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Accrued taxes. . 80
Received of-
Town of East Bridgewater, Dr. Sawyer's bill. 25 00
William W. Simmons, farm sales 41 64
City of Boston, support of William Phillips and wife 39 93
Hawkers and pedlers' licenses 16 00
Josiah Peterson, Book Agent
54 14
Auctioneers' and billiard licenses. 4 00
County Treasurer, special award for highway
50 00
Thomas Chandler, guardian for Eden Sampson
45 00
William D. Gregg, support of daughter
4 00
Selectmen, old lumber sold to George Scott
50
Corporation tax 3,285 85
National Bank tax
1,866 92
State aid, Chapter 301, Acts of 1879
1,294 00
Military aid, Chapter 252, Acts of 1879
348 00
Tax on foreign ships 46 97
Income, Massachusetts School Fund
172 04
County Treasurer, dividend dog fund
268 15
Trustees Partridge Academy, seats and pedestals
5 75
Tempory loan
3,200 00
Foot of tax bills for 1884
17,095 52
Interest on taxes
95 17
Interests on deposits 39 26
$36,653 06
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CR.
Paid-
$3,463 35
Selectmen's orders for highways.
3,272 28
incidentals
66
schools
329 17
66
repairs of school houses
129 75
66
removing snow
1,298 00
66
State aid
773 00
66
" Military aid
Decoration day 50 00
Overseers of Poor's orders
Temporary Loan and interest
5,117 50
Railroad Note and interest.
1,480 00
State Tax
1,191 42
County Tax
35 85
Deeds of property held for taxes.
80
Accrued tax
245 96
Discount on taxes
206 03
Uncollected taxes to 1883
1,088 42
" 1883
3,072 50
1884.
2,768 25
Cash on hand
Deposited in Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Co.,
2,000 00
Railroad Fund
$36,653 06
We have examined the accounts of the Treasurer and find them csrrect and properly vouched.
SAMUEL ATWELL, ) Auditing HENRY BARSTOW, S Committee.
March 16th, 1885.
D
C U
D
A D
3,546 15
3,241 97
66
66
66
3,342 66
A I D
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LIABILITIES OF THE TOWN.
Worcester North Savings Institution, due April 21,'85 $2,285. 00 Arlington Five Cents Savings Bank, interest on note 237 50 Interest on bonds, due May 1 1,012 50 Due Town of Marshfield, support of David P. Walker 41 24
$3,576 24
RESOURCES.
Cash in hands of Treasurer
$2,768 25
Uncollected taxes to 1883
206 03
66 1883
1,088 42
66
1884
3,072 50
Deed of property held for taxes
35 85
Accrued tax .
80
Due from State for State aid
1,536 00
Due from State for military aid
538 50
$9,246 35
Liabilities
3,576 24
Balance in favor of Town
$5,670 11
We have examined the foregoing accounts of the Selectmen, and find them properly stated and vouched.
SAMUEL ATWELL, } Auditing HENRY BARSTOW, § Committee.
March 17, 1885.
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ASSESSORS' STATISTICS.
District No. 1. Real estate
$90,004 00
2.
66
66
104,021 00
3.
61,111 00
4. 66 66
46,654 00
5. 66 66
16,581 00
6. 66 66
67,357 00
7.
126,341 00
8.
36,199 00
6.
36,292 00
10. 66 66
79,655 00
11.
37,087 00
12.
116,986 00
Non-residents
$916,870 00
District No. 1. Personal estate
2.
10,305 00
3.
8,660 00
4.
8,090 00
5.
2,038 00
6.
9,660 00
7.
59,219 00
8.
2,085 00
9.
5,720 00 .
10
17,871 00
11.
8,918 00
12.
66
33,030 00
Non-residents
$172,619 00
66
16,275 00
66
66 66
66
66
66
66
66 66
66
66
66
66
66
66
66
98,591 00
66 66
66 66
66 66
$20,448 00
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Total valuation for 1884
$1,089,489 00
Total valuation for 1883 1,032,871 00
Increase from 1883
$56,618 00
Totol number of Polls :
District No. 1
68
District No. 7 54
2
33
8. 49
3
59
9. 25
4
42
10
30
5
33
11
51
6
21
12
26
1
541
Increase in real estate
$48,490 00
Increase in personal estate 8,128 00
Amount of property exempted of widows, minors and persons over seventy-five years of age ... 32,852 00
State tax
$1,480 00
County tax
1,191 42
Town tax
1,470 00
Overlays
243 68
Schools books carried to tax bills
110 42
$17,095 52
Rate of taxation on State tax, $0.86 on $1,000
66 66 County tax, 0.58
66 66 Town tax, 13.16
$14.60
541 polls-$2.00 on poll.
