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Harrison Ilolmes
64
1
17
Carcinoma
Caleb and Lucy Prior
Joseph and Hannah Ellis David and
1
Gastro enteritis
..
30
Maber Blanch Briggs
Membraneons cronp
31
Charles H. Drew
49
8 20
Carcinoma
66
4
Annie M. Young Stillborn
51
Accidental drowning
66
25
General paralysis (died in Westborongh) Premature birth
16
Arthur L. Brown
1
--
Joseph Davidson and -
34
Mitral regingition
23
Patrick John Keefe
Clark and Antonette C. Batchelder Lyman A. and Lizzie Pierce Russell L. and Sarah A. Wixon James A. and Annie M. Lynch John and Julia Thomas Abijah and Sally Chubbuck William Popp and -and -
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Saverio and Rosa Fechent ---- and -- James H. and Annabel Cavananghi James and Annie McNally . Francis and Temperance Bowley Remio B. and Margaret Forgeron -- and -
Benjamin Dunham and Alice Finney
46
18
Lydia F. Gilbert
~1
4
5
Carcinoma
Benjamin and Snsan L. Finney Charles and Kathrina Kuntz John and Mary Fry Salvini and Mary White Freeman and Abby A. Warren -- and -
Manel and Josephine Costa - and - Galen R. and Jnline E. Valler Ellis Morton and Polly Nickerson -- and -
Nicholas and Annie Wilhelmy -- and - William and Drucilla Thompson Eli Joyce and Nancy Robbins Manuel and Lena Boutalia John and Lydia Bates --- Miller and
William Mylett and Cecily Cahill -- and -
Peter Windor and Louisa Peck
66
9
Margaret Hasemann
41
Chronic nephritis
66
William B. Waters
43
Fall internal injuries (died in Cal.)
Edward W. Hoxie
70
18
Killed by R. R. train
Laura Russell
76
1
2
66
6
Adaline Greene
86
6 20
Old age
9
Stillborn
55
9
17
Asthemia due to cystitis
66
William Harlow
83
8
28
Intestinal obstruction
66
-
1
Open foramen ovale
27
John A. Carnes
40
9
16
Catarrhal pneumonia (died in Whitman)
30
Harriet Gooding
84
11
Embolism cerebral
30 2
. Hattie M. Bartlett
15
3
11
General paralysis (died in Taunton)
6
Mary A. DeVine
70
6
Disease of heart (died in Kingston)
66
2
John M. Deprey
36
9
Selino Dino Pavesi
16
Potts disease
..
9
Frank Letford
23
4
15
Accidental suffocation
14
- James McNally
15
Struck by electric car
16
Francis F. Finker
15
14
16
Clifford Joseph King
23
6
26
Nephritis
Stillborn
64
7
-
44
6 6
Benjamin Whiting Charles J. Wilhelmy Arthur McMahon
5
6
66
William Anti
-
10
4
73
5
6
11 12
Nelson Brown Daniel W. Holmes
- 85 50 59
1 10
Locomotor ataxy (d. in Roxbury. Conn.)
12
12 Lucy B. Blanchard
..
13
Joseph Dries
19
66
17
Benjamin W. Snosso
1
9 1 1 29 Cancer Consumption Cerebro spinal meningitis
Heart failure
-
:
Manuel Vierie
2 hours 3 27
Phthisis
66
22
Katharina Phillips
59
10
Pulmonary tuberculosis
66
Ann O'Brien
72
10
5 Disease of brain
..
25 26
Vencislan Cardozo
24
Pneumonia
31
Marion Douylliez
6
Bronchitis
Omer and Elizabeth Galler
Lewis and Emma Reynolds
Abiathar an.1 Lydia Clark
John and Deborah Spooner
Carl and Anna Brenner Thomas Cone and Alice Burbank - and -
Josiah and Benedicta Moore William and Sophia Holmes Frederick and Nannie Gooding John and Unice B. King
Charles Goodwin and Hannah Harlow
1
6
14
Membranons cronp
Gottlob and Anna Volk
Jesse R. Atwood and Mirian Atwood
May
Ridenbuch
1
Feeble from birth
30 1 3 3
April
20 20 20 21 21
Stillborn
..
