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Edward F. and Eleanor M.
Lund Cuneo
Dec. 22
Cynthia Marsha Bitters
Carl E. and Irene B.
Coronary Sclerosis
Chronic myocardial insufficiency Chronic pulm. disease
Arteriosclerotic Myocardosis Carcinoma of Gall Bladder Chronic Myocardial Insufficiency
DEATHS RECORDED IN DUXBURY IN 1956 - Continued
Date 1956 Name
Y. M. D.
Cause of Death
Names of Parents
Feb. 25
Olga B. (Brandenburg) Currier
75
1 25
Mar. 11
Emma E. (Heckell) Gross
92
7 26
Mar. 21
Mabel L. (Cushing) Facey
90 2 18
Mar. 31 Edwin L. Joyce
88
8 17
Apr. 1
Ethel G. (Belknap) Manning
72
2 26
Carcinoma of rectum
Apr. 2
Alice F. (Davis) Day
83
9 19
Ruptured Aneurysm Aortic
Apr.
3
Nettie O. (Morse) Merritt
86
9 22
May
4 Onofrio LaGreca
80
8 23
-
- Cardio-Renal Disease
May 30
Otto A. Lawton
71
Acute Coronary Occlusion
June 1
Catherine M. (Defty) MacMullen 79
6 21
June 6
Lynwood Somers
72
4 2
Acute Coronary Thrombosis
June 12
Katherine (Preble) Teulon
58
6
11
Hepatic Coma
June 13
Susan P. Moulton
78
8 18
Congestive Heart Failure
June 16
Anna Marie (Murphy) Chittenden
73
6
0
July 2 Newton E. Hyslop
61
2
3
Coronary Thrombosis sudden death
Bliss C. and Christine McSwain
July 7
Sidney A. Kimber
89
11 26
Cerebral Thrombosis Cerebral hemorrhage
Edward and Sarah A. Hughes James P. and Sarah B. Crosby
July 17
Vera Blanche (Smith) Simmons 64
2 23
Acute Myocardial Failure Pulmonary Edema Arteriosclerotic Heart Disease- Fracture right hip Cerebrovascular accident
Charles and Caroline Cochran Albert and Rosina Laemmle Joshua M. and Fannie A. Lyon
Henry S. and Mary E. Woodside George E. and Desiah Glass
William F. and Alice L. Sparrow Frank and Rose Spaulding
May 24
Joseph T. C. Jones
77
Acute myocardial infarction Arterio-sclerotic heart Disease- Coronary Thrombosis
-
Congestive Heart Failure
Albert N. and Mary E. Thomas Joseph A. and Julia A. Seamons Jacob W. and Sarah Dawson
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Herbert and Estelle Holden Charles and Lillian Latimer Henry P. and Harriet E. Stocker Bernard and Mary Mathews
Carcinoma of gall bladder
DEATHS RECORDED IN DUXBURY IN 1956 - Continued
Date 1956
Name
Y. M. D.
July 20
Edward S. O'Neil
83
9
2
Aug. 12
William A. Beal
67
7 14
Aug. 15 George S. Monks
66 1 24
Aug. 24 John G. Fetherston
87
-
Aug. 31 Corinne Vincent Loomis
68
15
Sept. 10
Mary (Bergen) Salt
87
0
21
Sept. 17
Wallace Underwood
70
3 23
Oct. 4
Marguerite T. (Farley) LeClair 53
0
21
Oct. 21
Herbert F. Randall
81
4
9
Oct. 25
Viola (McMichael) Brown
82
7
Nov. 3
Female
Nov. 11
Carolyn (Crossett) Holcombe 74
5
9
Gastro intestinal hemorrhage
Nov. 13
Anna S. (Sawyer) Loring
86
3
5
Chronic Myocarditis
Nov. 15 Rufus W. Kendall
72
3
18 Carcinomatosis
Nov. 27
Louise F. (Tartari) Oliver
42
7
-
Chorio-carcinoma
Dec.
