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Revenue Loans
125,000.00
$1,063,000.00
Less Water Sinking Fund and Sewer Assessment Invest- ment Fund $297,300.00
$765,700.00
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ANNUAL REPORT
Net debt, Jan. 1, 1919, subject to debt limitations .
$143,694.77
Borrowing capacity Jan. 1, 1919
386,715.98
Debt limit, (21/2% of the average valuation for the past three years)
$530,410.75
Classified statement of debt and amount to be paid on debt and interest during the year 1919.
Jan. 1, 1919.
Principal Payable $7,000.00 18,000.00
Interest Payable. $20,615.00
Sewer Bonds
367,000.00
14,400.00
A. B. C. Street Railway Bonds.
22,500.00
2,250.00
1,012.50
School House Bonds. .
30,000.00
1,050.00
High School Building Loan Bonds
121,000.00
9,000.00
4,840.00
Fire Engine Station Bonds
7,600.00
3,800.00
228.00
Time Notes:
Bliss School House.
5,000.00
5,000.00
100.00
Park Street Improvement Loan
10,000.00
2,000.00
472.50
Tax Notes
125,000.00
125,000.00
Discounted
$1,236,600.00
$172,050.00
$42,718.00
FRANK I. BABCOCK, City Treasurer.
To His Honor, the Mayor, and the Municipal Council :-
I submit herewith a statement of the Deborah Starkey Fund:
Balance in Fund, Jan. 1, 1918. $1,054.45
Received Interest from Jan. 1, 1918 to Jan. 1, 1919. . 53.35
$1,107.80
Balance in Fund, Jan. 1, 1918, on deposit in Attle- borough Savings Bank:
Principal
$1,000.00
Income 107.80
$1,107.80
FRANK I. BABCOCK, City Treasurer.
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Water Bonds
$548,500.00
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ANNUAL REPORT
To His Honor, the Mayor, and the Municipal Council :-
I herewith submit a statement of the receipts and disbursements of the Water Loan Sinking Fund and General Loan Sinking Fund of the City of Attleboro for the year 1918, together with a table showing in- vestments held by the same.
WATER LOAN SINKING FUND.
Cash Account.
Receipts.
Cash on hand Jan. 1, 1918
$4,716.02
Interest and Income Earned.
City of Attleboro:
Serial Water Bonds
paid 1,
1918 from annual tax assess-
ment
1,000.00
Transfer to General Sinking Fund
of City of Attleboro Bonds dated
April 1, 1901 and due April 1, 1921 Mortgage notes paid.
2,800.00
Yearly appropriation for Sinking
Fund
10,000.00
$30,992.25
$35,708.27
Disbursements.
Accrued Interest on Securities pur-
chased $99.05
City of Attleboro: To be applied to payment of Water Bonds due Jan. 1, 1919 of $20,000
16,300.00
Bonds purchased
.17,700.00
Expenses of Real Estate owned under Foreclosures-
Insurance
$24.50
Water Tax, 1915 to 1918. 426.76
Real Estate Tax, 1914. 560.22
Labor and repairs.
535.26
$1,546.74
Cash on hand, Jan. 1, 1919
$35,645.79 62.48
$35,708.27
$7,192.25
10,000.00
SECURITIES HELD BY THE WATER LOAN SINKING FUND, JAN. 1, 1919. BONDS.
Name of Bond
Rate
When Issued
When Payable
Amount of Investment.
City of Attleboro
Water Loan
31/2 %
Apr. 1, 1901
Apr. 1, 1921
$5,000.00
City of Attleboro
Water Loan
4%
July 1, 1893
July 1, 1923
5,000.00
City of Bridgeport
Sewer Loan
41/2%
July 1, 1914
July
1, 1924
10,000.00
City of Bridgeport
Sewer Loan
41/2%
July 1, 1914
July 1, 1925
5,000.00
City of New Bedford
High School Loan
31/2%
July 1,
1925
5,000.00
City of Omaha
Renewal Bond
41/2 %
Sept. 1, 1907
Sept. 1,
1927
1,000.00
City of Attleboro
Water Loan
31/2 %
Mar. 1, 1905
Mar. 1, 1935
11,000.00
City of Boston
Rapid Trans. Loan 31/2%
Apr. 1,
1938
9,000.00
Boston & Albany R. R. Co.
