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RECREATION COMMISSION
momentum already acquired through the efficiency of the or- ganization and the service hitherto; (3) the high degree of ap- preciation and understanding accorded by the public in the face of trying difficulties that beset the leadership corps; (4) the very considerable advantages afforded through the cooperation of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, under which several projects in community recreation have been provided through this Commission and supervised by its agents.
The Director of Recreation has faced extreme difficulties during the year which have been met successfully only through great personal sacrifice on his own part; and the same is true to a proportionate degree of nearly forty part-time or season- al Recreation leaders, and especially true of the two year-round Recreation leaders, Messrs. Charles C. Kelley and John H. McCarthy. The Commission judges that this public acknowledg- ment and recognition of such sacrifice and service ought not properly to be omitted.
In the judgment of the Commission, a decided loss to the service given through this Commission has been experienced through discontinuance of the membership of George H. Evans on this Commission. Mr. Evans had served as Chairman for several years, and as a member for ten years. His sound judg- ment, devoted service, cordial cooperation and wise counsel have been, during all this time, important factors in the ser- vice.
The Recreation Commission takes this occasion to acknowl- edge gratefully the courteous cooperation of His Honor, the Mayor, the Commissioner of Public Buildings, the City En- gineer, the City Clerk, the Commissioner of Streets, the Super- intendent of Schools, and the various agents of other depart- ments whose cooperation is frequently experienced in the con- duct of the service under this Commission. In the case of the Public Buildings Department, the Commission is fully appre- ciative of the difficulties under which cooperation have been rendered, and recognizes that although ordinary services to the Commission's work, traditionally rendered through the Public Buildings Department, have been withheld during 1934,, this loss results from conditions not controllable by the Public Buildings Commissioner.
The Commission respectfully submits to your honorable body its own deliberate judgment that a great loss to the wel- fare of this community and its citizens is involved in the pres
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ANNUAL REPORTS
ent tendency or policy of reducing the Recreation service by the withholding of finances-as this tendency has been shown by the reduction of the annual appropriation to this Commis- sion during the past three years. From 1931 to 1934, the re- duction has been approximately seventy per cent. In other communities, on the average, the tendency and policy have been in the contrary direction.
Respectfully yours,
MARY M. McGANN, Chairman.
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CITY ENGINEER
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER
OFFICE OF THE CITY ENGINEER,
CITY HALL, SOMERVILLE, JANUARY, 1935.
To His Honor, the Mayor, and the Board of Aldermen :
Gentlemen :- The undersigned presents herewith the 62nd annual report, for the year ending December 31, 1934, of the Engineering Department, including sewer, park and play- ground divisions.
ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
In previous reports the general work, charter require- ments and city ordinances relating to the duties of the City Engineer have been fully described. City Engineer is also Superintendent of Sewers and Superintendent of Parks and Playgrounds.
GENERAL FINANCIAL STATEMENT
Transfers
Divisions
Appropriations $17,434.23
& Credits Expenditures
City Engineer
Sewers Maintenance
24,246.28
$17,431.94 24,239.77 100.15
Balances $2.29 6.51
Sewers Construction
670.87
Parks Maintenance ..
13,200.00
13,199.71
570.72 .29
Playgrounds Mainten- ance
17,800.80
..
17,796.72
4.08
John M. Woods Play- ground
4.14
..
..
4.14
Playground Foss Park
254.56
..
254.56
Improvement Walter Ernest Shaw Play- ground
110.93
............
...........
110.93
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ANNUAL REPORTS
Playground Improve-
ment and Exten-
sion
132.99
132.99
P.W.A. Sewer Account 34,000.00
1,318.25
32,681.75
Glen St. Playground Account 300.00
300.00
Sewers and Storm Drains,-comprising surveys, estimates, profiles, lines, grades, titles, plans, assessments, all engineering work relating to same and supervision .... Highways,-comprising plans, estimates, titles, profiles, lines and grades, inspection of paving and all other engineering work relating to the department
$3,330.44
Sidewalks,-comprising profiles, lines, grades, measure- ments, inspection, titles, costs and assessments Water Works,-comprising giving lines and grades and other matters relating to the department
17.71
Parks and Playgrounds, - comprising surveys, plans, es- timates, profiles, and grades, including laying out of parks, playgrounds, boulevard and supervision
1,078.42
Public Buildings,-comprising surveys, estimates, lines and grades, and other work relating to construction and laying out of grounds of public buildings
237.50
Street Lines and Grades,-comprising establishment of lines, grades and miscellaneous data given parties for building and grading 97.43
Office Work,-comprising record of all locations, indexing, typewriting, bookkeeping, calulations, reports and gen- eral drafting
1,549.21
Miscellaneous Work,-comprising designs, sketches, etc., relating to various schemes for committees, etc.