10
Avery C. Nickerson
52
5
1
Polycythemia Vera
Dec. 11
Florence A. (Waitt) Huggins
69
2
9
Cerebrovascular accident
Dec. 11
Joseph A. King
86
9
14
Cerebral Hemorrhage
Dec. 31
Eugene E. Covell
93
5
4 Acute Nephritis
Names of Parents
James and Charlotte Taite Franklin A. and Ida York George and Elizabeth Riley William and Catherine Hopkin Fred M. and Villette Davis Zackeus and Sophia Thompson Mack and Dora Crawford John and Elizabeth Redmond
Freeman and Amelia Tufts Winfield and Emma King
- and
John B. and Ella Hawley John S. and Sarah Pratt
Albert A. and Sarah L. Collins
Alphonso and Amelia Goriette Charles E. L. and Mabel M. Chandler
Albert K. and Anna M. Cochrane Eczear Roi and Sophia LaBreque Wells and Elizabeth Howe
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Cause of Death
General Arteriosclerosis
Respiratory Failure
Cerebral Hemorrhage Pulmonary embolus Coronary Thrombosis
Arteriosclerotic Heart Disease
Hypertensive Heart Disease Coronary Thrombosis
Congestive Heart Failure
Pulmonary Oedema Stillborn
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NON-RESIDENT DEATHS OCCURRING OUT OF TOWN, INTERMENT IN DUXBURY, 1956
Date 1955 Name
Y. M. D. 79 - -
Cause of Death
Place
Acute myocardial insufficiency Hypertensive Heart Disease
Brockton Newton
Jan. 31
Henry Lang Weston
87
Quincy
Feb. 27
Luella J. Andrews
85
5 11
Mar. 31
Brooks Kent Dunham
79
11 2
Apr. 10 Linda Ann Simpson
12
11 15
Braintree
Apr. 20
Julia A. Hackett
85
-
Apr.
23
Winthrop Otis Delano
79
4
19
Arteriosclerotic heart disease
Quincy
Apr. 25
Rose Louise Burdett
58
11
15
Myocardial infarction
Boston
175
May 4 Harold Travis Smith
68
10
27
May 10 Alice Houghton Bigelow
80
9
7
Uremia
Boston
Meridan, Conn.
May 14 Frank E. Sampson
67
-
Lakeland, Fla.
June 6 Rosalie Ames
89
2
10
Presumably heart disease
Randolph
June 27
Waldo E. Niles
58
10
28
2
24
Aug. 17 Eleanor R. Leonard
71
5 -
Hemorrhage spontaneous of the brain
Quincy
Aug. 29 Ruth Curtis
75
2 27
Pneumonia
Quincy Whitman
Sept. 3
Lizzie Ann (Robinson) Nickerson
92
1
9
Sept. 9
Harriet B. Waldron
76
2 11 Broncho pneumonia
Medfield
-
Coronary Thrombosis
Windsor, Conn.
Apr. 27
Alfred A. Barton
70
Internal hemorrhage
Chelsea
June 26
Kathleen Sheridan Merry
Braintree
Heart Disease-Coronary Thrombosis
Arteriosclerotic Heart Disease
Haverhill
July 3
Frederick Wiggin
84
Nov. 20 Dec. 7 1956
Florence Chamberlain
Sarah Gertrude Spooner
84 10 21
1 - Myocardial Infarction with Congestive failure Arteriosclerotic heart disease Fractured skull Cerebellar Tumor
Somerville Springfield
New York City
Rheumatic Heart Disease
53
Cerebral Thrombosis
NON-RESIDENT DEATHS OCCURRING OUT OF TOWN, INTERMENT IN DUXBURY, 1956 - Continued
Date 1955
Name
Y. M. D.
Sept. 18
Henry I. Crocker
57
1
11
Sept. 18
William F. Scholpp
79
9
15
Sept. 25 Harrison Hyslop
67
8 15
Oct. 16
Leonard P. Torrey
18
10 8
Oct.
21
Ida M. Chandler
Oct.
25 Katharine (Harding)
Wakefield
83
10
13
Oct. 28
Gertrude May Ladd
64
9
8
Metastatic Carcinomotis- Carcinoma of Uterus
Nov. 1
James A. Feeley
74
Arteriosclerosis
Nov.
7
William E. Hinde
81
4
2
Nov. 16 Addie L. Goodspeed
86
2
13
Generalized arteriosclerosis
Boston
Nov. 24 Everett Winsor
96
10
7
Acute myocardial insufficiency
Brockton
Dec.
2 George W. Durant
54
5
8
Cerebral Hemorrhage
Weymouth
Dec.
