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Committees. ON FINANCE, INVESTIGATION AND RELIEF, AND CITY HOME. - Mr. West, Mr. Edmands, and Mr. Merrill.
Secretary. CORA F. LEWIS.
General Agent. CHARLES C. FOLSOM.
City Physician. ALVAH B. DEARBORN, M. D.
Warden and Matron "City Home." MR. AND MRS. J. FOSTER COLQUHOUN.
Office. City Hall Annex, Highland Avenue.
REPORT OF OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
OFFICE OF THE OVERSEERS OF THE POOR, Somerville, Mass., December 31, 1902.
To the Honorable, the Mayor, and Board of Aldermen :-
Gentlemen,-In accordance with our general custom, we herewith submit to you our report, with itemized tables annexed, showing the work of this department, including Miscellaneous and City Home accounts, for the year 1902 :-
Temporary Aid.
We have aided less families and fewer individuals than in the years immediately preceding this. Had it not been for the scarcity of fuel, it would have been a remarkable year, and one long to be remembered as favorable to the poorer people.
Fuel.
The coal famine has been felt largely through the latter part of the year, in some cases undoubtedly causing distress. While we have been asked to furnish coal for many families, the total amount does not equal that given in former years, owing to the fact that it could be obtained in small amounts only. Our orders have all been honored, however, and, with few exceptions, promptly delivered.
We have been able, through the courtesy of His Honor, the Mayor, and the generosity of the Cambridge Gas Light Com- pany, to secure ten tons of coke, five tons being a gift from the company, and five tons purchased at the rate of $5.00 per ton, our City Home teams delivering the same from the gas works to needy families.
This has been a great help, coming in a time when it was hard to secure coal, even in small quantities.
Hospital.
Again we have found the Somerville Hospital of great value in caring for the sick poor, more cases having been admitted and placed upon city beds than in any previous year. The wisdom of the present system is shown by the fact that we have been able to collect for the care of patients not settled in Somerville more rebates than in any previous year.
295
SUPPORT OF POOR DEPARTMENT.
Insane.
The city is paying for the support of about the same number of insane persons as in 1901. This is the last year, however, that the city will be obliged to bear this burden, as the law giving state control and support of the insane will become operative in January, 1904. We shall have to pay one-quarter, however, in February of that year.
State Hospital, Tewksbury.
We have given permits during the year to eleven state paupers. The majority of these were sick. Some were drunk- ards, and others had become burdensome to their friends.
Burials.
The custom of having the members of poor families insured for a small amount for the purpose of having a fine funeral has become so common, even including the smallest children, that there is a movement on foot to have the Legislature of 1903 enact some law regulating the matter.
This, of course, prevents many from coming to the city for aid in the burial of their friends, but, in the long run, they prob- ably ask for more help than they would if the city assisted in the burials. When there are five or eight in a family, it becomes a great burden to keep the assessments paid up. During the year we have assisted in the burial of eighteen persons.
We have assisted poor families to $3,516.98 in groceries and provisions, and to $630.13 in wood and coal, also smaller sums in dry goods, boots and shoes, medicine, etc. We have paid public institutions for care of the insane the sum of $15,832.11.
The following tables will give an idea of the details of the work :---
TABLE NO. 1. Full Support ( During the Year).
In our City Home (men 20, women 11)
31
In private families
2
In Somerville Hospital
173
In hospitals in other towns and cities for the sick
13
In Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded .
5
Insane persons in private families
1
Insane persons in hospitals
121
TABLE NO. 2. Full Support (at present time, December 31, 1902).
In Somerville City Home (men 13, women 7)
20
Insane in hospitals (we are reimbursed for 9) 97
Insane in private families
1
In hospitals, sane
17
296
ANNUAL REPORTS.
TABLE NO. 3. Partial Support (Outdoor Relief).
Families
270
Persons aided
1,210
Burials
18
Permits to Tewksbury Almshouse
.
.
.
11
TABLE NO. 4. Reimbursements.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
$2,100 26
City of Boston .