1 female- 0.50 on poll.
School children from five to fifteen years, 300.
THOMAS CHANDLER, SAMUEL P. SOULE, JOSHUA W. SWIFT,
Assessors
of Duxbury.
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APPROPRIATIONS
RECOMMENDED FOR THE ENSUING YEAR.
Support of schools. $2,800 00
Support of poor 3,000 00
Repairs of highways. 2,500 00
Removing snow.
150 00
Railroad loan.
2,000 00
Interest on railroad loan 2,975 00
Repairs of school-houses.
150 00
Aid to indigent soldiers
400 00
Decoration of soldiers' graves
50 00
$14,025 00
For incidental expenses, bank and corporation tax.
THOMAS CHANDLER, ) Selectmen SAMUEL P. SOULE, of
JOSHUA W. SWIFT, -
Duxbury.
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LIST OF JURORS
As revised by the Selectmen March 16th, 1885 :
Jerome Chandler,
Edwin H. Wright,
Edward W. Winsor,
Elbridge H. Chandler,
George Simmons, John K. Parker,
George H. Bailey,
Nathan C. Keene,
Wm. S. Frazar,
Lewis M. Bailey,
Alonzo Chandler,
Levi P. Simmons,
Ichabod Sampson,
Joshua S. Freeman,
Henry Barstow,
Henry H. Lewis,
Eugene T. Soule,
Samuel Atwell,
Harrison G. Weston,
Herbert A. Peterson, Levi H. Cushing,
Robert T. Randall, George Weston,
Samuel W. Hunt,
Edward G. Winslow,
John W. Cushing,
Thomas Alden,
James A. Simmons, Rufus Holliday.
Henry Chandler,
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REPORT OF THE OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
EXPENSES IN ALMSHOUSE FOR THE YEAR
ENDING MARCH 15, 1835.
Paid-
Overseers of Poor, services settling and making re-
port, March, 1884 $15 00
Thomas Chandler, keeping books, postage and sta- tionery 7 45
Josiah Peterson, Clerk of Overseers. 5 00
William Simmons, balance salary to April 19
25 00
William Simmons, salary to March 19, 1885 297 00
W. S. Freeman & Co., supplies for almshouse 334 16
F. P. Sherman, 66 66
53 14
Edward W. Winsor, 66 66
26 58
C. D. Cobb & Bros., goods for almshouse
98 77
George Bradford, meats
90 77
W. E. Weston, meats 2 30
A. C. Myrick, fresh fish 39 27 William Sheldon, ten tons furnace coal. 65 00
Sylvanus Prior, wood 22 75
J. S. Loring, coal 9 10
William Simmons, teaming kelp, wood, &c 56 59
Amount carried forward. $1,147 88
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Amount brought forward $1,147 88
Estate A. B. Weston, standing grass
13 75
Estate N. C. Brewster,
6 50
Miss A. Turner, 66 6 00
2 00
E. G. Winslow, machine mowing 5 25
John Delano, machine mowing 2 50
William Phillips, labor haying, &c., at almshouse ..
