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SWINE.
5. No person shall keep swine within the limits of the Town after he has been notified by the Board of Health not to do so.
6. Swine in herds, exceeding five in number, shall not be kept or allowed to pasture within five hundred feet of any public street or way.
OFFENSIVE TRADES.
7. The Board of Health hereby adjudges that the ex- ercise of the trade or employment of keeping swine within the limits of the Town is a nuisance and hurtful to the inhab- itants thereof, and dangerous to the public health. No per- son, firm or corporation shall engage in, or exercise within the limits of the Town of Lincoln the trade or employment of keeping swine without having first obtained a permit there- for in writing from the Board of Health; and such permit may be revoked at any time by the said Board.
8. The Board of Health hereby adjudges that the ex- ercise of the trade or employment of slaughtering cattle, swine, sheep or other animals, or of conducting a melting or rendering establishment, is a nuisance, and hurtful to the in- habitants of the Town, and dangerous to the public health. No person, firm or corporation shall engage in or exercise within the limits of the Town of Lincoln, the trade or em- ployment of slaughtering cattle, swine, sheep or other animals, or of conducting a melting or rendering establish- ment.
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OFFAL, MANURE, ETC.
9. Kitchen refuse or what is known as " City Swill " or offal from swine pens, slaughter houses, vaults or cesspools, shall not be carried over any public street or way within the limits of the Town except in water tight receptacles, which shall be closely covered.
10. Offal or manure from swine pens, slaughter houses, vaults or cesspools, when deposited upon the fields, shall be thoroughly plowed under and covered within twelve hours after such deposit; or, if for any reason not so plowed under and covered, such offal or manure shall be wholly removed within the said time after such deposit.
11. All owners or occupants of any premises within the limits of the Town of Lincoln, shall, on or before the first day of June, in each year, remove all offal, manure and other foul and offensive substances or matter from all swine pens, slaughter houses, vaults and cesspools situated upon their premises ; and shall thereupon immediately cleanse and thoroughly put in order all such swine pens, slaughter houses, vaults and cesspools.
REPEAL.
12. These regulations so far as they agree with former regulations shall be deemed a continuation thereof; but otherwise all former regulations are repealed.
PENALTY.
13. Whoever violates any of the above regulations is liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars for each offence. Public Statutes, Chapter 80, Section 18.
Amendments.
ADOPTED JULY 19, 1901.
1. No person shall convey, or cause to be conveyed, swill, house offal, or refuse or decaying matter over any public street or way in the Town without a written license
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therefor issued by the Board of Health. Such license shall be exercised at all times in accordance with the require- ments of the Board and of its officers, and may be revoked at any time. The ninth (9) regulation of the Board is hereby repealed.
2. No owner or occupant of land or premises within the Town shall permit any swill, house offal, or refuse or decay- ing matter, brought from without the limits of the Town, to remain upon his land or premises for a period exceeding twenty-four hours in any case; provided, however, that any of the said substances may so remain after the said time if placed in receptacles or otherwise disposed of in a manner previously approved in writing by the Board of Health.
Whoever violates any of the above regulations is liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars for each offence.
Public Statutes, Chapter 80, Section 18.
ADOPTED JANUARY 16, 1902.
3. The Board of Health hereby adjudges that the deposit of sputum in public places is a nuisance, source of filth, and cause of sickness, and hereby orders : That spitting upon the floor, platform, or steps of any railroad station, car, public building, halls, church, market, store, or any sidewalk im- mediately connected with said public places, be, and hereby is prohibited.
Whoever violates any of the above regulations is liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars for each offence.
Public Statutes, Chapter 80, Section 18.
A true copy of the regulations of the Board of Health of the Town of Lincoln and all amendments thereto.
Attest : JOSEPH S. HART,
Secretary of the Board of Health.
