washing their faces or hands.
The sanitaries in both buildings should be replaced by modern closets flushed with water. They are not only in- convenient and untidy, but they are a positive menace to the health of the children. The kind of closet in use in Plain- ville is being condemned and displaced wherever it is possi- ble to have running water. The taxpayers of Plainville are invited to inspect the sanitaries and determine for them- selves whether a change is not imperative.
MEDICAL INSPECTION.
The law regarding the appointement and duties of a school physician deserves careful perusal.
AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE APPOINTMENT OF SCHOOL
PHYSICIANS.
SECTION 1. The school committee of every town and city in the commonwealth shall appoint one or more school physicians, shall assign one to each public school within its city or town, and shall provide them with all proper facili- ties for the performance of their duties as prescribed in
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this act ; provided, however, that in cities wherein the board of health is already maintaining or shall hereafter maintin substantially such medical inspection as this act requires, the board of health shall appoint and assign the school physi- cian.
SEC. 2. Every school physician shall make a prompt examination and diagnosis of all children referred to him as hereinafter provided, and such further examination of teachers, janitors and school buildings as in his opinion the protection of the health of the pupils may require.
SEC. 3. The school committee shall cause to be referred to a school physician for examination and diagnosis every child returning to school without a certificate from the board of health after absence on account of illness or from unknown cause, and every child in the schools under its jurisdiction who shows signs of being in ill health or of suffering from infectious or contagious disease ; unless he is at once excluded from school by the teacher; except that in the case of schools in remote and isolated situations the school committee may make such other arrangements as may best carry out the purposes of this act.
SEC. 4. The school committee shall cause notice of the disease or the defects, if any, from which any child is found to be suffering to be sent to his parents or guardian. When- ever a child shows symtoms of smallpox, scarlet fever, meales, chicken pox, tuberculosis, diphtheria or influenza, tonsilitis, whooping cough, mumps, scabies or trachoma, he shall be sent home immediately or as soon as safe and proper conveyance can be found, and the board of health shall at once be notified.
SEC. 5. The school committee of every city and town shall cause every child in the public schools to be separately and carefully examined and tested at least once in every school year to ascertain whether he is suffering from de- fective sight or hearing or from any other disability or de- fect tending to prevent his receiving the full benefit of his school work, or requiring a modification of the school work in order to prevent injury to the child or to secure the best educational results. The tests of sight and hearing shall be made by teachers. The committee shall cause notice of any defect or disability requiring treatment to be sent to the parent or guardian of the child, and shall require a physi- cal record of each child to be kept in such form as the state board of education shall prescribe.
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The school physician must, therefore, make a careful examination of every pupil in the public schools of Plain- ville at least once each year for any defect or disability tending to interfere with school work. He should also make additional visits and examinations of particular pupils when requested to do so by teachers, superintendent, or com- mittee.
An individual record of these examinations should be kept on file and follow each pupil through the several grades. It will then be possible to notify the parents when their children need medical or surgical treatment. Otherwise, through ignorance of the true conditions, many a boy or girl may become permanently disabled for mental or phy- sical work. The duty of the school physician ends when he has made his examinations and reported the conditions to the parents. Then the responsibility all rests upon the parents.
If such a record is kept, it will facilitate the giving of age and schooling certificates. Now a physician's certificate of good health is necessary before an age and schooling certi- ficate can be given. With the individual record the certi- ficates can be issued by the superintendent with no expense to parent or town.
When a case of the more serious contagious diseases, as scarlet fever or diphtheria is reported, all books and supplies which may have become infected should be burned, and the . building should be thoroughly and immediately fumigated. A serious epidemic may be averted by vigilence and prompt- ness on the part of teachers, physicians and board of health.
The importance of medical inspection in the public schools will be apparent when it is shown on competent authority that of the 20,000,000 children of school age in the United States, 400,000 have organic heart disease, 1,000,000 have tuberculous disease of the lungs, 1,000,000 have spinal cur- vature, flat foot or some other deformity, 1,000,000 have defective hearing, 5,000,000 have defective vision, 6,000,- 000 have enlarged tonsils, adenoids, or enlarged cervical glands.
