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On Books and Cataloguing.
The President, Messrs. Barber, Buffum, Bryant and Barnard.
On Buildings and Property. The President and the Vice-President.
Secretary of the Board. GEORGE H. EVANS.
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PUBLIC LIBRARY.
ORGANIZATION OF LIBRARY AND STAFF PERSONNEL.
.
December 31, 1921.
GEORGE HILL EVANS, Librarian. NELLIE M. WHIPPLE, Assistant Librarian. VIVIAN J. MORSE, Executive Assistant.
CENTRAL LIBRARY AND LIBRARIAN'S OFFICE. Highland Avenue and Walnut Street.
GRADED SERVICE. Department Heads and Special Positions.
CORA B. EAMES, Reference Librarian and Second Assistant. Chief Cataloguer.
CLARA S. HAWES, Temporary Cataloguer.
EDNA C. WOODRURY, High School Librarian.
GLADYS B. HASTINGS, Children's Librarian.
MARY .S. WOODMAN, Reviewer and Classifier.
MYRTLE NICHOLSON, Supervisor of Periodicals and Binding.
Librarian of Graded and Junior High Schools.
Senior Assistants.
Desk Chief
Assistant Cataloguer LUCY W. HARRIS, Graded and Junior High Schools. ORPHA B. MATHESON, Circulation Department. KATHERINE I. EATON, Circulation Department.
Junior Assistants.
ELEANOR A. RANDALL, Children's Room. ELEANOR M. DEAN, Circulation Department. MARION J. MESERVE, Circulation Department.
UNGRADED SERVICE.
BERNICE L. WATT, Catalogue Department. RUTH HAYES, Catalogue Department. LILLIAN M. GOULD, Circulation Department.
Attendants on Part Time.
ARTHUR HAYES WILMOT W. JONES
RALPH H. HATFIELD MYRTLE I. MINZNER
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ANNUAL REPORTS. 4
WEST SOMERVILLE BRANCH. Established 1909. 40 College Avenue.
GRADED SERVICE. ESTHER M. MAYHEW, Branch Librarian. MABEL E. BUNKER, 1st Assistant.
Senior Assistants. RUTH L. SWETT, Children's Librarian. EDNA L. HARTWELL, Circulation Department.
Junior Assistant. MURIEL STOWELL, Circulation Department.
UNGRADED SERVICE. Page
Attendants on Part Time.
NATALIE C. HAILWOOD MARSTON C. SARGENT
RICHARD J. WALSH GRACE FIGVED
EAST SOMERVILLE BRANCH. Established 1912. Broadway and Illinois Avenue.
GRADED SERVICE. DOROTHY B. SPEAR, Acting Branch Librarian.
Senior Assistants. DOROTHY S. BAMFORD, 1st Assistant. DOROTHY H. TERRY, Children's Librarian.
Junior Assistant.
Circulation Department.
UNGRADED SERVICE. Attendants on Part Time.
GERTRUDE L. MOGLINCHY AUDRY S. MERROW ALICE WILLIAMS
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PUBLIC LIBRARY.
UNION SQUARE BRANCH. Established 1912. Washington Street and Bonner Avenue.
GRADED SERVICE. ALICE G. WORTHEN, Branch Librarian.
Senior Assistants. MARGUERITE C. KELLY, 1st Assistant. Children's Librarian
Junior Assistant. Circulation Department.
UNGRADED SERVICE. Attendants on Part Time.
GASPERO ALBANO DOROTHY JONES ELSIE L. KNOX
LEOLA STROUT FANNIE SPIVACK HELEN G. POTTER
MEMBERS OF THE TRAINING CLASS.
ELEANOR A. ATHERTON MILDRED A. BOWLEY IRMA TRAPHAGEN
LULU DAVIS
ALICE W. HAMILTON
NOTE: For changes in staff personnel during the year see Librarian's Report.
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
Report of the Trustees.
To the Honorable, the Mayor, and the Board of Aldermen of the City of Somerville :
Gentlemen : The forty-ninth annual report of the trustees of the public library is herewith respectfully submitted ; being the report of the librarian and tables of statistics of operation.
Very respectfully, The Board of Trustees, by THOMAS M. DURELL, President.
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PUBLIC LIBRARY.
REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN.
Gentlemen of the Board of Trustees :
The forty-ninth annual report of the Somerville Public Library, for the year 1921, is herewith submitted.