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Rules and Regulations of the State Board of Health.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
The State Board of Health, acting under the authority of section 113 of chapters 75 of the Revised Laws, and every other act thereto enabling, hereby makes the following rules and regulations for the purpose of preventing the pollution and securing the sanitary protection of the waters of Sandy Pond and its tributaries used by the town of Lincoln as a source of water supply, which shall remain in force until further notice and which may be hereafter from time to time amended or added to by the State Board of Health :-
1. No cesspool, privy or other place for the reception, deposit or storage of human excrement, and no urinal or water_ closet not discharging into a sewer, shall be located, con- structed or maintained within fifty feet of high-water mark of Sandy Pond, so called, said pond being in the town of Lincoln and used by said town as a source of water supply, or within fifty feet of high-water mark of any reservoir, lake, pond, stream, ditch, water course or other open waters, the water of which flows directly or ultimately into said Sandy Pond.
2. No human excrement shall be deposited or discharged in or into Sandy Pond, so called, said pond being in the town of Lincoln and used by said town as a source of water supply, or into any reservoir, lake, pond, stream, ditch, water course or other open waters, the water of which flows directly or ultimately into said Sandy Pond; and no human excrement shall be kept in, or deposited or discharged in or into, any cesspool, privy or other receptacle situated within two hun- dred and fifty feet of high-water mark of said Sandy Pond, or within two hundred and fifty feet of high-water mark of any open waters, the water of which flows directly or ultimately
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into said Sandy Pond, unless such cesspool, privy or other receptacle is so constructed that no portion of its contents can escape or be washed into any such waters.
3. No human excrement, or compost containing human excrement, or contents of any privy or cesspool or sewer, or other receptacle for the reception or storage of human excre- ment, shall be deposited or discharged upon or into the ground at any place from which any such excrement, compost or contents, or particles thereof, may flow or be washed or carried into Sandy Pond, so called, said pond being in the town of Lincoln and used by said town as a source of water supply, or into any reservoir, lake, pond, stream, ditch, water course or other open waters, the water of which flows directly or ulti- mately into said Sandy Pond.
4. No house slops, sink waste, water which has been used for washing or cooking, or other polluted water, shall be dis- charged into Sandy Pond, so called, said pond being in the town of Lincoln and used by said town as a source of water supply, or into any reservoir, lake, pond, stream, ditch, water course or other open waters, the water of which flows directly or ultimately into said Sandy Pond; and no house slops, sink waste, water which has been used for washing or cooking, or other polluted water, shall be discharged into the ground within fifty feet, or upon the ground within two hundred and fifty feet, of high-water mark of said Sandy Pond, or into the ground within fifty feet, or upon the ground within two hun- dred and fifty feet of high-water mark of any open waters flowing as aforesaid into said Sandy Pond.
5. No garbage, manure or putrescible matter whatsoever shall be put into Sandy Pond, so called, said pond being in the town of Lincoln and used by said town as a source of water supply, or into any reservoir, lake, pond, stream, ditch, water course or other open waters, the water of which flows directly or ultimately into said Sandy Pond; and no garbage, manure, or putrescible matter whatsoever shall, except in the cultiva- tion and use of the soil in the ordinary methods of agriculture, be put upon the ground within two hundred and fifty feet of
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high-water mark of said Sandy Pond, or within two hundred and fifty feet of high-water mark of any open waters flowing as aforesaid into said Sandy Pond.
6. No stable, pig-sty, hen-house, barn-yard, hog-yard, hitching or standing place for horses, cattle or other animals, or other place where animal manure is deposited or accumu- lates, shall be located, constructed or maintained, any part of which is within fifty feet of high-water mark of Sandy Pond, so called, said pond being in the town of Lincoln and used by said town as a source of water supply, or within fifty feet of high-water mark of any reservoir, lake, pond, stream, ditch, water course, or other open waters, the water of which flows directly or ultimately into said Sandy Pond. No stable or other place, as above enumerated, shall be located, constructed or maintained within two hundred and fifty feet of high-water mark of said Sandy Pond, or within two hundred and fifty feet high-water mark of any open waters flowing as aforesaid into said Sandy Pond, unless suitable and adequate provision is made to prevent any manure or other polluting matter from flowing or being washed into said pond or such open waters.
