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180
per 1,000.
Number of
Rate
Rate
YEAR.
Rate
per 1,000.
22
696|
16
1893 .
22
44
25
14 17
per 1,000.
Number of
Rate
Rate
70 77
29 46
.
In 1900.
273
HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
Table Showing the Five Principal Causes of Death in Somerville in 1900, with the Number and Rate in Each District.
PNEUMONIA.
TUBERCULOSIS
HEART DISEASE.
CHOLERA INFANTUM.
DIPHTHERIA-
DISTRICTS.
Number of
Deaths.
Number per
1,000 of Pop.
Number of
Deaths.
Number per
1,000 of Pop.
Number of
Deaths.
Number per
1,000 of Pop.
Number of
Deaths.
Number per
1,000 of Pop.
Number of
Deaths.
Number per
1,000 of Pop.
I.
17
2.21
17
2.21
7
0.91
16
2,09
11
1.30
II.
00
1.32
11
1.81
10
1.55
3
0.49
1
0.16
III.
11
2.12
9
1.74
9
1.74
7
1.35
7
1.35
IV.
16
2.62
14
2.29
11
1.80
4
0,66
7
1.15
V.
19
1.64
12
1.03
13
1.12
3
0.26
8
0.69
VI.
10
1.49
10
1,49
5
0.75
5
0.75
4
0.59
VII.
10
1.37
9
1.23
9
1.23
1
0.14
2
0,27
VIII.
5
1.51
3
0.91
4
1,21
2
0.60
0,60
IX.
8
1.76
00
1.76
5
1.09
3
0.66
1
0.22
X.
7
2.01
9
2.59
8
2.29
7
2 01
6
1.73
Total
111
1.79
102
1.65
81
1.31
51
0.82
49
0.79
Table of Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, and Typhoid Fever in Each District in 1900.
SCARLET FEVER.
DIPHTHERIA.
TYPHOID FEVER.
DISTRICTS.
Reported.
Reported.
Deaths.
Cases per
Deaths per
I.
36
1
4.69
0,13
92
11
11.98
1.30
9
1.17
II.
11
.
1.81
43
1
7.09
0.16
9
III.
19
1
3.66
0.19
53
7
10.22
1.35
11
. .
2.12
IV.
29
3
4.75
0.49
97
7
15.88
1.15
13
. .
2.13
V.
48
4.13
59
5.08
0.69
11
5
0.95
0.43
'VI.
17
.
2.55
60
8.99
0.59
6
1
0,89
0.15
VII.
20
2
2.73
0.27
35
4.78
0.27
7
1
0,96
014
VIII.
15
.
4.53
23
6.99
0.30
2
1
0.60
0 30
IX.
17
·
....
31
6 81
0.22
5
1
1,'9
0.22
X.
19
.
5.45
27
7.75
1.73
2
. .
0.58
. ..
Total
231
7
3.73
0.11
520
49
8.39
0.79
72
9
1.16
0.15
1,000 of Pop.
Cases
Deaths.
Cases per
Deaths per
1,600 of Pop.
Reported.
Deaths.
Cases per
1,000 of Pop.
Deaths per
1,000 of Pop.
Cases
1,000 of Pop.
Cases
...
....
912278
..
3.71
1,000 of Pop.
0.99
Rates per Thousand of Population of Cases of Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, and Typhoid Fever Reported, and of Deaths from the Same, in the Last Seven Years.
1894.
1895.
1896.
1897.
1898.
1899.
1900.
Av'age for Seven Yrs.
DISTRICTS.
Scarlet Fever.
Diphtheria.
Typhoid Fever.
Scarlet Fever.
Diphtheria.
Typhoid Fever.
Scarlet Fever.
Diphtheria.
Typhoid Fever.
Scarlet Fever.
Diphtheria.
Typhoid Fever.
Scarlet Fever.
Diphtheria.
Typhoid Fever.
Scarlet Fever.
Diphtheria.
Typhoid Fever.
Scarlet Fever.
Diphtheria.
Typhoid Fever.
Scarlet Fever.
Diphtheria.
Typhoid Fever.
I.
( Cases Deaths
13.98 1.44 1.15
4.47 5.19 0.86 0.86 1.04 ....
