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From funds of the department, Centre Street bridge was replanked, six catch basins were constructed with new pipe drainage. About one-half mile of worn bituminous sidewalks was coated with a tar product. Nearly two miles of sidewalk got a top coat of ashes and peastone. A sidewalk was built at South Middleboro on Wareham St. and awaits a coat of crushed stone and ashes. The ashes were promised by the New Haven Railroad Co., who have not yet been able to use cars for that purpose on account of new transportation regu- lations. A portion of the village streets received what surface treatment the means available would permit. About twenty- five streets received limited gravel repairs.
Work on the more remote gravel roads and other roads has been much abbreviated because of the fact that the old macadam streets had arrived at a point of destruction which made immediate attention economically necessary to pre- serve them.
STATEMENT OF HIGHWAY ACCOUNT.
Appropriations as follows:
Highways
$20,000.00
Sewers and drainage
500.00
Catch basins
700.00
Street watering
2,000.00
Special Assessment
526.48
Clearing snow
7,000.00
Water supply
200.00
Balance, Jan. 1, 1920
97.25
$31,023.73
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RECEIPTS.
Refund on freight
$8.99
Pierce Trustees-Plymouth St.
3,357. 52
Pierce Trustees-Plymouth St.
1,300.40
Maintenance
1,225.50
Refund on snow account
10.00
Village account
3,613.75
Sewer permits
200.00
$9,716.16
Payments as follows:
Maintenance
$10,423.33
Pay rolls
16,720.91
Pierce Trustees-Plympton St., Plymouth St., etc.
9,899.57
6,833.32
Clearing snow Water supply
200.00
Highway bridge account
999.19
$45,076.32
Deficit
$4,336.43
Due from Pierce Trustees
$5,241.65
Balance
$905.22
HIGHWAY MAINTENANCE.
Orders Drawn :
J. F. Alden, Insurance Highway Bldg. $76.80
Martha Austin, gravel 8.94
Thomas Austin, gravel 11.40
Levi O. Atwood, sawdust and supplies 12.80
W. S. Andrews, supplies 9.00
Acme Bond Machinery, supplies 10.50
Bailey's Garage, supplies and painting street signs 6.60
Barrett Co. of Boston, tarvia 1,739.53
Bryant & Soule, grain and hay 711.44
W. W. Baker, freight on carload tarvia in bbls. 55.37
Ralph Bassett, supplies 2.65
Waldo Bros. & Bond, tools and supplies 88.39
$40,739.89
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Geo. E. Benson, repairs and supplies 44.25
E. H. Blake, locksmithing 3.00
Buffalo Steam Roller Co., 1 set boiler tubes 113.70
W. W. Baker, freight 1 carload crushed stone 65.06
A. C. Cosseboom & Co., blacksmithing, etc. 212.65
Cromwell Auto Supply Co., oil and sup- plies 117.76
E. L. Cook, brick 72.90
Roy Caswell, cement 2.00
Connecticut Quarries Co., crushed stone 143.44 W. W. Baker, gas, chauffeur's license, etc. 7.22
W. F. Dean, making guide board 2.00
A. E. Duffany, blacksmithing 3.18
Geo. E. Doane, sewer pipe supplies
455.31
Eagle Oil Supply Co., tools and supplies 42.82 American Express Co. .92
Alex. Eaton, express 15.15
William Egger, paint, etc. 6.75
A. W. Fuller, lettering signs 14.25
Middleboro Gas & Electric Plant 21.39
Massachusetts Highway Commission, ash pan for steam roller, etc. 22.58
Lorenzo Haskins, oil . 50
Edw. Hathaway, gravel
1.50
Albino Faietti, tinsmithing 6.85
Hartford Steam Roller Co., insurance and inspection 67.60
Independent Coal Tar Co. 1,032.14
Charles Jewell gravel 5.40
Kinsman Bros., cutting bushes 9.00
Lobl Co., brick 75.75
Victor Malm, freight paid 3.81
Maxim Motor Co.,radiator for truck, etc. 738.24
Middlesex House of Correction, brooms 6.50
S. J. Murphy, rope 5.00
T. F. McDonald, labor 65.75
N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. Co., freight on
crushed stone
439.41
N. E. Road Machinery Co., supplies and tools 385.70
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N. H. Trap. Rock Co., crushed stone 197.38 Old Colony Broken Stone Co., crushed stone 255.07
Plymouth County Commissioners, ad- vertising hearing 3.00
Pierce Hardware Co., supplies and sewer pipe 43.19
Pierce Trustees of Middleboro, sewer
pipe
14.52
Lloyd Perkins, labor and supplies
32.76
Penn. Metal Co., corrugated iron drain pipe 60.00
Sparrow Bros. oil suit for catch basin work 10.25
H. C. Shield, gravel 4.90
State Farm, hay 26.85
Mrs. Louis Rudolph, gravel
5.50
George Shurtleff, shingles, Town barn
45.00
Sears Lumber Co., supplies 595.25
Geo. R. Sampson, liability insurance 949.87
Morrill Ryder, gravel 1.40
2.95
B. L. Thomas, rent of wheel scraper
5.00
W. E. Tribou, kerosine
72.60
New England Tel. & Tel. Co.
