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57500 00
Water Loan
198050 00
Winthrop School Loan
19000 00
Heating Plant Loan
6500 00
Water Front Improvement Loan
2400 00
State Guard Equipment Loan
4700 00
-- $304450 00
Cemetery Funds
$17812 39
Kimball Library Fund
522 46
Brown Animal Fund
878 92
$19213 77
$370436 80
21749 14
Excess and Deficiency
$392,185 94
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IPSWICH TOWN REPORT.
Auditor's Statement.
I certify that I have examined the accounts of the Treasurer and find them correct, and find the balance in the hands of Treas- urer to agree with the report submitted.
I have approved vouchers for all bills paid and find them to agree with the warrants of the Treasurur.
FREDERICK S. WITHAM, AUDITOR.
NOTES MATURING 1919.
Central Fire Station Loan
$1000 00
Burley School Loan
1000 00
Refunding Loan
700 00
Winthrop School Loan
2000 00
Heating Plant Loan
500 00
Water Front Improvement Loan
300 00
State Guard Equipment Loan
1000 00
Electric Light Loan
3550 00
Water Loan
2150 00
-$12,200 00
INTEREST ON DFBT, 1919.
Gentral Fire Station Loan
$ 395 00
Burley School Loan
22 50
Refunding Loan
252 00
Winthrop School Loan
760 00
Heating Plant Loan
260 00
Water Front Improvement Loan
96 00
State Guard Equipment Loan
210 00
Electric Light Loan
2284 00
Temporary Loans, (estimated)
3500 00
$7,779 50
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BONDED DEBT.
TITLE OF LOAN.
AMOUNT.
PAYABLE.
Central Fire Station
$ 9000 00
Serially 1919-1927
Burley School
1000 00
1919
Refunding
6300 00
Serially 1919-1927
Winthrop School
19000 00
1919-1935
Heating Plant
6500 00
66
1919-1931
Water Front Improvement
2400 00
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1919-1926
State Guard Equipment
4700 00
1919-1923
Electric Light
57500 00
1919-1988
Water Notes
38050 00
1919-1936
Water Bonds
130000 00
1924
Water Bonds
30000 00
1927
Total Bonded Debt
$304450 00
Sinking Fund, Water Dept.
112300 28
NET BONDED DEBT
$192,149 72
TEMPORARY LOANS.
S N Bond & Co, $20000 00
Apr. 15, 1919
First National Bank, Ipswich 10000 00
Sept. 29, 1919
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IPSWICH TOWN REPORT.
Report of Superintendent of Streets.
Board of Selectmen,
Gentlemen :-
I herewith submit the annual report of the Street Depart- ment for the year ending December 31, 1918, also an itemized list. of the property in the Highway Department :
Team No. 1 worked 420 hours @ $0 75 $ 315 00
Team No. 1 worked 1722 hours @ $0 90
1549 80
$1864 80
Team No. 2 worked 390 hours @ $0 75
. $ 292 50
Team No. 2 worked 1674 hours @ $0 90
1506 60
$1799 10
Single Horse worked 390 hours @ 2012¢ 79 95
Single Horse worked 995 hours @ 25¢
248 75
$328 70
Total
$3992 60
Number gallons of tarvia on streets
8,900
Number square yards covered
37,677
Cost of same Cost of labor and sand
$1379 50
266 13
Total cost of tarvia
$1,645 63
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INVENTORY.
5 horses
$1500 00
3 pair double harness
175 00
2 pair street blankets
25 00
2 pair stable blankets
7 50
2 pair storm blankets
7 00
3 two-horse carts
375 00
2 two-horse sleds
1C0 00
1 two-horse sweeper
225 00
2 road machines
150 00
4 road plows
30 00
12 gravel screens
60 00
2 two-horse shovels
25 00
3 stone drags
15 00
1 two-horse stone roller
40 00
3 road drags
40 00
1 steam roller
1500 00
2 scarifier
400 00
2 watering carts
375 00
7 snow plows
125 00
1 one-horse wagon
60 00
1 oil wagon
600 00
1 tar kettle
45 00
1 Ford truck
350 00
1 Albany jack
13 50
1 differential hoist
25 00
Snow fences
120 00
All other tools, etc.
750 00
---- $7,138 00
Respectfully submitted,
JOSEPH A. HUCKINS, Superintendent of Streets.
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List of Unpaid 1918 Bills.