Improvement Bond 5%
July 1, 1913.
July 1,
1938
3,000.00
City of Omaha
Water Bonds
41/2%
Dec. 15, 1911
Dec. 15, 1941
11,000.00
Tj. S. Liberty Loan
4%
Nov. 15, 1917
Nov. 15, 1927 /42
13,000.00
U. S. Liberty Loan
41/4 %
May 15, 1918
May 15, 1928
6,000.00
U. S. Liberty Loan
41/4%
Oct. 15, 1918
Oct. 15, 1938
6,500.00
$90,500.00
ANNUAL REPORT
NOTES.
Notes secured by mortgages on real estate at 6% .
Value of real estate held under foreclosure sale.
52,825.00 17,000.00
Cash on hand January 1, 1919
$160,325.00
62.48
Value of Sinking Fund, January 1, 1919
$160,387.48
27
Per Cent.
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GENERAL LOAN SINKING FUND. Cash Account. Receipts.
Cash on hand, Jan. 1, 1918.
$672.06
Interest and Income earned.
$941.23
Payment of Bonds held as invest-
ment
10,000.00
Yearly Appropriation for Sinking
Fund
200.00
$11,141.23
$11,813.29
Disbursements.
Bonds purchased
$11,300.00
Accrued Interest on Bonds purchased
8.06
Cash on hand Jan. 1, 1919.
505.23
$11,813.29
SECURITIES HELD BY THE GENERAL LOAN SINKING FUND, JANUARY 1, 1919. BONDS.
Name of Bond
Rate Per Cent.
When Issued
When Payable
Amount of Investment $10,000.00
City of Attleboro,
Water Loan
31/2 %
April 1, 1901
April 1, 1921
City of Attleboro,
Water Loan
31/2 %
April 1, 1901
April 1, 1921
5,000.00
City of Bridgeport,
Sewer Loan
41/2%
July 1, 1914
July 1, 1925
5,000.00
City of Fall River,
Sewer Loan
31/2%
April 1, 1933
3,000.00
City of New Bedford,
Park Loan
31/2%
July 1, 1951
3,000.00
U. S. Liberty Loan,
4%
Nov. 15, 1917
Nov. 15, 1927 /42
2,000.00
U. S. Liberty Loan,
41/4 %
Oct. 15, 1918
Oct. 15, 1938
500.00
$28,500.00
NOTES.
Notes secured by mortgages on real estate at 5% .
900.00
29,400.00
Cash on hand, Jan. 1, 1919
505.23
Value of Sinking Fund, Jan. 1, 1919
$29,905.23
FRANK I. BABCOCK,
Treasurer
ANNUAL REPORT
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ANNUAL REPORT
To His Honor, the Mayor, and the Municipal Council :-
I herewith submit a statement of the receipts and disbursements of the Sewer Assessment Investment Fund of the City of Attleboro for the year 1918, together with a table showing the investments held by the same.
SEWER ASSESSMENT INVESTMENT FUND.
Cash Account.
Receipts.
Cash on hand Jan. 1, 1918.
$3,562.82
Interest and income earned.
$6,479.02
Sewer Assessments
13,888.14
Mortgage notes paid
2,000.00
Bonds paid
5,000.00
$27,367.16
$30,929.98
Disbursements.
Securities purchased during the year. .
$14,000.00
Accrued interest on securities purchased
during the year.
91.51
Amount applied to payment of Sewer Bonds due in 1918
9,000.00
Amount applied to payment of interest on Sewer Bonds for the year.
7,000.00
Recording deed from R. C. Read to City of Attleboro
.95
Land for Sewer Beds.
500.00
Cash on hand Jan. 1, 1919
$30,592.46
337.52
$30,929.98
SECURITIES HELD BY THE SEWER ASSESSMENT INVESTMENT FUND, JANUARY 1, 1919.
BONDS.
Name of Bond
Rate
When Issued
When Payable
Amount of Investment.
Per Cent.
