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We would also recommend that the two walks running diagonally across the park be lighted with incandescent elec- tric lights, and that the town add this to their lighting sys- tem.
We consider that the small park at the end of Church street is deserving of some attention, and would recommend a special appropriation of $100 to grade and seed down the same.
On account of the unpaid bills of $116.50, we recommend an appropriation of $500.
Respectively submitted,
C. W. WILCOX, W. H. BOURNE, MICHAEL McKEAGUE,
Town Park Commissioners.
REPORT OF THE OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
EXPENSE AT THE FARM.
Grain . $1,229 87
Meat
.
·
823 02
Salary of superintendent
.
600 00
Labor
332 50
Flour, bread and crackers
264 53
Shingling and boarding barn, lumber and supplies .
259 61
Clothing
220 35
Horse
.
.
200 00
Coal
.
.
190 43
Butter
173 23
Sugar
154 60
Boots and shoes .
146 29
Small groceries and spices
141 99
Medicine .
.
133 28
Dry goods
125 69
Manure and fertilizer
122 40
New harnesses and repairs
120 75
Tobacco and snuff, part 1902
114 73
Stove and attachments
111 40
Fresh fish
93 47
Tea
85 00
Tip cart
73 00
Small bills paid by H. W. Austin Cow
63 28
60 00
Wheelwrighting and jobbing
57 75
Hard soap 51 30
Horseshoeing and jobbing
50 37
Medical attendance
50 00
·
Hardware, farming tools, etc.
148 75
Paint, oil and painters' supplies
144 87 . .
77
Grass, grain and garden seeds
$43 20
Salt fish .
43 13
Sawing and planing lumber ·
40 86
Kerosene .
.
39 45
Seed potatoes
34 65
Burials
30 00
Repairing mowing machine ' 21 40
Two breeding sows
17 00
Beans
16 18
Salt
15 78
Bull
15 00
Small wares
15 47
Land plaster and lime
14 40
Soft soap .
13 75
Evaporated apple
11 52
Milk cans and pans
10 20
Cheese
9 34
Painting buggy
8 00
Aerater
7 50
Fruit jars
7 50
Taxes on Upton wood lot
7 20
Stationery
6 95
Robe and blankets
6 75
Paris green and bug death
6 50
Hot-bed sash
5 85
Brooms
5 60
Oil
5 00
Coffee
5 44
Tomato plants
4 45
Sawdust
3 10
Milford Daily Journal to Jan. 1, 1903
3 00
Milford Daily News to Jan. 1, 1904
3 00
Baskets
2 20
Milford Gazette
1 25
$6,823 08
INCOME AT THE FARM.
Milk
. $1,313 64
Curtis L. Claflin, board .
156 00
78
Beef cows
$153 00
Squash
·
130 23
Potatoes
124 62
Eggs
121 21
Poultry
97 25
Peas
57 60
Pigs
29 00
Ducks
26 55
Calves
25 75
Tomatoes .
21 95
String and shell beans
21 90
Michael Coy, board
21 00
Vinegar
18 80
Onions
. .
15 00
Cabbage .
13 00
Old harness
13 00
Fresh pork
11 00
Apples
10 48
Bull service
10 00
Mark Coleman, board
8 00
Mrs. Cavanaugh, board
7 00
Old junk .
5 45
Service of boar
5 00
Rhubarb .
2 83
Corn
2 55
Mary Flagg estate
2 00
Court fee .
1 00
Soap grease
1 00
Beets
1 00
Carrots
20
$2,427 01
INMATES AT THE FARM DURING THE YEAR.
Age. Wks.
Age. Wks.
Ellen Middleton,
64
52
Anna Griegg,
78 52
Dennis Pyne,
64 52
Ellen Magee,
78
52
Edward Donavan,
77 52
Michael King,
55
52
William O'Rouke,
64
52
Daniel Bergin,
69
1
Michael Hughes,
76
52
Curtis L. Claflin, 79
52
79
Age. Wks.