Mary Rudden
34 73
1 12
Heart failure bronchitis
Sarah D. Potter
Heart failure
:
Isabella Noyes
66
Tumor of the brain (died in Boston) .
29
10
1 Pulmonary tuberculosis (d. in Kingston) Accidental drowning
8 10 11
Sara Freeman Manter Mary V. Lewis Manuel Gonclaves
12 Capillary bronchitis Gastritis Apoplexy Meningitis General paralysis
1
11
Charles H. Beckford
18 25
Wilfred Garry
Theodore Jacob Mneller
Patrick Greely and Julia Burns Peter and --
Accidental drowning
Fracture of skull
14
John Henry Murray
Brights disease
17
Nophritis
DEATHS-CONTINUED.
DATE.
NAME.
AGE. Y. M. D.
CAUSE OF DEATH.
NAME OF PARENTS.
May
20
John Francis Lynch
48
5 10
Acute myocarditis
23
Hattie F Beytes
46
5
10
Tubercular meningitis
June
3
Domethilde Viau
45
8
29
Careinoma nteri
David Hart
32
10
4
Nephritis (died in Kingston)
66
5
Wellington Lamberton
25
10
14
Cirrhosis of liver
10
Albert W. Hurle
3
3
19
Mesenteric consumption
66
17
Cornelia Burbank
81
10
28
Strangulation of intestines
44
19
Anna Loveland
64
6
Nephritis (died in Springfield)
..
20
Manuel Rosa Garcia
15
1
66
21
Mary Brown
21
11
Phthisis
66
23
Joseph Ferdinand
55
9
12
Rheumatism
66
27
Hannah S. Morton
10
27
Chronic nephritis (died in Boston)
July
3
Catherine G. Brown
1
3
Measles
5
Rebecca Frauces Holmes
26
Compression of brain
8
William HI. Hall
51
9
24
Accidental drowning
66
9
Walter Russell Bennett Mary A. Doteu
68
1
29
Carcinoma
66
9
Alphens K. Harmon
1
10
Cancer of the stomach
..
18
Ellis E. Brown
60
3
Angina pectoris
66
19
Patrick Frawley
72
66
21
Caroline M. Spooner
11 3
Chronic bronchitis
66
22
- O'Keefe
1
Asphyxion defective heart
66
29
Mary Ryan
86 15
-
.
66
29
John Rhuprecht
1
5
Cholera infantum
August 1
Russell Alonzo Woodward
16
2
66
:
12
87
66
15
6.
18
Patrick Delaney
1/2
66
19
Cora L. Miles
29
Hydateform mole (hemorrhage)
20
Edward Walter Peterson
-
9
29 4
Ilco colitis (died in Dorchester) Inanition
Timothy and Hannah O'Brien Henry (. Bisbee und Catherine Goddard Treffle Allard and Esther Guilbault
Dennis and Bridget Prendegast Joseph and Annie Monish
5
Joseph Costa
2
Pneumonia
Nathaniel and Lucy Cutting William and Mary Hoppe Samuel Doten and Rebecca Bradford
Job Ryder and Sally Holmes Joseph and - Elkanah Bartlett and Mary Morton John and ---
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- Solomon Sylvester and Mary A. Alexander Alonzo and Mary King Emil and Dorilla Cazavant -- and
Angelina Douchram Karen Larsen Abby Robbins
58
1 17541 1 1
12
Senility (died in Washington)
Epileptic convulsions Gastro enteritis
Heart failure and general debility Cancer of face . Inanition
1 1
21
John Delaney
28
11
23
Injury at life saving
..