The home circulation of books during the year was 482,- 048. The circulation varies from year to year around the half million mark. This impressive figure represents the travel of books to and from the homes of Somerville. To this must be added the use of books within the four library buildings. This normal and legitimate wear and tear of daily use results in an average annual decrease of 6,230 volumes. It is striking evidence of the place of the library in the life of the community.
It is obvious that if the library is to be maintained even at its present size and usefulness, and progressive deteriora- tion is to be avoided, the supply of new books must at least equal the annual decrease. The number that we were able to add in 1921, 3,912, falls far short of the requirement. While books have been increasing in price our appropriation has been decreasing in amount, our library decreasing in size, and in resources to meet the demands that are made upon it. At the prevailing average cost of books a total appropriation of not less than $9,843, distributed between our four buildings, will be required to replace the annual shrinkage. To maintain the library at a given level, however, is but a mediocre standard. To retrieve our position as a growing institution is the great problem that confronts us.
We are glad to make especial mention of two beneficent gifts of books. The Union Square Branch has received from Mr. John E. Locatelli 120 books of standard literature in the Italian language. These were selected by an Italian scholar and were imported by Mr. Locatelli. Mr. Alexander Garbati has presented to the same branch a twenty-volume set of the novels of Sir Walter Scott, also in Italian. These books will be greatly appreciated by the many people of Italian birth and extraction who use this branch. To the generous donors the library extends its sincere thanks.
Through the efforts of Miss Worthen, Branch Librarian at Union Square, a community Christmas tree was provided for the children whose recorded attendance during the year at this Branch was over 90,000. On Saturday afternoon before Christmas some nine hundred were entertained with music and story telling, and were treated to gifts of candy, pop-corn,
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and cookies. Mayor-elect Webster was present and spoke briefly to the children. To the numerous friends who con- tributed money and services to make a happy day the library expresses its deep appreciation.
Attention is called to the exceptional opportunity to utilize the upper floor of the Union Square building, now un- occupied, for immigrants' citizenship clubs. This type of work has been carried on with great success by the libraries of other Cities. A moderate expenditure would put the rooms into condi- tion for use, and the salary of an additional person for super- vision would be a trifling consideration in comparison with the value of such work to our city.
The East Branch also had a decorated Christmas tree and gave candy to children who came to the library on Saturday. The East staff has raised enough money during the year by the sale of candy to buy two chairs for its hitherto unfurnished staff room.
In June the American Library Association held its annual convention at Swampscott during the week of the twentieth. About two thousand delegates from all parts of the United States and Canada attended. Our library was prominently represented upon the various committees of arrangements, and every member of our staff was given an opportunity to be present at some session which dealt with an aspect of library work in which the individual was interested.
From our school room deposits we report a home circula- tion of 54,756. This result is the most economical in cost of any department of the library. The public school is the only agency by which contact with the whole, or approximately the whole, juvenile population can be secured. It may be well to call attention to the purposes of this work. They are five: to introduce books into homes not otherwise reached; to teach pupils how to use books as tools ; to plant the seeds of a taste for the best in literature; to reveal the permanent availability of the public library in after years as a work-shop, a continua- tion school, and a source for the material of culture; to supple- ment the educational work of the schools by supplying collat- eral material for both pupil and teacher.
The executive direction of this department is properly in the hands of an educated and trained assistant. The nature of the work, both in the selection of books and in its applica- tions, calls for a specialized knowledge of the large and rapidly growing field of children's literature. The librarian is con- vinced that efficiency will be promoted by combining this work with that of the Children's Department. It is therefore rec- ommended that the work with the graded and Junior High.
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schools be merged with the Children's Department, and that the Children's Librarian at Central be made Supervisor of Chil- dren's work, and vested with general supervision for the entire library system.
Special deposits of books have been placed in the follow- ing centers : Home for the Aged, Girls Continuation School, Park Avenue Methodist Sunday school, St. Joseph's Catholic Association, St. Clement's School, St. Anne's School, and the Somerville playgrounds.
The Reference Department has answered 66,000 questions for people who have brought or telephoned their inquiries to the library.
A considerable part of the special collections of local history, and Americana, have been re-catalogued and made more readily accessible for use.