SELECTMEN. New England T & T Co., telephone $19 37
$19 37
TOWN CLERK.
Geo G Bailey, M D., birth returns
$22 25
E J M Scahill, death returns
21 00
$43 25
LAW.
Geo H W Hayes, services
$50 00
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$50 00
TOWN HALL.
C F Chapman & Son, supplies
$ 2 40
C W Brown, supplies
5 65
George Hayes, plumbing
15 97
John W Goodhue, supplies
2 24
F E Wood, trucking
8 25
Electric Light Dept., supplies
$ 85
New England T & T Co., telephone
1 21
$39 57
POLICE.
D A Grady, teams
$2 00
Geo G Dexter, photos
7 00
$9 00
HEALTH.
E M Dow, carpentry $202 84
$202 84
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ESSEX ROAD.
Standard Oil Co., oil
$80 00
Electric Light Dept., labor and supplies
43 20
$123 20
HIGHWAYS.
Wm McCarthy, shoeing
$31 60
A I Savory, supplies
23 18
$54 78
OUT POOR.
A I Savory, supplies
$6 40
$6 40
CEMETERIES.
E J M Scahill, labor
$45 00
$45 00
Total
$593 41
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List of Town Property.
School Houses
$120,000 00
Public Buildings
40,000 00
Public Grounds
10,000 00
Town Farm
30,000 00
Cemeteries
5,000 00
Heard Wharf
100 00
Averoff Wharf
3,250 00
Turkey Shore Pesture
1,000 00
Woodland, Linebrook
200 00
Woodland, Common Fields
75 04
Thatch Bank, Great Flats
Thatch Bank, Third Creek
Two Gravel Pits, Washington Street
1,500 (0
Gravel Pit, Essex Road
300 00
Fire Apparatus
15,000 00
Highway Department
7,138 00
In addition to the property enumerated above, there is the shore, beach and other property given to the Town by the Com- moners, value of which is not estimated. The valuation of Water Works and Eleceric Lighting Plant will be found in the Water and Light Report.
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IPSWICH TOWN REPORT.
Selectmen's Report.
The conditions during the year 1918 were no improvement over the previous year. Supplies were high and difficult to obtain. The scarcity of labor made it almost impossible to obtain satisfac- tory results. The highways in town have not received the attention they should have to keep them in condition. The highway depart- ment shows a balance of over $800., not used because we could not get the help needed. The special appropriation of $500.00 for the causeway to Great Neck was not used for the same reason, but is still available and we hope to do this work the coming spring. The time is coming soon, if it is not now here, when a change in the highway department will be advisable. A small truck, two and one- half or three tons, to be used for delivering gravel on the roads would be of great advantage and a saving to the town. It will be necessary to replace one pair of horses unless this is done in the near future.
The fire department should be motorized at the earliest prac- tical time This department speaks for itself. The small fire loss the past year is in itself all the commendation that is needed.
The State Police have notified us that the Town Hall will have to be re-wired to conform to a new law. They have also ordered a ventilator placed over the stage about 4x18 ft. with drop sides, held by a fusible plug, to open in case of fire thereby holding the flames and smoke from the main hall. The hall is in need of extensive repairs. The walls and ceilings should be repaired and painted, and a new floor is almost a necessity if it is to be used for public dancing. To stage, while it is not used to any extent, should be refitted with
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curtains and scenery. This would be an inducement to the young people and the schools to stage more local plays and would be of great benefit to them. The condition of the hall has not been a great credit to the town and we have felt it at some of our patriotic meetings the past year.
For the police department we only wish to say one thing, and that is, the Selectmen have not changed their position, or the in- structions given the police. The same orders and the same intruc- tions were given to the former chief as to the present, and any credit to be given for carrying out the orders should go to the Chief of Police.
We wish to extend our thanks to all town officials and others who have helped us to carry on the work of the town, and particu- larly the members of the Public Safety and Liberty Loan Commit- tees, through whose untiring efforts Ipswich has been able to go over the top in every drive. It would be impossible to mention the names of all those who have "done their bit," in this report, but we feel that the executive secretary of the Public Safety Commit- tee, Mr. H. N. Doughty, who was here, there and everywhere, twenty-four hours a day, should have special mention. We thank the Lord we had him.