Holidays, Vacations and Sickness 886.74
E. R. A. (Emergency Relief Administration),-comprising making of plans, estimates and all engineering work relating to same, and supervision
255.14
Civil Works Program,-comprising making of plans, es- timates, and all engineering relating to same, and supervision 1,831.00
Engineering,-General Departmental expenses (all divi- sions) comprising City Engineer's salary, automobile maintenance, telephone, car fares and supplies 5,478.42
Total $17,431.94
The total cost of maintaining the Engineer's Division since it was established, 1872-1934, both years inclusive, has amount- ed to $651,214.72.
Five assistants have been employed the greater part of the year on engineering work.
2,594.02
75.91
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CITY ENGINEER
There are plans for acceptance of fifteen streets on file in this office, that for various reasons have not been made public ways.
A set of block plans are now completed covering the entire city area, from accurate surveys made during the past forty- two years, and carefully compared section by section with deed dimensions and areas recorded in the assessors' department, in this manner the correct areas of land have been determined. This set of plans show the area and dimensions of each lot. (Details, etc. in report of Assessor.)
LENGTH OF STREETS
Miles
*Public
90.524
Private
10.107
100.631
* Includes 1.406 Miles City Boulevard and Park Roadways 2.331 Miles Metropolitan District Boulevard
0.98 Mile State Highway
(A revision of length of public and private streets showing that, ow- ing to abandoned and duplicated streets and streets incorporated into the Northern Artery, the total length has decreased.)
A table of former names of certain streets was printed in the 1910 report, also a table of public squares.
LENGTH OF PUBLIC STREETS IN EACH WARD
Miles
Ward one
13.922
Ward two
14.671
Ward three
10.321
Ward four
14.737
Ward five
11.799
Ward six
11.591
Ward seven
13.213
Total length of public streets in the city .... 90.254
There are at the present time 665 street boundaries con- sisting of stone bounds and brass rods set in cement for defin- ing street lines, and the number should be increased each year ; definite boundaries do much to simplify surveying and are con- venient to use for bench marks. Previous reports give locations of existing bounds.
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ANNUAL REPORTS
STREETS RESURFACED WITH PERMANENT PAVEMENT
Square Yards
Length Feet
Central Street-Summer Street to Broadway (Sheet asphalt on new concrete base) .... Powder Hourse Boulevard-Leonard Street to near Curtis Street
10,925
3,541
7,581
1,587
Total
18,406
5,128
(.971 miles)
The total length of permanent paved streets in the city amounts to 25.00 miles.
Permanent street pavement should be extended as rapidly as possible, using a base of cement concrete and some kind of high type wearing surface.
STREETS RESURFACED BY THE C. W. A. AND E. R. A.
Street
From
To
Type
Width of Roadway
Length in Feet
Knapp
Granite St.
School St.
.Asphaltic penetration
26.7
379
Pearson Ave.
Morrison Ave.
Kidder Ave.
Sheet asphalt
30.0
660
Prichard Ave.
Morrison Ave.
Kidder Ave.
Sheet asphalt
26.7
631
Temple
Broadway
......
.... Mystic Ave. . Warrenite
44.0
1,628
Total
3.298 (0.625 mile)
CITY ENGINEER
373
374
ANNUAL REPORTS
TABLE OF STREET CONSTRUCTION
** Streets paved with granite blocks Streets paved with vitrified brick
218,759 1,648
0.288
Streets constructed with concrete base and asphaltic mixed top
247,689
10.837
¿Streets constructed with concrete base and bituminous penetrated top
19,245
1.570
#Streets constructed with broken stone base and asphaltic mixed top
57,834
3.757
°Streets constructed with broken stone base and bituminous penetrated top
49.566
Streets constructed of water bound ma-
cadam
15.281
Streets graveled or unimproved
10.049
Total
100.361
* Also 27.92 miles (single track) electric railway paved with granite, as- phalt, Bithulithic, etc.
** Includes 6.149 sq. yds. (0.438 miles cement concrete roadway Middlesex Avenue.
#Includes 0.98 mile of state highway.
"Includes 1.406 miles of city boulevard and park roadways and 2.331 miles of state boulevard (Metropolitan District Commission, Park Division.)
In all places the old brick sidewalks should be replaced with granolithic as soon as finances permit.
