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Respectfully submitted. R. A. LAFOUNTAIN.
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REPORT OF SCHOOL NURSE
Mr. George S. Wright,
Superintendent of Schools,
Chelmsford, Massachusetts.
The following is a general summary of work in school from January, 1930, to December 31, 1930 :
Number of pupils examined.
1,480
Defects found
622
Defective teeth
222
Defective tonsils
234
Defective heart
20
Cervical glands
72
Thyroid glands
4
Pediculosis
7
Acne
74
Posture
102
Defective eyes
29
Pupils inspected in school
3,092
Taken home by nurse for illness
84
Absentees visited in home ...
627
Excluded from school for suspected illness.
192
Excluded from school for ringworm, impetigo, and poison ivy.
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Individual instruction
618
Accidents to hospital
3
First aid
36
Dressings
720
Investigations
21
Instructive and advisory home visits ..
88
Personal hygiene and health talks to pupils.
166
Pupils sent or taken to family physician.
49
Pupils sent or taken to school physician ..
212
All pupils weighed and measured by nurse, assisted by school physician, with physical examination of all pupils ; also a complete physical examination of all boys who were candidates for our football team.
CORRECTIONS
Tonsils and adenoids 75
Glasses and lens.
104
Teeth treated
711
Filled, permanent
356
Filled, deciduous
341
Teeth cleaned
648
Extractions, permanent
82
Extractions, deciduous
278
Examined by dentists
525
Our rating on dental work by State Department Dental Hygiene was 63% in June, 1930. We certainly must have a higher per cent in June, 1931. Dr. Ritter has been working in Highland Avenue and Princeton School since September and is now working in Westland School.
Dr. Coughlin has been working in East School since October and at present is working in Centre at McFarlin School. We have 256 pupils on dental honor roll in High School, which proves we are going to have a very high per cent in 1931. A new dental chair was bought by Fast Fire Depart- ment Alumni boys and P. T. A. of East Chelmsford for East School.
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May health proved a great success, also our pre-school clinic, which was held in May. In one of our schools every child, who was to enter school in September, registered, and was examined by school physician, defects found and corrected before child entered in September. Also, vaccina- tions were well taken care of in this particular school. Not a child had to be sent home for vaccination, which proves to you the value of pre-school clinics. In all our schools we had only four certificates, which is a very small number compared with 1929.
Let us co-operate and not have any certificates in September, 1931. I want to see them all enter school physically fit.
Here is a list of our pupils as they are today, perfect and all, defects corrected :
High School 210
McFarlin
255
Princeton
160
Westlands
128
Highland Avenue
62
East
83
Quessy
39
South Chelmsford
35
South Row
11
Follow-up clinic held, also X-rays by St. Dept. Tuberculosis.
Pupils examined
10
Pupils absent
1
Pupils improved
8
Pupils well
1
Schick test given in May to children who were immunized October, 1929.
Negative
247
Positive 52
Absent 34
A number of children left town with their parents, hence our absentees.
All children who proved positive were re-immunized in October, when we held our Immunization Clinic for our first grades and pre-school children. We had 153 children who attended the clinic.
New England Food and Dairy Council gave our school children illus- trated lectures, spending three days visiting all schools, which seemed to be enjoyed by both pupils and teachers.
In December Dr. Paul Wakefield, Chief of Chadwick Clinics, gave talks in the High School and in all seventh and, eighth grades in regards to a clinic which was held here December 11th. There were 1,063 children and teachers who took the test; 255 were X-rayed, a great many by request of their parents.
It was a very interesting clinic. There were five doctors, four typists, two X-ray experts and two X-ray machines. About 55 pupils will be given a physical examination, which is a very low percentage compared with other towns. Nurse made 107 home visits in order to explain to parents who did not fully understand the value of this particular clinic. After talking with the parents, a number of pre-school children took the test.