The preparation of a complete list of the Ipswich men who have been enrolled for service in the War is a matter of the greatest impor- tance. It is impossible, however, to secure any official roll from the U. S. Government at Washington, and years will probably elapse before any systematic classification and publication of the records will be made. There are no records at the Adjutant General's Of- fice in Boston. The lists of the Registration Board at Georgetown contain the names only of men who who were inducted into service, with no clew to their eventual assignment .. It is difficult, there- fore, to secure an accurate and complete list at the present time, and yet now is the time to make it.
By combining the list prepared by the Committee of Public Safety, with the lists of the Board of Registration, and adding the names of men intimately connected with Ipswich as property owners or long summer residence, a fairly complete list has been prepared.
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IPSWICH TOWN REPORT.
This is published now to invite correction and enlargement. Errors in the spelling of names and in initials are almost unavoid- able. Names may be duplicated and a few have been ommitted probably. The Selectmen will regard it as a favor If any one, who notes any defect will report the same to the Town Clerk or Mr. Frederick S. Witham, the Town Accountant.
FRANK W. KYES, Selectmen GEORGE E. HODGKINS, of
EBEN B. MOULTON, Ipswich.
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ROLL OF HONOR
Aitkin, Samuel
Amoral, Antone
Amaral, Joe
Appleton, Fra' cis R Jr
Arsenault, Theodore
Arsenault, William V
*Bamford, Rodney C Barney, Joseph T *Bernier, A
Bamford, Robert T Beaulier, John
Biers, Phineas
Biers, Thomas D
Bird, Charles S
Black, James William
Bodosis, Louis
Bodwell, Fred
Bolles, Harold N
Brewczyk, Jan
Brockelbank, Charles Ernest
Brockelbank, Ralph
Broderick, John H
Brooks, Edward C
Brooks, Walter R
Brown, Donald C
Brown, Elmer E
Brown, Emery
Brown, Frederick C
Brown, Kenneth
Bruce, Wallace
Bumpus, Henry W
Brzezwinsky, John
Burdzel, Wopiech
Burns, Benjamin F Burns, Peter D
Calivas, Charles
Cameron, Chester
Campbell, Jeremiah
Campbell, Richard H
Carey, Timothy F
Cassidy, James
Campbell, Walter Carey, Jeremiah J Chaisson, Victor Chaput, Arthur Chaput, Walter Clark, Leslie S Comeau. Clifford I Conant, Carl
Allen, Richard Paul Amaral, Jack
Appleton, Charles L
Appleton James W
Biers, David
Brown, James W Bruce, Floyd R
Burns. Joseph F
Chapman, Eugene B *Chaput, Paul *Clark, James Clark. William J M Comeau, Henry E Conley, Sylvester D
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Constantine, Arthur :1.
Couter, Leon P
Crockett, Eugene A
Cronin, Frederick E
Cunningham, James E
Cunningham, Thomas J
Curran, John
Danforth, Philip F Davis, Frederick E Davis, Richard W
Dick. Evans
Dodge, Walter
Dolan. Charles L
Dondero, Frank W
Doucette, Elmer D
Doyle, James A
Drego, Stephen
Eliopoulos, Konstantinos M Ellsworth, Charles O Ellsworth. Edward Erickson, Oscar L
Farley. Theodore R Fraser, Walter H
Gakoruimis, George Gallant, Arthur Gaudet, James Gidney, Elwood Gill, Joseph A Gillis, Lewis Gilmore, William K Girard, William E
Glover, Percy L Goodale, Robert L Goodhue, Paul R
Elkins, William L
Ellsworth, Carl
Embinder, Joseph
Ewing, Havelock
Fowler, William Jesse Frazier, William
Gallant, Alfred
Gallant, Joseph S
Gaudett, Bennie B
Giles, Charles B
Gillis, James Gilmore, George L
Girard, Walter E
Glover, John Lamsori
Godin, Omar A
Goodhue, Charles E Jr
Goodwin, Charles A
Cummings, Lester H Cunningham, Lawrence Curley. James T Curtis, George H
Davey, William M
Davis Oscar A
Demore, George H
Dodge, Warren *Dolan, James F Dort, Garland C
Doucette, Walter J
*Drapeau, Arthur Durand, William
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Gould, Harold W
Gould, Roscoe W
Grady, Raymond
Grant, George L
Gray Stephen M W
Grout, Walter T
Gwinn, Charles
Gwinn, George H
Gwinn, Harry E
Gwinn, Lawrence R