City of Albany,
Water Loan
41/2 %
Mar. 1, 1919
$ 5,000.00
City of Lynn,
Water Loan
4%
July 1,
1919
2,000.00
Town of Weymouth,
Water Loan
4%
Nov. 1, 1899
Nov. 1, 1919
2,000.00
City of Albany,
Water Loan
41/2%
Mar. 1, 1921
5,000.00
City of Providence,
Sewer Loan
4%
July 1, 1921
5,000.00
City of Haverhill,
Water Loan
4%
Dec. 1, 1892
Dec. 1, 1922
2,000.00
Town of Ipswich,
Water Loan
4%
July 2, 1894
July 1, 1924
8,000.00
City of Providence,
Sewer Loan
4%
May 1,
1925
5,000.00
City of Lynn,
Water Loan
4%
July 1, 1895
July 1,
1925
1,000.00
City of Bridgeport,
School Loan
4 1/2 %
Aug. 1, 1915
Aug. 1,
1925
5,000.00
City of Medford,
Sewer Loan
4%
July 1, 1896
July 1,
1926
2,000.00
City of Newton,
Washington St. Loan
31/2%
Dec. 1, 1901
Dec. 1,
1926
1,000.00
City of Newton,
Washington St. Loan
4%
July 1, 1897
July 1,
1927
1,000.00
City of Lynn,
Sewer Loan
4%
Apr. 1,
1927
1,000.00
Town of Framingham,
Water Loan
4%
Oct. 1, 1906
Oct.
1, 1928
2,000.00
City of Providence,
Public Improv'm'nt Loan 3%
May 1, 1899
May
1, 1929
5,000.00
Town of Gardner,
Water Loan
4%
May 2, 1904
May 2, 1930
3,000.00
City of Boston,
City Loan
3 1/2 %
June 1, 1932
2,000.00
City of New Haven,
Street Pavement Bonds 4%
May 1, 1913
May 1, 1935
10,000.00
Commonwealth of Mass.
Metropolitan Water
Loan
31/2 %
City of Newton,
Washington St. Loan
4%
Feb. 1, 1896
Feb.
1, 1936
2,000.00
City of Quincy,
Sewer Loan
31/2%
Apr. 1, 1898
Apr. 1, 1937
1,000.00
July 1,
1925
3,000.00
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City of Waterbury, Commonwealth of Mass.
School Loan 41/4% July 1, 1915 July 1, 1937 1,000.00
Metropolitan Sewer Loan 31/2%
July 1, 1940
6,000.00
Commonwealth of Mass.
Metropolitan Water Loan
3%
Jan. 1, 1941
10,000.00
City of Omaha,
Water Bonds
4 1/2 %
Dec. 15, 1911
Dec. 15, 1941
2,000.00
City of Waterbury,
School Loan
41/2 %
Jan. 1, 1911
Jan. 1,
1942
3,000.00
U. S. Liberty Loan,
4%
Nov. 15, 1917
Nov. 15, 1927 /42
15,000.00
U. S. Liberty Loan,
4%
June 15, 1917
June 15, 1932 /47
10,000.00
U. S. Liberty Loan,
41/4 %
May 15, 1918
May 15, 1928
4,000.00
U. S. Liberty Loan,
41/4%
Oct. 15, 1918
Oct. 15, 1938
4,000.00
$128,000.00
ANNUAL REPORT
NOTES.
Notes secured by mortgages on real estate at 6% . $ 8,575.00
$136,575.00
Cash on hand, Jan. 1, 1919
337.52
Value of Fund, Jan. 1, 1919
$136,912.52
FRANK I. BABCOCK,
Treasurer.
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ANNUAL REPORT
CAPRON FUND.
To His Honor, the Mayor, and the Municipal Council :- I herewith submit a statement of the Capron Fund, the income of which is to be used for the care and improvement of Capron Park.
Total amount of Fund, Jan. 1, 1919 ...
$37,411.95
INCOME. Receipts.
Cash on hand, Jan. 1, 1918
$422.75
Interest and income earned $1,061.44
Rents 1,244.00
$2,305.44
$2,728.19
Disbursements.
Care of Real Estate:
Repairs, labor and alterations
on houses
$237.77
Insurance
10.56
Water bills
62.47
Taxes
61.38
Accrued Int. on U. S.
Liberty
Loan for bonds.
5.28
$377.46
Paid to City of Attleboro for Capron
Park
$1,800.00
ยท
$2,728.19
Investments.
Deposited in
Attleborough Savings Bank.
$6,536.08
Bristol County Savings Bank.
706.96
Fall River Savings Bank.