32.45
The Texas Co., gasoline
654.86
William Tonkey, gravel 2.00
C. P. Washburn, hay, grain, cement 104.66
Middleboro Water Dept., water and coal 275.47
Theodore N. Wood, auto liability ins. 83.50
Oscar Mostrom, gravel 2.00
$10,423.33
PAY ROLLS, LABOR AND TEAMS.
Pay rolls, January
$598.86
Pay rolls, February
236.79
Pay rolls, March
853.92
Pay rolls, April
2,252.09
Pay rolls, May
1,718.72
Pay rolls, June
837.29
Pay rolls, July
1,684.67
C. A. Sherman, supplies
90
Pay rolls, August
1,562.90
Pay rolls, September
538.96
Pay rolls, October
761.34
Pay rolls, November
1,509.31
Pay rolls, December
1,665.03
W. W. Baker, salary for 9 mos.
1,350.00
Henry Clark, labor and teams
295.00
William Clark, labor and teams
629.15
S. T. Weston, labor and teams
176.00
Fred Clark, labor and teams
29.38
C. R. Skillings, labor and teams 13.50
C. N. Atwood, labor and teams 8.00
$16,720.91
VILLAGE ACCOUNT.
Receipts: "
Middleboro Water Dept., unloading
coal $795.89
Louis A. Harding, new sewer construc- tion, pipe and cement 415.62
Power Bros., use of Mixing Plant 300.00
Middleboro School Dept., drainage and sanitary work 196.96
C. W. Maxim, labor and bituminous material 47.80
East Taunton Railway Co., Centre St. Bridge, excise tax 399.32
Central Congregational Church, labor and material 70.50
Rev. A. M. Readdy, labor
11.70
Samuel Shaw, labor
26.98
Samuel Shiverick, peastone
17.10
Milme & Chalmers, labor on bound stone, Centre St. 2.00
Laura Fuller, labor, sewer
4.38
Sarah Clark, sidewalk
5.00
F. N. Whitman, labor-ashes
7.60
Luther Bailey, labor and team
15.00
Middleboro Gas & Elec. Plant, labor and sewer pipe 153.98
W. B. Leach, labor and sewer pipe 9.39
W. L. Sparrow, labor and sewer pipe 11.71
B. C. Caswell, new sewer connection
pipe and cement 80.47
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Geo. Knox, labor on ashes
2.65
Geo. F. Sears, labor
11.53
D. D. Sullivan, crushed stone
5.25
Fred Martin, labor
3.50
Herrings
29.50
Marshall Burgess, labor
2.00
Charles Tribou, cedar posts
1.50
Alexander Gurney, labor and sewer
pipe
23.74
George Richards, labor
15.60
S. T. Nelson, labor
5.20
A. R. Glidden, labor
1.65
A. D. Benson, labor
1.95
A. J. Pasztor, labor on ashes
16.20
Cromwell Auto Supply, labor
3.30
Oliver Remillard, labor
1.75
Arthur L. Briggs, new sewer connec- tion pipe and cement 115.25
S. L. Nickerson, labor
1.50
Joseph Fortin, new sewer connection
pipe and cement 167.70
Charles A. Bourne, crushed stone 5.16
Joseph D'Auria, labor 4.65
F. M. Elliott, tarvia
5.00
Leland Carnation Co.,town barn dress- ing 50.00
Lucy Lucas, labor
8.77
B. R. Strogny, tarvia
8.50