Haggerty, Lyman H Hall, Clyde
Harrigan, Eugene
Harris, Moses J
Harvey. Henry
Haskell, Harold K
Hay, Clarence L
Haskell, Ralph
Herchec, Hamil
Harris, David Herlihy. Francis J Hills, John Parker Hodson, James
Holland, Henry H
Homans, Donald E
Horton. Joseph W
Howe, Theodore F
Howe, Thomas C
Hoyt, Lydig
Hull, Arthur A
Hull, Charles T
Hull, Edward G
Irvine. Hazen R
Jean, Garland
Jewett, Maynard C
Jordan, William J
Kelley, John D
Kempinski, Jan
Kidder. Alfred V
Kilborn. Samuel A Kisiel, Michale
Kinsman, Willard Quincy Klinger, Raymond A
Lakeman, Ross F
Lauer, George H Lavoie, Samuel Leavitt, William Lemieux, Adrian R
Lewis. James
Littlefield, Lawrence Low, Arthur
Jewett, Granville Johnson, Henry Joyce, Henry S Kelly, Charles Merrill Jr
Lange, Karl L Lavoie, Henry Leavitt, Edward Leet, Albert H Lemieux, George A
Lind, John P Lord, Russell
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Holmes, Calvin Hovalek, George H Howe, Theodore C
Herlihy, Morris Hinckley, Ezra G 2nd
Harris, Abraham
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Mackinney, Herbert T
MacLachlin, John C
Magee. Thomas J €
Maling, Harry
Mallard Charles A
Mallard. Frank W
Mansfield, John Grant
Manthorn. Fred
Manzer, Arthur W
Maraggioglic, Salvatore
Marcorelle, Arthur P
*Markos, Anthan N Martel, Arthur R Martel, Joseph E
Martel. Joseph P
Martel, Wilfred J
Matheson, Eugene
McGinnis, Charles A
McIntire, Everett L
Mignault, Louie
Millard, Leslie C Miller, Clarence E Mitchell, Franklin B
Morgan, Wilfred D
Moseley, Benjamin P P
Murray, Joseph H *Millsted, Arthur
Nason, Myron F Neneno, David
Newman, Benjamin
Norman, John E Jr *Nutkje, John N
O Connor, Charles
Pxige. Edward H Parker, John S Parsons, Lemuel F Pechilis, Anthony V Perley, Sidney H Phelps, Henry
Martel. Truffly D
Matheson, George E McGinnis, James A
Meunier Albert L
Millan Anthony P
Miller, Charles W Millerick, Thomas Morgan Frank H Morton, Forrest H Murray, Edwin P *Murray, Russell S
Nason, Francis C Naunczyk, Pumet Nevins, Daniel Nielepniski Alexander Norwood, William Gray
O'Brien, Patrick J Osgood, Robert B
*Pappadoyianes, Engel Parsons, Dana G Peatfield Fred P Perkins, Francis Perry, Maxine J Pickard, Chester H
Marks Joseph Martel, David T *Martel. Joseph L Martel, Raymond
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Pingree, Allan P Player. Alfred H
Poyner, Alfred Prentiss, Walter R
Prisby, Edward W Proctor, James H Provencher, Arthur E
Pingree, Sumner A
Porrier, Alfred Post, George B Jr Prescott, Elmer N'
Prisby, Stephen W Proctor, Thomas E Jr
Ranson, Claire N
Reddy. John C
Reilly, James D Richardson, Warren C
Riley, William M Robichau. Thomas
Rogers, Llewellyn A Romononski, John Ryan, James
Reddy, Frank A
Reed, Carl
Rice, Thomas E P
Riley, Francis M
Robbins, William J
Robichau, Frederick J
Rollins, Alfred H
Ross, Francis Gray
Santos, August
Scahill. Arthur B A
Scotton, Edward L Shaw, Henry Smith, George A
Smith, Julian D
Souza, Joseph Sperling, John G Jr Stathopulos, Sotiras J Sullivan, Christopher J Surrette, Murray *Szuka. Michael
Saunders, Charles T *Scahill, Chester A Senior, Walter C Simms, Clayton L Smith, John Cotton Soteropoulos. George Spencer, Daniel Spires, Joseph A
Stevens. Frank Surrette, Joseph A Surrette, Peter
Thayer, James A Thayer, William G Jr Thumocki, Gizicosz Tremble, Dana Tuckerman, Bayard Jr
Thayer, Sigourney Theriault, Archie Tozer. Elliott F Tucker, Everett R
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Vera, William J
Ving, Karls S
Voulgas, Satiros A
Wade. Alfred E
Wade, Francis C
Wait, Roy A
Wallace, Brainard
Wallace, Dennison C
Warner, Dennis J
Warner, Wilfred
Webber, Ellery Welden, Samuel
Welch. Roy W
Wells Edward
Welsh, Albert F Wendell, William G
Wendell, Daniel S
Wilkinson, Leo
Wilkinson, Thomas
Williams, Francis
Wilson, Arthur Harold
Wilson. Henry E
Wood, Francis A
Wood, William L
Woodbury, Carl
Winch, Roger K Wood, Lester L Woodbury, Arthur E
Yablowski, Teofil
Zaico, Paoset
Those marked with (*) are deceased.
