Report of the city of Somerville 1887, Part 16

Author: Somerville (Mass.)
Publication date: 1887
Publisher: Somerville, Mass.
Number of Pages: 350


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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


·


REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY. 289


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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.


.


.


.


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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