During the year a number of doctors visited our schools. Dr. Welling- ton, Department of Mental Hygiene, Dr. Knowlton and Dr. Archibald, all from State Department Public Health, and Miss Anna M. Martin, R.N., State Consultant.
I wish to thank the P.T.A. in all sections of the town for their generous help and co-operation in every respect. I certainly have had wonderful co-operation from everyone.
Very respectfully, MAE S. LEWIS, R.N. Chelmsford, Mass.
December 31, 1930.
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REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON SCHOOL HOUSE CONDITIONS
To the Citizens of Chelmsford:
Your committee appointed at the last annual town meeting to investigate the crowded conditions in school buildings and to make recommendations submits the following report :
1. Two school buildings are badly overcrowded, the Westlands and the High School.
2. The situation at the High School should be met first. If it becomes necessary, upper grade pupils from the Westlands can be transported to the McFarlin School until the Town is ready to enlarge the Westlands School.
3. In considering the situation at the High School these facts should be kept in mind :
(a) The building was erected in 1916-17 and was first occupied in the fall of 1917, when the enrollment was 161. It was designed to accommodate 225. With the present enrollment of 305 it is crowded to its utmost capacity, and in some cases far beyond the limit of safety. The building is of first class construction throughout and is in a very fine state of repair. Besides the overcrowded condition, it is now inade- quate in that it has no room large enough for school assemblies, no gymnasium with the necessary dressing and wash rooms, and no room of adequate size for the noon lunch hour.
(b) At the present time the playroom in the McFarlin School is used by the High School classes in physical education and for basket ball games. This means that the students, both boys and girls, must go from the High School to the McFarlin School in all sorts of weather, and in their heated condition after 40 minutes of exercise return to the High School. The danger to their health from such exposure should be removed at the earliest possible date. Moreover, the playroom is very unsatisfactory as a gymnasium for the reason that two iron posts, supporting the main girders of the building, stand in the center of the floor. In basket ball games these posts are a positive danger of an extreme type.
(c) The sanitary arrangements of the High School are not adapted to a modern school. The boys' and the girls' locker rooms are in the basement, but there are no toilets in the basement, nor any place for students to wash. The lack of these facilities after physical exercises and after games is seriously felt.
(e) Lack of room prevents making such improvements in the High School courses as all progressive towns are making. The courses of study have not been materially changed since the school was opened. There is a college preparatory course, a commercial course, and a general course. The first two meet the needs of students who have either higher education in mind, or office work, but less than half of the graduates of the college course go on to college or other institutions, and less than half of the commercial course graduates secure office positions. The general course is too narrow to meet the varying needs and capacities of other students. Modern high schools everywhere have courses in practical arts.
4. The present crowded condition of the High School, the lack of a room in which the entire school can be seated for general exercises, the lack of a gymnasium with the necessary facilities, the impossibility of
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improving the courses in the present building, together with the dangers attending the use of the playroom in the McFarlin School, are urgent reasons for making an addition to the building.
5. It is merely a matter of good business judgment when this is done to build for the future by providing rooms both for a larger school and for improved courses.
We therefore recommend that the Town at the earliest possible date provide an addition to the High School to include :
(a) Six additional classrooms.
(b) A lunch room of adequate size.
(c) An assembly room.
(d) A gymnasium with the necessary dressing and wash rooms.
Respectfully submitted,
NELLIE R. PICKEN.
LOREN J. ELLINWOOD.
WARREN WRIGHT.
JOHN A. McADAMS. J. EARL WOTTON. EDWARD B. RUSSELL.
HENRY C. SHEDD.
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ENROLLMENT-OCTOBER 1, 1930
ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS I
II III
IV
V
VI VII VIII Tot.