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IPSWICH TOWN REPORT.
Report of Committee on Public Safety.
The Selectmen of the Town of Ipswich on April 3rd, 1917, appointed the following as members of the Committee on Public Safety :
John A. Brown G. Adrian Barker Howard N. Doughty
Charles E. Goodhue Geo. H. W. Hayes Geo. E. Hodgkins
Walter E. Hayward Frank W. Kyes Geo. A. Schofield
And at a later meeting the following were added to its mem- bership :
W. Quincy Kinsman Thomas R. Lord James W. Appleton
Roger S. Warner H. W. Mason M. Charles Arthur
John William Bailey Luther Wait Eben B. Moulton
The first meeting of the Committee, held on April 6th, at the Town hall resulted in the appointment of committees on Military: W. E. Hayward, G. A. Schofield, G. H. W. Hayes; Food Supply; C. E. Goodhue, John A. Brown, G. A. Barker; Financial: H. N. Doughty, H. W. Mason, G. H. W. Hayes, and the officers: F. W. Kyes, Chairman ; Charles E. Goodhue, Secretary; H. N. Doughty, Treasurer. Weekly meetings of the Committee were held there- after, until June, 1917, when the committee was able to carry on
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the work through its sub-committees and meetings of the wbole committee were held monthly. At a meeting held April 13th, it it was voted that an executive secretary be appointed to attend to the detail of carrying out the plans of the committee and H. N. Doughty was appointed to that office.
The activities of the committee were first directed to the formation of a military organization, which after continuing until October 1917 as a local organization, was mustered into the State service as a company of the State Guard under the command of Captain Walter H. Hathaway, with equipment, which on the re- commendation of the Committee on Public Safety, was purchased by the Town. This military organization is still enrolled with the State forces and povided the Town with a capable armed and drilled force which when occasion arose during the epidemic of influenza acquitted itself creditably and proved to be a very real help in that emergency.
In the matter of food production the committee at once took steps to stimulate the raising of additional crops, increase the quan- tity of poultry and live stock, facilitate the securing of labor for production purposes and provide garden space. The executive sec- retary was directed to take such action as would secure these re- sults, and under his direction a census of crops, poultry and live stock was taken; land to the extent of 20 acres was secured, and alloted to over 200 gardeners; and as the various Federal and State Agencies were created to facilitate this branch of the work the committee co-operated with them to the fullest extent. The Food Committee planted with money appropriated by the Town a field of potatoes, which increased the local supply by 225 bushels.
Conservation work was carried on by the Woman's Commit- tee, the work of which Mrs. Walter E. Hayward and Mrs. Joseph W. Ross had in charge. Under their direction, and in co-operation with the State and Federal Agencies, canning and preserving were stimulated by means of classes in the Winthrop School. All the matters relating to the conservation of clothing and food were brought before the citizens of the Town, and excellent results were secured by their efforts.
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The Fuel situation was studied by the committee and steps to regulate the supply and protect the citizens as far as possible from the dreaded shortage were being taken by the committee, when the Federal Fuel Administration took charge of the matter and through the State Fuel authorities appointed a Fuel Com- mittee consisting of Messrs. Hayward, Tougas and Garrette, who secured excellent results in preventing a serious shortage here.
The committee co-operated with the Red Cross, the various War Relief Organizations, the Liberty Loan Committee, and dur- the influenza epidemic was active in securing the aid so much need- ed at that time.
The committee was guided throughout the time it was in active work entirely by the desire to further the cause of the United States of America by every possible means, and its members feel that the war record of the Town is one of which its citlzens may justly be proud.