24 Theodore W. Buckley
67
1 27
Carcinoma Larynx
Norwell
West Virginia
Dec. 30 Emma Fritz Crowell
84
11 22
Cause of Death
Pulmonary emboli Chronic Myocardial Insufficiency
4 Myocardial Infarction Myocarditis
Boston Pembroke New York City Portsmouth, Virginia Kingston Whitman
Old Orchard, Me.
176
Hemstead, Ill. Stoughton
Boston
Nov. 7 Carrie Mayville Litchfield
87
Coronary Thrombosis Adynamic ileus
Cerebral Thrombosis
Place
83 5
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SUMMARY 1956
Number of Births registered in Duxbury
for the year 1956: Males 40 Females 35
Total 75
Number of Deaths recorded: Males 21 Females 27
Total 48
Number of Marriage Licenses issued
30
Number of Marriages recorded
32
DOG LICENSES
Licenses issued January 1 to December 31, 1956
558
297 Males @ $2.00
$594.00
68 Females @ $5.00
340.00
189 Spayed Females @ $2.00
378.00
4 Kennel @ $10.00
40.00
$1,352.00
Payments to Town Treasurer
$1,352.00
LICENSES ISSUED FOR
DIVISION OF FISHERIES AND GAME
240
Resident Citizen Fishing, 35 @ $3.25
$113.75
Resident Citizen Hunting, 122 @ $3.25
396.50
Resident Citizen Sporting, 43 @ $5.25
225.75
Resident Citizen Female Fishing, 12 @ $2.25
27.00
Resident Citizen Trapping, 1 @ $7.75
7.75
Special Non-Resident Fishing, 1 @ $2.75
2.75
Non-Resident Citizen Hunting, 1 @ $15.25
15.25
Duplicate Licenses, 2 @ $.50
1.00
Resident Citizen Sporting (issued free to Citizens
over 70 years of age) 23 @ $.00
.00
$789.75
Less Clerk's Fees, paid to Town
53.75
Paid to Division of Fisheries and Game
$736.00
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REPORT OF THE TREASURER Receipts and Disbursements for 1956 Receipts
Balance January 1, 1956 Total Receipts
$444,417.30
1,123,489.10
Total Cash
$1,567,906.40
Disbursements
Paid on Selectmen's Warrants
$1,132,810.78
Balance, December 31, 1956
435,095.62
$1,567,906.40
Respectfully submitted,
MAURICE H. SHIRLEY,
Treasurer
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REPORT OF THE ASSESSORS
Tax Rate 1956 - $53.00 per $1,000.00
Houses Assessed
2,131
Cows
99
Horses and Ponies
22
Neat Cattle other than cows 37
Fowl 4,560
Goats
6
Swine
23
Sheep
49
Persons Assessed on Property
2,727
Polls
1,406
Acres of land
13,183
Valuation of Buildings
$8,513,865.00
Valuation of Land
2,146,155.00
Total Value of Real Estate
10,660,020.00
Personal Property
852,910.00
Total Valuation
11,512,930.00
Increase in Real Estate over 1955
257,570.00
Increase in Personal Property
9,130.00
Total increase
266,700.00
County Tax
34,278.23
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Plymouth County Hospital 16,638.10
State Audit Tax
1,695.90
State Parks and Reservation Tax
818.36
Tax on Real Estate
565,510.00
Tax on Personal Estate
45,315.00
Tax on Polls 2,812.00
Assessed Value on Motor Vehicles
1,360,680.00
Motor Vehicle Excise Tax
65,967.77
Motor Vehicle Excise rate per $1,000 54.43
Apportioned Sea Wall Assessments added to Taxes in 1956 663.83
Committed Sea Wall Interest
added to Taxes in 1956
267.62
Respectfully submitted,
PHILIP W. DELANO FRANCIS W. PERRY JAMES H. W. JENNER
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REPORT OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE
The Finance Committee held its first meeting April 23, 1956, at which time it organized by electing as Chairman, A. Charles Waghorne; as Vice Chairman, Ralph H. Osborn; as Secretary, Theodore W. Page, and as Personnel Board Repre- sentative, Jack Barry. New Members of the Committee ap- pointed for three year terms were: Irving H. Locke, Stanley H. Merry and Theodore W. Page.
During the year resignations of three members were sub- mitted, due to change of residence or illness, as follows: H. Gilbert Franke, Jack Barry and Harry H. Whiton. Appointed by the Moderator to fill these vacancies were: G. Lincoln Dow, Jr., for a one year term; Edward Wadell for a one year term and Roger N. Heywood for a two year term. To replace Jack Barry, the Committee named Irving H. Locke as Personnel Board Representative.