1.12 11.96 1.40 0.28 2.25 ....
4.29 8.74 1.39 0.28 1.53 0.42
1.35 1.08 0.40 0.13 ....
. . . 19.40 2.43 0.81 0.27
4.69|11.98 1.17 0.13
5.60 6.12 1.03 0.61 1.01 0.08
Cases
4.45 1.30 0.74
2.10 4.27 1.86
0.72 10 73 1.61
3.36 7.07 0.53 0.18 0.53 0.36
0.85 1.36 1.02 2.04 2.04 0.85 . . ... 0.17 0.34 0.51 0.34
1.81
7.09 0.99 0.16 .. ..
0.05 0.56 0.38
III.
S Cases Deaths
11.98 4.44 1.33 1.99 1.33
5.32 7.77 1.33
1.49
5.97 1.07 0.21 0.43
3.77 6.27 0.42 0.21 1.05
1.39 2.19 0.36 0.60 0.36
1.99 5.09 0.39 0.59 0.39
0.19 3.66 10 .: 2 2.12 1.35
4.23 5.99 1.01 0.37 0.83 0.17
IV.
§ Cases Deaths
14.37 3.73 0.74 2.24 1.49 0.18
5.41 |5.60 1.49 0.74 1.68 0.37
2 14
7.32 1.97 1.25 0.36 ...
3.34 3.51 1.04 0.71 1.17
1 69 1.01 0.84
3.21 3.04 1.01 . .. 0.34
0.49 4.75 |15.88 2.13 1.15 ..
0.49 0.95 0.29
V.
§ Cases Deaths
5.75 2.49 1.34 0.38 0.67 0.38
4.13 6.05 0.48 0.09 1 .. 5 0.29
6 09 1.16 0.72 0.72
1.42 3.27 0.62 0.09 0.35 0.18
0.17
3 31 1.74 0.97 10.18 . . . . 0.35
4.13
5.08 0.95 0.69 0.43
3.19 3.63 0.94 0.11 0.53 0.36
VI.
Cases Deaths .
9.85 0.94 0.94 0.75 . . . 0.18
3.03 2.08 0.57
2 84
7.18 1 00 0.67 . .
2.71 7.05 0.95 0.17 0.95 0.17
0.93 1.08 0.77 0.15
0.16
8.99 0.89 -0.59 0.15 ..
3.64 4.27 0.98 10.16 0.39 0.09
VII.
Deaths .
0.15 .. . . 0.31 0.31 0.31
. . . .
3.45 0.15
6.87 1 05 0.75 0.45
2.01 7.55 1.02 10.88 0.14
1.14 2.41 0.85 . . 10.43 0.43
1.54 1.96 2.09 0.14 0.56 ...
2.73
4 78 0.96 0 27 0.14
2.63 3.89 0.96 0.15 0.38 0.29
VIII.
§ Cases Deaths .
8.29 4.56 0.82 0.41 0.82 0.41
4.52 2.49 1.66
8.44 11 00 2.93 0.38
1.83|1 10
4.51 4.19 1.61 0.64 0.32 .
2.80 1.25 0.62
1 22 2.49
4.53
6 99 0 60 0.30 0.30
4.90 4.71 1.18 0.11 0.51 0.35
IX.
§ Cases ¿ Deaths
.
. . . . 0.28 0 28 6.35 1.38 1.92 2.77 2.49 1.65 0.27 ..
1.77 0.25
3.54 2 78
.. 0.51
..
. .
0.23
3.95 3.º6 2.79 .. 0.23 0.47
3.71
6.81 1.09 0 22 0.22
0.08 0.15 0.33
X.
§ Cases Deaths
6.49 2.59 1.73
8.23 4.76 2.60 0.43
6 43
6 03 3.22 0 41 0.81
1.04 2.43 0.36 10.69
1.90 0.32 1.90 1 88 2.19 1.88 .... 0.321. . .
5.45
7.75 0.58 1.73
....
City
.
·
§ Cases Deaths .
8.59 2.09 1.10 4.12 4.68 1.16 0.96 0.53 0.24 |0.32 0.81 0.19
0 09
7 68 1 57 0 96 0.46
2.72 5.51 0.86 0.11 0.76 0.19
1.33 1.^3 0.90
2.62 2.45 1.22 3.73
0.11
8 39 1.16 0.79,0.15
1.66 4.58 1.14 0.24 0.60 0.24
....