6 77
N. Ford & Sons, goods for almshouse 43 76
A. M. Thayer & Sons, clothing, inmates 15 25
Josiah Peterson, shoes for inmates 1 50
5 25
B. Gullifer, potatoes
7 50
J. H. Bickford, beef 15 00
W. S. Frazar, supplies 96
J. F. Myrick, repairs pump 8 35
Old Colony Railroad, freight 2 09
W. Hastings, ploughing 9 45
Standard Fertilizer Co., phosphates 9 90
J. E. Josselyn, butchering, 1883 2 50
R. T. Randall, potatoes 3 12
A. Stetson, mending shoes
60
G. P. Wadsworth, chairs 1 15
5 40
W. W. Simmons, sea fowl, &c
Thomas Pezzy, fish 2 00
Z. Hunt, box boards and barrel
1 98
N. Cushman, painting
2 50
J. Southworth, wood 7 00
J. Hersey, crackers . 3 04
Codman & Shurtleff, rubber sheet, &c
4 05
S. B. Belknap, making cider 2 60
S. Shurtleff, butchering hog 1 50
Amount carried forward. $1,347 10
Willard Clark,
66
66
Perez Loring, meat
32
Amount brought forward $1,347 10
F. T. Holmes, butchering hog 1 50
J. K. Parker, services bull 2 00
P. J. Alden, pigs
12 00
Mrs. Dennis Curtis, cash order, removal to New Hampshire 5 00
W. S. Frazar, watching at almshouse, J. M. Holmes 11 00
Dr. B. A. Sawyer, medical attendance, almshouse .. 34 00
Enoch Freeman, burial, coffin, &c., Welthea Samp-
son 20 00
Enoch Freeman, burial, coffin, &c., Dennis Curtis .. 20 00
Enoch Freeman, burial, coffin, &c., J. M. Holmes .. . 18 00
$1,470 60
SUPPORT OF POOR OUT OF ALMSHOUSE.
Paid-
C. H. Chandler, wood for Widow Betsey Peterson. . $5 50
N. Ford & Sons, supplies Peleg Gullifer and family . 95 00
N. Ford & Sons, supplies William Bowen 44 00 Thomas L. Soule, support 70 00
James Randall, support 39 00
Mrs. Maria K. Wallace, support Sabia Keene 52 00
Judah Delano and family, supplies . 37 50
Taunton Lunatic Hospital, support Annie L.
Burgess 179 87
Taunton Lunatic Hospital, support Martha O. Jackson 191 35
Taunton Lunatic Hospital, support Gamaliel Arnold 174 17 Taunton Lunatic Hospital, support Simeon Samp- son 42 80
Amount carried forward. $931 19
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Amount brought forward . $931 19
B. F. Hodges, support Avery Hodges 122 00
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, support of William McMillan 50 61 °
Danvers Lunatic Hospital, support William McMillan 140 37
Town Holbrook, support daughter William D. Gregg 33 50
Town Pembroke, support William W. Gardner 8 00
Town Hanover, supplies Thomas Inglis and family 138 50
City Boston, supplies E. F. Delano 2 00
City New Bedford, support Henry Burns. 18 50
J. H. Brown, removal Henry Burns and goods from New Bedford 25 00
F. P. Sherman, supplies family H. Burns .
22 50
L. H. Cushing, wood, &c., H. Burns. 27 25 .
Weston Freeman, house rent H. Burns 36 66 ·
William Sheldon, coal H. Burns 7 00
Dr. B. A. Sawyer, medical attendance, H. Burns 26 00 . Town Stoneham, support George Stetson 7 50
J. Dwelley, Hanover, house rent E. Magoun 15 00
2 00
G. M. Ryder, horse hire to Plympton, Thayer case. Thomas Chandler, time and expenses, Plympton for
Thayer, and Weymouth, Henry T. Gardner cases 5 50
Aid to family of Oscar H. Soule 15 00
Mrs. Cashman, Scituate, house rent, E. Magoun 12 00
J. S. Loring, coal Henry Alden. 20 25
R. G. Freeman, sawing wood Henry Burns. 3 22
Dr. F. Collamore, medical attendance Sabia Keen . .
4 35
Town Abington, aid Eugene and Arthur Gullifer
22 00
City of Boston, aid Arthur Gullifer .
7 00
City of Boston, aid Daniel Hanley 2 85
Amount carried forward
$1,705 75
5
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Amount brought forward. $1,705 75
Town of Hanover, aid E. Magoun 65 57
" Weymouth, aid Henry T. Gardner 37 80
" Randolph, aid Alvah Nightingale 40 78
" Hanson, aid Henry T. Gardner 31 54
" Hanson, aid Walter Southworth 8 00
Cash order to Thomas Inglis 10 00
W. S. Freeman, goods to Henry Burns 3 10
$1,902 44
AVAILABLE MEANS FOR SUPPORT OF POOR FROM MARCH 15, 1884, TO MARCH 15, 1885.
Appropriation April, 1884 $2,900 00
Received-
William W. Simmons, sales, Town Farm 45 82
Thomas Chandler, guardian Eden Samp-
son . 45 00
William D. Gregg, aid to daughter, in part
4 00
City Boston, aid William Phillips and wife 39 93
East Bridgewater, support Ednah Wade 25 00
Overdrawn 313 29 $3,373 04
Support of poor in almshouse $1,470 60
Support of poor outside of almshouse .. .