Since the last annual Town Meeting, your Finance Com- mittee has made recommendations for action at the Special Town Meeting, held May 25, 1956. It has transferred funds as deemed prudent from its Reserve Fund of $10,000.00, where departments have been faced with "extraordinary or unfore- seen expenses". At the present time it is studying department budgets for 1957.
The Committee Members look at all problems from the point of view of their fellow townsmen to the end that no un- due emphasis will be placed on any angle of town government or services to the public. We are commonly regarded as "watch dogs of the treasury" but this should in no way be re- garded as preventing a liberal attitude toward the expenditure of money where clearly warranted by prudent and progressive
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programs. We intend to uphold the interests of Tax Payer, Local Business, our Schools and our Town Employees.
We quote from Association of Town Finance Committee's Bulletin E: "Power has been given to the Finance Committee not as a result of statutory mandate, but rather because of the force of public opinion behind it, due to recognition and ap- preciation of the aid it gives ... In order to assure continuity of its influential status, it must demonstrate that it is keeping ahead of the parade for the assistance and benefit of the voters - and that means work and more work".
We wish to thank the various Town Officers and em- ployees for their complete cooperation in our joint efforts to serve the Town by presenting fair and equitable budgets. To the various heads of Departments who gave so generously of their time and knowledge upon the occasion of our recent survey of Buildings, Facilities and Equipment, we want to add our further thanks.
We conclude this preliminary report with special appre- ciation to the Board of Selectmen for their continued cooper- ation.
Respectfully submitted,
A. CHARLES WAGHORNE, Chairman RALPH H. OSBORN, Vice Chairman THEODORE W. PAGE, Secretary WINTHROP A. CLARKE IRVING H. LOCKE STANLEY H. MERRY G. LINCOLN DOW, JR. EDWARD WADELL ROGER N. HEYWOOD
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REPORT OF SOUTH SHORE MOSQUITO CONTROL PROJECT
December 17, 1956
To the Citizens of Duxbury:
Submitted herewith is the report of the South Shore Mos- quito Control Project of its activities in the Town of Dux- bury for the year ending December 31, 1956.
The Town of Duxbury appropriated $7,550 for mosquito control in 1956. This money was used for mosquito control in the Town of Duxbury by the South Shore Mosquito Con- trol Project, a cooperative effort embracing the City of Quincy and Towns of Braintree, Cohasset, Duxbury, Hingham, Hull, Marshfield, Norwell, Scituate and Weymouth.
TYPE OF CONTROL PROGRAM
The basic program of control continued to be based on drainage in the off-season and larvaciding of all areas found to be breeding during the mosquito season. This program was supplemented by application of D.D.T. dust to selected areas during the period when the swamps were frozen. This dust upon the melting of the ice and snow falls to the bottom of the pools and swamps and is in a position to be effective against the mosquito larvae. The use of a fog generator to combat flying mosquitoes supplemented the main program.
ENCEPHALITIS
In late August the public became aware of the disease Eastern Equine Encephalomyelitis.
This disease is brought on by a virus and is transmitted by mosquitoes. It is a disease of birds which, under certain circumstances, spills over to man and horses.
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This disease was first recognized in man in Massachusetts in 1938. It has since been recognized southward along the Atlantic seaboard and in the Gulf states.
The severe outbreak in humans and horses during the summer of 1938 in Massachusetts was followed by a lull until 1953 and 1954 when some horses were affected. Not until 1955, when four cases were recognized, did the disease in man reappear in this state. This past summer (based on virus recovery, serological evidence, and clinical pictures) the dis- ease was recognized in twelve humans and definite diagnosis is pending in one case. In addition, 41 horses and 17 pheasant farms were infected. A survey of wild birds revealed virus in six birds.
Immediately upon the appearance of the disease in a horse in the area, the Project began extensive fogging and larvaciding operations, starting in the area of the horse case. This work continued around the clock. Shortly after this, the Massachusetts Department of Health warned that danger existed and that a program of aid from the Commonwealth was being set up.
Since this Project was the only existing agency in the posi- tion to supervise the needed work, insecticide and airplane service was provided to the Project for use in the ten town area. Spray material was provided for air spray, ground ap- plication by Project equipment, and ground work by any equipment made available by the towns through the local Boards of Health and the Town Departments possessing such equipment.