811 42
66
66 Chelsea
29 14
66
Everett
2 50
66
66 Fall River
153 66
66
Gloucester
3 10
66
Haverhill
6 70
66
Lowell
306 68
66
66 Lynn
43 65
66
66 Malden
131 87
66
Marlboro
106 32
66
Newton
36 95
66
66
Salem
80 00
66
66
Waltham
110 68
66
66
Woburn
17 45
Town of Andover
16 00
66
Braintree
28 00
66
Canton
4 00
66
Hanover
4 08
66
Hudson
29 14
66
66 Lancaster
15 20
66
Medfield
20 00
66
66 South Framingham
18 14
66
66
Swampscott
50 65
66
Whitman
62 00
66
Winchester
8 85
Guardians, relatives, and individuals
2,491 08
Money refunded
7 43
$7,426 13
TABLE NO. 5. Somerville Hospital (Patients on City Beds).
Patients having settlement in Somerville
58
Patients having settlement in other cities or towns
34
Patients having no settlement (chargeable to state)
80
Total number of patients sent to Hospital
172
Money paid Hospital by the City for patients settled in Somerville
$5,000 00
Amount reimbursed to the City and paid to the Hospital
for patients not settled in Somerville .
1,827 56
Total paid to the Hospital
$6,827 56
66
Worcester
81 13
Cambridge
632 90
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66 Millbury
17 15
297
SUPPORT OF POOR DEPARTMENT.
TABLE NO. 6. Population and Gross Expenditures, 1883 to 1902, Inclusive.
Population (Estimated)
Expenditures
1883
27,000
$15,959 80
1884
·
28,000
17,272 52
1885
.
1886
32,000
14,341 83
1887
34,000
13,430 89
1888
36,000
13,375 98
1889
39,000
14,610 92
1890
*40,117
15,261 14
1891
43,000
15,980 49
1892
46,000
17,015 30
1893
48,000
17,799 58
1894
50,000
19,733 13
1895
*52,200
20,755 46
1896
54,000
21,999 79
1897
56,000
25,681 47
1898
57,500
28,522 21
1899
60,000
28,924 39
1900
*61,643
City Home,
5,528.83
1901
62,500
City Home, 6,622.43
1902
63,500
City Home,
7,396.64
*Census.
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR OF SOMERVILLE.
Since the Reorganization in 1885.
Hon. Mark F. Burns, Chairman ex-officio
1885
1888 inclusive
Colonel Herbert E. Hill
. 1885
1889
Charles S. Lincoln, Esq., Chairman .
1885
1887
66
Hon. Edward Glines
1885
1887
66
Edward B. West, President
1888 to
date
66
Daniel C. Stillson
1888 April 1892
66
Nathan H. Reed, President
1890 April 1894
66
Hon. Wm. H. Hodgkins, Chairman ex-officio
1892
1895
66
James G. Hinckley
May 1892
1894
66
Albert W. Edmands
May 1893
to date
66
Herbert E. Merrill
May 1894 .
to
date
Ezra D. Souther
1895 Feb. 1898 (Died)
Hon. Albion A. Perry, Chairman ex-officio 1896
1898 inclusive
James H. Butler
March 1898
1899
Hon. George O. Proctor, Chairman ex-officio 1899
.
Charles G. Brett, President
1885 April 1893
Hon. Charles G. Pope, Chairman ex-officio
1889
1891
Miscellaneous, $23,697.62
29,226 45
Miscellaneous, $29,171.15
35,793 58
Miscellaneous, $28,667.04
36,063 68
Year
*29,992
16,430 32
298
TABLE 7. Expenditures, in Detail, for the Year 1902.
1902.
Dry Goods.
Board.
Groceries.
Towns and Cities.
Boots and Shoes.
Medicine.
Burial.
Salaries.
Fuel.
Sundries.
Public Institutions.
Somerville Hospital.
Total.
January .
$18 00
$68 00
$425 14
$53 55
$12 70
$16 13
$25 00
$310 00
$157 73
$61 22
$3,585 61
.
$4,733 08
February .