There have been many changes in the personnel of the staff during the year 1921. Anna L. Stone has retired after a continuous service of thirty-four years. Edith B. Hayes has gone to another library as Assistant Librarian. She had been a member of our Staff for twenty-two years. Other resignations from the graded service are those of Edythe L. Miller, High School Librarian; Nina L. Winn, in charge of graded and Junior High School work; Mrs. Edna C. Perrine, for a few months Chief Cataloguer; H. Luthera Fisher; First Assistant at East; Olive W. Gleason, Children's Librarian at East; and Mildred J. Hess, Junior Assistant. From the ungraded service, Mary Stack, Mae L. Gormley, and Jessie E. Bennett.
We regret to record the death, while still in our service of Ruth A. McDuffee, Children's Librarian at Union.
The following appointments have been made: Edna C. Woodbury, High School Librarian; Mrs. Edna C. Perrine, Chief Cataloguer; Clara S. Hawes, Cataloguer; Dorothy H. Terry, Children's Librarian at East; Dorothy S. Bamford, Katherine I. Eaton, Lucy W. Harris, and Orpha B. Matheson, Senior Assistants ; Mildred J. Hess, Marion J. Meserve, Eleanor A. Randall, Eleanor M. Dean, and Muriel Stowell, Junior Assistants. In the ungraded service, Mary Stack, Ruth Hayes, and Lillian Gould.
Certain promotions and changes in positions deserve mention. Cora B. Eames, Reference Librarian, has been for- mally recognized as Second Assistant, and next in authority and responsibility in the library system to the Assistant Libra- rian. Dorothy B. Spear has been promoted to Branch Libra- rian at East. Dorothy S. Bamford has been promoted to First Assistant at East, and Myrtle Nicholson to the position of Supervisor of Periodicals and Binding.
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
During the month of March two students from the New York State Library School, and one from Simmons College- were allowed to volunteer their services for practice work at the Central Library.
The Training Class which completed its six months course in April brought to our ranks five recruits, of whom. four remain. The present class began its work on the first. Monday of October, with a membership of six. Two were college graduates, two had a part college course, and the other two had not less than a complete High School course,. our minimum educational requirement. Four of the six are either residents of Somerville, or graduates of Jackson College. No non-resident was accepted until it was found that the class quota would not otherwise be filled.
The usual statistical tables herewith appended are sub- mitted as a part of this report.
Respectfully submitted,
GEORGE H. EVANS, Librarian ..
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The Public Library of the City of Somerville APPENDIX A. Statistics of Use and Growth. Circulation.
Central
West
East 46,075
Union 38,208
Schools 5,204 54,756
Total 305,066 176,982
Total circulation (A. L. A. rules) .
.
163,077
115,899
68,020
75,092
59,960
482,048
Accessions.
Central
West
East
Union
Total
Volumes in library, Dec. 31, 1920
89,452
13,385
6,223
6,290
115,350
Volumes added
·
2,139
420
472
881
3,912
Volumes transferred to
47
18
4
216
285
Volumes restored
43
3
0
2
48
Total additions
2,229
441
476
1,099
4,245
Volumes withdrawn
4,413
717
293
582
6,005
Volumes transferred from
236
3
0
46
285
Volumes lost
1,403
35
2
50
1,490
Total reductions
6,052
755
295
678
7,780
Net gain
.
3,823
314
3,535
Volumes in library, Dec. 31, 1921 .
85,629
13,071
6,404
6,711
111,815
Registration.
Central
West
East
Union
Total
Borrowers registered Dec. 31, 1920
6,427
5,486
2,448
2,685
17,046
Expirations in 1921
·
.
·
3,474
3,444
1,543
1,617
10,078
Registrations in 1921
.
.
·
.
.
3,386
2,860
1,366
1,389
9,001
Borrowers registered Dec. 31, 1921
6,339
4,902
2,271
2,457
15,969
Expenditure in Library Department.
Per capita expenditure for library service . ·
$0.478 Expenditure per book lent . $0.094 . .
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·
.
37,312
26,085
21,945
36,884
Volumes circulated, adult
125,765-
89,814
Volumes circulated, juvenile
·
·
.
LIBRARY.
Net loss
.
·
.
.
181
421
PUBLIC
·
.
220
ANNUAL REPORTS.
APPENDIX B.
American Library Association Form for Uniform Statistics.
Annual report for year ended December 31, 1921.
Name of library: The Public Library of the City of Somerville, Mass. City: Somerville State: Massachusetts
Name of Librarian: George Hill Evans.
Date of founding
1872
Population served (latest estimate)
95,000
Assessed valuation of city
. $86,718,289 60
Rate of tax levy for library purposes: $0.621/2 on each $1000 valuation
Terms of use: Free for lending . Free for reference .