9
19
Charles William Sever
19
1
1
Cardiac oedema of Inngs (d. in Kingston) Endocarditis
Patrick and Mary Hussey William and Hannah O. Nicholson
John and Annie Robischeau Edward and Ellen Hackett Peter and Annie Corchight James and Maggie Stroffolini
Myocarditis (died in Kingston)
Acnte enteritis (died in Tewksbury)
30
Angelo Nazzaro Eliza O. Lneas
6
Accidental drowning
Frederick A. Cnshing
Carcinoma of jaw
--
Lemuel and Hannah S. Holmes Daniel G. and Fanstina Holmes William B. and Harriet Dubley Frederick and Elvina V. Ellis Eber W. and Deborah Potter George and Eliza Abbott Thomas B. Bartlett and Bethia Churchill Nathaniel and Hannah Gooding William and Sarah A. Book Charles and Jane A. Elliott
Stephen Westgate and Lney Westgate James and Catharine McDermott. George H. Newhall and Sarah Cahoon Christian and Anna Jansen James and Catherina McDermott
4
.
66
18
52
11
18
66
19
George R. Calloway
72
10
Enlargmen of heart with valvulor disease - Arterio schilerosis (died in Tauntou)
24
Howard Kingsley Swift
72
9
18
14
73 1
9
Died three days after opperation for ap- Nephritis (d. in Roxbury) [pendicitis
Edmund and Nancy B. Chandler John Rogers and Susie Hutchinson Timothy Mitchell and Malissa Raymond Robert Saunders and Jennie Sands Louis and Ottavia Fara
John T. Gleason and Ellen Odell Daniel Jackson and -- Turner David and Emma F. Badger Paul and Alphonsina Gagne Mariono and Mary Bartlia Frank and Anna - Joseph -and
Branch and Abiah Donglass Elisha and Ruth F. Howland John and Madalena Dries James H. and Catharine G. Donnelly Henry and Ida Raimondi Diofebo and Rosa - Sylvester and Julia Alees Frederick and Amelia Cantori Sylvanus and Lydia Churchill Eugene Mccarthy and Susan Martin
John and Julia O'Neil Michael and Annie Wood
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James and Maria T. Holmes Abraham and Harriet Goddard Frank and Mary Berangozi Frederick W. and Sarah Bartlett Ellis and Hannah J. Ellis
Oct. 3 3 4
Hannah C. Jones
67
1
14
Disease of heart
5
Sylvia A. Vinton
71
1
21
Paraphlegia (died in Braintree)
Edmund Marsh
43
4
19
Alcoholisni
7 11
Norma Cavolini
4
Marasmus
12
Caroline A. Bartlett
74
6
Spinal paralysis
13
Joseph W. Roseburry Adolph Malaguti
39
Glioma of brain (died in Boston)
14
1 23
6 27
Sarcoma of pancreas Spinal paralysis Brights disease
Joseph and Elizabeth Grandi Eli and Eloise Curiot William and Mary A. Bradford - and
Robert and Mary A. Thomas Kingsley and Pamelia Belden William H. and Eveline C. Chandler Joseph S. Barker and Alice Albro
.
John Darling Churchill
86
10
9
Old age heart disease
.
17
Eleanor Hyde John Doyle
35
1 28
Carcinoma
18
Annie Mendal Kane
5
6
Milk infection meningitis
Benjamin A. Norwood
16
Typhoid fever
-
20
George Fracalossi
24
William H. Whitwell Nancie C. Wood James A Thomas
64 82
5
Heart disease
3
Cerebral tumor
69 6
14
Chronic enteritis (died in Boston)
Gorge N. and Lucy Holmes Beniamin Harver and Lucy W. Dunham Zacceux Bartlett and Sylvia Blackwell
Edmund S. and Lney Smith Ilda and Delmina Facchini John and - -- and-
17
Victor Burlett Ella M. Holmes Mattie Mabry
46
6
4
13
:
23
..
29
66
Jan.
