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Section 52. - " The Selectmen and Mayor and Aldermen shall require it and enforce the vaccination of all inhabitants, and when, in their opinion, the public health requires, the re- vaccination of all the inhabitants who do not prove to their satisfaction that they have been successfully vaccinated or re- vaccinated within five years. Every person over twenty-one years of age, not under guardianship, who neglects to comply with any such requirements shall forfeit five dollars ($5.00)."
Section 53. - " Towns shall furnish the means of vaccination
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to children of their inhabitants who are unable to pay for the same."
Section 54. - " Incorporated manufacturing companies, superintendents of almshouses, city reform schools, industrial schools, lunatic hospitals, and other places where the poor and sick are received; masters of houses of correction, jailers, keepers of prisons, warden of the states prison, and superin- tendents or officers of all other institutions supported or aided by the state, shall, at the expense of their respective establish- ments or institutions, cause all inmates thereof to be vaccinated immediately upon their entrance thereto, unless they produce sufficient evidence of previous successful vaccination within five years."
Section 55. - " Every town may make further provisions for the vaccination of its inhabitants, under the direction of the Board of Health or a committee chosen for the purpose."
CESSPOOLS, PRIVIES, AND VAULTS.
RULE 22. No person shall build, or cause to be built, any privy, vault, or cesspool, unless the same is constructed in a thorough and substantial manner, lined with stone, brick, or other suitable material of sufficient thickness and strength to prevent the walls from falling in, and located so that the inside of the same shall be at least three feet distant from the line of any adjoining lot or street. Every cesspool shall be of suffi- cient size to contain at least eighty cubic feet, measured below two feet beneath the surface of the ground, and, when not water tight, shall be at least twenty feet from the outside of the cellar wall of any tenement or dwelling, and thirty feet dis- tant from any well, spring, or any other source of water supply used for culinary or domestic purposes. In no case shall the drainage from a privy, vault, cesspool, or sink, or foul drainage from any domestic source, be permitted to enter any stream, brook, run, or pond within the limits of the town.
RULE 23. All privies and vaults shall be cleaned at least once a year. Any privy or vault not cleaned within that time shall be declared a nuisance.
CLEANLINESS OF HOUSES AND PREMISES.
Public Statutes, Chapter 80, Section 24, provides : -
" The Board, when satisfied, upon due examination, that a
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cellar, room, tenement, or building in its town, occupied as a dwelling-house, has become, by reason of the number of inhab- itants, want of cleanliness, or other cause, unfit for such pur- pose, and a cause of nuisance or sickness to the inhabitants or the public, may issue a notice in writing to such occupants, or any of them, requiring the premises to be put in a proper con- dition as to cleanliness ; or, if they see fit, requiring the occu- pants to quit the premises within such time as the Board may deem reasonable. If the persons so notified, or any of them, neglect or refuse to comply with the terms of the notice, the Board may cause the premises to be properly cleansed at the expense of the owners, or may remove the occupants forcibly, and close up the premises, and the same shall not be again occupied as a dwelling-place, without the consent in writing of the Board. If the owner thereafter occupies, or knowingly permits the same to be occupied, without such permission in writing, he shall forfeit not less than ten dollars ($10.00) ,. nor more than fifty dollars ($50.00)."
In considering the number of occupants, in accordance with the foregoing section, this Board will consider a sleeping-room to be overcrowded unless there should be at least three hun- dred (300) cubic feet of air space for each inhabitant occupy- ing the same.
RULE 24. No person shall remove or carry in or through any of the streets, squares, courts, lanes, avenues, places, or alleys within the town, stinking or offensive matter, or any house dirt or house offal, either animal or vegetable, or any grease, bones, or any refuse substance from any of the dwell- ing-houses or other places in the town, unless such person so removing or carrying the same, and the mode in which the same may be removed or carried, shall be expressly licensed by the Board of Health, upon such terms and conditions as it may deem the health and interest of the town may require.