....
1.30 .. . .
2.19 4.84 1.69
II.
Deaths
0.18 0.18 ..
10.19 1.11 0.74
1.25 0.72
0.22 0.66
....
10.19 0.38
. ...
....
...
Cases
4 69
0.62 2.81 3.44 1.09
...
1.69 4.56 0.72 0.28
0.70 0.93 1.63
0.31
3.59 2.34 1.72
2.55
0. 7
..
.. 0.55
4.49 3.73 1.76 0.06 0.45 0.12
.. ..
....
2.53
2.24
1.38 0.69 1.04
4.99 5.73 1.32
2.73 0.57 0.14
ANNUAL REPORTS.
2.99 3.28 1.79
0.17 0.18 0. 5 0.18 0.25
275
HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
Undertakers.
The duty of issuing licenses to undertakers was transferred to Boards of Health by the following provision of law :-
[Acts of 1897, Chapter 437, Section 7.]
"Section 7. The boards of health of cities and towns shall, on or be- fore the first day of May in each year, license a suitable number of under- takers who can read and write the English language, to take charge of the funeral rites preliminary to the interment, removal, or cremation of a human body. Such licenses shall be issued under such terms and upon such conditions as the Board of Health may prescribe, and may be re- voked at any time by the board when such terms or conditions or any requirements of law relative thereto have been violated by the under- taker; provided, however, that an undertaker so licensed shall have the right to act thereunder in any city or town in the Commonwealth."
Under the above law, fifteen undertakers received licenses.
Examiners of Plumbers.
The public statutes provide for a Board of Examiners of Plumbers, consisting of the Chairman of the Board of Health, the Inspector of Buildings, and an expert at plumbing, to be appointed by the Board of Health. This Board appointed Duncan C. Greene, the Inspector of Plumbing, to fill the place of expert. The report of the number of licenses granted will be found in the report of the Inspector of Buildings.
Appropriation for Health Department and Expenditures Therefrom.
CREDIT.
Appropriation
$30,000 00
Sale of offal to Hannibal S. Pond
1,025 00
Sale of manure
19 00
Sale of three horses
110 00
Permit fees to keep swine and goats and collect grease ·
44 00
Fees received from Milk Inspectors :-
J. E. Richardson
$140 40
C. S. Philbrick
3 50
143 90
Total credit
$31,341 90
DEBIT.
Expenditures :-
For Agent's salary
$1,200 00
Salary of Superintendent of ashes and offal
900 00
Salary of Inspector of Milk and
600 00
Vinegar .
400 01
Collection of ashes . .
8,738 33
Amounts carried forward
$11,838 34
$31,341 90
Salary of Inspector of Animals and Pro- visions
276
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Amounts brought forward
$11,838 34
$31,341 90
Collection of offal
.
11,819 00
Burying dead animals
93 50
Stable expenses
626 00
Hay and grain
2,983 94
New horses (six)
1,135 00
Horse doctoring
133 90
Horse shoeing
478 93
Insurance on horses
24 00
Harnesses and horse clothing
512 53
Wagons and sleds, and repairing same .
1,129 76
Vaccine virus
17 43
Expressing culture tubes and anti-toxin
34 05
Office expenses of Milk Inspector (ap- paratus, etc.)
113 54
Tools, and repairing sanie
88 12
Books, stationery, etc.
178 45
Incidentals
357 98
Total expenditure
$31,564 47
Amount overdrawn
$222 57
ALLEN F. CARPENTER, Chairman.
ALVANO T. NICKERSON, ARTHUR R. PERRY, M. D.,
Board of Health.
REPORT OF INSPECTOR OF ANIMALS AND PROVISIONS.
Somerville, Mass., January 1, 1901.
To the Honorable, the Mayor, and the Board of Aldermen :-
Gentlemen,-I beg leave to submit the following report as inspector of animals and provisions for the year ending Decem- ber 31, 1900.