Angust
22 Edmund Robbins Deborah B. Thomas Rebecca M. Howland Mary Davidson Antonio Bussolari Agnes W. Tillman Susan T. Jackson Willianı Walter Cook Ulrich Quelette Emily Furtado
75
85
6
34 Chronic Bronchitis
Tuberculosis
Pulmonary tuberculosis (died in Ind.) Senility (died in Boston) [Wareham
5 Hemorrhage of the newborn (died in Cholera infantmm Hydrocepheloid Cholera infantum
Gastrite Cancer
10 11
Louisa Rudolph
1
5
Accidental injury (died in Rockland) Acute and juanition (died in Kingston)
11 12 12
Catharine Leticia Bagnell Alice Vecchi Joab Consoni Mary Lopes
19
5
Tuberenlar meningitis Pulmonary tuberculosis
8
3
Cholera infantum
15 16 17
Mary Muti
6
Cholera infantum
18 19 19 19
George Hinckley Jackson
74 8 2
Pulmonary tuberculosis
Marasmus,
21 9
Mitral insufficiency (died in Tewksbury)
Ephraim and
Frank S Hall
1
3
Cholera infantum
Anthony Lawrence Jolin Lawrence Branch H. Pierce Caleb Morton Dunham
79
11 8 1
..
12 25 4 5 6 9 9 9
32
11 3
80 5 9
Sept.
1 6 3
1
30
Phebe E. Sherman
73 (1
1 Natural canses probably heart disease Apoplexy (died in Taunton) Apoplexy (died in Rindge, N. H.)
22
20
Sarah Green Wall
4574 4
Ileo colitis
Accidental drowning
50
55 12 5 16
DEATHS-CONTINUED.
1904
NAME.
AGE. Y. M. D.
CAUSE OF DEATH.
NAME OF PARENTS.
Oct.
31
Ichabod Morton
71
8
24
5
Mary H. Drew
64
9
25
Heart disease
..
5
Lucy Bierce
80
9
5
Old age
Nov.
1
Sarah W. Sherman
75
Apoplexy
1
Ralph Morse Fay
37
6
6
Uraemic convulsions
66
6
James Hall
78
3
23
Oedema of the brain
..
6
Mariana Grandi
3
1
Congestion of lungs
66
8
Thomas A. Stevens
75
11
2
Valvalor heart disease
.6
9,
Prima Busi
4
3
Shock due to extensive burn
6.
& 11
John T. Hohnes
51
11
4
Chronic nephritis
Twater
66
12
Henry Franklin Raymond
50
16
Cerebral hemorrhage (d. in East Bridge-
66
14
Henrietta Fratus
82
Disease of heart
..
17
Samuel Russell Dickson
95
1 13
17
Martha J. Marth
39
Peritonitis (died in Worcester)
66
17
Nancy Carleton
5 23
Disease of throat
66
18
Lillian Blood
21
-
Child birth peritonitis
..
18
Callahan
2 hours
Premature birth
Thomas S. and Christina Flood
...
21
Ellen Brannecker
81
10
1
Bronchitis
William B. and Sarah A. Book
66
28
Cotilda Monish
3
Bronchitis
Antone and May Sonza Branch and Rebeca Bates
Dec.
4
Sarah Jenkins
91
5
23
Bronchitis
Isaac Cole and Sarah Holnies
11
Elizabeth E. Allen
69
11
9
Heart disease (died in Malden)
13
Josiah Arthur Everett Howard
20
8
3
Consumption
17
Francis Loring Wise
1
17
Hereditary sick from birth
17
Joseph Sylva
11
1
66
18
Eva G. Nickerson
4
Pneumonia
19
Arminia Nickerson
71
- 2
12
Gastro enteritis
Simon and Sarah J. Carpenter
Frank Manganelli
4
--
30
Simeon H. Barrows
75
9
General weakness, brain disease
-
Ichabod and Betsey Holbrook
Henry Mills and Mary Coville Thomas Morton and Nancy Paty
Joseph Bent and - Addison C. and Martha Adams Sherman and -- Mitchell
5
Joseph Allen
50
Phthisis (died in Boston)
James and Sarah Wildes
John and Argia Perrani
Benjamin and Elizabeth Anstiu
Pani and Amelia Capoli
Henry and Lucy Morey
Philip A. and Edua M. -
Samuel aud Mary Churchill =
Robert Darby and Isabella Copeland Jobe and -- Chase
Philip Bertocchi and Louisa RONNi
66
22
Patience C. Dunham
55
3
Angina pectoris
30
Ezra Pierce
4
18
Old age heart disease
William E. Finney and Betsey Hackett
Josiah B. and Cynthia Burgess
Oliver L. and Mary L. Dousett Manuel and Mary Costa
Capillary bronchitis
Alfred C. and Delia Nickerson
28
Pneumonia .(died in Boston)
Reuben Cahoun and Azuba
20
Margaret Viola Pickard
24
Capillary bronchittis
Louis and Theresa Bousalari Asa and Fanny Dunham
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James Murphy and Ellen Reagan Abraham and Patience Clark
66
27
William Taylor Browul
Apoplexy (died in North Attleboro)
Seuile debility
Joseph and Rebecca D. Chandler
Cystitis
SUMMARY.