·
Total number of agencies 217 .
Consisting of Central Library
Branches 3
High School Department . 1
School Rooms
201
Institutions
5
Playgrounds 7
Number of days open during year (Central Library) 302
Hours open each week for lending (Central Library) 72
House open each week for reading (Central Library)
72
Increase.
Number of volumes at beginning of year .
115,350
3,422
Number of volumes added during year by purchase Number of volumes added during year by gift or ex- change · Number of volumes added during year by binding mate- rial not otherwise counted
138
Number of volumes added during year by lost books re- stored
48
Number of volumes lost or withdrawn during year ·
7,495
Total number at end of year
111,815
Use.
Adult
Juvenile
Total
Number of volumes of fiction lent for home use .
229,886
94,263
324,149
Total number of volumes lent for home use
305,066
176,982
482,048
Number of pictures, photo- graphs and prints lent for home use
1,166
Registration.
Adult
Juvenile
Total
Number of borrowers reg- istered during year
5,420
3,581
9,001
Total number of registered borrowers
9,409
6,560
15,969
·
352
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PUBLIC LIBRARY.
Registration period, years
2
Number of newspapers and periodicals currently received
Titles
225
Copies
494
Number of publications issued during year:
Bulletins
3
Special list
1
Number of staff, library service
39
Number of staff, janitor service
5.
Finance.
Receipts from :
City tax levy:
Library Department .
$40,799 71
Public Buildings Department
13,035 00
Endowment Funds
1,396 41
Fines
1,871 11
Other sources (Dog licenses)
1,939 18
Total
$59,041 41
Payments for:
Library Department:
Books
$6,870 73
Periodicals
1,315 83
Pictures
90 50
Music
41 86
Binding
2,710 58
Salaries, library service
31,096 91
Supplies
776 69
Printing
780 81
Telephone
305 38
· Transportation, postage, express, freight, etc. .
1,128 97
Other maintenance
360 62
Public Buildings Department:
Salaries, janitor service
6,984 57
Heat
2,651 78
Light
2,505 04
Furniture
163 21
Permanent improvements
.
Other maintenance
.
Total maintenance
$58,418 18
Balance from Appropriation, Library Dept.
$1 79
Balance from Endowment Funds
525 74
Balance from Appropriation, Public
Buildings Department
95 70
Grand Total
$59,041 41
·
.
431 11
203 59
.
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
BOARD OF HEALTH
ORGANIZATION - 1921.
ROBERT M. LAVENDER, Chairman WARREN C. BLAIR JOHN E. GILLIS, M. D.
Clerk and Agent to Issue Burial Permits. LAURENCE S. HOWARD.
Assistant Clerk. OLIVE M. STANLEY.
Agent. GEORGE I. CANFIELD.
Medical Inspector and Bacteriologist. FRANK L. MORSE. M. D.
Inspector of Animals and Provisions. CHARLES M. BERRY
Inspector of Milk and Vinegar. HERBERT E. BOWMAN.
Milk Collector. WILLIAM H. WALLIS.
Plumbing Inspector. DUNCAN C. GREENE.
School Nurse. GRACE M. ANDREWS, R. N.
Assistant School Nurse. GLADYS M. GRANT, R. N. from Feb. 3, 1921.
Health Nurses. 1
HELEN B. BERRY, R. N. MARY L. SCOTT, R. N.
Matron at Contagious Hospital. LILLIAN E. GOULD, R. N.
Assistant Matron at Contagious Hospital. GERTRUDE MATHEWS, R. N. from Dec. 7, 1921.
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HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
Office of the Board of Health, City Hall Annex, January 3 1922.
To His Honor, the Mayor, and the Board of Aldermen :-
Gentlemen : :- We respectfully submit the following as the forty-fourth annual report of the Board of Health in which is presented a statement, tabulated and otherwise, of the sani- tary condition of the city and the business of the board for the year ending December 31, 1921 :
Nuisances.
A record of the nusiances abated during the year, in com- pliance with notices issued by the board, or under the board's direction, is presented in the following table :
Complaints referred from 1920 26
Complaints received during 1921 .
583
609
Complaints referred to 1922
21
Nuisances abated in 1921 .
588
Second and third notices sent
38
Received during 1921 .
583
Total notices sent
621
In addition to the above, 333 dead animals have been re- moved from the public streets. Many nuisances have been abated on verbal notice from the agent, without action by the board, of which no record has been made. Each spring the whole city is examined, and cellars, yards and alleyways where rubbish and filth have collected are required to be cleaned. -
Glanders. Not a single case of glanders has been reported in the city during the past year.