Age. Wks.
Michael Hinds,
71 52
Bridget Shaw,
73 52
Mary O'Connell,
64 52
William Minton,
40
31
Thomas Hannigan,
44 52
Mrs. Silas Cheney,
70
7
Mary Sireack,
60. 52
Harriet N. Smith,
81
52
Patrick Campbell,
71
52
Owen McGurren,
93
52
Michael Dunn, 7
52
Michael Galvin, 42
52
William Young,
80
52
Edward Nelligan, 91
52
Patrick Murray,
50 52
Lizzie Saunders, 80
52
Michael Spellman,
80
52
William Connelly,
50
7
John Manion, 50
41
James Crane,
70
17
Michael McNulty,
84
52
John Moore,
65
9
Lizzie Gabrie,
41 52
Charles Collins, 47
29
John Flynn,
50
52
Mrs. Horace White,
41 2 d
Patrick Hadlock,
59
52
Charles Fairbanks,
80
1
William Tormey,
48
41
Julius Jacobi,
22 2
James Casey,
64
52
Mark Coleman,
69
4
Alonzo Perham,
70
39
Mrs. Edwin Willard,
41
13
Michael Rush,
71
52
Edwin Willard,
42
6
John Hayes,
49
52
James Hogan,
40
4
Michael Coy,
58
8
John Griffin,
82
18
Horatio Buck,
75
52
Julius Bates,
79
17
Mary Cavanaugh,
61
9
Rebecca Holmes,
70
18
Thomas Fahey,
32
52
John Cooney,
60
9 '
John Minon,
67
24
Francis Bodoin,
32
10
Net expense at the farm
$4,396 07
Appraisal of town farm and wood lot, $6,200, interest
372 00
Appraisal of personal
property,
$5,322.25, interest .
319 33
$5,087 40
Whole number of inmates during the year
58
Average number
.
40
Average weekly cost
.
$2.44 .
There were five deaths during the year, as follows :--
Daniel Bergin, died Feb. 4, 1903, Bright's disease, age 69 years.
·
1
80
Mrs. Silas Cheney, died March 21, 1903, heart disease, age 70 years.
Mrs. Horace White, died May 15, 1903, brain trouble, age 41 years.
Michael King, died Oct. 31, 1903, consumption, age 55 years.
John Cooney, died Jan. 25, 1904, stomach trouble, age 60 years.
PERSONS RECEIVING AID IN MILFORD AWAY FROM THE FARM.
Mrs. John Ahern, $ 48 50
Thomas Hannigan, $ 1 37
Sebastian Beltraine,
10 00
Kate Haganey, 30 00
Callahan children, 44 00
Patrick Jeffers, 9 29
Thomas Crowley
Calvin Lackey, 4 00
children, 7 75
Mrs. Mary Larkin, 53 12
John Callahan, 92 00
Mrs. John F. Moore,
75 52
Mary Clancy,
45 00
Malachi Curley,
81 00
Hannah Cooney,
35 13
Mrs. Benj. Cottrell,
1 00
John Doherty, 104 34
Mrs.Charles H.McCann, 70 50
Mrs. Phœbe Davenport, 29 50
Edward Nelligan, 2 00
Mrs. Wm. F. Drew, 119 93
Mrs. John Nugent, 41 00
Mrs. Thos. F. Donnelly, 90 10
Mrs. Martin O'Melia, 79 50
Mrs. John Donnelly,
14 75
Mrs.John R.O'Connell, 108 50
Luigi Folio, 69 00
Eliza O'Connell, 24 00
Mrs. George Foster, 97 70
Matthew Reynolds, 50 40
John Foster, 8 00
Mrs. George Platt, 15 25
John Griffin,
65 98
Herbert L. Sweet, 87 75
Giovanni Giocomozzi, 44 00
Mrs. Margaret Shea,
52 50
Ellen A. Guild, 110 00
Mrs. Jerry Tynan, 51 00
Mary Hurlihy, 77 00
Medical attendance for
Darius Healey, 129 62
the above, 100 00
Mrs. Nellie Hayward, 120 00
William Hannigan, 1 95
$2,557 43
Mary Mingst, 65
Mrs.Leander J.Murray,153 31
Edward McKenna, 81 02
Joseph Milani, 20 50
81
PERSONS AIDED IN OTHER TOWNS BELONGING TO MILFORD.