5 60
24 00
488 23
480 85
8 00
33 00
314 00
124 21
109 95
$266 66
1,854 50
March
5 75
82 51
297 30
133 33
4,401 71
April
98 87
278 52
41 00
16 30
30 00
283 33
73 95
38 42
266 04
133 33
1,259 76
May
6 50
25 29
161 86
10 00
162 00
6 75
35 00
308 33
3 65
14 14
3,481 71
133 33
4,463 43
July
4 40
38 00
352 32
309 10
7 75
5 00
308 33
27 05
42 25
133 33
1,227 53
August
8 00
36 43
237 50
9 15
20 00
308 33
41 43
133 33
794 17
September
160 86
263 70
133 33
5,510 44
October
33 57
199 28
·
22 70
8 05
321 66
179 34
144 38
133 33
1,044 80
November
·
2 50
33 57
255 93
52 00
10 55
9 75
308 37
44 62
14 02
360 93
1,092 24
Totals .
$53 24
$755 80
$3,516 98
$1,178 36
$87 15
$66 67
$223 00
$3,797 34
$630 13
$698 70
$15,832 11
$1,827 56
$28,667 04
.
·
50 01)
283 33
76 25
68 70
3,404 54
104 57
133 33
973 15
June
.
.
·
·
.
.
.
·
·
.
·
308 33
148 87
31 44
227 02
133 33
1,312 23
December
·
. ·
25 99
15 00
408 33
·
.
. .
·
85
30 71
4,575 99
10 00
335 00
2 49
70 01
323 37
69 86
.
ANNUAL REPORTS.
82 28
84 69
233 83
299
SUPPORT OF POOR DEPARTMENT.
TABLE NO. 8. Recapitulation (Miscellaneous).
Appropriation
$21,300 00
Transfer from Highway account
300 00
Reimbursements
7,426 13
Total receipts
Total expenditures
$29,026 13 28,667 04
Balance unexpended
$359 09
Net expenditures
$21,240 91
City Home.
Considering the large amount of repairs and extra outside work which has been done during the past season, we have had a very successful year on the farm.
The crops have been good, and favorable prices have been received, two thousand four hundred and nineteen dollars and forty-nine cents ($2,419.49) having been realized from the sale of produce and pork.
Two acres of the meadow land which has not been under cultivation for a great many years has been reclaimed and made tillable by laying about nine hundred feet of drain tile.
The amount of produce raised on this land during the past season will practically pay for all the expense incurred in laying the drains.
The old building on the Cook estate has been removed to the rear of the barn yard, connected with the wash house build- ing, and converted into a piggery, which, although small, is a model of its kind, the sanitary conditions of which we consider well nigh perfect. We hope for good results from the piggery during the coming year.
The old foundation walls on the Cook estate have been re- moved and reserved for future use, the cellars filled in, and the entire lot brought to grade as a lawn from Broadway to the barn, which, when seeded down during the coming spring, will add greatly to the appearance of the grounds.
A new six-foot tight board fence 240 feet long has been built around the barn yard.
The unsightly old hot-bed fence running from Broadway to the barn yard has been removed, leaving the ground free from any obstruction from the Home to North street.
The old manure pit in front of the wash house has been filled in and brought to a level with the adjoining land, and enclosed with a six-foot fence, making a suitable place for two hundred feet of hot beds.
The hen house has been removed to a new location in the barn yard, and put in thorough repair.
300
ANNUAL REPORTS.
The wash house has been enlarged by extending it to the east side of the building, taking in what was formerly used for the storage of prepared wood.
The market wagon stand in the shed has been enclosed by building a partition around the loading platform, thus allowing the market wagon to be loaded at night during the winter months, the heat from the wash house stove protecting the vege- tables from freezing.
A cobblestone gutter has been laid on the west side of the barn and wash house; also a brick gutter has been laid on the east side, which will provide proper drainage for the surface water.
A private bath room, with all modern fixtures, has been pro- vided for the Warden's family by the Commissioner of Buildings, which fills a long-felt want.
Recommendations.
We would again recommend, as in our report for 1901, that an addition for men be built as soon as possible, the dormitory being overcrowded, and there being at present no proper place to care for the male sick, or sleeping accommodations for the hired men.
That the barn and outbuildings be painted, as they remain practically in the same condition as when purchased by the city in 1899.