MARRIAGES.
Number of marriages registered in 1904. Both parties
born in-
United States,
62
Germany,
2
Italy,
22
Western Islands,
6
Nova Scotia,
2
Belgium,
I
Sweden,
I
Scotland,
I
Portugal,
I
England,
I
Russia,
I
Mixed, one American,
2I
Mixed, neither American,
3
Unknown,
I
I25
BIRTHS.
Number registered-
Males,
125
Females, 92
217
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The parentage is as follows :
Both parents born in-
United States,
67
France,
2
Germany,
I2
Italy,
50
England,
5
Canada,
4
Western Islands,
4
Russia,
4
Azores,
5
Ireland,
3
Nova Scotia,
6
Prince Edward Island,
I
Sweden,
2
Mixed, one American,
42
Mixed, neither American,
7
Unknown,
2
Scotland,
I
217
DEATHS.
Number of deaths registered, 200, of which 48 occurred out of town, burial taking place in Plymouth.
Born in-
United States,
I54
England,
7
Ireland,
8
Scotland.
3
Azores.
I
Germany,
5
Denmark,
I
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Nova Scotia,
4
Italy,
3
Cape Breton,
1
France,
I
Russia,
I
New Foundland,
I
Norway,
I
Western Islands,
5
Canada,
2
Unknown,
2
200
FIRE DEPARTMENT
To the Board of Selectmen :
The Board of Engineers submit their report for the year 1904.
APPARATUS.
The apparatus of the department is in good condition.
Ladder Truck No. I has had a new set of wheels and has been painted.
Steamer No. 2 has had the pumps repaired and has been painted.
Steamer No. 3 has been painted.
Chemical No. I has been painted and repaired.
No. 3 Hose Reel has been painted.
Steamer No. I has had the pumps repaired.
Steamer No. I and Chemical No. 2 need a touching up with paint, and varnishing the coming year.
HOSE.
We have seventy-five hundred feet (7,500) of hose in good condition and seven hundred feet (700) which are to be relined. We recommend the purchase of one thousand feet (1,000) the coming year.
FIRE ALARM SYSTEM.
Four signal boxes have been added to the system this year, making twenty-five (25) in all. They are located as follows :
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No. 8-Cor. Vernon and Allerton streets.
No. 47-Cor. Mayflower and Jefferson streets. No. 48-Near O. Burgess' house, Warren Ave. No. 49-Cor. Cliff street and Warren Ave.
FLUSH HYDRANTS.
Most of the flush hydrants are in poor condition, two hav- ing been taken out and replaced by post hydrants. Those in the south part of the town, from Market street to Warren avenue have been discarded on the old line of pipe. Three have had new boxes and a number in different parts of the town will have to be replaced by post hydrants the coming year.
POST HYDRANTS.
Eighteen (18) hydrants and one (I) top have been bought this year. Ten (10) and one (I) top have been bought by the Fire Department. Eight hydrants and one top have been set and two remain to be set, one at the corner of Summer and Spring streets and one in the neghborhood of T. R. Watson's, Summer street. Eight were set by the Water Department, the cost coming out of the appropria- tion on the new line of pipe on Union and Lothrop streets. · We recommend an appropriation of $600 for new hy- drants.
HORSE SERVICE.
