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HOSE.
There are in service 8,000 feet of hose, 1,000 feet of which will soon have to be replaced.
282
ANNUAL REPORTS.
HYDRANTS.
I am pleased to say that six new post hydrants were substituted for six hydrants of the "flush " pattern on Heath and Fremont Streets, at the expense of the city of Boston ; and that six old flush hydrants were replaced by an equal number of post hydrants on Cambridge pipe, near the Somerville line, at the expense of the first-named city. These improved facilities for obtaining water in case of fire have long been desired, and were secured chiefly through the efforts of his Honor Mayor Burns.
Twenty-two new hydrants were set during the year.
FIRE ALARMS.
The number of bell alarms given in the city during the year was 56, and there was 1 still alarm. Total, 57.
Loss on property by fire .
$7,473 50
Insurance on said property
21,450 00
Amount of insurance paid
4,907 00
CAUSES OF FIRE.
Incendiary .
3
Boiling over of fat
1
Drying wood in oven
1
Oil stove
2
Drying plastering
3
Burning of rubbish
8
Cigar-stub in waste-basket .
1
Burning of grass
1
Smoking in bed .
1
Coals from fire-box falling in shavings
1
Children playing with matches
2
Chimneys
3
Fireworks
7
Smoke from baker's oven
1
Falling of building
1
Railroad bridge .
1
Lighted cigarette falling in trunk
1
Furnace floor supported by wood
1
Defective flue
.
2
283
REPORT OF CHIEF ENGINEER OF FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Heating apparatus in greenhouse
1
Overheated furnace
3
Hot coals falling on floor
1
Combustible stove-polish
1
False alarm
1
Breaking of kerosene lamp .
1
Smoking in hay loft
1
1
Sparks from tobacco pipe
1
66 6 locomotive .
1
66 on roof from chimney
2
Thawing of water-pipe
1
Total number of alarms
57
To his Honor the Mayor, the chairman and members of the committee on Fire Department, and the officers and members of the police force, my thanks are due for hearty co-operation throughout the year.
Respectfully submitted,
JAMES R. HOPKINS, Chief of Fire Department.
.
tinner's stove .
1
Carelessness in trimming lamps
REPORT
OF THE
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
IN BOARD OF ALDERMEN, Dec. 30, 1887.
Ordered to be filed with the city clerk for presentation to the next city council, to be printed in the annual reports. Sent down for concurrence.
CHARLES E. GILMAN, Clerk pro tem.
IN COMMON COUNCIL, Dec. 30, 1887.
Concurred in.
DOUGLAS FRAZAR, Clerk.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
IN COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY, Dec. 31, 1887. To the City Council of Somerville : -
The committee on public property presents the following final report for the year 1887 : -
POLICE STATION INCIDENTALS ACCOUNT.
CREDIT.
Appropriation
. $2,000 00
Receipts for rent of halls
469 00
Total credit $2,469 00
DEBIT.
Expenditures : -
For janitor's salary
$750 00
janitor's substitute in vacation
14 00
gas
446 17
fuel
359 36
water
35 00
insurance
20 00
repairs and improvements of build-
ing and furniture (exclusive of
$201.44 for repairs of officers' rooms in Armory charged to mis- cellaneous account)
257 70
incidentals
23 98
Total debit
1,906 21
Balance unexpended ·
$562 79
.
288
ANNUAL REPORTS.
SCHOOLHOUSE INCIDENTALS] ACCOUNT. CREDIT.
Appropriation
$10,000 00
Transfer from school fuel account .
. 1,000 00
street lights account 1,500 00
water-loan Interest ac-
count
500 00
Receipts for use of rooms in schoolhouses, 5 00
Total credit
$13,005 00
DEBIT.
Expenditures : -
For repairs
. $5,179 90
improvements
. 6,333 52
furniture
320 98
rent
160 25
insurance
1,527 50
emptying privy vaults
64 00
sidewalk assessment (Tufts Street) ,
41 88
wheelbarrow and shovel (for use on
grounds)
2 90
carriage hire .
5 00
Total debit
13,635 93
Amount overdrawn .
$630 93
The expenditures at the different schoolhouses are as follows : -
Beach Street.
Repairs (including
re-shingling east
$220 19 side) .
Insurance
33 75 .
$253 94
Amount carried forward
$253 94
·
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Amount brought forward . $253 94
Luther V. Bell.
Repairs
$263 68
Improvements : -
New water closets in yard, -
contract and extras (paid A. C. Win- ning) . $2,948 36
steam heating work · 100 50
additional plumbing .