1,902 44
$3,373 04
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INMATES OF ALMSHOUSE AT PRESENT TIME AND AGE.
Bardford Holmes, 80 Mary Southworth, 70
Samuel Winsor,
81 Betsey A. Churchill, 60
Eden Sampson,
64 Lucy G. Chandler, 35
George Stetson, 57 Sarah A. Thayer, 60
Number of inmates now at almshouse 8
Largest number at one time 13
Smallest number at one time 8
Admitted during the year 2
Discharged during the year
2
Died during the year, Wealthea Sampson, J. Melzar Holmes and Dennis Curtis. 3
Tramps lodged during the year 24
The average cost of support for each person at the almshouse for the year has been $2.25§ per week.
ARTICLES REMAINING IN THE ALMSHOUSE AND
ON THE FARM MARCH 15, 1885.
3ª tons of coal,
1 lb. pepper and spices,
4 cords oak wood,
14 lbs. tobacco,
¿ cord pine wood, 15 lbs. dry fish,
3 barrels flour,
15 lbs. fish tongues,
145 lbs. ham,
75 gals. vinegar,
475 lbs. pork,
3} bush. dry beans,
120 lbs. lard,
30 bush. potatoes,
165 lbs. dried apples,
¿ barrel crackers,
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53 lbs. tea, 16 lbs. coffee, 200 lbs. sugar,
6 lbs. butter,
25 bunches matches,
280 lbs. shoats,
1 yearling heifer,
8 cords manure,
1 bush. rye,
24 fowls,
25 lbs. shorts.
10 lbs. salt,
2 bush. turnips, 2 bush. carrots,
2} bush. corn and meal, 1 bush. rye meal.
Amount, $442.89, being excess of $84.38 from March 15, 1884.
All of which is respectfully submitted,
THOMAS CHANDLER, ) Overseers SAMUEL P. SOULE, of
JOSHUA W. SWIFT, Poor.
We have examined the foregoing accounts of the Overseers of the Poor, and find them correctly stated and properly vouched.
SAMUEL ATWELL, \ Auditing HENRY BARSTOW, S Committee.
March 16, 1885.
45 bars hard soap,
3 barrel soft soap, 2 tons English hay, 1 ton salt hay, 1 cow,
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TOWN MEETING.
Copy of articles in Warrant for Annual Town Meeting, to be held at Town Hall, Duxbury, Monday, April 6th, 1885, at 10 o'clock A. M .
1. To choose a Moderator.
2. To choose all necessary Town Officers.
3. To hear the anuual report of the several Town Officers and act thereon.
4. To see what action the Town will take in regard to the herring fishery, the ensuing year.
5. To see what action the Town will take on the order of the County Commissioners, to widen and straighten the road from Crooked Lane, so-called, to Marshfield line. Petition of Bradford and others.
6. To raise such sums of money as may be necessary to defray Town charges for the year ensuing, and make appropri- ation of the same.
7. Will the Town authorize their Treasurer to borrow money in anticipation of taxes, the year ensuing ?
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8. What action will the Town take on the claim for damages received on the highway by Isaac Symmes ?
9. To ballot upon the question of granting licenses for the sale of intoxicating liquors in the Town, ballots to be " Yes or No," in answer to the question " shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this Town ?"
10. To revise or accept the list of Jurors, as prepared by the Selectmen.
11. Will the Town raise the sum of fifty dollars, to be ex- pended under the direction of Wm. Wadsworth Post, 165, G. A. R., on Memorial day ?
12. Will the Town offer inducements or encouragement to manufacturers to establish business in Town, or do anything relating thereto ? By request.
13. Will the Town take any action in relation to repairing and reseating the Town Hall ; also repairing the Almshouse ?
14. What action will the Town take in relation to reim- bursing Capt. B. G. Cahoon for rebuilding the bridge near Henry Whiting's.
15. Will the Town authorize their Selectmen to have printed a list of valuation and taxes, in their next annual report ?
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TOWN CLERK'S REPORT.
BIRTHS REGISTERED IN DUXBURY IN 1884.
DATE.
NAME OF CHILD.
PARENTS' NAMES.