7. No lands, which were not under the control of cemetery authorities and used for cemetery purposes on September 3, 1903, from which the natural drainage flows into Sandy Pond, so called, said pond being in the town of Lincoln and used by said town as a source of water supply, or into any reservoir, lake, pond, stream, ditch, water course or other open waters, the water of which flows directly or ultimately into said Sandy Pond, shall be taken or used for cemetery purposes until a plan and description of the lands which it is proposed to use for such purposes, sufficient for their identification, shall be presented to the State Board of Health, and until such taking or use shall be approved in writing by said State Board of Health.
8. No manufacturing refuse or waste products or polluting liquid, or other substance of a nature poisonous or injurious either to human beings or animals, or other putrescible matter whatsoever, shall be discharged directly into, or at any place
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from which it may flow or be washed or carried into, Sandy Pond, so called, said pond being in the town of Lincoln and used by said town as a source of water supply, or into any reservoir, lake, pond, stream, ditch, water course or other open waters, the water of which flows directly or ultimately into said Sandy Pond.
9. No system of sewers or other works for the collection, conveyance, disposal or purification of domestic or manu- facturing sewage or drainage, or any other putrescible matter whatsoever, shall, except in accordance with plans first approved in writing by the State Board of Health, be con- structed or maintained at any place within the watershed of Sandy Pond, so called, said pond being in the town of Lincoln and used by said town as a source of water supply. No private or separate sewer shall be constructed or maintained, having an outlet upon or in the ground within two hundred and fifty feet of high-water mark of said Sandy Pond, or within two hundred and fifty feet of high-water mark of any reservation, lake, pond, stream, ditch, water course or other open waters, the water of which flows directly or ultimately into said Sandy Pond.
10. No public or private hospital, or other place intended for the reception or treatment of persons afflicted with a contagious or infectious disease, shall, until the location and construction thereof have been approved in writing by the State Board of Health, be located or constructed at any place within the watershed of Sandy Pond, so called, said pond being in the town of Lincoln and used by said town as a source of water supply. No public or private hospital, or other place in- tended for the reception or treatment of persons afflicted with a contagious or infectious disease, shall be maintained at any place within such watershed, unless all the provisions required by the State Board of Health for the purification or disposal of sewage, drainage or other polluting or organic matter which may be discharged therefrom, having been complied with, and unless all orders issued from time to time by said State Board of Health in relation to the putrification and disposal
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of sewage, drainage and other polluting or organic matter, which may be discharged therefrom, are fully complied with.
11. No tannery, currying shop, or other establishment or place where the skin, wool, hair or fur of any animal is treated, shall, until the location and construction thereof have been ap- proved in writing by the State Board of Health, be located or constructed at any place within the watershed of Sandy Pond so called, said pond being in the town of Lincoln and used by said town as a source of water supply. No tannery, currying shop, or other establishment or place where the skin, wool, hair or fur of any animal is treated, shall be maintained at any place within such watershed, unless all the provisions required by the State Board of Health for the purification or disposal of sewage, drainage or other polluting or organic matter, which may be discharged therefrom, have been complied with, and unless all orders issued from time to time by said State Board of Health in relation to the purification and disposal of sewage, drainage and other polluting or organic matter, which may be discharged therefrom, are fully complied with.
12. No slaughter house or other building for carrying on the business of slaughtering cattle, sheep or other animals, and no melting or rendering establishment, shall, until the location and construction thereof have been approved in writing by the State Board of Health, be located or constructed at any place within the watershed of Sandy Pond, so called, said pond being in the town of Lincoln and used by said town as a source of water supply. No slaughter house or other building for carrying on the business of slaughtering cattle, sheep or other animals, and no melting or rendering establish- ment, shall be maintained at any place within such watershed, unless all the provisions required by the State Board of Health for the purification or disposal of sewage, drainage or other polluting or organic matter, which may be discharged there- from, having been complied with, and unless all orders issued
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from time to time by said State Board of Health in relation to the purification and disposal of sewage, drainage and other polluting or organic matter, which may be discharged there- from, are fully complied with.