23 47
carpentering, 23 63
plans .
73 00
3,168 96
Furniture
31 57
Insurance
377 50
3,841 71
Bennett.
Repairs (including new privy vaults,
$123.61) .
·
$267 44
Emptying privy vaults .
16 00
Insurance
90 00
373 44
Bingham.
Repairs
.
.
$2 95
Furniture
2 95
Insurance
9 00
14 90
Brastow.
Repairs
$48 82
Furniture
6 32
Insurance
37 50
92 64
Burns.
Repairs
$1 05
Furniture
.
4 50
Insurance
9 00
14 55
Amount carried forward
$4,591 18
.
290
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Amount brought forward
$4,591 18
Cedar Street.
Repairs
$27 43
Emptying privy vaults .
12 00
39 43
Clarendon Block.
Rent
$160 25
Repairs (removing furniture)
5 50
165 75
Cummings.
Repairs
·
.
31 90
Davis.
Repairs (including furnace work, $43.05), $92 76
Furniture .
5 74
Sidewalk assessment
41 88
140 38
Edgerly.
Repairs
$245 92
Furniture
13 18
Insurance
202 50
461 60
Elm Street (corner Winter Street). Repairs (putting in furniture and water-
closets )
$124 00
Furniture (new)
2 30
126 30
Forster.
Repairs
$187 53
Furniture
76 40
Insurance
46 50
310 43
Franklin.
Repairs
$162 51
Emptying privy vaults .
12 00
.
.
174 51
Amount carried forward
$6,041 48
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY. 291
Amount brought forward
$6,041 48
Harvard.
Repairs
26 99
High.
Repairs (including new return pipes to
boiler, $197.54) .
$490 51
Furniture
34 48
Insurance
395 00
919 99
Highland.
Repairs
$309 70
Improvements (concrete walk west side
schoolhouse)
194 40
Furniture .
45 99
550 09
Jackson.
Repairs (including new floors, $247.48,
and new plumbing, $182.80) ·
$598 96
Emptying privy vaults .
16 00
614 96
Lincoln.
Repairs
$67 29
Emptying privy vaults .
8 00
·
75 29
Morse.
Repairs (including furnace work, $277 .-
89)
$503 51
Furniture ·
89 15
Insurance
75 00
667 66
Prescott.
Repairs
$182 46
Improvements : -
New water-closets in basement, -
plumbing (paid C. A. Legallee) . $1,188 04
carpentering · 718 28
Am'ts carried forw'd
. $1,906 32
$182 46
$8,896 46
292
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Am'ts brought forw'd . $1,906 32 $182 46 $8,896 46
mason work
409 54
lumber
81 13
hardware .
18 37
steam-piping
79 69
extension on urinal
75 00
concreting .
57 60
painting
80 00
2,707 65
Furniture
8 40
Insurance
143 75
3,042 26
Prospect Hill.
Repairs (including furnace-work, $187 .-
02 ; re-slating, $249.64 ; new gut- ters and general outside repairs, $304.44 ; and painting outside, $300)
. $1,202 74
Improvements : -
Excavating for cellar, and plastering
cellar ceiling
262 51
Insurance
56 25
1,521 50
Spring Hill.
Repairs
$21 42
Insurance
18 00
39 42
Union.
Repairs
38 01
Webster.
Repairs
$56 63
Insurance
33 75
.
90 38
Wheelbarrow and shovel for use on
grounds
2 90
Carriage hire
.
5 00
$13,635 93
.
293
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.
SCHOOLHOUSE IN WARD THREE (BINGHAM SCHOOL) ACCOUNT.
CREDIT.
Appropriation : -
Balance from year 1886
$668 26
Appropriated in 1887
.
. 7,000 00
Total credit
$7,668 26
DEBIT.
Expenditures : -
For building, -
balance on contract . $4,900 00
to architect 76 00
extra on chimneys and
water-closets . 50 00
changing doors .
11 50
additional carpentering
(including fence) 54 21
additional plumbing 25 02
tablets, and lettering
same
90 00
blackboards
38 21
cellar-window guards .
30 54
additional concreting . 72 00
resetting glass, and
expressing
.
3 55
hardware and tools
13 65
cleaning building
17 00
fuel, temporary fur-
naces, and running
same
117 38
$5,499 06
furniture, and placing
same ·
657 59
steam heating apparatus
(contract) . . $1,042 50
plans and specifications
for same 12 50
1,055 00
Amounts carried forward · . $7,211 65
$7,668 26
294
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Amounts brought forward ·
. $7,211 65
$7,668 26
For grading
61 50
Total debit .