The following is a statement of the animals killed during the year at the five slaughtering establishments in the city : John P. Squire & Co. Corporation, Medford street, 518,896 swine; North Packing and Provision Co., Medford street, 707,- 065 swine; New England Dressed Meat and Wool Co., Medford street, 288,435 sheep, 51,493 calves, 16,044 cattle, 372 swine; Sturtevant & Haley Beef and Supply Co., Somerville avenue, 4,905 cattle; Rachel Gunsenhiser, North street, 720 cattle, 229 calves; total number of animals slaughtered, 1,588,159. 27,257 sheep and lambs and 5,437 cattle have been quarantined at Somerville before shipping to Europe. Brighton, Watertown, and Somerville are quarantine stations established by the State Board of Cattle Commissioners.
I have made 327 visits to slaughter houses, 515 visits to grocery and provision stores and markets, finding most of them in good condition, and have inspected 587 peddlers' carts.
There are 284 cows and 68 swine kept in the city for domestic purposes. All cow barns, forty-two in number, were measured this year, under the rules of the cattle commission.
Twelve horses were quarantined, of which three were re- leased, and the remaining nine were killed by order of the com- missioners. Thirty additional horses were affected with conta- gious disease, and killed with the consent of the owners.
I have visited several stables where a large number of horses are kept, examined 855 horses where contagious disease has been reported, and thoroughly cleansed all stables where horses were killed.
In this connection I would say that as an agent of the so- ciety for the prevention of cruelty to animals I have investigated seventy-eight cases, and as a result of such investigation have caused to be killed seventeen horses, nine dogs, and twenty-one cats.
I have condemned and caused to be destroyed 109 cattle, 2,492 pounds of beef, 39 calves, 698 pounds of veal, 617 fowl, 28 pounds of fowl, 28 livers, 386 pounds of corned beef, 17 sheep, 153 pounds of lamb, 71 pounds of pork, 70 pounds of fresh tongue, 344 herring, 607 mackerel, 944 pounds of had- dock and codfish, 4 barrels of spinach, 3 barrels of potatoes, 91 quarts of strawberries, and 135 bananas.
I have endeavored to perform the duties of the office to the best of my ability.
Respectfully,
CHAS. M. BERRY, Inspector.
REPORT OF INSPECTOR OF MILK AND VINEGAR.
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR OF MILK AND VINEGAR, 310 BROADWAY, SOMERVILLE, MASS., January 1, 1901. ) To the Board of Health of Somerville :-
Gentlemen,-I beg to submit herewith my report for the ten months ending December 31, 1900.
Nearly the whole month of March was spent in fitting up a laboratory at my place of business. There being no apparatus or books of any kind for this department, I was obliged to pro- cure them, and have them made specially for this work. As tags and considerable other printed matter were needed, it took much time to prepare for the actual work of the department.
I have given the use of a separate room to this office. It is not all that I would like, but will answer until such time as better and more convenient quarters can be provided.
Notice to dealers was given by publication in our local papers in April that applications for licenses must be made during the month of May; and the inspector's office was open every week day during that month, except Thursdays, from 3 to 6.30, and from 7.30 to 9 P. M. for the issuing of licenses.
There have been 185 licenses issued to milk dealers, and ninety-four storekeepers have been registered. Forty more dealers have been licensed this year than last, including seven who started in business during the year ; thirty-seven of those licensed were dealers who had paid no license fee during the previous year. Some of these had paid none for several years, and a few were found who had never paid any license fee in this city, although engaged in business here for a considerable time.
Of the storekeepers registered, about fifty had been in business the previous year, but were not registered. The re- mainder opened new stores or became the proprietors of old ones. Certificates of registration of storekeepers are not trans- ferable, and considerable work is necessary to properly enforce the law governing them, as many of the stores, especially the smaller ones, are continually changing owners, some having changed hands two or three times within the last ten months.
There has been a tendency on the part of some dealers to carry on their business without regard to the law, which has not been strictly enforced in past years. I have been lenient with them during the ten months I have been in office, but if reap- pointed it will be my purpose to see that all engaged in the business shall be required to live up to the law and the regula- tions of this department.
279
HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
Cash.
Licenses and certificates issued, 279 at 50 cents
$139 50
Cash received for stamps
90
Total
$140 40
This amount I have paid to the City Treasurer.
Court Records.