That a fence be built from Alewife brook, along the line of the boulevard and North street, to Broadway, and from the bridge on Broadway to the rear of the City Home building, as a considerable amount of produce is stolen each year, the farm on three sides being unprotected, and open to trespassers during the night.
Products of Farm.
The following is the amount of produce raised on the farm during the past year, but which does not include the vegetables required for use in the Home :-
54,000 roots celery ; 26,555 cucumbers ; 9,228 heads lettuce ; 10,418 bunches of beets; 9,015 bunches of radishes; 5,252 bunches of carrots; 1,508 crook-neck squash; 166} dozen en- dive; 270 heads of cabbage; 22 bushels of beets; 42 bushels of carrots ; 226 bushels of spinach; 263 bushels of dandelions; 222 bushels of tomatoes; 39 bushels of peas; 42 bushels of beet greens; 10 bushels of turnips; 100 bushels of potatoes; 117 bushels of string beans; 133 bushels of onions; 52 bushels of peppers.
301
SUPPORT OF POOR DEPARTMENT.
TABLE NO. 1. Permanent Repairs and Fixtures (City Home).
Repairs on piggery and wash house
Electric lighting and fence
Laying drain tile
$1,558 40
Hot bed fence and celery pit boards
101 06
100 hot bed shutters
95 00
100 hot bed sash
110 00
Pole and wheels for market wagon
43 00
Safe
35 00
New harness
24 00
Outside storm windows
20 00
House furnishings
19 65
Filling cellar and grading lawns
271 55
$2,227 66
Living expenses
5,168 98
Total expenditures
$7,396 64
TABLE NO. 2. Reimbursements (City Home).
Commonwealth of Massachusetts (board)
$10 86
Board of sundry persons, etc.
115 14
Produce, etc.
2,419 49
Wood (for poor families)
258 49
Money not called for
4 83
$2,808 81
TABLE NO. 3.
Number weeks' board
932
Number males admitted during 1902
9
Number females admitted during 1902
.
6
Number males discharged during 1902 .
11
Number females discharged during 1902
5
Number males supported during 1902
25
Number females supported during 1902
13
Number died during 1902
1
Number inmates in Home January 1, 1903
20
TABLE NO. 4. Expenditures (City Home).
For living expenses :-
Groceries and provisions
$1,384 19
Salaries and wages
2,081 61
Dry goods and clothing
128 13
Boots and shoes
41 85
Medicine
51 65
Shoeing horses
37 76
Hay and grain
703 50
Telephone
44 10
Amount carried forward
$4,472 79
302
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Amount brought forward
$4,472 79
Seeds and fertilizers
135 20
Swill
94 11
13 cords wood
85 20
Ice
16 20
Cash paid by Warden for railroad fares
37 09
Sundries
328 39
$5,168 98
Credits :-
Commonwealth of Massachusetts (board)
$10 86
Board for sundry persons
115 14
Produce and pork sold
2,419 49
Wood (for poor families)
258 49
Money not called for
4 83
2,808 81
Net living expenses
$2,360 17
The following produce remained on hand January 1, 1903: 28,000 roots of celery; 5 bushels of onions.
TABLE NO. 5. Property at the Somerville City Home January 1, 1903.
Land
$31,700 00
Buildings
7,900 00
Furnishings, stock, tools, provisions, etc.
6,796 65
TABLE NO. 6. Recapitulation (City Home).
Appropriation
$4,400 00
Reimbursements
.
2,808 81
Total receipts
7,208 81
Total expenditures
7,396 64
Account overdrawn
187 83
Net expenditures
4,587 83
This report, with tables, is respectfully submitted.
E. B. WEST,
Overseers
A. W. EDMANDS,
of the
H. E. MERRILL, 1 Poor
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REPORT OF THE CITY PHYSICIAN.
OFFICE OF CITY PHYSICIAN, January 1, 1903.
To His Honor, the Mayor, and the Board of Aldermen :--
Gentlemen,-The following is a summary of the work I have performed during the year ending December 31, 1902 :-
Fifteen hundred thirty-nine visits have been made. Six
hundred ninety-seven persons were treated at my office. Three hundred thirty-five were vaccinated. Twenty-seven women were attended in childbirth. Seventy-two persons have had teeth ex- tracted. Twenty-seven men were examined for the police force, and nine for permanent men in the fire department.