Mrs. Mary A. Arnold, Boston $ 62 00
Mrs. George E. Brown, Springfield City Hospital 7 37
Patrick Baxter, Blackstone
41 43
John E. Coates, Upton
122 00
Alvin Collins, Holliston
6 50
Rose Delaney, Easton
52 00
Mrs. Sylvester Day, Roxbury
155 00
Patrick Ferguson, Upton .
38 78
William J. Ferguson, Mattapoisett
104 00
Mrs. Anna Ford, Natick .
12 93
John F. Hannigan, Fall River
10 00
Michael J. Holland, Boston City Hospital
6 00
John Higgins, Boston City Hospital 6 00
Mrs. James Healey, Holliston
1 15
Charles Fairbanks, Ashland and State Hospital 108 63
John Sireack, Holliston
29 80
John F. Ford, Worcester .
60
William Miller, Tewksbury State Hos- pital 45 43
John Meehan, Boston City Hospital 59 00
Mrs. George O'Donnell, Natick
232 10
Mrs. Lawrence O'Hare, Salem
7 05
Patrick Pedere, St. John's Hospital, Lowell .
47 00
Alonzo Perham, Carney Hospital, Boston 39 81
Fidelia Symonds, Fall River
90
Mary A. Flannigan, Boston City Hos- pital . 50 00
Johanna Slattery, Hopkinton
111 90
$1,357 38
PERSONS BELONGING TO OTHER TOWNS AIDED IN MILFORD. -
Henry A. Bailey, Rockport
$
2 50
Mrs. Fred Damon, Holliston
78 00
82
George D. Edmands' children, Hopedale -
$143 50
Mrs. Hugh Finneran, Franklin 1 00
Mrs. Alex Larson, Rockport .
101 00
Mrs. Kate Mann, Natick . ·
149 40
Mrs. William Naylor, Wrentham 54 75
John Nelson, Wellesley 247 71 .
Mrs. Thomas O'Connell, Medway .
12 50
Mrs. William E. Ollis, Lancaster 143 50 ·
John A. Richard, Northborough . 34 55
2 11
$970 52
STATE POOR.
Mrs. George Lutey
$ 31 50
Antinio Promolo
.
20 75
Peter Hennelly
.
·
.
2 00
Pasquale Messina .
12 00
Michael Ionis
15 00
Felice Guadagnoli
.
3 50
George W. Brown
.
36 80
Milo B. Lyman
23 00
Giovanni Carusso .
.
3 16
Paul Marcell
8 26
Horace and Jennie E. White
24 35
Julius Jacobi
75
$181 07
INSANE.
Margaret Saunders, State Hospital · $146 00
Jennie E. Stewart, State Hospital 146 00
William Flannigan, State Farm .
146 00
Charles H. White, Worcester Insane Hospital .
169 94
Abbott L. Perry, Worcester Insane Hos- pital
169 46
Thomas Conway, Worcester Insane Hos- pital . 169 46
William Geary, Worcester Insane Hos- pital . 169 34
Edwin F. Tongue, Chicopee
.
. ·
.