13. No person shall bathe in, and no person shall, unless permitted by a special regulation or by a written permit of the Board of Water Commissioners of the town of Lincoln, fish in, or send, drive or put any animal into Sandy Pond, so called said pond being in the town of Lincoln and used by said town as a source of water supply. No person other than a member of said Board of Water Commissioners, its officers, agents or employees, or a member of the Board of Water Commis- sioners of the town of Concord, its officers, agents or employees, or public officers whose duties may so require, shall, unless so permitted by regulation or permit of said Board of Water Commissioners of the town of Lincoln, enter or go, in any boat, skiff, raft or other contrivance, on or upon the water of said pond, nor shall enter or go upon, or drive any animal upon, the ice of said pond.
14. No person shall enter upon Sandy Pond, so called, said pond being in the town of Lincoln and used by said town as a source of water supply, for the purpose of cutting or taking ice, or cut or take ice from said pond, without a written permit, signed by the Board of Water Commissioners of the town of Lincoln, stating the time and place for which such permission is given.
15. All reports which may be made to any board of health, or to any health officer of any town, of cases of contagious or infectious disease occurring within the watershed of Sandy Pond, so called, said pond being in the town of Lincoln and used by said town as a source of water supply, shall be open to the inspection at all reasonable times of the Board of Water
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Commissioners of the town of Lincoln and the Board of Water Commissioners of the town of Concord, their officers and agents.
By order of the Board,
SAMUEL W. ABBOTT, Secretary.
A true copy. Jos. S. HART, Sec'ty Board of Water Commissioners of the Town of Lincoln. Attest:
Lincoln, Mass., Sept. 11th, 1903.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
TOWN OF LINCOLN
FOR THE
SCHOOL YEAR 1903
1746AS
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SCHOOL COMMITTEE
JULIUS E. EVELETH, Chairman. EDWARD R. FARRAR, Secretary.
Term expires 1905
66 66 1904
EDWARD E. BRADLEY. 66 66 1906
Superintendent of Schools W. N. CRAGIN Supervisor of Music ANNIE M. BARNES
Supervisor of Drawing EMILY L. HAINES
TEACHERS
Centre Grammar
CARRIE B. CHAPIN
Centre Sub Grammar
MARY H. ALCOTT
Centre Primary HATTIE B. HEATH
South Sub Grammar
S. ELLEN BROWN South Primary I. BEATRICE FARNSWORTH
JANITORS
Centre GEORGE L. CHAPIN
South MATHEW H. DOHERTY
TRUANT OFFICERS
.JAMES T. LAIRD
HERBERT W. FARRAR
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Report of School Committee.
To the Citizens of Lincoln:
In comparison with the experiences of the previous year, the present one has been uneventful, inasmuch as no calamity has threatened the comfort of the pupils or interfered with the regular routine of school work. Had the coal famine made its appearance during the present winter, with all its severity, the conditions would have been serious in the extreme.
Nature's compensation has been verified in a marked de- gree by these experiences, and should stand as an object-lesson emphasizing the hopeful view which may be taken of coming . events, when suitable care is exercised to prepare for emer- gencies. A too optimistic view of the future, however, is often a hindrance to success, as its tendency is in the direction of a careless indifference, accompanied by a lack of effort. To avoid either extreme should constitute the point of view which decides the course to be pursued by the student as well as the individual who has entered upon the real duties of life.
The transitions of school life are analogous to the hopes and ambitions, the struggles and discouragements attending the experiences of mature years. To the immature mind of the boy or girl, the difficulties which have to be overcome in the mastery of some particular study or studies, for which perhaps they have no taste and a limited capacity, are actual sources of depression and produce a feeling akin to the serious problems that confront them in after-life when the real battle is on.