7,273 15
Balance unexpended .
$395 11
SCHOOLHOUSE IN WARD FOUR (BURNS SCHOOL) ACCOUNT.
CREDIT.
Appropriation : -
Balance from year 1886 $816 68
Appropriated in 1887
7,000 00
Total credit
$7,816 68
DEBIT.
Expenditures : -
For building, -
balance on contract . $5,100 00
to architect 76 00
extra on chimneys and
water-closets . 50 00
changing doors . 11 50
additional carpentering
(including fence) .
47 27
additional plumbing 25 03
tablets, and lettering
same
90 00
blackboards
36 81
cellar-window guards .
30 54
additional concreting . 72 00
edgestones for addi- tional steps 29 58
hardware and tools 16 13
expressing .
2 90
fuel, temporary fur-
naces, and running
same ·
99 19
cleaning building
17 00
$5,703 95
Amounts carried forivard . $5,703 95
$7,816 68
295
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.
Amounts brought forward . $5,703 95
$7,816 68
For furniture, and placing
same · .
686 85
steam heating apparatus
(contract) . . $1,042 50
plans and specifications for same
12 50
1,055 00
grading and gravel
120 40
Total debit
7,566 20
Balance unexpended .
$250 48
EXPENDITURES BY THIS COMMITTEE FROM MISCELLA- NEOUS ACCOUNT.
For City Hall expenses : -
gas
$287 93
fuel
201 77
water .
.
23 44
ice (for 1886 and 1887)
65 00
labor on grounds (in 1886)
27 00
telephone connections
37 71
insurance
187 50
repairs and furniture
269 90
incidentals
112 70
$1,212 95
preparing rooms for caucuses and elections rent of rooms for
39 99
repairing ballot-boxes .
11 20
preparing hall for inauguration
10 60
care of flags and flag-staff's
28 28
work at cemetery
14 00
one-half cost of division-fence at old Lincoln School lot .
15 00
padlock and keys for city pound
1 87
ringing bells on holidays
9 00
Amount carried forward
$1,422 89
.
80 00
296
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Amount brought forward $1,422 89
For repairing and improving officers' rooms at Armory (exclusive of repairs on radiators, paid from police station incidentals account, $15.60) · 201 44
city messenger's team, and maintenance of same 761 95
$2,386 28
SCHOOLHOUSE INCIDENTALS ACCOUNT.
The principal improvements on school property have been made at the Bell and Prescott Schools by providing new water-closets, constant complaint having been made for several years of the unsanitary condition of the old ones.
At the Prescott School new closets have been constructed in the basement, on plans made by the superintendent of public buildings and lights, under the supervision of this committee. Short hoppers were used and thorough ventilation was provided, and the job gives complete satisfaction.
The cost was $2,707.65.
At the Bell School it was our intention to place water-closets in the basement like those provided at the Prescott School; but the City Council, in compliance with the urgent solicitation of the mem- bers of the school committee and other citizens of Ward Two, ordered that the improvement be made by enlarging the old water- closets in the yard. The members of the school committee from Ward Two laid before this committee, and recommended, plans made by S. D. Kelley, architect, providing for water-closets with latrines ; and these plans, after being considerably enlarged, were adopted. After the contract was made, a request was received from the school committee that short hoppers be used instead of latrines ; but we deemed it unwise to change the plans in this respect, because the hoppers would be likely to freeze in a building detached as this is ; for although it is heated by steam from the schoolhouse, yet it is impracticable to keep it warm throughout the cold nights. The cost of this improvement was $3,168.96. For a much smaller sum, closets like those at the Prescott School might have been put in the basement, and we think they would have proved more satisfactory.
The earth under the northerly end of the Prospect Hill School has been excavated so as to make a cellar under the entire build-
297
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.
ing, and the ceiling of the cellar has been plastered. All the gutters have been renewed, about one-half of the roof has been re-slated, and the building has been thoroughly repaired and painted outside.
At the Jackson School new plumbing, with ventilation, has been put in, and new floors have been laid in all the rooms.
At the Highland School a concrete walk has been laid around the westerly side of the building.
NEW SCHOOLHOUSES.