Record of Licenses and Permits Issued.
Cows. Six applications were received for permits to keep six cows, all of which were granted.
Goats. Six applications were received for permits to keep nine goats, all of which were granted. The fee is one dollar for each goat.
Hens. One hundred and thirty-two applications for per- mits to keep 2075 hens were received. One hundred and fifteen permits to keep 1794 hens were granted, and seventeen permits were refused.
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
Grease. Thirteen applications were received for permits: for sixteen teams to collect grease, which were granted. The fee is two dollars for each team.
Melting and Rendering. Three parties have been licensed to carry on the business of melting and rendering, for which a fee of one dollar is charged.
Massage and Manicure. Fifteen persons have been licensed to practice massage and manicure. The fee is one dol- lar for each license.
Sale of Alcohol. The statutes provide that no person, firm or corporation other than a registered druggist shall en- gage in the business of manufacturing, buying, selling or deal- ing in methyl alcohol, or wood alcohol, so called or denatured alcohol, or any preparation containing more than three per cent of any of the said alcohols, without being licensed so to do by the board of health.
Under the provisions of this act eight licenses have been issued. The fee is one dollar for each license.
Bottling. Carbonated Beverages. Chapter 303, Acts of 1921 provides that no person shall engage in the manufacture or bottling of carbonated non-alcoholic beverages, soda waters and mineral and spring water without a permit from the board of health. Five such permits were granted, a fee of ten dollars being charged in each case.
Day Nursery. One license was issued to establish and maintain a Day Nursery for which a fee of one dollar was charged.
Stables.
No person has the legal right to erect, occupy or use any building in this city, as a stable, without obtaining a license from the board for such occupancy. Each application is refer- red to the Agent of this board and no license is granted unless all regulations of the board are complied with. The following is a record of applications received and licenses granted :--
Applications pending from 1920
8
Applications received during 1921 .
14
22
Licenses granted . .
13
Licenses refused . ·
2
15
Licenses pending
7
Board of Infants.
Thirteen applications having been made to the State Department of Public Welfare for licenses to care for children in this city were referred to this board under provisions of
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Chapter 119 of the General Laws. Eleven of these applications were approved for the care of twenty-two children and two were returned without the approval of this board.
There were 986 deaths and seventy-eight stillbirths in the city during the year, as specified in the following table, which shows a decrease of deaths over the previous year of 151.
Deaths at Somerville Hospital . 86 Deaths at hospital for contagious diseases and
tuberculosis 27
. Deaths at home for aged poor (Highland Avenue) 45
Deaths at city home .
11 Deaths at other institutions . 36
220
ANNUAL REPORTS. .:
Mortality in Somerville in 1921.
January.
February.
March.
April.
May.
June.
July.
August.
September.
October.
.November.
December.
Total.
I. GENERAL DISEASES.
(A. Epidemic Diseases. )
Cerebro-spinal meningitis.
Diphtheria
5
3
3
5
2
1
·2
2
2
2
27
Measles
1
2
Pertussis
2
2
Scarlet Fever
1
1
2
Typhoid Fever
1
1
(B. Other General Diseases.)
Abscess
Addisons disease
1
1
1
1
1
3
2
1
8
3
1
1
1
2
2
2
1
1
16
Cancer of rectum
2
1
1
2
1
7
1
2
2
1
3
1
2
1
13
Cancer of uterus
2
1
2
1
2
3
1
1
1
14
Cancer other forms
4
2
2
6
3
5
5
6
3
36
Cardio Renal disease
1
1
1
1
4
Diabetes
1
2
3
1
1
2
2
2
2
19
Encephalitis Lethargica
1
1 1
Erysipelas
1
1
2
Hernia
1
1
Hodgkins disease.
2
1
3
1
1
1
1
3
1
1
1
2
10
Pyemia.
1
1
Status Lymphaticus.
1
1
1
1
6
3
8
9
4
8
5
2
2
2
6
55
2
2
1
2
1
1
9
II. DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM.
Apoplexy
9
13
9
6
10
8
13
9
10
5
9
4
105
Encephalitis
1
1
1
3
Epilepsy
Locomtor ataxia .