Warrants sworn out
19
Cases prosecuted
19
Days spent in court
16
Convictions and Fines.
One case, driver obstructing inspector in performance of duty, fined
$100 00
Two cases, selling milk without license, fined $30, each, 60 00
Two milk dealers, milk not up to standard, fined $10, each, 20 00
One milk dealer, milk not up to standard, fined 20 00
25 00
Four storekeepers, milk not up to standard, fined $10, each,
12 00
Four storekeepers, milk not up to standard, fined $3, each, . One milk dealer, putting preservative in milk, fined
50 00
Two storekeepers, fined $5, each,
10 00
One storekeeper, fined
10 00
Total
$347 00
The amounts received by the court for these fines are eventually paid to the City Treasurer and credited to the police department. In my opinion they might more properly be credited to the health department.
I have taken and analyzed fifteen samples of vinegar, all of which were up to the standard. I shall do much more in this branch of the work next year.
I have taken and analyzed 575 samples of milk since April 15, eighty more samples than were taken in the entire year of 1899. Three hundred and eight of these were taken from milk wagons on the streets, between the hours of 2 A. M. and noon, and 267 were taken from stores during the day.
I find in the stores the poorest milk from numerous causes, such as selling the cream separately, diluting the milk, etc.
I find also that the milk in some stores is kept in filthy places. Some way must be devised to compel all storekeepers to keep the milk in a sanitary way, as it is of the utmost import- ance to our city's health that the milk we, and especially the babies, drink should be pure. This is of special importance to the poor, as they are the largest purchasers of milk from the stores. It is a proven fact that one-half the deaths among children in the summer time are due to the germs in milk which is not properly taken care of.
One storekeeper, milk not up to standard, fined .
40 00
280
ANNUAL REPORTS.
There are, on an average, 7,640 gallons of milk sold to families in our city every day-about a pint of milk for every man, woman, and child in the city, being about 11,154,400 quarts a year, for which our citizens pay approximately $780,- 808.00. There are also daily handled in the city about 15,000 gallons, which are delivered in Boston and Cambridge.
There are five cream teams, one condensed milk, and one modified milk team licensed.
I hope to make many much needed improvements in this department next year. There is ample need yet of improve- ment, and I sincerely hope it may be accomplished, for the health of our citizens and especially for the sake of the little ones.
The amount of money paid into the city treasury for licenses, fines, etc., shows a profit to the city of $154.16 above my salary.
JULIUS E. RICHARDSON,
Inspector of Milk and Vinegar.
SUPPORT OF POOR DEPARTMENT.
Board of Overseers of the Poor.
EDWARD B. WEST, President. ALBERT W. EDMANDS, Vice-President. HERBERT E. MERRILL.
Committees. ON FINANCE, INVESTIGATION AND RELIEF, AND CITY HOME .- Mr. West Mr. Edmands, and Mr. Merrill.
General Agent. CHARLES C. FOLSOM.
Secretary. CORA F. LEWIS.
City Physician. ARTHUR R. PERRY, M. D.
Office. City Hall Annex, Highland avenue.
REPORT OF THE OVERSEERS OF THE POOR,
OFFICE OF THE OVERSEERS OF THE POOR, City Hall Annex, December 31, 1900.
To the Honorable, the Mayor, and Board of Aldermen, City of Somerville :--
Gentlemen,-The report of the Board of Overseers of the Poor for 1900 is herewith submitted. The year past has been much the same as other years, with the exception that it was the first full year that the Board has had a "City Home" in which to. board those who had no home of their own. This has been a great convenience, and we believe that it has cost very little more (not counting the permanent supplies for the Home) than did the old and unsatisfactory way of boarding the paupers out. in families and in almshouses of other cities and towns.
The supplies that have been purchased, such as furnishings for the Home, horses, wagons, carts, and farming tools, are in good condition, and very little money will have to be spent in this direction the coming year.
The inmates have been well cared for, kept clean and sober, and at the close of the year are in a better condition than when. the Home was opened in November, 1899. John F. Crouch, a very respectable and worthy man who entered the Home May 14, 1900, died very suddenly November 22, of heart trouble. He was a man well liked, not only by the warden and his family, but by the other inmates.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Foster Colquhoun, the efficient warden and matron, are doing good work in caring for the inmates and see- ing that they are made comfortable. Very pleasant relations have existed between the management of the Home and the Board during the year. ' Mr. Colquhoun, under the direction of the Board, is getting the farm and buildings into good condition for the purposes for which they are used, and it seems to us that if we are fairly successful, there will be quite an income from the. farm during the next year.