83
Patrick Fahey, Worcester Insane Hospital $ 51 46 Anna F. Curley, Worcester Insane Hos- pital . 169 46 William W. Pond, Worcester Insane Hospital 70 90
Ellen Flynn, Worcester Insane Hospital 169 46
Monroe A. Goldsmith, Worcester Insane Asylum 126 75
Hattie Mathewson, Worcester Insane Hospital 169 46
Honora Shea, Worcester Insane Hospital 169 46 Nellie M. Geary, Worcester Insane Hos- pital . 169 34
Mary Quirk, Worcester Insane Hospital Kate Geary, Medfield Insane Hospital 146 00
169 46
1
Lucy M. Wilber, Medfield Insane Hos- pital 146 00
To be paid back, 1904, Medfield Insane Hospital 21 00
Effie M. Russell, Medfield Insane Hos- pital
134 80
Catherine G. Conley 146 00
Charles H. Dunham, Worcester Insane Hospital
126 74
John Droney, Worcester Insane Hospital 126 76
Nellie A. Sullivan, Worcester Insane Hospital 126 74
Mary E. Collins, Massachusetts Hospital for Epileptics, Palmer 171 45
Hannah M. Kennedy, Massachusetts Hospital for Epileptics, Palmer 145 79
Jane Doyle, Massachusetts Hospital for Epileptics, Palmer 171 46
Joseph P. Kelly, Danvers Insane Hos- pital
169 45
Cyrus E. Lane, Danvers Insane Hospital 169 48 George V. Parkinson, Taunton Insane Hospital 172 71
84
Christopher Beatty, Taunton Insane Hos-
pital . $126 75
Peter Callahan, Taunton Insane Hospital 126 74 Peter Corrigan, Worcester Insane Hos- pital . 109 10
Mary E. Cahill, Worcester Insane Hos- pital . 152 16
Herbert L. Sweet, Worcester Insane Hos- pital . 95 17
$4,966 25
INCIDENTALS.
Order books and ledger
$16 70
Expense looking up unsettled cases
10 00
Telephones
.
8 08
Postage stamps, etc.
6 00
History blanks and notices
4 92
Printing orders
3 50
$49 20
1083 tramps
$30 00
RECEIPTS.
Full amount drawn on C. A. Cook,
treasurer
$18,319 05
Income at the farm"
. $2,427 01
State
311 22
Wellesley .
241 82
Natick
183 00
Hospital bill 1902 .
169 46
Hopedale
156 00 .
Lancaster .
156 00
Rockport
104 00
Holliston
78 00
Wrentham
57 75
Northborough
34 55
Medway
-
.
15 00
Marlborough
.
4 00
.
·
.
·
.
.
85
Spencer
$
3 00
Town reimbursed by different persons
.
1,384 12
- $5,324 93
Full amount taken from the treasurer
$12,994 12
RECAPITULATION.
Expense at the farm $6,823 08
Persons aided outside the farm
2,557 43
Persons aided in other towns
1,357 38
Persons aided belonging to other towns 970 52
State poor
181 07
Insane
4,966 25
Incidentals
49 20
Tramps
. 30 00
Orders given, town reimbursed
1,384 12
$18,319 05
Appropriation for the poor
$13,000 00
Amount expended
12,994 12
Amount unexpended
$ 5 88
BILLS DUE MILFORD FROM OTHER TOWNS AND THE STATE.
State
$183 50
Franklin
44 75
Natiek .
.
15 00
Chicopee
2 11
Rockland
2 00
C. F. G., North Attleboro
444 50
$691 86
NUMBER OF PERSONS AIDED DURING THE YEAR.
Farm
58
Insane in hospitals, town pays for
35
State
·
·
23
All other persons
218
334
.
.
.
86
The Superintendent and Matron are paid to March 1, 1904, salary $600. The town physician is paid to December 1, 1903. Salary $150. The hired help are paid to Feb., 1904. We have had the roof of the barn newly boarded and shingled, the front of the barn boarded, and have painted the sheds, carriage-house, piggery, hen-house, and front of the barn. A large hen-house has been built at a small expense; all lumber used for both barn and hen-house has been taken from the town farm wood lot.
In the house all the paper has been removed from the walls and the walls painted, the labor being done by the in- mates under the direction of the superintendent and matron.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
CHESTER L. CLARK, JAMES W. BURKE, · JOHN P. HENNESSY,
Overseers of the Poor.