E. H. Cromwell, crushed stone
8.25
W. W. Baker, freight rebate
.75
E. Oneto, labor
8.03
E. H. Blake, rent of sign boards
6.00
Robert G. Butler, crushed stone
3.75
Antone Galanto, labor
7.75
A. W. Deane, labor
1.00
J. H. Morrison, sand
2.50
Geo. S. Nelson, labor
1
8.00
Mrs. A. W. Reed, labor
14.65
William Hewitt, new sewer connection, pipe and cement 87.92
Nemasket Mills, steam roller 4.50
Town of Lakeville, labor 3.00
Levi O. Atwood, iron drain pipe
16.80
7.60
Church of Our Savior, labor
92
G. Florence Shaw, labor 10.15
Geo. R. Sampson 40.00
Thomas & Benn 22.69
Massachusetts Highway Commission, rebate (ash pan for roller)
15.06
E. E. Thomas
20.00
John Hewitt, stone
5.25
Maxim Motor Co., labor and bitumi- nous material
165.70
Ralph Sampson, new sewer connection pipe and cement 29.15
T. D. Creedon, new sewer connection pipe and cement 58.10
A. R. Glidden, labor 3.90
$3,613.75
SEWER ACCOUNT.
Receipts:
Louis A. Harding, sewer permit
$25.00
Sarah McManus 66
25.00
William Hewitt, 66
66
25.00
T. D. Creedon 66 66
25.00
B. D. Massie
25.00
Ralph Sampson
25.00
Joseph Fortin 66. 6
25.00
Arthur L. Briggs 66 66
25.00
$200.00
EXPENDITURES ·OF PIERCE TRUSTEES.
Tarvia blanket for macadam on Plympton, Miller, Plym- outh and Taunton Streets.
Barrett Co., 19,368 gals. tarvia
$3,098.88
Sand, Geo. E. Keith Co. .
1,258.80 6.00
Sand, L. W. Tinkham · 12.00
Sand, Marcus L. Urann 5.00
Sand, Bradford K. Cushman
9.40
Sand, George Standish
5.20
Sand, Henry Shaw
4.00
RECEIPTS.
Pierce Trustees paid Barrett Co. $3,098.88
Pierce Trustees paid Town 1,300.40
$4,399.28
$4,399.28
Labor and teams, weekly pay rolls
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66 66
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EXPENDITURES OF PIERCE TRUSTEES.
EXPENDITURES.
Reconstruction on Centre St. from Main St. to Everett Square with stone and tarvia penetration.
Barrett Co., 8900 gals. tarvia B. and X $1,780.00
Independent Coal Tar Co., taric No. 1 523.00
Labor and teams, pay rolls 2,839.07
543 tons crushed stone 1,879.58
$7,021.65
RECEIPTS.
Pierce Trustees paid Barrett Co. $1,780.00
Pierce Trustees due Town 5,241.65
$7,021.65
EXPENDITURES.
Gravel construction work on Plymouth St. from State Farm Road to Bedford St., No. Middleboro.
Labor and teams, weekly pay rolls $2,940.72
Helmar Magnuson, 893 loads gravel 89.30
Barrett Co., 1860 gals. tarvia B.
. 297.60
A. C. Cosseboom, sharpening steel 16.90
Lester White, 50 loads field stone 10.00
Bradford K. Cushman, 30 loads sand 3.00
$3,357.52
RECEIPTS.
Pierce Trustees $3,357.52
Total
$14,778.45
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SNOW ACCOUNT.