1883.
July 22,
Fannie N. Shurtleff,
Luther and Anna.
1884.
Jan. 7,
- - Glover,
John H. and Nancy C. Edward L. and Julia C.
66 24,
Alton Thomas Gardner,
Feb.
4,
Howard L. Sampson,
Annie Westley Cushing,
March 3,
Ray Archer Stearns,
George H. and Cora L. John W. and Sylvia J. Robert L. and Mary A.
May
5,
Florence Marion DeWolf,
66
11,
Harold Alden Sampson,
William S. and Mary L. Ichabod and Nellie H. Herbert A. and Lillian.
June
20,
Sarah W. Turner,
July
7,
Jennie May Baker, Bessie Fish,
66
12, 24,
Evelena Randall,
Sept. 30,
Carl Webber Gridley,
Oct. 24,
Alice Marguerite Parker,
Nov. 13, A. Darlin Simmons,
James A. and Emily J.
24,
George Harrison Josselyn,
Dec. 6,
Parker Bradley Chandler,
John E. and Josephine T. J. Bernard and Mary L.
15,
Peleg C. Alden,
66
25,
Robert John Sanderson,
13,
Ethel Burr Peterson,
William J. and Zilpha E. Walter E. and Ida F. Henry A. and Alice E. Horace W. and Sarah E. Charles A. and Carrie C. John K. and Mercy.
22,
Alice E. Chute,
George L. and Emma F. Elisha G. and Martha L. John W. and Hannah.
4,
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MARRIAGES REGISTERED IN DUXBURY IN 1884.
Jan. 13. George A. Simmons of Duxbury and Melora A. Ford of East Bridgewater. By Rev. Peleg Grif- fin. Married in East Bridgewater.
24. Herbert Wadsworth of Duxbury and Amelia D. Howland of Bridgewater. By N. E. Goodnough. Married in Brockton.
Mar. 27. Thomas W. Herrick of Duxbury and Lizzie B. Hall of New Bedford. By Rev. H. M. Grout. Mar- ried in Concord.
Apr. 12. Nahum Sampson, Jr., and Eliza A. Shepard, both of Duxbury. By Rev. C. Y. DeNormandie. Mar- ried in Kingston.
May 31. Charles A. Adams and Elizabeth P. Holmes, both of Marshfield. By Rev. R. D. Burr.
June 25. Dixon W. Seaver of Carthage, Mo., and Cora M. Alden of Duxbury. By Rev. E. Q. S. Osgood. Married in Plymouth.
July 9. Murcer W. Ford of Duxbury and Helen C. Weston of Kingston. By Rev. C. Y. DeNormandie. Mar- ried in Kingston.
Aug. 5. Frank H. Clayton of Boston and Minnie A. Pratt of Duxbury. By Rev. H. Hogue.
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Aug. 25. Arthur H. Hodge and Elizabeth W. Dunster, both of Duxbury. By Rev. C. Y. DeNormandie. Married in Kingston.
Oct. 21. Charles Boomer and Mary W. Simmons, both of Pembroke. By Rev. Cha e Taylor.
Nov. 5. Fred. S. Soule of Duxbury and Adeline H. Thomp- son of Abington. By Rev. B. F. Bowles. Mar- ried in Abington.
5. Hiram R. Eldridge and Ida Bertha Webb, both of Kingston. By Rev. Edward L. Chute.
9. Martin Hanigan and Helen M. Freeman, both of Duxbury. By Rev. J. W. Brownville. Married in Marshfield.
12. Clifford T. Gardner of Duxbury and Mattie C. Hill- man of Pembroke. By Rev. Robert B. Swain.
15. Joseph B. Brewster and Ellen Burgess, both of Duxbury. By Rev. Edward L. Chute.
26. Harry Sampson of Duxbury and Julia M. Chandler, of Kingston. By Rev. C. Y. DeNormandie.
Dec. 30. Bradford Weston and Louisa B. Thomas, both of Duxbury. By Rev. Edward L. Chute.
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DEATHS REGISTERED OF THOSE HAVING DIED IN DUXBURY DURING THE YEAR 1884.
AGE.
DISEASE.
DATE.
NAMES.
Years.
Months.
Days.
1884.
5
Exhaustion.
January
12,
Glover,
42
18,
Cuttriss,
Old Age.