The horse service at the Central Station is very poor.
We earnestly recommend that a suitable addition be built to the Central engine house and that horses owned by the town be kept there and worked in conjunction with the Street Department. New quarters which are sadly needed could be provided for, a battery room on the second floor,
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the present one is in the basement. The limit of room has been reached and with constant addition to the fire alarm system, a new location in the building is an absolute necessi- ty.
The horse service at the South Street station is all that could be desired with one exception. While the steamer is drawn by horses, the hose-reel is pulled by men, yet the hose should be on hand as quickly as the steamer at a fire, a hose wagon is what is wanted; then if a fire breaks out in the vicinity of Cliff street or Hotel Pilgrim, the crew will be in good working order when they reach the fire.
We recommend a hose wagon for the South Street house.
Ladder truck No. 2 is in a very poor place in town square. It was moved from the basement of the Town House be- cause the police department needed more room. The truck requires warm quarters because the ladders get badly iced up at fires in cold weather. It ought to have suitable hous- ing and its place is in the Central Station after the addition has been built.
We recommend an addition to the Central Station.
FINANCIAL.
Appropriation-
Annual,
$7,000 00
Hose,
1,200 00
Repairs on buildings,
500 00
Signal boxes,
600 00
$9,300 00
Payments-
Horse hire,
$1.455 4I
Coal and kindling,
5,64 76
Fire alarm system, including new boxes, 892 60
Lighting buildings, 320 13
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Hydrants, 365 00
Water department and bill,
305 42
Pay roll of department,
2,513 82
Hose,
1,594 44
Janitors,
306 26
Sundries,
2,004 04
$10,321 88
Overdrawn,
$1,021 88 We recommend an appropriation of $11,500 00 to meet the expenses of the department in the coming year.
E. D. BARTLETT,
Chief. I. L. HEDGE, Clerk.
BOARD OF ENGINEERS.
E. D. Bartlett.
J. E. Sullivan
G. E. Saunders. J. S. Kierstead I. L. Hedge.
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REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF CEMETERIES.
Following is the report of the Superintendent of Ceme- teries :
Since making my last report a substantial fence has been completed entirely around the cemeteries and the wooden portion of it has been painted.
The Samoset Street entrance has been set with granite posts, and the usual amount of grading and cleaning has been done and in many ways the appearance and general condition of the cemeteries has been materially and perma- nently improved. Each year, however, the amount of labor necessary to keep the cemeteries in a presentable condition seems to increase and much work which ought to be done is necessarily postponed to the succeeding year. The fencing now being completed, more can be done the coming season and much may be added that will result in the permanent beautifying of the grounds. I recommend an appropriation of one thousand dollars for cemeteries for the ensuing year.
The conditions upon Burial Hill have also been materially improved, a fence has been completed around the Hill and a new gate at the Russell Street entrance. Owing to the large numbers of people visiting here every summer the cost of keeping these grounds clean has increased during the past few years. Some stone wall needs to be laid in the near future and there are many old gravestones that must
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be repaired and preserved. These historic slabs are of more interest to our visitors than to our townspeople and should be preserved at once before they get beyond repair.
In view of the necessary work to be done and the abso- lute necessity of at least making a beginning towards pre- serving the chief attractions of the Hill, viz: the historic headstones, I recommend an appropriation for Burial Hill for the ensuing year, of six hundred dollars.
Respectfully submitted. E. F. STRANGER.
Supt. of Cemeteries and Burial Hill.
BOARD OF HEALTH.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH
1904.