McFarlin
37
30
41
43
40
34
39
305
East
23
17
20
15
13
15
10
133
Highland Avenue
19
17
14
25
11
18
16
14
27
272
Quessy
16
18
12
18
31 16
9
11
10
110
South
8
10
9
13
9
49
South Row
6
5
8
5
24
Westlands
25
19
16
23
17
23
11
21
155
Total
176
154
151
174
137
147
122
121
1182
HIGH SCHOOL
Freshmen
100
Sophomores
85
Juniors
83
Seniors
37
Total
305
Total Enrollment
1,487
ENROLLMENT FOR TEN YEARS
Elementary
High
Total
1921, Fall Term
1,007
181
1,188
1923, April 1
1,090
184
1,274
1923, Fall Term
1,064
203
1,267
1924, October 30
1,128
221
1,394
1925, October 30
1,122
194
1,316
1926, October 1
1,166
216
1,382
1927, October 1
1,162
224
1,386
1928, October 1
1,148
266
1,414
1929, October 1
1,179
306
1,485
1930, October 1
1,182
305
1,487
SCHOOL CENSUS-October 1, 1930
REGISTRATION OF MINORS :
5-7 yr.
7-14 yr.
14-16 yr.
Boys
144
520
125
Girls
125
469
134
Total
269
989
259
DISTRIBUTION OF MINORS :
In Public Schools
207
966
214
In Vocational School
6
In Private Schools
18
4
Not in School
62
5
35
Total
269
989
259
42
38
31
32
36
35
134
Princeton Street
41 20
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FINANCIAL SUMMARY
Total costs of schools for 1930, including expendi- tures by school committee from regular and special appropriations, and tuition to Lowell Vocational School, as itemized by Town Accountant on pages ,
$107,467.05
RECEIPTS OF THE TOWN ON SCHOOL ACCOUNT
From State for teachers' salaries
$ 9,020.00
From State, tuition of state wards.
2,003.72
From State, Lowell Vocational School.
1,632.25
Tuition from other towns.
741.66
Rent of school garage ..
180.00
Sale of old books, waste paper, etc ..
16.31
Total receipts on accounts of schools.
$ 13,593.94
Net cost of schools to Town for 1930
$ 93,873.11
SCHOOL BUDGET
Appropriation for 1930
Expenditures
Proposed for 1931
Administration
$ 4,500.00
$ 4,274.14
$ 4,450.00
Instruction
69,230.00
69,200.13
70,600.00
Operation and Maintenance ..
18,400.00
18,390.77
18,200.00
Auxiliary Agencies
11,325.00
11,308.20
11,400.00
New Equipment
1,000.00
919.30
500.00
Total
$104,455.00
$104,092.54
$105,150.00
Special Appropriation
150.00
143.00
Lowell Vocational School
3,231.51
$107,467.05
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GRADUATES OF HIGH SCHOOL June 25, 1930
Abigail Scott Beattie Grace Elizabeth Bridgeford Ernest Edward Brotz Anna Louisa Calder Katherine Della Clark Alice Agnes Clarke
Eleanor Louise Kilburn
Martha Ethel Linstad Anna Margaret Lund
Elizabeth Antoinette Lyman John Joseph McEnaney Russell James McEnaney Marie Doris McMullen
Clara Wonson Dexter
Mary Gertrude Doherty
Edward Francis Miner
William Wright Edge
Charles Clarence Emery Alice Mae Fisher
Thelma Ferne Paignon Edna Maria Palm Donald Alonzo Parker
Harriet Frances Flemings
Alice Mary Patenaude
Madeline Cleveland Freeman
Bertha Mary Patenaude
Raymond Merrill Gauthier
Esther Elizabeth A. Petterson'
Lillian Mary Pinel
Maurice Henry Joseph Cornellier di Grandchamp Barbara Catherine Greene Aime Bernard Hamel
Irene May Pratt Harry Brendan Quinn
George Lincoln Reis
Ralph Albert Harmon
Bernice Loretta Rutner
Francis Joseph Safford Wendell Kimball Simpson
Dorothy Helen Harrington Edna Hoyt Ruby Clara Hutchinson