26,
Sally B. Sampson,
85
11
17
Organic Disease of Heart.
26,
Lydia H. Winsor,
52
2
9
Endocarditis.
Sarah J. Chandler,
25
11
4
Pulmonary Abscess.
February
1,
Fred L. Chandler,
84
3
Old Age.
7 ,
Waity Sampson,
38
11
3
Interstitial Hepatitis.
9,
Sarah N. P. Needham,
69
8
13.
Paralysis.
13
Prudence Frost,
63
8
-
Gastritis.
29,
Seth Bartlett,
82
7
17
Valvular Disease of Heart.
March
23,
Welthea Sampson,
85
3
19
Acute Bronchitis.
25.
Polly Chandler,
78
6
17
Pneumonia.
April
7,
Reuben Peterson,
93
1
7
Old Age.
66
7, Harry Mellens,
50
1
6
Phthisis.
-
-
Still Born.
80
1
4
27,
25,
Martha D. Raynolds,
82
Old Age.
27,
Lucy Holmes,
May
4,
Freeman,
81
11
4
66
7,
Sally McFarland,
79
8
9
19,
Judah Delano,
16
11
9
June
11,
Mary Ann Morton,
80
6
1
Disease of Liver.
20,
Otis Weston,
87
5
14
Dropsy and Old Age.
July
1,
Nathaniel A. Burgess,
81
3
14
Senile Gangrene.
66
5,
Nathaniel Strang,
67
10
Dysentery.
August
12,
George H. Knell,
36
3
21
Aœdema of Lungs.
October
8,
Elizabeth Kennedy,
76
8
-
Dysentery.
28,
David Chandler,
58
8
9
Bright's Disease.
30,
Prudence Hathaway,
86
6
17
Angina Pectoris.
November 11,
Mary E. Johnson,
23
8
7
Phthisis.
19,
Enoch W. Perkins,
74
6
Cancerous Disease.
December
5,
Thomas B. Cushing,
46
9
2
Paralysis.
8,
Huldah Bailey,
75
10
19
Bilious Fever.
14,
Holmes,
Melzar Holmes,
85
23
Old Age.
21,
Still Born.
Chronic Bronchitis. Chronic Hepatitis. Phthisis.
26,
Abbie D. Furness,
Dennis Curtis,
80
2
28
Bright's Disease.
8,
43
-
Still Born.
DEATHS REGISTERED THAT WERE BROUGHT TO TOWN FOR INTERMENT.
AGE.
DATE.
NAMES.
Years.
Months.
Days.
1884.
March
4,
17,
Charles Loring,
81
3
14
Old Age,
May
10,
Philander Nutter,
38
11
9
Scrofula,
June
26,
William W. Bradford,
26
-
Phthisis,
Boston. Cambridge.
October
21,
Edith W. Thomas,
11
20
Meningitis,
November 17,
George C. Drew,
63
6
-
December 1,
Charles C. Hunt,
3
4
18
Diphtheria, followed by Paralysis,
4,
Matilda W. Peterson,
84
11
12
Paralysis,
66
27,
William K. Blake,
84
3
3
Heart Disease,
PLACE OF DEATH.
Holyoke. Quincy. East Boston.
44
James HI. Keeler,
30
Elongated Palate,
Bright's Disease of Kidneys,
Marshfield. Boston. South Weymouth.
Plymouth.
DISEASE.
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SUMMARY.
Marriage certificates issued
15
Certificates returned for record. 17
Deaths recorded
44
Died in Duxbury 35
Births recorded
20
Males
9
Females
11
Number of dogs licensed 134
Males 117 Females 17
Paid to County Treasurer $292 20
J. PETERSON, Town Clerk.
DUXBURY, March 15, 1885.
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REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH.
The Board respectfully submits its annual report for the year ending March 15, 1885.
The duties of the Board the past year have not been very ar- duous. With the exception of the supervision over and regular visits to the Standard Fertilizer Works, there has been but little to require their attention.
The Legislature of 1884 passed the following act, which is hereby published for the benefit of the citizens, your Board expressing the hope that each and every inhabitant will try and carry out its provisions.