EXPENDITURES.
George H. Morse
$149.25
Thomas Austin
12.00
Levi Austin
8.00
W. F. Clark
940.75
H. T. Clark
413.50
Albert Deane
55.00
William A. Shaw
248.50
Louis Embroult
30.00
M. M. Travassos
37.76
G. H. Shaw
122.75
John Bernier
182.00
W. F. Shaw
25.50
W. L. Frost
10.50
Louis Gabrey
50.00
L. D. Phillips
25.00
Damon & Wilson
15.00
S. T. Weston
249.62
C. M. Washburn
10.00
John LeBaron
34.00
Chester Smith
11.50
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Thomas Phillips
11.00
William Bryant
7.50
Geo. E. Keith Co.
3.40
C. N. Atwood
134.00
Roy Huntley
74.00
Kinsman Bros.
20.00
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J. F. Cornish
36.50
Samuel Breck
21.75
Geo. A. Deane
20.00
A. A. Thomas
3,874.54
$6,833.32
CENTRE STREET BRIDGE.
Payments:
Sears Lumber Co.
$644.33 ·
Geo. E. Doane 56.67
Labor, pay rolls
298.19 ,
$999.19
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VALUATION OF THE TOWN PROPERTY IN THE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT.
15 Barrels of binder
$150.00
Field stone
200.00
2 Dump carts
100.00
2 Bottom dumps
100.00
1 Spreading cart
150.00
2 Gears
150.00
1 Gear
50.00
1 Drag
40.00
3 Plows
25.00
4 Road scrapers
400.00
1 Watering cart
300.00
1 Oil cart
300.00
1 Concrete mixer
100.00
Moving rolls and gears
100.00
Double harnesses
125.00
6 Snow plows
300.00
13 Snow plows
260.00
3 Cranes
50.00
1 Platform scale
75.00
2 Double sleds
100.00
Sidewalk tools and material
400.00
Steam roller
2,000.00
Crushing Plant, complete
1,800.00
2 Horses
500.00
Street cleaner and brushes
50.00
Oil tank
50.00
Blocks and Falls, chains, tools, bars and gears
350.00
Town lot and buildings, thereon
6,500.00
Land on Centre Street
800.00
Land on Barden Hill
285.00
Land on Marion Road
250.00
Land on Cross Street
60.00
Truck
1,000.00
Mixer plant
3,000.00
1 Tar kettle
200.00
2 Tar kettles
150.00
1 Tar kettle
50.00
Shop equipment
200.00
Fence Stock
50.00
$20,770.00
Respectfully submitted, WATSON W. BAKER, Superintendent of Streets.
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REPORT OF THE TOWN TREASURER.
For the Year Ending December 31, 1920.
Cash on hand January 1, 1920
$15,880.40
Received for Accounts as follows :
Board of Health :
D. Gardiner Thomas
$1.00
Mary A. Duff -
20.00
John H. Wheeler, agent
42.00
$63.00
Cemetery Trust Funds :
Additions to Permanent Funds
$1,700.00
Income used for care of lots 531.60
$2,231.60
Collector of Taxes :
Account 1916 Assessments
$8.00
Account 1917 Assessments
890.26
Account 1918 Assessments
8,513.90
Account 1919 Assessments
13,975.75
Account 1920 Assessments
144,244.88
Account Fire District
2,216.74
$169,849.53
Corporation and Bank Tax State Treasurer $14,215.37
Middleborough Fire Department:
Account telephone calls
$6.62
Howes, Supt.