For the Committee on Public Safety,
H. N. DOUGHTY, Executive Secretary.
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Report of The Board of Health for 1918.
Summary of Expenditures:
Appropriations.
$3500 00
Transfer from Reserve fund
Excess and Deficiency fund 2500 00
$8000 00
Total Expenditures,
$7226 04
Unexpended balance,
273 96
$8000 00
Details of these appropriations and expenditures will be fonnd elsewhere in this report.
We ask for an appropriation of $4000 00 for the ensuing year.
Total number of diseases dangerous to the Public Health reported during the year, not including Influenza, 77, classified as follows:
Chicken Pox,
13
Diphtheria,
3
German Measles,
11
Measles.
19
Scarlet fever,
13
Tuberculosis,
5
Typhoid Fever,
4
Whooping Cough,
9
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77
Regular appropriation,
2000 00
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None of the four cases of typhoid fever reported originated here. One, non-resident was infected elsewhere, came to Ipswich, and was taken sick here. The other three cases were sent here from out of town to the Cable Hospital and under the law had to be registered and reported from here. Excep technically, none of them were Ipswich cases.
INFLUENZA
The pandemic run of Influenza with which Ipswich was stricken is still fresh in the minds of our pecple. It was the nearest thing to universal pestilence that any one now living has ever seen. In its world wide sweep Ipswich early succumbed and in one month's time more than two thousand persons were stricken in our town. The first case to be recognized was found in ept. 12. The disease spread like fire through a stubble field. A canvass made on Sept. 30 from house to house after the town had been carefully divided into sixteen districts and the canvassers carefully instructed how to proceed, revealed 1630 cases. They came along rapidly after that and before comparatively normal conditions were restored the two thousand mark had been passed. Early in the outbreak the facilities of the Cable Hospital were placed at the service of this Board for the treatment of pneumonia cases, and the hospital was filled to capacity with these cases at the time .the military camp afterwa ds establisned by the State was opened for the out-of-door treatment of both Influenza and Pneumonia.
It isn t designed in this report to go into details as to how the situation which confronted the Board was met and handled. Such a report would occupy much more space than is available in a re- port of this kind. It is the desire of the Board some time in the future to publish a detailed history of what happened and what was done, taking events as they occurred in sequence. Abundant data is on file in the office of the Board which will be codified so as to make the story plain, and it will be a most interesting story.
Early in the epidemic the Board acting in co-operation with the Selectmen and the Committee on Public Safety called on the State for assistance. It took the State Department of Health and Militay
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authorities several days before they could show action in establish- ing a military camp hospital, and the disease was sweeping at a rapid rate. The epidemic had really reached its peak at the time the camp was established. Its decline was rapid after that. It should be borne in mind that the Commonwealth as well as towns and cities was working under pressure and it was marvellous that it got into efficient swing as quickly as it did. Its coming to the rescue was most timely.
Many agencies and individuals in town gave freely of their time and energies. We have not space for telling the story and giving individual praise where it belongs, much as we would like to do so. We therefore thank each and every one for what they did in helping to check the pestilence.
There were a large number of pneumonia cases resulting from the influenza. The board is without a record of the exact number, as the physicians once having reported influenza did not understand that it was necessary to report these same cases again when pneumonia developed. We have though, a record of all deaths from pneumonia. In 1917 between Sept, Ist and Dec. 31st there were 4 deaths. In the same period in 1918 there were 34 deaths. In 1917 the total number was 18, while in 1918 the whole numbe was 48. So it will be seen that there were abont 30 fatal pneumonias resulting from the epidemic; not a large number when figured in percentages. Up to the 20th of October more than 2000 cases had been reported. From that date to Dec. 31st, 272 cases were reported, and with the cases that have occurred since Jan. 1st of this year, and allowing for cases from the first that for various reasons were not reported, it is a conservative estimate that the total number will exceed 2500. Ipswich was fortunate that the final outcome was not worse than it was.
The reports of the Agent, Milk Inspector and Director of " hild Welfare follow this general report,
Respectfully Submitted, GEO. E. MACARTHUR, AARON LORD, GEO. W. SMITH,
Board of
Health.
Ipswich, Feb. 15, 1919.
Printer's Errata-On Page 112 in report of Influenza eases, canvass of cases should read 1030 instead of 1630.
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