MILES OF EDGESTONE, GRANOLITHIC, GRAVEL AND BRICK SIDEWALKS IN EACH WARD
Edgestone
Sidewalk Gravel
Sidewalk Brick
Sidewalk Granolihtic
Ward one
20.936
2.684
11.724
6.059
Ward two
17.946
5.378
6.272
5.028
Ward three
14.619
0.504
11.425
2.472
Ward four
20.454
0.230
9.126
5.885
Ward five
23.309
3.106
11.049
7.454
Ward six
25.873
3.319
10.182
12.544
Ward seven
38.807
1.514
7.979
26.857
161.944
16.735
67.757
66.299
(Details, etc., streets and sidewalks in report of Street Commissioner.)
UNDERGROUND CONDUITS (Public Service Corporations)
Miles laid in City Streets
Boston Elevated Railway Co.
5.55
Edison Electric Illuminating Co.
20.44
New England Tel & Tel. Co.
19.59
Cambridge Gas Light Co.
67.56
Boston Consolidated Gas Co. (formerly Charles- town Gas Co.
32.27
Somerville Department of Electric Lines and Lights, Police and Fire Alarm (wires are in corporation conduits )
Total
145.41
9.013
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CITY ENGINEER
All locations for sub-surface construction are assigned by this department.
Lines and grades have been given for laying new city water mains and measurements taken of same. Length of new mains, etc., in the report of Water Commissioner.
All plans of estates in Somerville recorded at the Registry of Deeds, East Cambridge, including land court plans, have been copied, also titles examined, abstracts from deeds made for the purpose of assessments, and the proportional part of the cost of new work computed, and schedules of assessments made out showing the property owners.
Total number of plans on file in this office approximately ten thousand.
For the immediate improvement of conditions in this city the highway bridges and approaches over the steam railroads should be rebuilt the full width of the street at Broadway, (North Somerville) Prospect Street and Washington Street, near Union Square; and Northern Artery over the Fitchburg Railroad and the dangerous railroad grade crossing at Park Street should be abolished, as decreed by the courts a number of years ago.
A compiled table of areas showing a sub-division of city's acreage was published in the 1925 report.
I respectfully refer to some of the more important recom- mendations and suggestions made in reports of the City En- gineer for a number of years past, which are for the improve- ment of conditions in this city.
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ANNUAL REPORTS
SEWER DIVISION
The designing and construction of sewers, storm drains, catch basins, house drains, etc., maintenance of the drainage system and other items in this division are under the direction and control of the City Engineer.
CONSTRUCTION ACCOUNT
1934
Credit
Balance unexpended (1933)
$670.87
Materials on hand Dec. 31, 1933 372.30
Total
$1,043.17
Statement of Expenditures
Constructing Catch Basins, etc.
130.40
Materials on hand Doc. 31, 1934 342.05
472.45
UNEXPENDED BALANCE DEC. 31, 1934 .... $570.72
P. W. A. SEWER ACCOUNT
1934
Appropriation 1934
$34,000.00
DOCKET 7630A (Sewers and storm drain in Garfield Ave., Willow & Kidder Aves. and Perry St. (Unfinished) $886.23
DOCKET 7630B (Wheatland St. sewer be- tween Mystic Ave. and Broadway) (Un- finished ) 432.02
Total 1,318.25
UNEXPENDED BALANCE DEC. 31, 1934. $32,681.75
TABULAR STATEMENT OF SEWERS AND STORM UNDER THE SUPERVISION O
-LOCATION
Street
From
To
Mater Excav:
Dover Street
.Elm Street
Southerly
San
Granite Street
Somerville Avenue
Osgood Street
Sand & I
ge
0
9'-3"
8'
197.47
...
...
đ
1
7'-0"
....
...
12" 5 681.40
Merriam Street
.Somerville Avenue
Northerly
San.
ge
0
8'-6"
8'
154.00
......
..........
d
1
7'-0"
....
12"
257.83
School Street
.Somerville Avenue
Knapp Street
San
Sydney Street
Taylor Street
.. near Temple Street
Clay
1
6'-6"
....
.....