The year just closed will long be remembered on account of the epidemic of smallpox which has prevailed extensively, not only in Massachusetts, but throughout the country. Dr. Leonard H. Pote, whom I appointed as an assistant December 4, 1901, to attend the smallpox cases, resigned January 27, and Dr. J. H. Dennen was appointed to do the work. It gives me much pleasure to state that Dr. Dennen has been faithful and conscientious in the performance of his duties. The earnest ex- pressions of praise for him that came from the lips of the un- fortunates who were under his care is sufficient testimony to the good service he has done.
Seventy cases have been cared for during the year at our smallpox hospital, and one (a child three years of age) was treated at her home. Of the seventy-one cases, sixty-two were taken with the disease in Somerville. Of the others, two were from Medford, two from Cliftondale, and five from Arlington. These persons were either never vaccinated, or vaccinated many years ago,-not a case that had been successfully vaccinated within ten years. As I stated in my report of last year, no fact is better established than that a recent (within ten years) success- ful vaccination is a perfect protection from smallpox. We have had but one case during this winter.
I renew my recommendation of last year that apparatus for testing the strength of applicants for the police and fire depart- ments be furnished.
Respectfully submitted,
ALVAH B. DEARBORN, City Physician.
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER.
OFFICE OF THE CITY ENGINEER, CITY HALL, SOMERVILLE, January 26, 1903. > To His Honor, the Mayor, and the Board of Aldermen :-
Gentlemen,-In accordance with the provisions of the city charter, the following report of the work done and expense in- curred for the year ending December 31, 1902, by the depart- ments under my charge and supervision, including Engineering, Sewers, Public Grounds, and other public works, is herewith pre- sented.
ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT.
Statement of Expenses, 1902.
Salary City Engineer (including mainte-
nance of team)
$2,800 00
Salaries of assistants
9,022 06
Stakes, tools, and general supplies (outside work) .
76 93
Draughting materials and office supplies (inside work)
96 15
92 48
Stone bounds for defining street lines Car fares
229 07
Telephone and incidentals
97 24
Total expenditure in the department Appropriation
$11,900 00
Credit by amount received for making ac- ceptance plans
119 00
Credit by amount received for inspection services, Sewers and Park construc- tion work
430 00
$12,449 00
Balance unexpended
$35 07
Classification of Expenditures, Assistants' Salaries.
Sewers-comprising surveys, estimates, pro- files, lines, grades, titles, plans, assess- ments, and all engineering work re- lating to sewers $2,979 73
Highways-comprising plans, estimates, titles, profiles, lines and grades, and all other engineering relating to the de- partment 928 50
Amount carried forward
$3,908 23
$12,413 93
305
CITY ENGINEER.
Amount brought forward
$3,908 23
Sidewalks - comprising profiles, lines,
grades, measurements, titles, costs, and assessments 1,070 49 · Bridges and Subways-comprising surveys, plans, and estimates 79 49
Water Works-comprising lines, grades, lo- cations of mains, gates, hydrants and services, and other matters relating to water department 263 17
Public Grounds-comprising surveys, plans, estimates, profiles and grades, includ- ing laying out of parks and grounds . 214 17 Public Buildings-comprising surveys, esti- mates, lines, grades, and other work relating to construction 60 02
Street Numbering-comprising locations of buildings, plans, and affixing street numbers on houses 362 31
Street Lines and Grades-comprising estab- lishing of lines, grades, and miscella- neous data given parties for building and grading
215 24
Middlesex Registry-comprising copying of plans and abstracts from deeds filed, and examination of titles 145 56
City Survey-comprising lines, angles, and measurements, calculations of trav- erses, and locations of division lines and buildings 636 89
Prospect Hill Park-comprising surveys, calculations, taking of land plans, construction plans, profiles, deeds, and general engineering work in lay- ing out and constructing 697 86 .
Railway, Telephone, Electric Light and Gas Light Companies-comprising grades, plans, profiles, and office notes, loca- tions of poles and conduits .