25.00
Algonquin Club, rent
50.00
John O'Mally, (refund)
49.50
$131.12
Fourth District Court: Luke F. Kelley, Clerk
$995.00
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Herring Account:
Freeman T. Besse
$150.00
Town of Somerset
40.00
Town of Berkley
40.00
City of Taunton
60.00
City of Fall River
30.00
Town of Dighton
60.00
Town of Raynham
20.00
Town of Freetown
10.00
$410.00
Highway Department:
Baker, Supt., refund war taxes
$8.99
Pierce Trustees-Plymouth Street
3,357. 52
Pierce Trustees-Plymouth Street
1,300.40
Town teams
1,225.50
Refund-Clearing snow
10.00
Receipts account private work
3,613.75
8 Sewer permits
200.00
$9,716.16
Incidentals :
Moth truck
$484.52
Town Historys
9.00
E.S. Pratt-Hose house
250.00
E. Kimball Harrison
5.00
Telephone tolls
3.87
County of Plymouth account Dog Fund
10.91
Edward Mckay, rent
30.00
Algonquin Club, rent
36.00
From Reserve Fund
350.00
$1,179.30
Income Tax:
State Treasurer, 1917 estimates
$155.00
State Treasurer, 1918 estimates
186.00
State Treasurer, 1919 estimates
3,630.00
State Treasurer, 1920 estimates
9,403.36
State Treasurer, School Fund
12,848.34
$26,222.70
Interest :
Collector of taxes
Bank balances
$1,894.77 203.13
$2,097.90
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Income-Enoch Pratt Fund : Kansas City Terminal Bonds City of Troy, N. Y., bonds
$200.00 225.00
425.00
Licenses :
Isadore Freedman
$10.00
Dog License Refund
1,052.55
C. A. Sherman
10.00
Nemasket Auto Co.
10.00
Howes & Perkins
10.00
Baileys' Garage
10.00
Max Bermer
10.00
Luke F. Kelley
2.00
Chas. R. Chase
10.00
Max Berman
250.00
Isadore Freedman
250.00
Everett T. Lincoln
2.00
F. E. Standish
10.00
Alice B. Pratt
12.50
E. A. Sisson
10.00
M. L. Aller
10.00
Cromwell & Lynde
10.00
Geo. E. Davison
20.00
James Fasulo
2.00
Alice B. Pratt
12.50
Pasztor & Klar
2.00
Ellis & Oliver
10.00
State Director of Standards
42.00
Princess Theatre, Inc.
37.50
Loans:
Department Equipment
$7,500.00
Temporary
110,000.00
-$117,500.00
Military Aid :
State Treasurer
$131.00
Moth Account:
Levi Mayer
$46.25
Geo. F. Shaw
37.50
State Forester
2.00
State Treasurer
1,197.84
Fowler, refund
2.44
United Cape Cod Cranberry Co.
146.12
Fowler, Supt.
27.00
$1,459.15
$1,805.05
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250th Anniversary Committee: George W. Stetson, Chairman
$59.26
Middleborough Gas & Electric Plant: Geo. A. Philbrook, Mgr.
$67,250.00
Overseers of Poor:
John H. Pushee, Supt.
$7,001.74
State Treasurer
2,098.20
Cordelia A. Finney
285.00
Town of Lakeville
391.50
Town of Sandwich
176.09
City of New Bedford
104.00
George Stowers
55.10
Percy W. Keith
25.00
Town of Truro
171.71
Charles M. Thatcher, Clerk
18.40
$10,326.74
Maria L. H. Pierce Trust Fund : Maria L. H. Pierce Estate
$225.00
Police Department:
Sharples, Chief
$ .40
County of Plymouth, rent Transfer from Fourth District Court
431.55
$731.95
Schools :
Town of Plymptom
$1,917.38
State Treasurer
646.93
Town of Freetown
71.88
Town of Rochester
486.25
Town of Lakeville
1,036.13
Town of Halifax
75.00
Fred N. Whitman, refund
6.27
Charles H. Bates
10.00
City of Boston
106.50
Pierce Trustees
3,300.00
$7,656.34
Transfer from Reserve Fund
$1,768.05
Sealer Weights and Measures Fees collected by Sealer Transfer from Reserve Fund
$69.72
41.67
300.00
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Soldiers' Burial : State Treasurer
$150.00
Soldiers' Exemption : State Treasurer
$370.41
State Aid:
State Treasurer 1
$3,412.00
Town Hall:
Edward H. Cromwell, Agent
$1,435.00
School Department 500.00