12"
388.50
Temple Street
Mystic Avenue
.near Sydney Street
Clay
998.81=Length of Sewers Adde 2,769.05=Length of Storm Drain. 3,767.86=0.7136 Mile, Total Cons
Total Length of Public Sewers in the city January 1, 1935 Total Length of Private Sewers in the city January 1, 193 Total Length of Sewers in the city January 1, 1935 Total Length of Storm Drains in the city January 1, 1935 Total Length of City Drainage System January 1, 1935
Total Length of Metropolitan Sewer Mains in the city Jal
A DRAINS BUILT IN 1934 BY E. R. A. LABOR F THE CITY ENGINEER
ITEMS OF CONSTRUCTION
SEWERS
STORM DRAINS
ial ated
Manholes
Average Cut
Size
Length in Ft.
Size
in Ft.
đ
3
9'-0"
....
..
......
24"
388.40
edge
1
10'-0"
8'
445.54
......
Knapp Street
School Street
Westerly
Led
Mansfield Street
Somerville Avenue .Northerly
San
đ
1
8'-0"
....
..........
12"
287.50
Osgood Street
Granite Street
.Fasterly
Leđ
Rossmore Street
.Somerville Avenue
Northerly
San
d
2
10'-0"
201.80
... ...
...
0
6'-0"
....
12"
322.56
Taylor Street
Mystic Avenue
.Sydney Street
Clay
2
9'-6"
....
...
15"
442.86
d to System, 1934 s Added to System, 1934 struction, 1934
=
5
34,896.0'
=
6.6091 Miles
= 563,267.7'
=
106.6795 Miles
= 104,058.2'
= 19.7080 Miles
667.326.0'
=
126.3875 Miles
quary 1, 1935
= 18,148.0'
3.4750 Miles
[ 18"
Length
528,371.7'
100.0704 Miles
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CITY ENGINEER
Total length of city's drainage system 126.3875 Miles
Cost of construction to date (including catch basins) $1,683,578.44
Assessments for Metropolitan sewerage system, 1934 (City's proportional cost) $64,735.55
Total paid Commonwealth of Massachusetts for state sėwer 1892-1934, inclusive $2,760,786.01
Total length of Metropolitan sewerage system mains running through this city 3.475 Miles
17 connections, in Somervile, with Metropolitan sewerage mains. Also 4 connections through Medford and one connection through Cambridge. Locations of City's mains connecting with state sewer in 1912 report, and details of construction in previous reports.
New catch basins constructed in city's highways 1934 31
Total catch basins maintained by city 2,125
Other catch basins-State Highway Metropolitan Park, B. E. Ry., etc. 298
Total catch basins in the city for storm drainage purposes 2,423
Sump manholes on drainage system 139
One sump manhole was rebuilt on Somerville Avenue at the Packing House.
The past year 24 manholes have been built over old exist- ing sewers by E. R. A. labor which are a great benefit in clean- ing and keeping systems clean.
The separate sewerage system should be extended each year to assist in the ultimate separation of sewerage and storm water which the Metropolitan District Commission is striv- ing to accomplish. The growing tendency to occupy all land to its fullest extent with houses, garages, granolithic drives and walks, combined with the paved or bituminous streets which prevail, has reduced the soakage area to the extent that the consequent increased run-off during storms is a heavy tax upon the capacity of the sewers. It is therefore advisable to extend the storm drain system as fast as finances permit, par- ticularly in the North Somerville District into Two Penny Brook, West Somerville District into Tannery Brook, and Win- ter Hill District into Tannery Brook, and Winter Hill Dis- trict into the Mystic River, thus relieving the combined sewer- age system of much surface water. The city's drainage prob- lems will be simplified with every move in this direction. The territory in general west of Cedar Street drains to Alewife Brook through a tributary known as Tannery Brook which has been replaced by pipe and conduits.
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ANNUAL REPORTS
SEWERS MAINTENANCE ACCOUNT
1934 Credit
Appropriation
$22,246.28
Statement of Expenditures
Labor
$20,378.55
Teaming and trucking
1,036.00
Maintenance of trucks
2,016.52
Equipment, supplies and repairing property ....
808.70
Total
24,239.77
BALANCE UNEXPENDED
$6.51
A permanent force of men, varying in number from twelve to fifteen, and city trucks and hired teams, are kept contin- ually at work, flushing, cleaning and repairing the city's drain- age system, including catch basins, the expense necessarily in- creasing yearly as sewers, storm drains and catch basins are added to the system, and the distance increased to the dump- ing places, only two of which are available at present.
The scarcity of dumping places has confronted the city for some time and various schemes have been considered for efficient and economical methods of disposal, but no plan has been adopted.
The drainage system, built as required by the growth of the city, is composed of units or different type and age. Re- pairs, additions and alterations due to deterioration or chang- ing conditions are necessary very frequently.