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF VERNON GROVE CEMETERY, FOR THE YEAR 1903.
Cash on hand, Jan. 1, 1903
$ 30 02
Received, town appropriation
150 00
For lots sold
30 00
Fitting lots
109 10 .
Care of lots, annual
155 00 .
Care of lots, perpetual
135 00 .
Digging and filling graves
119 00
Two single graves
4 00
Standing grass
10 00
Moving remains
6 50
Shrubs sold
1 50
Bound stones
2 00
Mowing lots.
75
Setting foundation
8 50
$ 761 37
CONTRA.
Paid G. W. Brown, labor .
$257 55
Lyman Brown, "
6 50
E. Babcock,
66
234 00
Wm. Johnston & Co.,
labor
39,00
Emery & Wood, labor
14 00
Wm. Emery,
71 10
Adin Ball,
8 00
H. C. Skinner,
66
10 00
.
$640 15
Norris, Staples & Gould,
supplies
$ 25 35
Milford Iron Foundry,
supplies
· 8 00
.
·
·
88
E. E. Vaughan, supplies
$ 2 00
Emery & Wood,
66
.
34 75
Wm. Emery,
13 03
James E. Macuen, 66
·
14 50
Levi W. Moore,
66
.
5 50
Z. C. Field,
66
.
4 79
C. Ellis & Sons,
4 00
Cash on hand
.
$121 22
$761 37
WM. EMERY, Chairman. H. C. SKINNER, Treasurer.
There have been sixty-three interments during the year. The trustees' terms expire as follows: H. C. Skinner and Wm. Emery in 1904.
Geo. L. Maynard and Wm. C. Morrison 1905.
Thomas Lilley and Charles W. Johnson 1906.
WM. EMERY, Chairman. H. C. SKINNER, Secretary.
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REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH.
MILFORD, MASS., Feb. 1, 1904.
After the spring election the board met at the house of A. A. Burrell and elected these officers : Chairman and secre- tary, D. T. Sullivan, M. D. The board then selected P. M. Hunt sanitary inspector, and James M. Coughlin inspector of provisions.
April 1, 1903, Mr. Burrell, owing to continued illness, re- signed as a member of the board. On April 17,1903,the remaining members of the board, Drs. Sullivan and Cole, in conjunction with the board of selectmen, at a special meeting elected Wil- liam H. Hooker to fill out Mr. Burrell's term for this year ..
April 23, 1903, the new board met in a regular meeting and the following officers were elected : Chairman, D. T. Sul- livan, M. D .; secretary, W. H. Hooker; agent, C. H. Cole, M. D. (Dr. Sullivan resigned as secretary.)
May 1, 1903, Mr. James Coughlin resigned as inspector of provisions, and at the next regular meeting of the board Mr. Paul M. Doane was elected inspector. Mr. Coughlin made a very good inspector and the board was sorry to have him re- sign. The board was sorry to have Mr. Burrell resign, as he had made a very efficient member, but owing to his continued illness he deemed it for the best to resign, and Mr. Hooker was selected for his position and performed the necessary du- ties very well.
Regular and special meetings have been held during the year, at which the necessary business has been transacted.
The Rules and Regulations of the board, which were adopted in 1900 were re-adopted for 1903.
The usual undertakers' licenses were issued to M. W. Ed- ward, James W. Edwards, Emery & Wood, George W. Wood, and S. C. J. Quirk. The necessary slaughter-house licenses were granted.
This year of 1903 Milford has been lucky, as in 1902, as
90
regards smallpox. Not a case appeared in the town. The townspeople and the school children have been vaccinated so well that in the opinion of your board smallpox could not do much damage in Milford.
SUMMARY OF CONTAGIOUS DISEASES REPORTED TO BOARD OF HEALTH.
MILFORD, MASS., Jan. 14, 1904.