1,319.38
Fall River Five Cents
Savings
Bank
1,319.38
First National Bank
395.77
New Bedford Inst.
for Savings
1,319.38
Notes secured by mortgages on real estate at 6%.
$3,725.00
U. S. Liberty Loan Bonds
5,600.00
$9,325.00
Real Estate
16,490.00
$37,411.95
FRANK I. BABCOCK,
Treasurer.
2,177.46
Balance on hand Jan. 1, 1919 ..
550.73
$11,596.95
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ANNUAL REPORT
REPORT OF THE CITY CLERK
To His Honor, the Mayor, and the Municipal Council :-
I herewith submit the annual report of the clerk of the City of Attleboro for the year ending Dec. 31, 1918.
Receipts :
Recording Mortgages, etc. $29.02
Copies of Records 35.00
Marriage Licenses 188.00
Sundry Licenses and Permits
88.75
Sale of Voting Lists.
18.70
Registration of Physicians
.50
Transfer of Dog Licenses
1.05
Fees for licensing dogs
168.80
Paid to City Treasurer. $529.82
The sum of $1,879.20 received from dog licenses has been paid to the County Treasurer.
The number of births, marriages and deaths recorded is as follows:
Marriages 219
Deaths 371
Births (1917)
480
Conforming to the requirements of Section 17 of the Charter, I submit herewith a record of the attendance of members at the meetings of the Council during the year 1918.
Total number of meetings 32
Names of Members
No. of Meetings Attended
Philip E. Brady .
29
Stephen H. Foley.
28
William H. Garner
Joseph E. Gaynor 23
28
Thomas S. Healey
20
Solomon B. Jacobs. 30
Harry P. Kent ..
26
William A. Spier
29
George A. Sweeney 32
Charles O. Sweet. 30
Oscar Wolfenden
29
Respectfully submitted,
FRANK I. BABCOCK,
City Clerk.
$361.02
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ANNUAL REPORT
ASSESSORS' REPORT YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1918.
TABLE OF AGGREGATES.
Number of residents assessed on property. .
3,343
Individuals
2,557
All others
786
Number of non-residents assessed on
property
1,211
Individuals
938
All others
273
Number of persons assessed .
8,475
On property
4,554
On polls only
3,921
Number of male polls assessed Tax on each poll.
$2.00
Number of horses assessed
438
Number of cows assessed.
679
Number of neat cattle other than cows
130
Number of swine.
368
Number of dwelling houses
3,335
Number of fowl.
3,870
Number of shares of bank stock.
3,000
Resident
2,316
Non-Resident
684
Assessed value of each share.
$140.00
Rate of tax per thousand.
19.60
Assessed value of personal property
$6,637,125.00
Assessed value of stock in trade
$2,842,925.00
Assessed value of machinery.
2,601,385.00
Assessed value of live stock.
104,055.00
Assessed value of all other personal.
764,670.00
Assessed value of Resident bank stock ..
324,240.00
Exemptions
150.00
$6,637,275.00
$6,637,275.00
Total value of assessed property
20,566,610.00
Personal
6,312,885.00
Real Estate
14,276,100.00
Exemptions
22,375.00
$20,588,985.00
$20,588,985.00
Taxes assessed on personal property.
$130,087.65
Taxes assessed an Real Estate
279,811.56
Taxes assessed on Polls.
10,272.00
$420,171.21
5,136
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ANNUAL REPORT
Taxes assessed on account of City
Including Grade Crossing Tax and
Interest
$335,018.14
State Tax
49,060.00
County Tax
28,300.87
Highway Tax
1,761.93
Auditing Accounts
410.55
Overlays
5,619.72
$420,171.21
Estimated Receipts
$126,400.00
Income Tax Receipts. 53,250.86
$179,650.86
BETTERMENT TAXES-ASSESSED AS FOLLOWS.
Apportioned Sewer
$9,941.56
Apportioned Sewer Interest. 2,405.77
Roberts St. Sewer. .
15.01
Roberts St. Sewer Interest.
5.25
Apportioned Curbing
3.30
Apportioned Curbing Interest.
1.15
Apportioned Holman Drain.
39.14
Apportioned Holman Drain Interest.
10.14
Moth Suppression
444.40
$12,865.72
OTHER TAXES ASSESSED AS FOLLOWS.
Non-Resident Bank Tax.