During the past year there have been two cases of diph- theria, seventeen cases of scarlet fever, thirty-eight cases of typhoid fever and one hundred and eleven cases of measles, making a total of one hundred and sixty-eight cases of con- tagious diseases. There have been fewer cases of diphtheria and scarlet fever than last year, but more cases of typhoid fever and measles. It has never been the custom to disin- fect after cases of measles, but the great number of cases which occurred during the past year leads the board to be- lieve that it would be better to disinfect after cases of . measles. Aside from the great number of cases of measles, the board has had as its most serious work that of control- ling typhoid fever. The board has acted not upon its own advice or suggestions, but in conjunction with the State Board of Health, and with the practicing physicians in town. In some cases there has been some feeling shown because of the action of the board in condemning buildings and places where the board thought typhoid fever germs existed. The feeling among the citizens of the town and among many summer residents, whose property is situated here, many of whom came in contact with the disease, be- came so strong that the State Board of Health was called to act in conjunction with this board, and all possible sources from which this contagion could arise were examined, in-
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vestigated, and in one case upon petition of leading citizens who came in contact with the probable source, a barn on Cliff street was burned, and certain elements said to be a probable source of this contagion were removed and buried. Since this time but two cases of typhoid fever have been reported to the secretary of the board, and in both of these cases it was apparent that the infection took place outside of our town.
A petition was received by the Board of Health, asking that an investigation be made relative to the pollution of Eel River water. Said petition was referred to the State Board of Health. The cause of said pollution was alleged by the petitioners to be due to the waste products coming from the Rubber Mills. The following is the result of said investigation by the State Board of Health.
Gentlemen :-
"The State Board of Health has considered your com- munication received October 24. relative to the pollution of the water of Eel River in Plymouth by waste products from the rubber factory, in which you request the Board to make an examination of the pollution of the river by these wastes, and in accordance with this request the Board caused the locality to be examined by one of its engineers and a sample of the water of the river to be analyzed.
"As a result of the examination it appeared that a con- siderable quantity of acid was used in the factory and that wastes containing organic matter from the processes em- ployed were discharged into the stream. These wastes did not, however, have a very noticeable effect upon the stream at the time this examination was made, and a chemical analysis of a sample of water collected from the river below the works did not show that the water was being seriously polluted. It is possible that the quantity of wastes dis- charged may be greater at other times or that in dry weath- er, when the flow of the stream is small, the stream or its
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banks may be affected by these waste matters to such an ex- tent as to cause complaint on acocunt of an objectionable appearance or odor."
The water at Pilgrim Spring and Cold Spring has been analyzed by the State Board of Health and in each case no impurities were found and is considered safe for public use.
During the past year the expense for the inspection of plumbing has been $950, which in our opinion is too much for a town of this size, and we are now considering the means by which this expense can be reduced.
During the year a board of examiners of plumbers was appointed, consisting of : William Brown, Thomas Harney and Percy Lothrop. This board has examined five appli- cants.
The following were given journeymen plumber's li- censes :
Arthur A. Sampson.
John Sullivan.
William Carr.
Freeman Brown.
Thomas Harney.
Henry Reinhardt.
H. P. Bailey.
Philip Mahler.
Arthur L. Bailey.
Fred P. Bailey.
Fred R. Spates.
Harry Benson.
Fred Sampson.
Albert Rich.
The following were given master plumbers' licenses : Hathaway & Sampson. C. T. Harris & Son. W. H. H. Weston. H. P. Bailey & Bro.
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William W. Myrick.
William Carr. Freeman Brown. Ernest L. Basset. Reginald Morton.
There has been more or less disregard to the laws on slaughtering animals for food, but we intend to make every- body comply strictly to the law in the future. It has been necessary to ask a large number of people to connect with the sewer, among which have been all who own houses on Cherry street.
We have received about two hundred complaints of nuis- ances. The following nuisances have been abated :
Privys,
54
Sewer water,
2
Sink drain, 38
Swill nuisances,
3
Rubbish dumps,
6
Barns,
I3
Bad odors,
5
Hennery,
I
Beach nuisances,
5
Pig pens,
4
Dead animals,
6
Miscellaneous,
33
170
There have been quite a number of complaints about nuis- ances which did not actually exist.
The board realize that for the safety of public health more rigid inspection of cow barns is necessary, and it is our intention to see that all cow barns are kept as clean and sanitary as possible.
The following is a statement of the expenditures made by the Board of Health during the year :
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Agent and inspector. salary. $215 47
Secretary, salary and expenses. 31 50
Labor on public dumps, 19 50
Services of physicians,
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