1903.
Diphtheria.
Scarlet Fever.
Typhoid Fever.
Measles.
Total.
January.
10
1
1
12
February.
3
3
March.
5
6
3
14
April.
5
1
1
7
May.
6
3
1
10
June.
4
5
9
July.
2
2
4
August.
2
1
3
September.
7
7
October.
9
1
10
November.
b
1
1
December.
10
2
1 .
13
-
-
-
-
-
Total,
63
21
4
6
93
The inspector placarded and fumigated 84 houses.
W. H. HOOKER,
Secretary.
As seen by the report of the secretary, 53 more cases of diphtheria and 10 more cases of scarlatina were reported by the physicians, but in 1902 22 cases of typhoid fever were reported, and four (4) cases this year of 1903.
REPORT OF SANITARY INSPECTOR.
MILFORD, Jan. 7, 1904.
DR. DANIEL T. SULLIVAN, Chairman of Board of Health. Dear Sir :-
I submit to you my report as inspector to the board of health, commencing Jan. 1, 1903, to Jan. 1, 1904.
9[
Number places visited
. 620
Number of complaints
. 128
Number of cases of diphtheria
· 63 Number of cases of scarlet fever
17
Number of cases of typhoid fever
.
4
Very Respectfully,
P. M. HUNT,
Inspector.
REPORT OF DR. COLE AS AGENT ON DEATH STATIS- TISTICS FOR 1903.
MILFORD, MASS., Jan. 22, 1904.
During the year 1903, 182 deaths have been reported to the board by the several undertakers in town and registered with the town clerk. In 1902 there were 201 deaths reported, making the deaths in 1903 19 less.
Following is the number of deaths that occurred by months :-
January, 13
May, 18 September, 8
February, 19
June, 11
October, 20
March, 17
July, 17 November, 18
April, 15 August, 12 December, 14
It will be observed that more deaths occurred during fall and winter than during spring and summer. This is the re- verse of the year previous. The greatest number of deaths, 20, occurred during October, and the smallest number, 8, dur- ing September.
The causes of death for the year of 1903 as compared with those of 1902 are as follows :-
1903. 1902
Accident
Burns 2
Shoooting 1
Appendicitis .
2 0
Drowning 1
Apoplexy
5 15
Railroad 1
Bronchitis ·
.
5 0
Dislocation spine 1
Cerebritis
2 0
Injuries 1
Cholera morbus
1 6
Fractured skull 1
Cystitis
·
2
0
1903. 1902. 8 3
1
.
.
92
1903. 1902.
1903. 1902.
Cancer
.
7
6
La grippe
2
0
Cholera infantum
.
3
14
Liver disease
3
7
Colitis
3
0
Meningitis .
·
8
4
Diphtheria
·
7
2
Oedema of lungs
1
2
Diarrhea
·
3
0
Pneumonia
13
27
Disease of brain
.
2
1
Paralysis
5
7
Enteritis
.
2
0
Stillborn
5
Gastritis
·
2
1
Senility
9
18
Heart disease
28
17
Typhoid fever
1
3
Insanity
.
2
3
Tuberculosis
·
13
14
Inanition
11
8
Various causes
. 15
-
Among the "Various causes" include such conditions as lockjaw, suicide, goitre, intestinal hemorrhage, gangrene, per- nicious anæmia, intestinal perforation, septicemia, and others where but one death occurred.
Respectfully submitted,
CHARLES H. COLE.
REPORT OF THE INSPECTOR OF PROVISIONS.
MILFORD, Feb. 4, 1904.
TO THE HONORABLE BOARD OF HEALTH.
GENTLEMEN: I herewith submit my report for the year 1903.
There have been six licensed slaughter-houses the past year which have killed beeves, veals, hogs and sheep. I have visited these places frequently and seen that the places were kept in a good sanitary condition, also that the animals killed were healthy, the same then being stamped by me as the law requires.