The overtime labor for the Project's part in this emer- gency work was paid for from the regular appropriations. This work was in excess of that planned, based on money available to the Project. This extra night, week-end, and
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holiday work severely strained the basic budget of the Proj- ect, and as a result, less ditching work than planned will be possible.
The results of such a program against such a disease are hard to determine since it is impossible to tell how many infected mosquitoes were killed and thus prevented from passing the disease to humans.
With present knowledge of the disease, it is equally im- possible to predict the future picture of the disease in this area. Our only present attack is to reduce the mosquito population to as low a level as possible during the critical period. The following areas of action are steps in the right direction: Encouraging towns bordering the Project to attack the mos- quito problem since area wide control is more effective than scattered work, urging all residents to help out on their own property, and stepping up the Project's ability to combat influxes of mosquitoes on the wing.
Regarding this last point, the Commission has taken steps to acquire another fog machine since the one owned by the Project, although it has been used at every opportunity, is often needed in two places at the same time and was woe- fully inadequate during the past emergency.
Under the present financial conditions, the Project, as well as towns not in organized districts, will always have to turn to the Commonwealth for emergency funds in the event of encephalitis outbreaks. The alternative, which is an approach that makes a lot of sense, is more widespread mosquito con- trol in southeastern Massachusetts on a sound financial basis.
We feel that the extra hours and monies spent in this emergency were well and properly expended and surely gave us greatly added protection. The fact that there was in exist-
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ence in the area hardest hit by the disease an organization set up to do such work was fortunate. Because of this, there was no delay in planning air spray work and in getting ground work started. The immediate and wholehearted efforts of the Health, Tree, and Public Works Departments of the various towns added considerably to the results. For this work, the Project, and I am sure, the Citizens, are extremely grateful.
EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
Until recently the employees of this and the other four mosquito control projects in the state had no employee bene- fits except workman's compensation for on the job injury.
This situation has left the projects at a disadvantage in competing for competent workers with industry and local contractors.
To help remedy this situation the legislature has made the Project workers eligible for a county retirement system. Since the majority of the towns are in Plymouth County, that system has been chosen by the Commissioner of Banking and Insurance.
Such a system is supported by contributions from the workers and a levy on the employer. An amount to com- pensate for the latter has been included in this year's budget.
AERIAL SPRAYING
The spring spraying of all fresh water swamps too large to be treated by hand was done in the latter part of April. Spot spraying was done in various areas throughout the sum- mer when large open areas were found to be breeding mos- quitoes.
1,715 acres were sprayed in the Town of Duxbury. In August and early September, during the encephalitis emer- gency 1,215 acres were sprayed by air.
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GROUND SPRAYING
The ground crews circulated on a schedule throughout their sections of the Project. They varied from this circuit to treat in the vicinity of complaints or to treat places found to be breeding by the superintendent or the inspector. They then returned to their rounds.
During the encephalitis emergency, crews worked overtime and weekends to keep up with requests for service.
INSPECTIONS
Throughout the breeding season the superintendent checks the -known breeding areas to know where to direct air and ground spraying or drainage work. In the heavy breeding season (June-September) an inspector helps with this work.
In past years, some attention has been paid to yard by yard inspections for house mosquito breeding. This year this work was expanded and will have to be expanded in the future, since newspaper and radio items concerning this im- portant phase of the work have not yet reached all persons.
One inspection of sixty-four (64) houses in an isolated section showed sixty-seven (67) containers capable of breeding mosquitoes. Of these, forty-six (46) were producing mosquitoes at the time. Similar results were obtained in other sections checked.
Such a situation assures a neighborhood of mosquitoes as long as the containers are around and full of water in spite of work done by the Project in surrounding swamps.
CATCHBASIN SPRAYING
Two catchbasin units were operated the past season. A third, ordered in May, was delivered too late to be of use this season, but will be used next year.
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These units are compressed air sprayers mounted on three- wheeled motorcycles.
In addition to the above units, ground crews sprayed basins with hydraulic sprayers from trucks to fill in for the unit not delivered in time.
DRAINAGE
The drainage program proceeded in both salt and fresh water breeding places.
The past year was the first in which the salt marsh ditching machine was used extensively. It was delivered in late summer last year and used only in the fall.