Municipal Light Plant
150.00
$2,085.00
Town Officers: *
Transfer from Reserve Fund
$504.50
Town Officers Expenses : Transfer from Reserve Fund
$111.99
Tree Warden :
Transfer from Reserve Fund
$22.10
Water Department: Alvin C. Howes, Supt .:
$30,845.08
Pierce Trustees : Account appropriations
$4,000.00
Total receipts
$493,942.09
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Payments have been as follows :*
Band Concerts: Order of Selectmen $150.00
Board of Health :
Orders of Department $4,436.22
Cemetery Trust Funds :
Funds invested
$1,600.00
Annual care of lots
531.60
$2,131.60
Collector's Account, 1920 :
State Treasurer, account Poll Taxes
$6,693.00
County Tax:
To Plymouth County Treasurer
$10,763.19
District Nurse Association :
Order of Selectmen
$2,000.00
Middleborough Fire Department:
$27,939.37
Fourth District Court:
Louis Hathaway $6.11
Alton R. Rogers
35.00
Smith T. Sharples
14.00
Fred A. Shockley
20.00
B. B. Scanlon
$100.11
Transfer to Police Account
$431:55
G. A. R., Post No. 8: Order of Selectmen '
$200.00
Herring Account :
Order of Selectmen
$283.38
Highway Accounts-Order of Selectmen : Snow expense $6,833.32
All other payments including, Sewers, Sidewalks, Village, Outside, Street Oiling, Bridges and Special Work 38,043.00
Water bills
$44,876.32 $200.00
Order of Engineers and Selectmen
25.00
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Incidentals:
Order of Selectmen $4,250.13
Interest and Discount : Temporary Loans Notes and Bonds
$4,605.61 462.00
$5,067.61
Income-Enoch Pratt Fund : Middleborough Public Library
$425.00
Licenses :
Middleboro Public Library
$1,712.55 .
Loans Paid :
School House Loan
$1,650.00
110,000.00
Temporary Loans
$111,650.00
Middleborough Public Library Order of Selectmen $1,900.00
Military Aid :
Order of Selectmen
$382.00
Moth Account:
Order of Selectmen
$4,227.12
Middleborough Gas & Electric Plant:
Commissioners' Salaries $383.33
Notes paid
4,000.00
Interest 1,440.00
Construction 13,190.67
Maintenance 54,660.31
$73,674.31
Overlay Account :
Abatement-Matthew Cushing
$70.00
Overseers of Poor:
Orders of Department $19,659.95
Maria L. H. Pierce Fund :
Deposited in Middleboro Trust Co. 225.00
Pension Fund :
Order of Selectmen
$281.28
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Plymouth County Farm Bureau: Order of Selectmen $200.00
Police Account : Order of Selectmen
$7,206.98
Reserve Fund-Transfers to:
Incidentals
$350.00
Sealer of Weights and Measures
41.67
Town Officers
504.50
Town Officers expenses
111.99
Tree Warden
22.10
Schools-Maintenance
748.42
Schools-Transportation
879.16
Schools-Repairs
140.47
$2,798.31
Schools-Orders of Department:
Maintenance
$71,007.08
Repairs
2,471.95
Transportation
5,372.90
$78,851.93
Sealer of Weights and Measures: Order of Selectmen
$422.35
Soldiers' Burial :
Order of Selectmen
$110.00
Soldiers' Relief :
Order of Selectmen
$2,618.73
State Aid :
Order of Selectmen
$2,712.00
Special State Taxes:
Street Railway
$61.66
Municipal Light Plant
28.04
$89.70
State Highway Tax: Order of. Selectmen A
$5,928.02
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State Tax: Order of Selectmen $17,738.60
Town Hall Account: Order of Selectmen
$5,849.38
Town Officers: 1
Order of Selectmen
$5,219.56
Town Officers Expenses : Order of Selectmen
$1,662.18 .
Tree Warden :
Order of Selectmen
$791.58
Water Department: Orders of Commissioners
$33,676.92
Total
$489,605.93
Balance on hand January 1, 1921
$4,336.16
Total
$493,942.09
Respectfully submitted
ALBERT A. THOMAS,
Treasurer.