Meat and fish markets, fruit stores, and all other places selling food products have been visited from time to time and carefully inspected, and with but few exceptions have found them selling no goods unfit for food material.
I have followed closely those fruit, vegetable and fish pedlars who come in here from Boston during the summer
.
Kidney disease
12
11
1
.
.
93
months with goods that are mostly unfit for food. I was obliged to condemn several such lots, with the result that they discontinued bringing in such refuse products.
Respectfully Yours, PAUL DOANE,
Inspector of Meats and Provisions.
The board is in favor of the town promoting a better sys- tem of sewerage. A great many complaints come to the board that could be avoided if owners of property would attend to the cesspools and vaults. This past fall the condition of the Godfrey brook (so called) on West Spruce street, owing to cesspools and drains emptying into it, became so foul that the board had Inspector Hunt make a house-to-house canvass in that neighborhood and prohibit all from connecting cesspools and sink drains with it, and build necessary cesspools. Since that action by the board the condition of affairs in that brook has been improved. The sewer on Pond street is in a bad con- dition, and complaints arise every summer and autumn. Eventually that condition will have to be remedied. A bad condition also exists in the Lincoln street sewer on land of Wm. Johnston.
DANIEL T. SULLIVAN, M. D., CHARLES H. COLE, M. D., WILLIAM H. HOOKER,
Board of Health.
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE TOWN LIBRARY.
OWEN F. CROUGHWELL, JAMES S. MULLANE, Terms expire 1904. CHARLES A. DEWEY, PATRICK E. SWEENEY, Terms expire 1905. NATHANIEL F. BLAKE, NATHAN W. HEATH, Terms expire 1906.
At the annual meeting of the trustees held Feb. 9, 1904, it was voted that an appropriation of $600 be asked of the town for the maintenance of the library for the ensuing year.
O. F. CROUGHWELL, Secretary of Trustees.
SECRETARY'S REPORT.
MILFORD, February 8, 1904.
TRUSTEES OF TOWN LIBRARY.
Gentlemen: I hereby submit a report of the receipts and expenditures of the Milford town library for the year ending February 1, 1904.
Receipts :-
Appropriation
$1,000 00
Dog tax
869 56
Fines
71 88
Catalogues
10 75
Book destroyed
1 00
$1,953 19
Expenditures :-
Light
$ 145 25
Express
6 95
Covering books
12 80
Librarian
360 00
Assistant
199 97
Supplies
78 35
·
95
Binding
$ 36 07
Books
.
660 02
Printing catalogue
352 00
Unexpended balance
$1,851 41 $ 101 78
Fund in Milford Savings bank
$ 447 75
All of which is respectfully submitted.
O. F. CROUGHWELL,
Secretary.
LIBRARIAN'S REPORT.
TO THE TRUSTEES OF THE TOWN LIBRARY.
Gentlemen: I hereby submit my report for the year end- ing January 30th, 1904.
The library was open 307 days. Circulation for the year, 28,704, an increase of 442 over the previous year.
Largest daily circulation, Jan. 23, 1904, 354 volumes. Smallest daily circulation, Feb. 17, 1903, 15 volumes. Average daily circulation, 93} volumes.
Amount received for fines, $71.88; for catalogues $10.75; for one book destroyed, $1.00.
The library contained as per last report 13,696 volumes; added during the year, 462 volumes, making a total of 14,158 volumes. Of the volumes added 385 were by purchase, 76 were donated, and by binding magazines 1.
The donors were: State of Massachusetts, 44 volumes; United States Government, 16 volumes; the librarian, 4 vol- umes; Smithsonian Institution, 3 volumes; Miss Lydia A. Clegg, Lawrence, Mass., 3 volumes; Sara M. Biddle, Mon- mouth, Ill., A. E. Pillsbury, Boston, Universalist Publishing Co. Boston, Harper Bros., N. Y. City, A. B. Hepburn, N. Y. City, and Darius Healy, Milford, 1 volume each.