The Bingham School on Lowell Street in Ward Three, and the Burns School on Cherry Street in Ward Four, - both four-room brick buildings capable of enlargement to eight rooms, -have been completed, the expenditures thereon this year being hereinbefore specified. Their total cost is as follows : -
Bingham School, land and grading (20,-
986 square feet) . $1.934 14
building ·
. 11,481 11
steam heating appara- tus
1,055 00
furniture
.
· 634 64
$15.104 89
Burns School, land and grading (16,080
square feet) . $2,063 50
building . . 11,491 98
steam heating apparatus, 1,055 00
furniture · 639 04
$15.249 52
HIRED SCHOOLROOMS.
With the addition in the Highland District of the Burns School, which was opened at the beginning of the fall term, it was thought no hired rooms would be needed ; consequently the rooms in Clar- endon Block were vacated in the summer vacation. So many new scholars, however, presented themselves for admission to the ninth class, that the rooms for that class in both the Highland and Burns Schools were overcrowded, and an additional ninth class was estab-
298
ANNUAL REPORTS.
lished in the store in Mrs. L. W. Jones's building on Elm Street, at the corner of Winter Street, which was hired at a rental of twenty-five dollars per month, commencing Oct. 1.
AUXILIARY FIRE-ALARM.
By direction of the City Council, auxiliary fire-alarms have been placed in the high schoolhouse, and connected with the alarm box at the engine-house.
For the committee,
ELBRIDGE G. PARK, Chairman. GEO. I. VINCENT, Clerk.
REPORT
OF THE
COMMITTEE ON FUEL AND STREET LIGHTS.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
IN BOARD OF ALDERMEN, Dec. 30, 1887.
Ordered to be filed with the city clerk for presentation to the next city council, to be printed in the annual reports. Sent down for concurrence.
CHARLES E. GILMAN, Clerk.
IN COMMON COUNCIL, Dec. 30, 1887.
Concurred in.
DOUGLAS FRAZAR, Clerk.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
IN COMMITTEE ON FUEL AND STREET LIGHTS, Dec. 31, 1887. To the City Council of Somerville :-
The following is the final report of the committee on fuel and street lights for the year ending Dec. 31, 1887 : -
SCHOOL FUEL ACCOUNT.
CREDIT.
Appropriation
. $6,000 00
Less transfer to schoolhouse incidentals
account
· 1,000 00
Net credit
$5,000 00
DEBIT.
Expenditures : -
For fuel to Beach Street School . $108 51
Bell 66
.
451 15
Bennett
.
193 69
Bingham
66
204 05
Brastow
72 09
Burns 66
.
199 18
Cedar Street 66
30 98
Clarendon Block School 31 40
Cummings
135 87
Davis
250 79
Edgerly
473 93
Elm Street School (corner
Winter Street)
32 68
.
Amounts carried forward
. $2,184 32
$5,000 00
302
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Amounts brought forward .
. $2,184 32
$5,000 00
For fuel to Forster School . 345 52
Franklin
173 09
Harvard 66
36 05
High
495 28
Highland 66
560 21
Jackson 66
220 10
Lincoln
288 35
Morse
280 29
Prescott 66
400 75
Prospect Hill School
231 44
Spring Hill
66
36 05
Union
40 98
Webster
182 74
Total debit .
5,475 17
Amount overdrawn
$475 17
STREET LIGHTS ACCOUNT.
CREDIT.
Appropriation
$13,000 00
less transfer to schoolhouse
incidentals account . 1,500 00
-$11,500 00
Receipts : -
For new lamps erected $240 00
repairs of lamps damaged
by teams 41 69
old iron .
7 80
289 49
Posts and lanterns on hand
Jan. 1 .
324 75
Net credit
$12,114 24
Amount carried forward
$12,114 24
.
·
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON FUEL AND STREET LIGHTS, 303
Amount brought forward
$12,114 24
DEBIT.
Expenditures : - For gas, -
to Cambridge Gas Light
Company . $2,857 06
to Charlestown Gas Com-
pany .
1,940 58
$4,797 64
lighting and care of gas and oil lamps
. 2,259 31
electric lights, -
lighting
. $2,439 37
posts and hoods .
259 93
2,699 30
new gas and oil lamps ·
292 72
repairs of gas and oil lamps 404 31
supplies (oil, alcohol, wicks, and matches) 181 99
discontinuing gas and oil lamps
12 41
moving gas and oil lamps .
.
4 50
street signs
9 75
incidentals
33 00
posts and lanterns on hand (13. posts, 16 sign lanterns, and 1 plain lantern)
. 212 00
Total debit . .