$ 1,876.90
Excise or Commutation Tax.
2,726.47
$4,603.37
1916 Personal Valuation
$8,267,345.00
1918 Personal Valuation
6,637,125.00
Loss on account of Income Tax.
$1,630,220.00
$1,630,220.00 at the 1916 rate ($19.80) would
produce
$33,278,36
City's Allotment from Income Tax. $53,250.86
Excess over loss.
19,972.50
$33,278.36
WARRANTS ISSUED TO THE CITY COLLECTOR AS FOLLOWS:
September 27, 1918.
$434,909.83
October 31, 1918.
2,726.47
December 18, 1918
231.28
$437,867.58
Made up as follows:
On account of City including Grade Cross- ing, State, County, Highway and over- lays less estimated receipts and income Betterment Tax.
$420,171.21
12,865.72
Non-Resident Bank Tax.
1,876.90
Excise or Commutation Tax.
2,726.47
$437,640.30
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ANNUAL REPORT
ABATEMENTS MADE DURING THE YEAR 1918.
Polls
Personal $121.73
Real $71.05
Total $260.78
1914
$68.00
1915
58.00
78.12
136.12
1916
668.00
272.19
199.99
1,140.18
1917
1,010.00
139.08
190.48
1,339.56
1918
598.00
478.04
833.54
1,909.58
$2,402.00
$1,089.16
$1,295.06
$4,786.22
Added Tax Committed Dec. 18, 1918:
Number of persons assessed other than Polls
3
Value of Personal Estate
$1,300.00
Value of Real Estate.
5,500.00
Number of Polls assessed
25
Amount of Taxes assessed on Real Estate
$ 9.80
Amount of taxes assessed on Personal
25.48
Amount of taxes assessed on Polls ...
50.00
$ 85.28
Respectfully submitted,
W. J. NEWMAN,
MALCOLM CURRIE,
HARRY E. CARPENTER,
Assessors of Attleboro.
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ANNUAL REPORT
ATTLEBOROUGH HOSPITAL
Attleboro, Mass., January 20, 1919.
To the Mayor and Municipal Council of the City of Attleboro :---
Herewith is submitted the report of the Board of Managers of the Attleborough Hospital covering its conduct of the Sturdy Memorial Hospital for the year 1918, accompanied by the reports of the Super- intendent and Treasurer.
The past year has been the busiest and most trying in the history of the hospital, and the manner in which the institution met the test affords renewed evidence of the City's obligation to the foresight and generosity of the donors. Without hospital facilities we should not like to contemplate the situation in which our people would have been placed during the influenza epidemic. We had striking testimony to what the lack of a hospital meant in the distressed appeals for accom- modations from surrounding communities. As it was, Sturdy Hospital responded nobly to the local emergency and was able to render some assistance to those outside our borders. To the faithful and untiring service of the Superintendent and her assistant, nursing staff, and physicians, aided by volunteers from the Home Nursing Classes, our citizens owe an everlasting debt of gratitude that the ravages of the pestilence did not assume such distressing proportions, alarming though they were, as in some other sections of the State, especially as our nearness to Rhode Island, where practically no restrictions were enforced, made us more than ordinarily susceptible to the disease.
The influenza epidemic accounted for 125 of the hospital's total of 576 patients admitted during the year-a net increase of 89 over the preceding year.
Particular attention should be called to the increase in free patients from 61 to 106 and in the larger number of obstetrical cases, indicating, in the latter instance, the vital need of an entirely independent and adequate obstetrical department.
The venereal clinic, established under the supervision of the State Board of Health, announced in last year's report, has been equipped and is in operation with evidence and promise of large service.
We are again compelled to call for renewed consideration of the need for increased personal and municipal support of the hospital's finances. Our income from pateints does not cover our current ex- penses, despite the very economical administrative expense noted in the Treasurer's Report. We should not be compelled to draw on the income of the Winsor Fund as we are, for running expenses, but should be allowed to develop this Fund for needed additions to hospital build- ings and equipment.
We require endowments, preferably without restrictions, more free beds, a much larger membership in the Corporation, costing only $10.00 a year, and an annual appropriation from the City which at present pays merely for water and insurance.