The State Inspector, in his report, refers to our City Home- as follows :-
(Inspected September 13, 1900.)
"Salary of warden and matron, $600. Three paid help. Wooden building of two and one-half stories and two wings, in good condition, without fire escapes. Drainage by sewer. City water. One sitting: room; nine sleeping rooms, with seventeen beds, all in good condition. Two bath rooms, supplied with hot and cold water. £ Two inside water- closets, in good condition. Ventilation by doors and windows. Heating by hot air. Inmates well fed and clothed. Complete separation of sexes, except at meals.
"Fifteen inmates; eleven men and four women, all sane. No crimi- nals; no tramps.
"Ten acres of land; eight acres tilled."
283
POOR DEPARTMENT.
During the year a veranda has been built across the rear of the ell for the benefit of inmates; the barn also has been re- modeled, so that the part occupied by the live stock is warm and comfortable. The only expense to the city for the above repairs. and many others was the cost of the material. If the walls of the barn could be clapboarded or shingled, it would be in very good condition.
The Board recommends that a shed be erected for the pur- pose of housing the wagons, carts, farming tools, etc .; also as a place for washing vegetables for the market, and for sawing and packing away wood.
The following tables will give an idea of the detail work of the department. We also print the report to this Board of the Warden of the "Somerville City Home," and the report of the City Physician.
EDWARD B. WEST,
ALBERT W. EDMANDS, Overseers
HERBERT E. MERRILL, of the Poor ..
TABLE 1. Full Support ( During the Year ).
In our City Home
34
In private families
11
In Somerville Hospital 140
In hospitals in other cities and towns 16
In Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded
4
Insane persons in private families
1
Insane persons in hospitals
88
TABLE 2. Full Support (at present time, December 31, 1900).
- In Somerville City Home 17
Insane in hospitals (we are reimbursed for two) . 81
Insane in private families
1
In hospitals, sane
6
TABLE 3. Somerville Hospital.
Cases on City's account 140
Cases having settlement in Somerville
53
Cases having settlement in other cities or towns .
33
Cases having no settlement (chargeable to State)
56
Total number of weeks, 437, at $11.44 .
$5,000 00
Money paid Hospital by the City .
$5,000 00
Amount to be reimbursed to the City
1,684 86
Net cost to the City
$3,315 14
Total aid to the Hospital
$5,000 00
284
ANNUAL REPORTS.
TABLE 4. Partial Support ( Outdoor Relief).
Families aided
319
Persons aided
1,335
Burials
14
Permits to the Tewksbury almshouse
12
TABLE 5. Reimbursements.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
$1,885 63
City of Boston
865 13
Cambridge
772 67
Chelsea
55 64
66
Gloucester
45 13
60
66 Haverhill
11 25
Lowell
129 00
Lvnn
62 46
66
Malden
155 04
Marlboro
45 40
Medford
4 50
Melrose
14 86
Newburyport
44 86
North Adams
5 65
Woburn
99 74
Town of Canton
3 15
66
Hardwick
26 00
66
North Andover
48 00
66
Plymouth
23 56
66
"
Provincetown
28 14
Sandwich
6 95
66
Watertown
9 35
5 50
66
Winchester
7 00
Guardians and relatives
722 04
Money refunded
4 29
Lexington
1 50
Stoughton
25 72
Wilmington
$5,146 74
Chicopee
38 58
TABLE 6. Expenditures, in Detail, for the Year 1900.
1900.
Rent.
Board.
Groceries.
Towns and Cities.
Public Institutions.
Boots and Shoes.
Dry Goods.
Burial.
Salaries.
Fuel.
Sundries.
Medicine.
Total.
January .
$7 00
$170 43
$397 08
$601 25
*$2.481 11
$9 50
$275 48
$197 69
$68 34
$40 85
*$4,248 73
February
7 00
21 00
563 71
104 00
*450 98
20 70
258 33
140 54
19 51
65 31
*1,651 08
March
7 00
164 51
315 79
1 50
2,371 99
10 60
$6 00
308 33
151 26
56 71
120 80
3,517 49
April .