Sixty-one permits have been issued for private drain con- nections from buildings to sewers or storm drains, thirty-nine of these being for repairs, alterations or extensions. All work is done subject to inspection by this department.
Many of the repairs and alterations were made necessary by the growth of tree roots into the private drain pipe. In sev- eral cases, these private drains were relaid with iron pipe and leadite or similar joints ; which type of construction is recom- mended by this department in districts where trees are found.
Only persons that are licensed as drain layers by the city, and who have given satisfactory bonds are permitted to lay and repair private drains.
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CITY ENGINEER
Data concerning each drain connection with the public sewer is on file in this office, and time and expense could be saved by the owner, by applying directly to this department for investigation and advice, where trouble exists.
Many car track catch basins and underground conduit manholes built by public service corporations have been con- nected with the city's drainage system.
A special ordinance should be enacted to enforce a better system of grease traps in the premises of some of the larger manufacturing plants and rendering companies to prevent large amounts of grease and waste products from escaping into city sewer mains and partially blocking sections of sewers as has occurred at various times.
There are to date about 18,484 private drain connections with the city's drainage system.
PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS DIVISION
This division has the control and maintenance of seven- teen parcels of land, (about 75 acres) laid out as parks and rec- reation playgrounds in about equal proportions.
These areas if completely developed would compare favor- ably with other cities in the vicinity.
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ANNUAL, REPORTS
MAINTENANCE ACCOUNTS
1934
Playgrounds
Credita
Parks
Appropriation for Parks
$13,200.00
$17,800.80
Appropriation for Playgrounds
Statement of Expenditures
$16,545.99
Labor
$11,876.61
356.14
Teaming
160.00
105.37
Equipment and supplies
284.61
97.74
Repairing tools and property
82.14
134.37
Fountains and Bubblers Maintenance (Paid Water Dept.)
236.24
25.96
Trees, Shrubs, Plants, Floral Decorations,
trimming and spraying trees, etc.
89.68
88.54
Flags, flag poles, painting, etc.
57.11
Repairing roadways and walks
68.00
Fences, steps, gates, etc. (maintenance and construction )
2.75
129.87
Fences, seats, grandstands, backstops, etc. (Maintenance and construction )
Oil for laying dust .. ......
76.99
Electric Lighting Dilboy Field
105.00
Seeding, Grading and Improving Parks
342.57
61.70
Damage caused by ball-playing (broken win- dows, etc.)
69.05
Woods Field House
$17,796.72
Totals
$13,199.71
$ 4.08
BALANCE UNEXPENDED
$ .29
The city has become so densely populated (averaging nearly 26,000 people a square mile) that some of the larger park areas should be more extensively utilized for public rec- reation and physical training purposes. On several of the play- fields concrete buildings should be constructed, additional ap- paratus and shelters provided and some of the smaller play- ground areas should be enclosed by wire fencing for protec- tion.
The work of enlarging, equipping and manning our parks and playgrounds and the acquiring of new areas for play- grounds should be extended as rapidly as finances will permit. A definite plan of action should be developed for the above so that the work may be done in a systematic and progressive manner.
In certain localities of the city well lighted playgrounds should be maintained during the summer evenings for the
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CITY ENGINEER
young men and women who are obliged to work in the day time. Special equipment and apparatus should be installed for night use.
Previous reports are respectfully referred to for sugges- tions and recommendations for improvement of park and play- ground areas.
Respectfully submitted, JAMES E. MULLANEY, City Engineer.