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ANNUAL REPORT
Another method of financial support of the hospital that has prom- ising possibilities has been suggested in the form of a group of guaran- tors who would assume responsibility for making up any deficit in the annual running expenses, no individual to be called upon for more than $50.00 per annum.
We should be in much worse shape financially were it not for the generous and unfailling support of the devoted women comprising the Hospital Aid Association. For supplies and especially for the liberal donation of funds on Tag Day, we are most thankful to this Association and all who have contributed thereto.
We appeal with confidence to the public of Attleboro to supplement the agencies now contributing to the maintenance of Sturdy Memorial Hospital, with the liberality that has been so often demonstrated by our people to the end that the institution may not only continue its service to the community at its present high standard, but may be of constantly increasing advantage to the health and life of our people, thus fulfilling the beneficent purpose of the founders.
JOSEPH L. SWEET,
HAROLD E. SWEET,
PHILIP E. BRADY,
JOSEPH FINBERG,
EDWARD L. GOWEN,
FRANK I. BABCOCK,
ERNEST D. GILMORE,
CHARLES O. SWEET,
WILLIAM J. LUTHER,
Board of Managers of The Attleborough Hospital.
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ANNUAL REPORT
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TREASURER OF THE ATTLE- BOROUGH HOSPITAL FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1918.
Building Account.
Balance Jan. 1, 1918 ... $6.80
Balance Dec. 31, 1918. . $6.80
Membership Account.
Balance Jan. 1, 1918. ..
$818.55
Postage, etc.
$3.62
Receipts
340.00
Balance
1,154.93
$1,158.55
$1,158.55
Trust Account.
Balance Jan. 1, 1918 .. $2,927.50
Repairs on cottage, etc
$92.46
Rent
347.00
Safety deposit box ....
5.00
Treasurer's Bond ...
25.00
Dividends from Securi- ties
7,734.96
Brookline, Mass. taxes 131.58
Mortgage payments 3,400.00
Investments
4,553.71
Appropriated to Hos-
pital account 5,500.00
Balance 4,101.71
$14,409.46
$14,409.46
Hospital Account.
Balance Jan. 1, 1918 ..
$809.08
Salaries
$6,649.29
Hospital receipts
15,068.85
Hospital Supplies and Equipment 3,213.94
Donations 173.38
1,250.00
Housekeeping supplies
7,059.08
Interest on Bank ac-
Miscellaneous expense
2,973.76
count
111.93
Heat and light. 2,624.66
Subscription from
Balance 392.51
Trust account
5,500.00
$22,913.24
$22,913.24
Summary.
Balance Membership
Bank balance
$5,637.10
account
$1,154.93
Miss Rice cash account
Balance Trust account
4,101.71
balance
18.85
Balance Hospital ac-
count
392.51
Balance
Building ac-
count
6.80
$5,655.95
$5,655.95
Respectfully submitted,
EDWARD L. GOWEN, Treasurer.
Endowed Beds
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ANNUAL REPORT
Auditor's Report to the Directors of The Attleborough Hospital
January 11, 1919.
I have this day audited the books and accounts of the treasurer of the Attleboro Hospital and find that this statement shows a correct view of the condition of the same. The expenditures being sustained by the proper vouchers and the income properly accounted for.
GEO. B. CLEMENTS.
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ANNUAL REPORT
The Attleborough Hospital List of Securities
January 1st, 1919.
201 Shares
215 Shares
220 Shares 1850, 3 yrs.
7 Shares
3 Bonds $1,000 Each
3 Bonds $1,000 Each
2 Bonds $1,000 Each
3 Bonds $1,000 Each
2 Bonds $1,000 Each
Seattle Electric Co., 5%.
1 Bond $500 Leavitt & Johnson Trust Co., 5%
First Mortgage Farm
First Mortgage Farm
First Mortgage Farm
First Mortgage Farm
January 1, 1918
Royal Weaving Co. Pawtucket Hair Cloth Co.
Narragansett Electric Lighting Co.
7% Convertible Gold Coupon notes N. E. L. Co. $1,850.00
Attleborough Savings & Loan Assn. 3,500.00 Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co., 5%.
Michigan State Telephone Co., 5%.
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co., 4%.
Consumers Power Co., 5%.