7 00
52 16
373 82
186 65
10 85
275 00
23 18
9 25
937 91
May .
7 00
37 65
216 37
36 00
385 28
9 10
.
.
$20 00
275 00
45 62
33 65
3,274 24
June .
.
.
7 00
13 86
321 89
425 46
8
00
30 00
275 00
37 88
39 16
1,653 11
August .
7 00
122 72
282 83
47 00
13 85
25 00
275 00,
71 04
22 05
866 49
September .
7 00
83 58
206 45
2,635 96
7 25
20 00
291 00
54 34
17 65
3,323 23
October .
.
·
·
24 87
37 00
555 42
4 00
40 00
283 33
136 23
99 22
84 68
1,599 01
December
.
Totals
.
$63 00
$809 43
$3,974 80
$1,329 61
*$12,133 85
$101 15
$18 00
$195 00
$3,378 14
$676 00
$685 47
$653 14
*$24,017 50
·
·
·
·
·
·
7 00
60 12
552 23
2,480 62
· .
·
.
·
.
.
·
·
.
·
.
.
·
60 00
303 33
70 7
100 77
1,105 05
November
.
.
·
25 29
19 30 .
283 34
50 28
69 45
87 01
773 41
·
69 48
31 96
1,067 84
275 00
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
33 24
334 63
45 00
157 38
·
.
·
494 86
July .
* These items include $319.97, paid to the Somerville Hospital in January and February, and afterwards charged to Somerville Hospital account ; leaving the expenditure from this account (Support of Poor-Miscellaneous) $23,697.92.
286
ANNUAL REPORTS.
TABLE 7. Support of Poor, Miscellaneous, Account, Recapitulation.
Appropriation
$16,200 00 3,000 00
Transfer from Interest account
Reimbursements
5,146 74
Total receipts
$24,346 74 23,697 62
Total expenditures
Balance unexpended
$649 12
Net expenditures
18,550 88
TABLE 8. Support of Poor, City Home, Account.
Appropriation
Transfer from Interest account
$4,000 00 . 1,000 00 453 11
Reimbursements
Total receipts
Total expenditures
Account overdrawn
$75 72
Net expenditures
5,075 72
Note .- $?,408.48 of the appropriation for "City Home" was spent for permanent repairs and supplies. For details of the account see report of Warden on page 289.
TABLE 9. Population and Gross Expenditures, 1883 to 1899, Inclusive.
Population (Estimated).
Expenditures $15,959 80
66
1884
.
*29,992
16,430 32
66
1886
32,000
14,341 83
66
1887
34,000
13,430 89
66
1888
36,000
13,375 98
39,000
14,610 92
66
1890
*40,117
15,261 14
66
1891
43,000
15,980 49
46,000
17,015 30
66
1893
48,000
17,799 58
66
1894
50,000
19,733 13
66
1895
.* 52,200
20,755 46
66
1896
54,000
21,999 79
66
1897
56,000
25,681 47
66
1898
· 57,500
28,522 21
1899
60,000
28,924 39
·
27,000
Year, 1883
.
28,000
17,272 .52
1885
.
1889
1892
** Census.
·
$5,453 11 5,528 83
287
POOR DEPARTMENT.
TABLE 10. Showing cost of maintaining poor for last fiscal year, population as given by the 1900 United States Census, cost per capita of population, and value of land and buildings used by Poor De= partment in twenty-six New England Cities, including Somer= ville.
CITIES.
Cost of Maintain- ing Poor for Last Fiscal Year.
Population as given by 1900 Census.
Cost per Capita.
Value of Land and Buildings Used by Poor Dep'tm't.
Brockton,
Mass. .
$30,299 03
40,063
$0 75g
$25,000 00
Chelsea,
30,691 30
34,072
0 90
None.
Chicopee,
25,525 99
19,200
1 32
14,000 00
Fitchburg,
31,186 47
31,531
0 98%
46,596 20
Haverhill,
22,430 04
37,175
0) 60%
41,300 00
Holyoke,
41 387 96
45,712
0 902
37,830 00
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