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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH.
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen:
Gentlemen :- We herewith submit our report for the year ending Dec. 31, 1920.
With the exception of Measles there was recorded one hundred and ninety-five cases of contagious diseases, which includes all other reportable diseases. The Measles started in the outside district, owing to the cases not being reported until a number of children had been exposed, the unreported cases were allowed to attend school and the disease spread to all parts of the town until all children who had not had the measles were afflicted.
At the Annual Town Meeting in March the town appro- priated $1200.00 for a Public Health Nurse, and Miss McClin- tock was given the appointment. Her work in the public schools and in cooperation with the Board of Health and at the Baby Clinic and Dental Clinic, the weighing tests to discover the under nourished, indicates that she was an efficient Health Nurse and very much interested in her work.
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REPORT OF PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE.
Middleboro, Mass., Dec. 31, 1920.
To the Board of Health, Middleboro, Mass .:
Mr. Wheeler, Executive Officer :
Of the 1332 visits made in the interest of the Public Health work, 563 have been made in the interest of the Board of Health. The other visits are divided among the school, prenatal and well babies. There have been a few calls that have not been definitely classified.
Until June, when the Tuberculosis Clinics were discon- tinued, the Public Health Nurse attended every Wednesday evening. The nurse has assisted in the quarantining and releasing of patients with communicable diseases. This gave her an introduction into the homes of many of her school children, and aided in obtaining a better knowledge of the children. The school and Board of Health work are very closely associated.
In November three diphtheria patients were accompanied to Brighton. Cultures of all members of the household were taken before the families were released, from quarantine. In this way another case was found in one family, probably pre- venting further spreading of the disease.
Over 243 cultures were taken in the West Side School where the children were exposed to the disease. The quar- antine of Chicken Pox has been rigidly enforced, because of the alarming number of small pox throughout the country. These cases were first diagnosed as chicken-pox.
The Public Health Nurse has attended the meeting of the Massachusetts Tuberculosis League in Boston and the Con- ference of the New England Tuberculosis Association in Man- chester, New Hampshire. This Conference was very helpful. A full report may be seen at the Community Center.
There have been four cases of Opthalmia Neonatorum, which cleared with a few treatments, None of these showed a positive specific infection.
The Public Health Nurse wishes to thank the Board of Health for their co-operation, which made her work prove its worth.
Respectfully submitted,
FLORENCE S. MCCLINTOCK, R. N.
107
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES.
The following tabulation is a copy of records of the Board of Health from Jan. 1, 1920, to Dec. 31, 1920.
Jan.
Feb.
Mar.
Apr.
May
June
July
Aug.
Sept.
Oct.
Nov.
Dec.
Total
Chickenpox
1
2
6
12
21
Pneumonia
1
4
1
1
1
1
2
2
1 13
Diphtheria
1
4
2
7
Supperative
Conjunctivitis
2
1
1
4
Tuberculosis
3
2
4
1
1
2
1
14
Influenza
2
24
26
Mumps
3
1
1
11
29
13
6
2
7
1
1
1
76
Measles
1
8
31
95
56
78
14
1
1
285
Pneumonia
1
5
1
3
2
12
Scarlet Fever
3
1
1
5
Whooping Cough
4
5
3
1
2
15
Dog Bite Opitalmia
1
1
-
482
FINANCIAL REPORT.
Balance Jan. 1, 1920
$209.97
Appropriation 1920
4,000.00
Receipts and Reimbursements
63.00
$4,272.97
Expenditures Deficit
$4,436.22
$163.25
3
3
Bronchial
108
EXPENDITURES.
· Salary, Board of Health :
Appropriation
$200.00
Dr. Baker
$100.00
C. W. Clark
50.00
R. P. Byrnes
8.00
F. S. Thomas
42.00
$200.00
Clinic:
Appropriation
$50.00
None expended
Balance
$50.00
Collecting Rubbish :
Appropriation
$500.00
Paid
440.00
Balance
$60.00
Agent and Clerk, Inspector of Slaughtering and Milk:
$800.00
Appropriation Paid
800.00
. All Other Expenses :
Appropriation
$2,450.00
Balance Jan. 1, 1920
209.97
Receipts
63.00
$2,722.97
Expended
$2,996.22
Deficit
$273.25
Balance from salaries
110.00
Deficit
$163.25
ALL OTHER EXPENSES.