RULE 25. No person, without a license from the Board of Health, shall throw into or leave in or upon any street, court, square, lane, alley, public square, public enclosure, vacant lot, or any pond or body of water, within the limits of the town. any dead animal, dirt, sawdust, soot, ashes, cinders, shavings, hair, manure, oyster, clam or lobster shell, waste water, rub- bish, or filth of any kind, or any refuse animal or vegetable
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matter whatsoever ; nor shall any person throw into or leave in or upon the flats or tide water within the jurisdiction of the town, any dead animal or other fowl or offensive matter.
RULE 26. No person shall bury the contents of any vault or cesspool on premises occupied by him or his tenants, or allow any filth or bad-smelling water to run out upon, or be thrown upon the surface of the ground of such premises.
RULE 27. Kitchen and waste sinks must be safely and securely connected with cesspool or well-covered drain, and must not be permitted to discharge by spouts, or otherwise, upon the side of the house or upon the surface of the ground.
RULE 28. No person shall keep any fowl or animal in any place in the town where the Board of Health may deem such keeping detrimental to the health or comfort of the residents of the neighborhood, or to those who may pass thereby ; and said Board shall have the power to remove or cause to be removed therefrom any such fowl or animal so kept.
RULE 29. No swine shall be kept within the limits of the town, without a license first obtained therefor from the Board of Health, and then only in such place and manner as it shall direct.
RULE 30. Owners and occupants of livery and other stables within the town shall not wash or clean their carriages or · horses, or cause them to be washed or cleaned in the streets or public ways. They shall keep their stables and yards clean, and not allow large quantities of manure to accumulate in or near the same at any one time between the first day of May and the first day of November, and no manure shall be allowed to accumulate or remain uncovered outside of a stable building.
RULE 31. No person shall remove a dead body or its re- mains from a grave or tomb in the town, or disturb in a tomb or grave such body or its remains, except in accordance with a permit from the Board of Health.
RULE 32. No person shall open a grave or tomb between the first day of June and the first day of October for any other purpose than that of interring the dead, except in accordance with a permit from the Board of Health.
RULE 33. No person, except the Superintendent, shall open or dig a grave in any burial-ground, except in accordance with a permit from the Board of Health.
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UNWHOLESOME FOOD.
RULE 34. No person shall sell, or offer for sale, or have in his possession with intent to sell, in this town, any unwhole- some, decayed, or stale fruit, vegetables, or provisions of any kind whatever, or any tainted, diseased, corrupt, decayed, or unwholesome meat or fish, or any adulterated article of food.
OFFENSIVE TRADE.
RULE 35. No person or company shall erect or maintain within the limits of this town any manufactory or place of busi- ness dangerous to life or detrimental to health, or where un- wholesome, offensive, or deleterious odors, gas, smoke, deposits, or exhalations are generated, without the permit of the Board of Health ; and every such establishment now exist- ing shall be kept clean and wholesome in every particular, so as not to be offensive or prejudicial to life and health.
Adopted May 6, 1893.