A careful dental examination should accompany the medical inspection, for the same authority states that 10,000,000 pupils in the public schools of the United States have defective teeth.
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More money for medical and dental inspection should be appropriated. One hundred dollars will be sufficient for all the work outlined above. No object for which the people are taxed can possibly give better returns than the con- servation of the health of the children.
The ear and eye test was given by the teachers during the fall term according to the requirements of the state with the following results :
Number of pupils examined 227
Number found defective in eyesight 24
Number found defective in hearing
Number of parents notified
28
CONCLUSION.
During the fall term emphasis has been placed upon pen- manship, reading and manual training. By requiring cor- rect positions, especially in holding the pen, and by using the muscular movement, as distinguished from the finger movement, habits of writing are being formed that will pro- duce better results.
The object sought in reading is to determine with facility the thoughts of the author and to express those thoughts with a full tone and distinct expression, so that the listener will hear the author talking. Good reading is good talk- ing.
The work that is being done by the boys in carpentry is training them to use the eye and the hand accurately and in conjunction, and will be of great value to them when they leave school and assume the active duties, incident to life.
Sewing and cooking is highly practical for the girls. Drafting patterns and cutting garments give them a train- ing that will be of great value when they are dependent upon their own resources. A knowledge of the nature and value of the various food stuffs and skill in preparing them for the table can be acquired in the best degree by scien- tific instruction. Such instruction cannot, generally, be had in the homes.
The work of the industrial department is handicapped by lack of accommodations. The cooking, sewing, basketry and carpentering must all be done in one room. Separate rooms should be provided for the carpentering and cook- ing. Much valuable time is now wasted by changing the
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carpenter shop into a kitchen and vice versa. With two rooms, or even a larger room, more pupils could take the courses and the work of the instructor could be utilized to much better advantage.
The reports of the special teachers, of the school physi- cian and of the principal of the high school follow. They deserve careful reading by the citizens.
I wish to thank the teachers for their zealous and pains- taking work, the people for their interest manifested by visits to the schools and in various other ways, and the committee for their help and valuable advice.
Respectfully submitted,
IRA A. JENKINS.
Report of Principal of the High School
Mr. Ira A. Jenkins,
Superintendent of Schools :
The High School commenced the Fall Term with forty- five pupils and at present we have still the same number enrolled. The attendance during the school year has been exceptionally good, with an average of 97 per cent.
The working spirit of the school as a whole is good, and our aim has been to make the school room a busy place for earnest work. The fact that eight boys who constitute the class in Advanced Physics are willing to return one after- noon each week for an exercise in the laboratory, shows the right spirit on their part. This class in the afternoon is made necessary by our limited teaching force.
We can report that the pupils in our Commercial De- partment are interested and are progressing rapidly. The work in the advanced German and Latin classes is also worthy of favorable mention. The class in English History has covered the ground so rapidly that they are now able to do considerable collateral reading to supplement their regular text book. In the English Department, we now re- quire several good books to be read outside of school and a written report handed in upon each book read. Our ob- ject in this is to get the pupils to use the public library and at the same time obtain a better knowledge and liking for good literature. From time to time, we have the pupils in English commit some good selection to memory and re- cite the same before the class.
At the end of the first half of the fall term we published an Honor List containing the names of those pupils who had earned a rank of 80 per cent. or better in each study taken. That list included five seniors, two juniors and one fresh- man. At the end of the of the fall term four sophomores and one more freshman were added to the list. Although
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the music and drawing teachers have separate reports, we wish to compliment them upon their faithful work and upon the good results which they are obtaining in the High School.
Apparently it is not the custom for parents to visit the High School. We wish that this were not the case, as we would be pleased to have them come to see the work which is actually being done in the school-room. We need the co-operation of the parents in several ways. We would kindly ask the parents to notice whether their boys or girls are studying at home. We believe home study is neces- sary. The boy or girl of average intelligence needs to study from one to two hours every day at home.
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