Perhaps we as parents and instructors do not attach im- portance enough to this barrier which the hazy mist of years has so nearly obliterated. The matter is brought freshly to mind, however, by contact with and observation of the pupils
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in their work of to-day; that they have advantages in a marked degree superior to the regime of a previous generation is plainly obvious; that, in the onward march of progress the intellectual development of the youth of the land has by no means been overlooked, must be plainly seen; that no impedi- ments are put in the way of pupils of whichever sex or what- ever nationality, whether of the city or of the farm, the man- sion house or the cottage, is also true. Admitting all this, the requirements of the present day are in proportion to the increased facilities for mind culture and admit of no diminu- tion of effort on the part of the pupil, if a high standard of excellence is to be reached. Could every boy or girl be made to feel that the difficulties to be overcome present the most formidable appearance at the start, that the future holds more of success than failure, many a faint-hearted one would be aided and encouraged in a marked degree. Exceptions to all rules are always admissible, but we refer to the average pupil, omitting those rare cases which appear in the uncertain development of school life, who seem imbued with a deter- mined persistence, aided by a hopeful assurance of winning.
It is with the great majority that we have to deal, and as human nature presents so many phases, much tact must be used in solving the method of treatment best adapted to the individual pupil.
The teacher who treats her pupils as individuals, with an appreciation of their various needs, has discovered the real art of teaching, and cannot fail of success. She will un- doubtedly discover that the larger proportion will be best served by encouraging words and a manner indicating a sympathy and personal interest in their advancement.
With its accessories, the schoolhouse may be favorably compared to a household, repairs and improvements in a gen- eral way always in view of the occupant. There will be years, however, when everything seems in fairly good condition, and the present one may be said to belong to that exceptional rule. What with the former changes in the heating system, the purchasing of barges and the introduction of new text-
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books, the requirements of the present year have been reduced to minor items of expense which are inevitable. Such a state of things cannot, of course, continue indefinitely, as time is inexorable in its demands, and regardless of our sense of economy.
Paint within and without will be required at no distant day, both for appearance and cleanliness. The increase of pupils in the South District will also demand an addition to the barge system, as the present accommodations are hardly adequate to the needs. Perhaps an exchange of the present vehicle for a larger one, with additional horse-power when the roads are in heavy condition, might answer the purpose for a time.
The question of transportation is at times a somewhat puzzling one, as the highways of the town were evidently not constructed with a view to bringing the various homesteads into an accessible line of travel. As a consequence, some fairly direct road must be adopted as a regular thoroughfare for the barges and the loads gathered from the branch roads leading into the main one. This often discommodes the resi- dents of the branches, much to the regret of the committee who have the matter in charge; but as a driver cannot go north at the same time he goes south, one or the other must be seemingly neglected. The recourse left in deciding this question seems to be an equitable division, as far as possible, of favors between the branches on either side. Much extra expense would be incurred and much time consumed, were the " from door to door" plan adopted. One point, however, is given careful consideration; that the distance of any house to the line of the barges shall not be greater than from the home to the district school, as it existed before transportation of pupils was adopted. This explanation seems due the public as cases of this sort will arise from time to time.
In anticipating the needs of the future, your committee have also in mind the leasing of some available tract of land for a play ground at the Center until such time as a new building may be constructed, with this valuable accessory a
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part of the general plan. It is due the pupils, especially those who come from a distance and remain during the noon hour that they have some spot they may call their own and feel free to use as a play ground, without encroaching upon private property or spending their time upon the highway. As exer- cise and play are an essential and important part of the young life, both for health of body and mind, the present handicap should be removed and some provision made for his accommo- dation. As a bit of pleasant information, it may be well to state that negotiations are already under way, with the prom- ise of a successful issue.
By way of explanation, some reference might be made to the change in the hours of the school session. The shortening of the time spent in the school room has steadily gained in favor, as the beneficial results have been noted, until it has become an important factor in the school management through- out the state. The adoption of this plan simply brings us into line with the.majority of the schools, both of the city and country.
While it would be in every way desirable to have a new building, as has been suggested in several previous reports, the needs have not increased during the last few years, the enrollment of the schools having somewhat diminished. The present number of pupils in each of the rooms, which includes the three buildings now in use, varies from twenty to twenty- five, and is hardly sufficient to make the classes interesting, on account of their diminutive size. A larger school would be preferable, by far, but under existing circumstances, could not be accomplished without multiplying grades and thereby interfering with the efficiency of its management.
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