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INDEX
INDEX
Appeal, Board of, Report of 126
Assessors, Board of, Report of
166
Supplementary Assessments 167
Estimated Receipts 167
City Auditor, Report of
6
Balance Sheet
9
Cash Statement
13
Detail of Estimated Receipts
16
Appropriations
19
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
29
County of Middlesex
30
Revenue and Expenses
31
Temporary Loans
32
Funded Debt
35
Taxes
37
Special Assessments
37
Maturities on Funded Debt
39, 41
Interest Requirements on Funded Debt
40, 42
Borrowing Capacity
43
Tax Titles
44
Overlay Accounts
44
Excess and Deficiency Account
46
Receipts and Expenditures, Classifications of
47
Schedule of Public Property
91
Somerville Retirement System
94
City Clerk, Report of
316
Receipts
316
Payments
318
Licenses and Permits
318
Births
319
Marriages
319
Deaths
320
Ordinances
321
City Engineer, Report of
369
Engineering Department
369
General Financial Statement
369
Table of Street Construction
374
Underground Conduits
374
Sewer Division
376
Maintenance Accounts
380
Parks and Playgrounds Divison
379
INDEX
383
City Government and Officers for 1934 322
City Solicitor, Report of 343
City Treasurer and Collector of Taxes, Report of 95
Cash Statement
Taxes
Street Sprinkling Assessments
99
Betterment Assessments
101
Departmental Accounts
102
Temporary Loans 104
Bonds 106,107,108
Municipal Relief Loans
109
Commissioner of Public Buildings (see Public Buildings Com- missioner ) 121
Commissioner of Streets (see Street Commissioner) 362
Commissioner of Water (see Water Commissioner) 349
Commissioner of Electric Lines and Lights, Report of 189
Inspection of Wiring in Buildings
189
Fire Alarm System
189
Police Signal System
191
Supervision of Poles and Wires on the Streets
191
Street Lighting
191
Traffic Lights
192
Recommendations
192
Dental Hygiene, Report of 156
Election Commissioners, Board of, Report of
329
List of Assessed Polls and Registered Voters 333
Election Statistics
334
Fire Department, Chief of, Report of
110
Alarms of Fire
110
List of Probable Causes
110
Service of Companies
111
Manual Force
112
Apparatus
112
Hose
112
Insurance Rates
113
Fire Prevention Inspections
114
Conclusion
114
Health, Board of, Report of
133
Organization, Officers, etc.
133
Nuisances
135
96
98
384
INDEX
Permits and Licenses
135
Stables
137
Board and Infants
137
Lying-In Hospitals
138
Mortality Statistics
139
Diseases Dangerous to Public Health
146
Specimens and Supplies
146
Medical Inspection of Schools
147
Bacteriological Work
149
Undertakers
149
Infant Hygiene Clinics
150
Health Nurses, Report of
151
Medical Inspection, Report of
153
Dental Hygiene, Report of Department
156
Inspection of Animals and Provisions
157
Inspection of Milk and Vinegar
160
Inaugural Address, Hon. James E. Hagan
3
Inspector of Milk and Vinegar, Report of the
160
Law Department, Report of
343
Licensing Commission, Report of
169
Medical Inspection, Report of
153
Visits
153
Laboratory Examinations
153
Tuberculosis
154
Infant Hygiene Clinics
155
Ordinances 321
Police, Chief of, Report of
116
Arrests
116
Changes in the Department
116
Roster of Department
117
Public Buildings, Commissioner, Report of
121
Inspection of Buildings
122
Schools : Heating, Blackboards, Sprinklers
123,
124
Libraries
124
Highway Buildings
124
Contagious Hospital
124
City Home
125
Bathhouse
125
In General
125
Public Grounds (City Engineer)
369
Elevators
123
385
INDEX
Public Library
300
Report of Trustees
300
Board of Trustees and Officers-Committees
301
Organization of Library and Staff Personnel
302
Report of Librarian 305
Statistics
310
Public Welfare, Department of
180
Members of the Board, Committees, Officers, etc.
181
Report of General Agent
182
Full Support
182
Partial Support
182
Children
182
Aid Under 1913 Law (Mothers' Aid)
182
Cost to City
18%
Reimbursements
183
Aid under Chapter 118A
184
Somerville Hospitals
184
Population and Gross Expenditures
184
Overseers of the Poor Since 1885
185
Recapitulation
186
City Home, Report of Warden
187
City Physician, Report of
188
Recreation Commission 366
Retirement System
94
Sanitary Department, Report of
193
Collection of Ashes and Paper 193
School Department 195
Superintendent of Schools, Report of
198
Appendix, Contents of 230
Graduates-High School
259
Junior High School
267
Vocational Schools
281
School Committees
196, 282
Somerville Teachers' Club
217
Teachers in Service
284
Sealer of Weights and Measures, Report of 128
Sewers (see City Engineer)
376
Soldiers' Relief Commissioner, Report of 314
Street Commissioner, Report of
362
Snow and Ice
362
Sidewalks Maintenance
363
Street Sprinkling
363
386
INDEX
Street Cleaning
363
Suppression of Moths
363
Shade Trees
364
Sidewalks Construction
364
Miscellaneous
364
Permits
365
Traffic Control
364
Recommendations
365
Water Commissioner, Report of
349
Revenue and Expenditures
351
Cost of Water Works
353
Water Works Income and Distribution
353
Hydrants, Gates, etc.
355
Water Service Connections
356
Fire Services
357
Water Meters
356
Water Assessments and Consumption
358
Summary and Statistics
360
352 S69
1934 C2
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