Rachel Elsie Jones Olga Josephine Kempe Allan Kidder
Donald Eugene Smith Josephine Helen Smith Alice Mary St. Onge William Henry Thayer
Veronica Arlene Welch
GRADUATES OF EIGHTH GRADE
June 19, 1930, at Chelmsford Center McFARLIN SCHOOL
Evelyn Beckvold Evelyn Barbara Bliss Ronald Roadman Boyd Helen Mildred Brotz Frank Arthur Burton Dorothy Mae Butters
Ralph Earnest House Laurence Joseph Judge Fred Emil Kemp Ralph Jean L'Heureux Russell Hendrick Linstad Henry Arthur Loiselle Ellen Marie Lundstrom
Donald Charles Calder Roger Thomas Calder Phyllis Capone Howard Carter
Helen Vivian MacNeill Dorothy Elizabeth Murphy Catherine Helen Niemaszyk
Blanch Evelyn Clough
Delphina Lillian DeCosta
Evelyn Louise Flemings Allan Grant Fletcher John Bernard Gallagher Marguerite Lee Hannaford Harold Raymond Hansen
Herbert Page John Pierro Mildred Lauretta Purcell George Edmund Rondeau Adaline Amelia Simpson Gertrude Marie Tremblay Elizabeth Waite
WESTLANDS SCHOOL
Mary Annie Angus Priscilla Wintie Burdick Edith Virginia Dickinson James Francis Fagan Louise Fitzpatrick Harvey Fuller Lena Mary Jacob Allston Warren Lemey
Raymond Marchand Barbara Varetta Olsson Hazel Frances Royce Gertrude Sofia Sargent Marjorie Viola Slade Louis Waite Stearns Anthony Albert Such Monica Todd
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EAST SCHOOL
Thure Harold Bloomgren
Mary Louise Dow
Mary Louise Gustafson
Albert Robert Hedlund
Sarah Millicent Hill
Lena Beatrice Medeiros
Peter John Pavelka
Eliot Birtwell Quinn
Rosa Santos
Mary Lea Scobie
Albert Sousa
Napoleon Joseph Valentine
PRINCETON STREET SCHOOL June 20, 1930, at North Chelmsford
Walter Belida
Winfield Hersey Howard
Cecile Cornellier Bigfield
Ernest Janulis
Margaret Rita Christoun
Earl John Lee
Mary Dorothy De Amicis
Joshua Le Masurier
George Richard Dixon
Roland Marcel McEnaney
Robert Elliot Donaldson
Hazel Rita McMullen
Myrtle Yvonne Ferron
Julia Roberta Mikulis
Alma Grace Gaudette
Bernice Arlene Mills
Raymond Oliver Gaudette
Mary Elizabeth Miskell
Rosanne Flora Gosselin
Marion Janet Plein
Mary Louise Guyette
Matthew William Plein
Milton Weldon Haire
James Arthur Potter
Helen Grace Stephens
HIGHLAND AVENUE SCHOOL
Blanche Deputat
Emile P. Gauthier
Bruno J. Greska
Rita M. Hines
Alfred F. McSheehy Beatrice R. Mercier Claire Molloy Barbara J. Nath
Antony W. Shacka
QUESSY SCHOOL
Phyllis Marjorie Berubee
Walter Edgar Bill
Kenneth Clifford Clement Peter De Rubbo
Raymond Ducharme
George Ezerskey George Roland Leedberg Elizabeth Agnes Leslie Helen Louise Pevey Halvar Peterson
Eunice Moore Richardson
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INDEX OF SCHOOL REPORT
Enrollment by Grades, Fall Term, 1930. 25
Graduates of High School, 1930. 27
Graduates of Eighth Grade, 1930 27
Reports of :
Committee on School House Conditions 23
Financial Summary 26
High School Funds
17
High School Principal
15
School Budget
26
School Census
25
School Committee
5
School Nurse
21
Superintendent
7
Supervisor of Music
19
Supervisor of Physical Education.
20
School Calendar
2
School Officials
2
Signal for No School 2
Teachers
3
29
Memorandum
30
Memorandum
31
Memorandum
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