10,906 93
Balance unexpended .
$1.207 31
FUEL.
The prices for fuel paid B. F. Wild & Co., under contract for the year ending July 1, 1887, were $4.38 per ton for furnace and egg coal, $4.80 per ton for stove coal, $6.50 per cord for hard wood, and $5.50 per cord for soft wood.
Owing to a combination among the dealers, a contract after July 1 could not be made for a longer period than sixty days ;
304
ANNUAL REPORTS.
and Messrs. B. F. Wild & Co. being again the lowest bidders, a contract was made with them to Sept. 1 at the following prices : for furnace coal per ton, $4.87 ; egg, $5.07 ; and stove, $5.37 ; and for wood, $8.00 per cord for hard, and $6.50 for soft. Orders were given to fill the bins at these prices ; and, as the amount of fuel required since the 1st of September has been small, no con- tract has been made, but we have purchased of Messrs. Wild & Co. at market rates.
STREET LIGHTS.
GAS AND OIL.
The gas and oil lamps have been lighted and cared for, under the supervision of the superintendent, by persons employed by him with our approval. The prices paid until Oct. 1 were thirty-five cents per month for each gas lamp and fifty-five for each oil lamp ; since Oct. 1, the prices have been forty and sixty cents, respectively. The prices for gas have been the same as last year ; viz., $1.65 per thousand feet for the four-feet burners, and $1.59 per thousand for the thirty-feet burners. We have also continued the practice of lighting the gas and oil lamps on cloudy nights and when there is no moon, and have charged the peti- tioners $20 for each lamp erected. The lamps have been lighted 280 nights.
ELECTRIC.
By authority of an order of the City Council, dated May 11, a contract was made with the Somerville Electric Light Company for the furnishing of fifty electric street lights for the term of one year, commencing June 1, at a compensation of thirty-seven cents per night each. lighting every night until one o'clock ; and an order was passed Sept. 14, authorizing the erection of twenty additional electric lights, to be furnished by said company upon the same terms.
The company has labored under the disadvantages of using tem- porary quarters and inadequate power, and, in consequence, las furnished but fifty-four lights, and has not given as good service as we should have, more or less of the lights being out nearly every night, and the service being wholly suspended early in December for two nights, by the breaking down of the engine. At that time
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON FUEL AND STREET LIGHTS. 305
the company moved into its new building on Willow Avenue, and set up another temporary engine.
The manager of the company promises that the permanent ma- chinery will soon be ready for use, and the remainder of the seventy lights erected ; and the power will then be ample to give good service for any number of lights that may be required.
The electric lights have all been located by this committee, with the approval of the City Council ; and our policy has been to place them in the public squares and upon the main avenues, especially where no lights have heretofore been furnished. We think the seventy lights authorized will, when all in service, light our principal streets and squares very well ; and, if the number be still further increased, the additional lights should be located upon a general plan for distributing the service systematically throughout the city, without regard to local requests which may be presented.
Most of the lights in service are upon wooden poles, erected by the company at its own expense, while six lights have been placed upon iron posts furnished by the city, the lights themselves being in all cases the property of the company.
Fifty-seven gas lamps with four-feet burners, one gas lamp with a thirty-feet burner, and eight oil lamps have been discontinued because of the erection of electric lights. Four thirty-feet burner gas lamps have been changed to electric lights, by removing the lanterns and setting extensions upon the posts, upon which the company placed the lights.
306
ANNUAL REPORTS.
The following is a table of street lamps in the city : -
GAS LAMPS.
Charlestown Gas.
Cambridge Gas.
4-feet
burners
30-feet
burners
4-feet
burners
30-feet
burners
Oil Lamps.
Electric Lamps.
Total.
Lamps in the city Jan. 1, 1887, as per last report . Erected during the year at expense of city ..
185
2
222
4
81
-
494
60
abutters
6
4
-
-
1
-
1
-
-
48
48
-
-
-
-
2
2
191
2
227
4
86
50
560
Changed from 4-feet burners to 30-feet burners
1
1
-
-
-
-
190
3
227
4
86
50
560
Changed from 30-feet burners to electric lamps
1
3
4
190
2
227
1
86
54
560
Discontinued because of erection of electric lamps,
20
1
37
00
-
66
Lamps now in service
170
1
190
1
78
54
494
-
-
1
-
3
-
4
2
12
company .
partly at expense of city .
For the committee,
HARRISON ALDRICH, Chairman. GEO. I. VINCENT, Clerk.