44 23
Stone Bounds-locating and setting 140 61
Office Work-comprising records of all lo- cations, indexing, typewriting, calcu- lations, and general draughting 707 59
Miscellaneous Work-comprising prelimi- nary surveys, designs, sketches, etc., relating to various schemes for differ- ent committees 145 62
Vacations and Sickness
330 58
Total
$9,022 06
Office Records and Value of Instruments.
Number of survey note books, sewer permit books, and deed books 237 · · Number of plans, including sewers, high- ways, parks, house lots, etc. 6,000
Value of field instruments, tools, and office instruments 1 $1,400 00
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
General Work. The number of assistants employed during the year has varied according to the amount of work, the regular department force being ten and the maximum number employed eighteen.
The office work has been continued on the same general sys- tem as in past years, all note books and records of sewers, drains, highway work, water works, etc., have been indexed, all plans of estates in Somerville filed at the Registry of, Deeds, East Cam- bridge, have been copied and indexed and all new plans of work made in the office.
Titles have been examined and abstracts from deeds made at the East Cambridge Registry for the purpose of assessing better- ments on the property owners of estates assessable for the con- struction of new highways, sidewalks, and sewers, and amounts computed and schedules made out for the same.
A number of street names have been changed and new street numbering plans have been made, old plans revised, houses plotted and numbers affixed to buildings throughout the entire city. There are many streets, avenues, courts and places in the city of the same or very similar name, which should be changed to prevent the confusion and inconvenience now existing.
During the year the department has made plans and estab- lished grades for the acceptance, under the betterment act, of twenty-four new public streets, a total length of 2.65 miles ; all of these plans have been copied and filed at the Middlesex Registry as required by law. A portion of these streets have been graded and macadamized and assessments levied.
A plan has been made showing a passageway, and land taken for the same, extending from the Cummings' school lot, on School street, through to Prescott street, about on the extension of Berkeley street ; this passageway is for the use of foot passen- gers only.
A number of plans have been made at the request of the City Solicitor for use in different accident cases and hearings where the city's interests were involved.
Surveys and plans have been made for acquiring land for schoolhouse purposes, and lines and grades given for construc- tion work on new buildings.
A large amount of engineering services has been required in making plans and profiles and laying out and constructing the new park on Prospect Hill.
Lines and grades have been given for setting 35,102 linear feet (6.65 miles) of new edgestone and the resetting of 11,700 feet (2.22 miles) of old edgestone, and measurements taken for com- puting assessments.
Six thousand four hundred and fifty-eight square yards of new brick sidewalks and eighty square yards of granolithic walk have been laid (about 1.77 miles in length) and 8,610 square yards of old brick sidewalks relaid.
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CITY ENGINEER.
The average cost for the year of setting edgestone has been seventy-nine cents per linear foot and brick walks eighty-eight cents per square yard.
Lines and grades have been given, measurements taken and computations made for the laying out and constructing of new streets, the reconstructing and repairing of old streets.
Lines and grades have been given the Water Department when requested.
Sixteen thousand one hundred and fifty feet of new mains with hydrants and gates have been located ; 190 water services lo- cated and sketches made showing the buildings, services, gates, etc., for the water office.
A number of stone bounds have been set in concrete at street intersections and angles, for permanently defining street lines, and there are about one hundred more of these bounds that should be set in various parts of the city.
The Cambridge and Charlestown gas, electric light and street railway companies have filed plans showing locations in the city's streets of mains and tracks laid and poles erected, as required by the city ordinances.
The Boston Elevated Street Railway has petitioned the city for a double track location in Mystic and Middlesex avenues, ex- tending from the Boston city line to the Medford city line at Mystic River. The laying of these tracks will necessitate the filling to grade, macadamizing and constructing of these avenues to their full width, sixty-six and sixty feet, respectively.
Bridges, Subways, and Grade Crossings. The old bridge over the Boston and Maine railroad at Sycamore street has been removed, new granite abutments constructed and a modern iron bridge built, giving the city a forty-foot street (including side- walks) over the railroad. Owing to the delay in obtaining the iron work on this bridge the construction of the bridge over the railroad at School street was postponed, but this will be built the coming year, the railroad company bearing the total expense of constructing these bridges.
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