$3,500.00 Charles Amholt. 3,500.00
$2,500.00 Ele N. Ekanger 2,500.00
$2,500.00 Mary J. Hunter 2,500.00
$2,000.00 Robert Reidel. 2,000.00
$500 2nd 414% Converted Liberty Bonds 500.00
Checked up by J. L. Sweet at the Safety Deposit Vault of the First National Bank, Attleboro, Mass., on Monday, Jan. 13, 1919 and found correct.
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ANNUAL REPORT
STURDY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
To the Board of Managers of the Attleborough Hospital :-
I herewith submit my annual report for the year ending Dec. 31, 1918 as Superintendent of the Sturdy Memorial Hospital:
Patients admitted
576
Medical
189
Surgical
293
Obstetrical 94
Discharged during year.
515
Male
183
Female
332
Well
449
Relieved
58
Unrelieved
6
Not treated
2
Deaths
55
Accidents
2
Medical
47
(29 Influenza)
Surgical
6 239
Major
130
Minor 109
Free Patients
106
Patients paid for by the City.
9
Patients paid for by the State.
5
Ladies' Aid bed.
2
Mrs. H. E. Sweet's bed.
1
R. F. Simmons' bed.
1
Patients for X-Ray work.
127
Daily average of patients.
21
Influenza patients admitted.
125
Respectfully submitted,
GWENDOLYN G. RICE, Superintendent.
Operations
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ANNUAL REPORT
INSPECTOR OF BUILDINGS
December 17, 1918.
To the Honorable Mayor and Municipal Council :-
I herewith submit my report as Inspector of Buildings from De- cember 18, 1917, to December 17, 1918.
The following permits have been granted:
Estimated Cost.
Cotton Factory
1
$60,000.00
Business Block
1
40,000.00
Tuberculosis Hospital
1
70,000.00
1-Family Houses
13
26,705.00
Additions
35
17,130.00
Garages
16
6,967.00
Barns
4
1,675.00
Sheds and other small buildings
15
1,166.00
Band Hall
1
250.00
$223,893.00
Respectfully submitted,
M. F. ASHLEY, Inspector of Buildings.
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ANNUAL REPORT
CHARITY DEPARTMENT
Attleboro, Mass., December 23, 1918.
To His Honor, the Mayor and Municipal Council :-
The Overseers of the Poor submit the following report to Dec. 1, 1918:
There was no change in the organization of the Board this year; Joseph V. Curran was again chosen Chairman, Benjamin P. King, Clerk, and Frank M. Payson, Visitor.
The work of the Department has not changed much except that there appears to be a gradual increase from year to year. The great advance in prices of food, clothing, shoes and fuel has called for extra expense this year in outside aid as well as at the City Home, and we have been obliged to meet it.
There have been twenty-one different people at the City Home this year; some permanently, and others for different lengths of time, making an average number of 13.61. One has died this year. There are at present twelve people in the City Home, eight males and four females.
There have been aided outside of the City Home, forty different cases, mostly families, a few single cases. Of the forty cases referred to, seven are State cases-those with no settlement, and four belong to other cities and towns.
We have nineteen Mothers' Aid cases, four of whom have been added within the year. Three of these are State cases for which we receive full reimbursement; for the others, one-third reimbursement. Like all else the increased cost of living made it necessary to advance somewhat the various amounts of aid, making an average cost of 8.36 per week. We have had several Hospital cases to care for, some being caused by the Influenza, which are expensive.
The City Farm has yielded very well this year; a good crop of hay, corn, and other fodders for the cattle, potatoes and other vege- tables which we expect will take us through the winter. Grain for the stock has also fully doubled in price, making it almost prohibitive, and great care is being taken by our Superintendent in its use.
No unusual work has been undertaken at the City Farm; nothing except what was necessary has been done. Many things are waiting for the times and high prices to change for the better. We were obliged to enlarge the inmates' dining room, it being overcrowded .. This was done by removing partitions and we now have a nice room.
Amount of original appropriation. $22,000.00
Added appropriation 4,000.00
$26,000.00
Expended to Dec. 1-
Salaries and wages
$2,258.32
Mothers' Aid
7,023.05
Temporary Aid
1,013.20
Regular Bills
7,944.96
City Farm
5,669.51
$23,909.04
$ 2,090.96
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ANNUAL REPORT
In view of the present conditions with the review of the year. before us, we feel that the same amount that was asked for last year, be the amount for the year 1919; namely $27,000.00.
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