1
1
Meningitis
1
1
4
Oedema of Brain
1
2
3
2
2
4
Syringomyelia
1
1
2
III. DISEASES OF THE CIRCULA- TORY SYSTEM.
Aneurism of aorta
1
1
2
1
6
Endocarditis
2
4
1
1
1
3
13
Heart disease
9
8
5
6
9
5
1
2
5
9
7
4
70
Myocarditis
4
3
5
4
3
7
1
1
3
4
2
4
44
Pericarditis.
1
1
Regurgitation
1
·2
1
3
2
2
2
13
2
1
1
1 2
Auto infection
Cancer of breast
Cancer of intestines
Cancer of stomach
Goitre
1
La Grippe
Pernicious anæmia
1
1
Septicemia
Trichinosis
Tuberculosis pulmonary
Tuberculosis other forms
Paralysis
Angina pectoris
3
1
1
1
1
1
2
3
1
1
1
227
HEALTH: DEPARTMENT.
Mortality in Somerville in- 1921 .- Concluded.
January.
February.
March.
April.
May. :
June.
July.
August.
September.
October.
November.
December.
Total.
IV. DISEASES OF THE RESPIRA- TORY SYSTEM.
Asthma.
1
1
2
Bronchitis
1
2
4
3
1
1
2
1
15
Pneumonia
11
8
15
10
15
6
4
4
7
4
8
92
1
2
1
2
2
.8
1
1
1
V. DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM.
Acute indigestion
1
Cirrhosis liver
1
1
1
3
Colitis
1
1
1
Diarrhea
2
3
1
2
2
2
2
2
14
Gall stones
2
Gastric Ulcer
1
1
1
3
Gastritis
1
1
1
1
5
Intestinal toxæmia.
1
Intestinal obstruction
4
Interssu- ception
1
2
1
3
1
1
1
1
1
5
1
1
1
1
VI. "DISEASES OF THE GENITO- URINARY SYSTEM.
Cystitis
1
1
2
1
1
Nephritis
6
2
5
3
1
5
1
3
2
3
2
3
36
1
1
Pyonephoses
1
1
Uræmia.
2
1
2
5
:
VII. CHILDBIRTH.
Puerpural Embolism Difficult labor
1
1
1
...
1
VIII. DISEASES OF THE SKIN AND CELLULAR TISSUES.
Gangrene Noma.
1
1
..
2
1
1
IX. MALFORMATION.
5
1
1
1
2
1
Pancreatitis
Peritonitis
Pharyngitis
Tonsilitis
4
Hypertrophied Prostate
Pyelites
1
1
1
" Enteritis
Pulmonary œdema Empyema
228
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Mortality in Somerville in 1921 .- Concluded.
January.
February.
March.
April.
May.
June.
July.
August.
September.
October.
November
December.
Total.
X. EARLY INFANCY.
Atalectasis
1
1
Convulsions
1
...
Forceps delivery
1
1
2
4
Hemorrhagic disease of the new born
2
1
1
4
Icterus Grava
1
Malignant Jaundice
1
1
Malnutrition
2
2
Operative shock
1
1
Patent Foramen Ovale
3
3
Premature birth and congenital debility
8
5
4
3
3
5
7
5
3
6
4
4
57 1
XI. OLD AGE.
Arterio sclerosis
15
8
12
12
11
10
6
8
9
9
10
9
119
Senile dementia
2
1
XII. VIOLENCE.
Heat Prostration.
1
1
Accidental burns from fire
1
1
2
Accidental electrocution
2
Accidental fall
1
1
2
Accidental gas poisoning.
1
Accidental suffocation
1
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
2
1
3
10
Homicide
1
1
Railroad
1
1
2
Run over by team
1
1
2
Struck by automobile.
2
1
4
1
1
1
4
14
Suicide
1
1
1
1
4
Surgical shock
1
1
2
Total
111
87
100
77
96
78
73
65
68
85
71
75
986
.....
.. . .
Spina Befida
1
..
1
1
1
1
Drowning
....
5
Fracture of skull
...
...
Population estimated
95,000 Death rate per thousand. 10.38
2
1
1
...
229
HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
DEATHS BY AGES.
AGES.
Total.
Male.
Female.
Under one
135
88
47
Two to three
7
4
3
Three to five
11
5
6
Five to ten
27
14
13
Ten to fifteen
18
10
8
Fifteen to twenty
27
17
10
Twenty to thirty
53
24
29
Thirty to forty .
45
20
25
Forty to fifty
78
39
39
Fifty to sixty
106
46
60
Sixty to seventy
171
74
97
Seventy to eighty
190
77
113
Eighty to ninety
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