At the town meeting in March, 1893, the article relating to the appropriation of $500 for the Board of Health, was, I be- lieve, indefinitely postponed, which practically left the Board without funds except what was drawn from incidental expense funds of Selectmen. The town should appropriate at least $300 for the Board, and we would respectfully recommend the same, that the Board, which is a public necessity, may have something with which to do the work for which it has been elected. The matter in regard to the wagon and air-tight bar- rels, which was referred to Board of 1892 and recommended by them, was also discarded at town meeting. Notwithstand- ing all this, an enterprising citizen equipped a wagon with bar- rels, approved by this Board, and conducted the business of cleaning vaults and cesspools in a thorough manner, and this Board found much need of an apparatus of that kind which allowed of the carting of all refuse without any odor or drip- pings along public highways. The Board made personal investigation of a number of reported nuisances, and on their tour found much work to be done in regard to neglected privies and vaults. These cases were reported to the owners, and in the majority of cases were looked after in a satisfactory
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manner. Our inspector also found many places where sinks were not secured by traps, which allows of all gases arising from contents of cesspools to flow back into the rooms occupied by the residents. This should not be allowed, and the Board has obliged owners to correct these troubles so far as its knowl- edge of them is concerned. There are many of them still in existence, probably, which will not be known without a gen- eral inspection, and we hope owners will look after the same and save the expense of having an inspector to examine and report. In a town situated as we are, without any sewerage system, it is exceedingly hard to have things kept as they should be, and it is only by the hearty cooperation of land- lords and tenants that we can hope to have our town a healthy one. During the past summer months we endeavored to have everything in good condition so that if the epidemic of cholera which was threatened, should come, we would be in a position to combat it with a comparatively clean town. We have granted a large number of licenses to residents to maintain boarding places for infants, also a few licenses for slaughter- ing cattle, and also for keeping pigs in such places and in such manner as not to interfere in any way with the health or sanitary condition of the town. We think by a thorough reading of our rules and regulations that much may be learned, and hope that all will try and follow them. We have taken up all sub- jects so far as practicable, and there can be no excuse for not knowing what is required of owners and occupants of prem- ises. Perfect cleanliness of dwellings and surroundings is what will insure good health and is of the utmost importance, as by its strict observance the air is not polluted and germs of disease find no lurking places.
We have to report 45 cases of infectious and contagious dis- ease, of which 43 are measles, I scarlet fever, and I typhoid fever.
WALTER S. D. HITCHCOCK, M. D., C. F. CLARK,
H. A. PARKER,
Board of Health of Saugus.
REPORT OF CHIEF OF POLICE.
I herewith present my annual report for the year of 1893, giving a list of membership of the department, number of arrests made, how they were disposed of, and a list of other work done by the department for the year.
MEMBERSHIP.
The force is composed of 3 regular and 6 special officers, as follows : - Frank W. Joy, James J. Murphy, and Frank P. Hardiman are the regular officers ; they report at the Town Hall at 6.30 P. M. and go on duty at 7.30 and stay on until 3.30 A. M. The specials are Eugene Stevens, Keeper of Lockup, John Brierley, James L. G. Estes, Dana B. H. Walker, Edward Lawrence, and Charles D. Brown.
TOTAL NUMBER OF ARRESTS, 98, AS FOLLOWS : -
Drunk, 34; for out of town officers, 6; for threat, 2; as- sault, 9; violation of town by-law, 12; cruelty to animals, 3 ; disturbance of the peace, 7 ; insane, 2; bastardy, 2; on sus- picion, I ; pool selling, 6; vagrant, I ; walking on railroad, I; keeping unlicensed dog, 2; profanity, I ; violation of liquor law, 5 ; surrendered by bondsman, I ; capias, I ; steal- ing a ride, I ; obstructing an officer, I. Of the above arrests 54 were out of town people and 44 were people that lived in town ; 95 were males and 3 were females.
DISPOSED OF AS FOLLOWS : -
Drunks released, 28; discharged, 8; placed on file, 5 ; ap- pealed, 6 ; sent to house of correction, 2 ; turned over to out of town officers, 8; fined and paid fine, 31 ; sent to grand jury, 5 ; sent to superior court, civil session, I ; committed on capias, I ; committed for non-payment of fine, I ; furnished bonds to keep peace, I; continued, I.
LIST OF OTHER WORK DONE.
Complaints received and investigated, 45 ; search warrants served for liquor, 23 ; liquor was found on 2 ; buildings found
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open and secured, 82 ; lights furnished for dangerous places in street, 16; fires discovered and alarms given, 3; dis- turbances suppressed, 3; stray teams found and put up, 2 ; lost children found and restored, 2; answered fire alarms, 8; dogs shot, 2 ; horses shot, I ; lodgers put up, 5.