REPORT OF THE CITY CLERK.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
IN BOARD OF ALDERMEN, Feb. 21, 1888.
Accepted and referred to the committee on printing, to be printed in the annual reports. Sent down for concurrence.
GEO. I. VINCENT, Clerk pro tem.
IN COMMON COUNCIL, Feb. 23, 1888.
Concurred in.
CHAS. S. ROBERTSON, Clerk.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
FEB. 21, 1888.
Annual report of the receipts of the city clerk's office for the year ending Dec. 31, 1887 ; also the registration of marriages. births, and deaths for the same period.
RECEIPTS FOR THE YEAR ENDING DEC. 31, 1887.
Recording mortgages and assignments . $276 00
. 230 00
Fees for licensing dogs . 172 00
344 marriage certificates
37 junk licenses . 74 00
20 liquor licenses 20 00
2 billiard tables . 6 00
7 auctioneers' licenses .
14 00
Miscellaneous
6 25
$798 25
All of which has been paid to the city treasurer, and his receipt taken for the same.
MARRIAGES IN 1SS7.
Number of intentions issued in 1887 344
Increase over last year
23
Marriages registered in 1887
. 359
NATIONALITY OF THOSE REGISTERED.
Both parties American
202
66 foreign 82
American groom and foreign bride .
·
49
Foreign groom and American bride .
.
26
359 couples.
310
ANNUAL REPORTS.
First marriage of
654
Second marriage of .
.
· 59
Third marriage of .
5
359 couples.
Oldest person married
74
Youngest
17
Youngest couple married : Bridegroom
19
Bride
. 18
BIRTHS.
Number of births registered in 1887
. 878
More than last year
· 156
Males
· 446
Females . .
432
878
Born of American parents
· 338
" " foreign
· 350
American father and foreign mother
84
Foreign father and American mother
.
878
Number of cases of twins 10
DEATHS.
Whole number of deaths in Somerville in 1887
. 621
More than last year
128
Number of males
334
Number of females .
287
621
Under 10 years of age
Between 10 and 20 .
. 38
66 30
40.
.
54
66 40 " 50.
57
66
50 66 60.
. 46
66 60 66 70 .
44
66 70
80.
· 38
66
80
66 90.
15
90 100
2
621
Oldest person deceased, 97 years, 5 months, 13 days.
.
271 .
20 "' 30 .
56
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.
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.
.
106
311
REPORT OF THE CITY CLERK.
NATIONALITY.
Born in Somerville . . . 252
" " other places in United States · 240
Foreign birth . 129
621
Number of deaths returned by undertakers .
621
January .
52
February
. 30
March
61
April
.
45
May
.
41
June
42
July
.
71
August
.
61
September
37
October .
51
November
..
.
66
December
64
- 621
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For classification of diseases, see report of Board of Health.
CHARLES E. GILMAN, City Clerk.
REPORT OF THE INSPECTOR OF MILK.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
IN BOARD OF ALDERMEN, Jan. 11, 1888.
Accepted and referred to the committee on printing, to be printed in the annual reports. Sent down for concurrence.
DOUGLAS FRAZAR, Clerk pro tem.
IN COMMON COUNCIL, Jan. 11, 1SSS.
Concurred in.
CHAS. S. ROBERTSON, Clerk.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
JAN. 2, 1888.
To his Honor the Mayor and the City Council : -
GENTLEMEN, - I herewith submit the following report as milk inspector for the year ending Dec. 31, 1887 : -
Two hundred and twenty-eight licenses have been issued to pro- ducers and milkmen. Twenty-six persons have been registered to sell milk from stores, making the total number of registers to equal one hundred and sixty-three. Fourteen licenses have been issued to sell oleomargarine and butterine. The sum received for licenses equals one hundred and thirty-four dollars, which has been passed into the city treasury.
Three hundred and twenty-eight samples of milk from milkmen and stores have been tested. Ten legal notices have been served on as many persons for milk found to be below the standard. Thirty-seven personal visits have been made, giving verbal notices that improvement must be made in the quality of the milk delivered.
At the request of milkmen, samples of milk from thirty-nine dif- ferent dairies have been examined. The milk from these dairies came directly from the country, and had not been under the influ- ence of the " Charles and Mystic Rivers ; " and yet, in some cases, it was impregnated with the Mystic quality, proving that the milk distributors are not the only parties liable for poor milk. It gives me pleasure to say, that, in my judgment, the city of Somerville is supplied generally with milk of very good quality.
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