AN ACT CONCERNING CONTAGIOUS DISEASES.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows :
SECTION 1. When a householder knows that a person within his family is sick of small pox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, or any other disease dangerous to the public health, he shall immedi- ately give notice thereof to the selectmen or board of health of the town in which he dwells, and upon the death, recovery or removal of such person, the rooms occupied and the articles used by him shall be disinfected by such householder in a manner approved by the board of health. Any person neglect- ing or refusing to comply with either of the above provisions, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars.
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SEC. 2. When a physician knows that a person whom he is called to visit is infected with small pox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, or any other disease dangerous to the public health, he shall immediately give notice thereof to the selectmen or board of health of the town ; and if he refuses or neglects to give such notice he shall forfeit for each offense not less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars.
SEC. 3. The boards of health in the several cities and towns shall cause a record to be kept of all reports received in pur- suance of the preceding sections and such record shall contain the names of all persons who are sick, the localities in which they live, the diseases with which they are affected, together with the state and name of the persons reporting any such cases. The boards of health shall give the school committee immediate information of any cases of contagious diseases re- ported to them according to the provisions of this act.
SEC. 5. The Secretary of the Commonwealth shall furnish the boards of health with blank books for the record of cases of contagious diseases as above provided.
SEC. 5. Sections seventy-eight and seventy-nine of chapter eighty of the Public Statutes are hereby repealed.
Approved March 21, 1884.
Your Board has complied with the provisions of the foregoing act, by procuring a suitable record book and up to the present time have had reported two cases of scarlet fever, the only ones since the act was adopted.
STANDARD FERTILIZER COMPANY.
This company has been working strictly under the advice of your board the past year, and not a single complaint has been entered against it. They have by our advice and consent made a large number of alterations, additions and improvements. They have overhauled all their machinery, reset their boilers, put in a new and extensive dryer, and an improved mixer which
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does away with the obnoxious gases almost entirely. More tight sheds have been added, and an extensive granite sea wall, some seven or eight hundred feet long, has been commenced, which, when finished, will be covered with tight sheds. More than eight thousand dollars in all has been spent the past year for these improvements and we feel that the town has been greatly benefitted by the course that the Board of Health has pursued in regard to this Company, and we trust that the Town will continue the same course that has been pursued in the past as we have always found the agent, Mr. J. Mercer Seaver, (who resides in the town) ready and willing at all times to carry out any suggestions we may make to him.
Respectfully submitted,
BENJAMIN A. SAWYER, ) Board SAMUEL ATWELL, of
LEVI H. CUSHING, Health.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
Town of Duxbury for the School Year 1884-5.
In compliance with the Statutes of the Common- wealth, the School Committee of Duxbury present a report of their operations for the year, and make such suggestions and statements concerning the Public Schools as, in their opinion, seem to be demanded.
The whole number of persons in the Town, between five and fifteen years of age, on the first day of May, as returned by the Assessors, was 300. The whole number of different scholars of all ages in the Public Schools of the Town was 323. The number between eight and fourteen was 180. Number over fifteen, 58. Number under five, 4.
SCHOOLS.
Your Committee feel that the schools, under the present corps of teachers, are doing excellent work. They have been in session thirty-eight weeks for the year closing March 6th, 1885, a gain of two weeks over the time they were formerly kept, and we hope to be able to increase this to forty weeks next year, with the same appropriation, which is the time that most schools in the State are now kept.
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SCHOOL-HOUSES.
In compliance with a vote of the Town, passed at the last Annual Town Meeting, your Committee accepted the offer of Mr. Henry Bartlett, and had the Village Hall School House moved on to the Turner Pasture, so- called, where Mr. Bartlett deeded a lot to the Town one hundred and twenty feet wide and three hundred and thirty feet deep, giving a large playground for the scholars, which they did not enjoy at the old location, the Selectmen in turn giving a deed of the old lot to Mr. Bartlett, he as per agreement paying all expense of moving the building, locating it on its new foun- dation, and for driving a well, which at a depth of thirty-two feet, yields a large supply of excellent water. Mr. Andrew Stetson offered to pay one half the expense of a fence on the southerly side of the school lot, which offer your Committee accepted ; so, for the nominal sum of twenty-five dollars, the Town has three hundred and thirty feet of good picket fence. The building needed painting very badly and after consulting with your Selectmen, a contract was made with Mr. Alfred Sampson to do the work for forty-five dollars, which he did to the satisfaction of your Committee. With the exception of a fence on the northerly and westerly sides, the building and grounds will not need any expenditure for many years to come.
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