Saugus has in the year just past had something new in the way of police service, that is by having regular officers. I think that as shown by the above statistics the officers have made a good record, and that the law-abiding citizens of the town are very well pleased with the work done by the Police. The liquor business, I think, is very well driven out of town ; although I do not say there is not a drop of liquor sold illegally in town, I do say, if there is any there is but a small amount of it.
FINANCE.
By the vote of the March meeting $2,500.00 was appro- priated for Police. We have spent $206.27 over the appro- priation but when it is explained to the people, I think they will see that we have not really spent the appropriation. The receipts for Police service have been $310.50. The reason we over-ran our appropriation is this : when a special officer goes on duty at a private affair he puts in his bill to the town and is paid out of the appropriation, and when the party pays the bill it goes into the receipts. The receipts from the court for the year were $299.00, so that the net receipts for the year are $403.23. For the year 1894, I would recommend the appro- priation of $3,000 for Police service.
In closing, I wish to extend my thanks to the Honorable Board of Selectmen, also to Mr. George M. Amerige, Esq., Trial Justice, for the assistance and favors given for the year just ended; also, I wish to extend my thanks to the officers of the department, regular and special, for the prompt and efficient service rendered in the year just past.
Respectfully submitted,
FRANK W. JOY, Chief of Police.
FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
TRUSTEES' REPORT.
It is with a feeling of more than usual satisfaction that the Trustees of your Library submit this, their annual report. Never in the history of our Library has the interest - and we might say enthusiasm - been manifested, as during the preced- ing year. The money you have given us has been expended with the greatest care, and the large number of new books that are added from year to year will, we think, account in a great measure for an annually increased distribution of both books and cards.
It was found necessary to build two new cases of shelves to accommodate the increased number of volumes, and for this a special appropriation was made last year. These shelves have been purchased and placed in the Library.
In regard to the yearly examination of books, your Trustees have this year made a new departure. All volumes are now carefully examined by the Trustees as a Board, for we consider that our Library has now become so valuable, that it is a piece of Town property demanding the most careful supervision that we, as servants of the Town, are able to give it, and we are glad to say that as in previous years, no book has been found missing in this yearly examination.
During the past year 8,267 books have been loaned, an in- crease over the previous year of 1,624. With reference to other figures of expenditure and Library statistics, we would refer you to the Librarian's report, which you will find annexed. Of course with this marked growth in the distribution of books, our expenses have been necessarily increased, but it seems to us that there is no money spent by the Town of Saugus which gives our towns-people more direct benefit than the sums allotted to your Library.
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As you all know, books are delivered weekly at Cliftondale and East Saugus. Arrangements are now being perfected to deliver in the same manner at North Saugus, Oaklandvale, and West Cliftondale, as it is our earnest wish and desire to have the benefits of our Library evenly distributed over our whole town.
It may be mentioned in this connection, that Library cata- logues are now free, so that there is no expense whatever con- nected with the taking of books from the Library, and with weekly free deliveries to every part of Saugus, no one has any excuse for not availing himself of what is certainly one of the greatest privileges that any town can offer to its people.
There is not much more that we have to say, but we feel that it is our duty in closing to try and impress upon you all, the great educational influence of the Library, and to ask the hearty cooperation of the voters of this town to help us main- tain the Saugus Free Public Library at its present standard, so that we may still continue our work in an efficient manner. After very careful consideration we would ask you for an ap- propriation of $400 and the dog tax of 1893. This amount is necessary for the ensuing year.
M. B. FAXON, Secretary. BENJAMIN F. CALLEY, E. H. BOND, W. F. GILLETTE, CHARLES E. WILSON, M. B. FAXON, Trustees.
LIBRARIAN'S REPORT.
LIBRARY APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES.
Appropriation for shelves $So 00 Expended for shelves . ·
$69 50
Unexpended balance
. .
IO 50
80 00
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Appropriations for purchase of books, and current expenses (including Dog tax) Expended for books $467 28
For binding books and magazines Library attendance and assistance .
15 95
Cataloguing books 51 25 .
Printing loan slips and cards .