The machine has increased the pace of our work on the marshes and seems to offer greater help when it is modified to fit the marshes in this particular area.
It will be advisable, when budget figures allow, to have a back-hoe to complement the work of the marsh ditcher and allow certain fresh water work to be done. At present, there are no contractors with machines capable of going onto salt marsh without the use of mats, which procedure is both costly and beset with chances of miring the machine. It is, however, possible to rig a back-hoe on a machine similar to our marsh ditcher and be free to move anywhere within reason on our marshes.
In the past year in the Town of Duxbury 49,300 feet of ditches have been cleaned, 27,975 feet reclaimed and 570 feet of new ditches have been dug. This figure includes both fresh and salt water drainage.
In addition 2,025 feet of brushing has been done to facili- tate entrance to and passage along streams for the purpose of cleaning and treating streams and swamps.
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ADULT MOSQUITO CONTROL
Adult mosquito control is the killing of the flying stage of the mosquito after they have emerged, as opposed to the larval stage which exists in the water.
This year, as in the past, the Project has operated a Todd Insecticidal Fog Applicator, commonly called a Tifa. This machine emits a fog, consisting of very fine droplets of in- secticide, which drifts with the air currents over the area, wiping out adult mosquitoes.
The addition of Norwell to the Project, the fact that pre- vious to that the machine was very often needed in more than one place certain nights, and since the machine was working at all possible hours during the encephalitis emer- gency and always had a backlog of work, influenced the Commission to initiate proceedings to get another machine and to have it on hand for the start of next season.
The previously mentioned air spray during the encephalitis emergency was in the nature of an adult program.
EQUIPMENT ON HAND
1, Ford F-350 truck
3, Ford F-250 trucks
1, Ford F-100 truck
1, International 1 ton truck, four-wheel drive
1, Chevrolet Handyman
1, Oliver OC-6-68 tractor with scavel plow
1, Trailer for transporting tractor
1, Cushman Truckster (catchbasin unit)
2, Harley Davidson Servi-cars (catchbasin units)
3, 50 gal. Bean hydraulic sprayers
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1, Todd Insecticidal Fog Applicator
1, Hoffco power brushing tool
1, Gorman-Rupp centrifugal pump Pack sprayers and dusters Various hand ditching tools
EQUIPMENT TO BE ADDED
1, Todd Insecticidal Fog Applicator Miscellaneous hand tools
PLANS FOR WINTER
Throughout the months between the past and coming mosquito breeding seasons much attention will be given to ditching. Work on the salt marsh will be done in the fall and early spring and colder winter months will be spent in the more protected fresh water areas.
When snow and ice conditions are right, prehatch dust- ing, as was done the last three years, will be done. The suc- cess of the past work along these lines makes it feasible to expand this program to as much as help and weather permit.
In addition to the ground dusting noted above, it is planned to make a small scale experimental prehatch application of D.D.T. dust from the air.
PLANS FOR NEXT YEAR
All phases of the work carried out in the past will con- tinue. Catchbasin spraying will be strengthened by the addi- tion of the third unit. Expansion of the fogging operations will be possible, where needed, with the second fogging ma- chine mentioned previously.
PROBLEMS TO BE SOLVED
The problem of drift in of adult mosquitoes from un- controlled areas should be lessened since part of our borders
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will be projected by the new Norfolk County Project. There is further help in sight from a group of Plymouth County towns to the west of us. They might well be organized by next year. The still unresolved situations in this connection are the Hingham Naval Ammunition Depot and the M.D.C. area of the Blue Hills. The N.A.D. is an uncontrolled area in the middle of our Project and the M.D.C. property affects Quincy and Braintree. We will continue to work in these areas on an emergency basis to give a measure of protection to our population affected by their mosquitoes and will con- tinue to try for support from these organizations.
South Shore Mosquito Control Project
GEORGE ROSS STARR, JR., M.D., Commissioner for Duxbury
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REPORT OF THE TOWN ACCOUNTANT
I am pleased to submit the following statement of all receipts and expenditures of the Town of Duxbury for the financial year ending December 31, 1956, in accordance with Chapter 41, Section 61, General Laws. This report is arranged in accordance with the classifications prescribed by the Direc- tor of the Bureau of Accounts.
Appended thereto is a statement of the Appropriation Balances returned to the Treasury under date of December 31, 1956 and a further statement of the Appropriation Balances retained and carried forward January 1, 1957.
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