Notices sent to delinquents, 97. Books covered, 1134.
The circulation of the various departments of the library is shown by the following table :-
S
96
CIRCULATION.
A
BC
D
E
F
G
H| I
1
J
K
Total
Feb., 1903
50
50
5
61
43
1406
48
7
21
776
2467
March, «
49
53
4
70
45
1416
79
9
29-
919
1
2674
April,
37
40
9
73
43
1293
68
6
21
834
2
2426
May,
17
51
3
64
50
1196
65
4
23
643
2
2118
June,
66
21
42
59
32
1329
35
9
8
538
2
2075
July,
17
40
31
27
1226
39
12
8
532
2
1934
Aug.,
66
23
25
35
24
1279
43
13
10
595
3
2050
Sept.,
66
46
36
3
43
22
1198
52
9
19
592
2
2022
Oct.,
102
77
7
97
20
1388
83
9
40
733
3
2559
Nov.,
66
83
75
6 101
21
1406
65
7
29
901
5
2699
Dec.,
66
49
91
4
83
17
1436
60
7
16
867
6
2636
Jan.,
1904 103
91
7
109
58
1654
88
6
51
872
5
3044
597 671 48 826 402 14227 725 98
275
8802 33
28704
Notice was made in last year's report that the reading room was opened Feb. 2nd, and it has been a success from the start. A careful record has been kept of actual readers, and the total for the year was 5501. The following periodicals are regularly received. (Those marked * are donated.)
WEEKLIES.
Collier's.
Frank Leslie's. Harper's. New Voice .* Outlook.
Patent Office Gazette .* Saturday Evening Post. Scientific American. Youth's Companion. Zion's Herald .*
American Boy. Atlantic.
Bookman.
Century. Cosmopolitan. Country Life in America. Donohoe's. Engineer .*
MONTHLIES.
Frank Leslie's. Harper's. Ladies' Home Journal.
Lippincott's. McClure's. Munsey's. New England.
North American Review.
97
LOuting. Review of Reviews. St. Nicholas. Scribner's.
Traveler's Record .* Youth Realm .* World's Work.
QUARTERLY.
International .*
There has been added to the reference library: Modern Engineering Practice, 10 volumes; Modern Eloquence, 15 volumes; and Encyclopedia Americana as issued, 7 volumes.
During the year the library became a member of the Massachusetts Library Art club, and seven exhibitions of three weeks each have been made. These exhibitions consist of mounted photographs, averaging over one hundred in each collection, and have created general interest not only in the patrons of the library but the public generally.
The exhibits have been "French Artists," "Sicily;" "South Kensington," "Switzerland," "Arizona and New Mexico," "Venice No, 4," and "Oberammergau and the Passion Play."
All of which is respectfully submitted.
N. F. BLAKE, Librarian.
AUDITOR'S REPORT.
I have examined the books of the different departments and find that the vouchers correspond with the orders drawn on and paid by the town treasurer. I have also examined the accounts of the tax collectors and treasurer, and find them to be correct.
Respectfully submitted, THOMAS F. MANNING, Auditor. Milford, Mass., Feb. 10, 1904.
1
PLAINS PRIMARY SCHOOL.
OLIVER STREET SCHOOL.
REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
AND
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
OF THE
TOWN OF MILFORD,
FOR THE
YEAR ENDING JAN. 31, 1904.
MILFORD, MASS .: G. M. BILLINGS, PRINTER, GAZETTE OFFICE. 1904.
SCHOOL COMMITTEE, 1903-1904.
GEORGE E. STACY, G. M. BILLINGS,
W. B. WHITING, T. J. MURPHY, W. J. WELCH, J. C. LYNCH,
Term expires 1904
66
1904
66
66 1905
66
66 1905
66
66 1906
66
66
1906
ORGANIZATION. GEORGE E. STACY, Chairman. C. W. HALEY, Secretary.
SUB-COMMITTEES. Rules and Regulations.
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