Transportation :
Maxim Motor Co.
$44.00
W. L. Soule 89.10
F. L. Hammond
32.50
109
W. L. Aller
57.25
Millerd's Garage
1.50
H. H. Shaw T. G. Sisson
23.15
Ellis & Oliver
9.00
$259.50
Printing and Stationery :
Lorenzo Wood
$16.50
H. L. Thatcher & Co.
30.50
Nemaskett Press
22.50
Hobbs, Warren & Co.
1.83
E. H. Farhady Co.
9.50
$80.83
Groceries and Provisions :
P. H. Pierce Co.
$27.30
A. M. Peckham
1.90
J. C. Boynton & Son
34.38
W. R. Begley
2.74
G. A. Richards
19.98
$86.30
Hospital Expenses :
William Egger
$10.65
E. M. Johnson
1.75
C. L. Hathaway & Co.
5.39
Jesse Morse
10.09
F. N. Whitman
81.72
James Kanarcus
4.65
C. W. Clark ·
18.23
F. W. Woolworth Co.
3.91
Caswell's Exchange
.90
Middleboro Gas Plant
9.06
Mrs. Marion Pratt
85.24
A. R. Glidden & Son
28.12
White Market
8.44
Miss White
150.42
Pasztor & Klar
11.70
M. L. Hinckley
11.05
Geo. A. Barney
1.65
C. B. Cobb
25.53
J. J. Pearson
10.00
1.25
Mrs. McAuley
3.00
110
Ralph Bassett
10.45
Cushman, Gardner Co.
3.00
J. L. Jenney
13.91
Polission & Athaniason
9.83
Mrs. Carrier
44.50
$561.44
-
Miscellaneous Charges :
Bryant & Soule
$19.00
Allen Sanitary Supply Co.
21.00
Fickert Bros.
9.00
G. E. Doane
1.65
George Bolling
2.00
Miss Doherty
2.80
J. H. Wheeler, (travel and postage)
39.00
N. E. Telephone Co.
48.20
$142.65 ,
Sickness:
Lakeville Sanatorium
$379.43
North Reading
37.14
Mass. Homeopathic Hospital
22.50
Rutland Sanatorium
61.15
Plymouth Co. Hospital
1,009.80
Mrs. O'Brien
35.00
Mrs. Rogers
8.00
Dr. J. H. Burkhead
3.00
Miss Howes
105.00
City of Lynn
45.00
E. J. Kelly
10.00
Catherine Sheehan
52.14
Dr. Helen Ham
63.00
City of Brockton
6.00
Miss McClintock
4.34
City of Fall River
24.00
$1,865.50
$2,996.22
L. A. BAKER, C. W. CLARK, F. S. THOMAS,
:
Board of Health.
111
INSPECTOR OF SLAUGHTERING
To the Board of Health:
I herewith submit my report as Inspector of Slaughtering for the year ending Dec. 31, 1920
The following tabulation is a copy of the records of the Board of Health for the period mentioned above:
1920
Swine
Veal
Beef
Jan.
24
Feb.
12
March
28
April
1
May
1
1
June
5
July
2
August
2
September
1
1
October
7
1
November
28
1
December
138
240
11
1
Total 252
2 Hogs condemned for Muscal Tuberculosis.
2 Hogs condemned for Uremia.
Respectfully submitted,
J. H. WHEELER,
Inspector of Slaughtering.
INSPECTOR OF MILK.
To the Board of Health:
Gentlemen :- I herewith submit my report as Inspector of Milk for 1920. Analysis of samples of milk collected year after year demonstrates that the milk sold in Middleboro is above standard required by the statutes of the Common- wealth. Occasionally a dealer tries to increase his production
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