16 50
Cards for card catalogue .
3 76
Carrying books to Cliftondale and East Saugus 39 00
Expressage
8 50
Periodicals
7 47
Brackets for lamps
75
Stationery and postage
2 05
Incidentals
2 84
715 35
Number of volumes in Library Jan. 1, 1893 .
2821
Number of volumes added during year 503
Number of volumes in Library Jan. 1, 1894 .
3324
Number of volumes of magazines bound during the year .
6
Number of volumes of magazines donated
4
Number of pamphlets in Library Jan. 1, 1894
I34
Number of volumes loaned during 1893 8267
Monthly average 689
Per cent of fiction . 66₺
Names of borrowers registered in 1893 . 193
Whole number of names of borrowers registered .
889
RECEIPTS.
Cash balance Jan. 1, 1893 $0 22 ·
From sale of catalogues
.
I 75
From fines .
23 40
$25 37 *
* By vote of the Trustees, this sum has been reserved to meet, in part, the expense of printing the Supplementary Catalogue about to be published.
W. F. GILLETTE, Librarian.
$715 35
.
100 00
REPORT ON CEMETERY LOTS.
Deeds drawn amounting to, and including unpaid balance . $633 65 Single lots Balance due from John Deardon .
·
20 00
·
32 50
$686 15
I would most respectfully submit the following report of the condition of the Trust Funds committed to my care for the purpose of keeping cemetery lots in order for the following families : -
Lot No. 226, Mary T. Perley. Dr. To cash received from Joseph Whitehead . $222 88
Interest to Jan. 1, 1893 4 44
Interest to July 1, 1893 ·
4 54
$231 86
Cr. By cash paid for care of lot $6 00
By cash in savings bank 225 86
231 86
Henry E. Hone lot.
Dr. To cash received from Joseph Whitehead . . $202 64
Interest to Nov. 1, 1893 8 16
$210 80
Cr. By cash paid for care of lot . $5 00
By cash in savings bank 205 80
210 80
Lots No. 65 and 66, Edward Ward. Dr. To cash received from Joseph Whitehead . $50 00
Cr. By cash in savings bank
50 00
JOSEPH S. MEACOM,
Treasurer.
REPORT OF
SINKING FUND COMMISSIONERS.
Value of Sinking Fund Jan. 1, 1893, $39,000 00 Interest collected to May 1, 1893 2,340 00
Appropriation for 1893 .
.
1,160 00
$42,500 00
Invested in Town of Saugus Notes
. $42,500 00
Value of Sinking Fund Jan. 1, 1894, Town of Saugus Notes · $42,500 00 Accrued interest to Jan. 1, 1894 ·
1,700 00
$44,200 00
The appropriation required for 1894 is $1,450.
SAUGUS, Jan. 1, 1894.
HERBERT B. NEWHALL, SAMUEL HAWKES, HERBERT O. PRATT, Sinking Fund Commissioners.
TREASURER'S REPORT.
JOSEPH WHITEHEAD, Treas., in account with Town of Saugus. Jan. 1, 1893. DR.
To cash in Treasury $4,835 18
Cash A. Dudley Johnson, tax 1892 5,100 00
Cash A. Dudley Johnson, interest 1892
200 00
Augustus Raddin, for board
42 71
Frank W. Joy, police account
3 00
George Summers, house rent
3 00
Commonwealth school fund
184 64
County of Essex dog tax
215 35
Essex County on account Salem Turnpike
715 10
Commonwealth pauper account
39 75
E. Brewer, rent of Town Hall
50 00
George I Cax, tax title
IOI 20
City of Lynn, water
2,051 86
Commonwealth corporation
71 58
A. Dudley Johnson, tax 1891
1,700 00
A. Dudley Johnson, interest 1891
100 00
A. Dudley Johnson, tax 1890
200 00
$15,613 37
CR.
By Selectmen's orders paid ·
$7,363 19 .
Overseers' orders paid ·
491 62
State Treasurer, liquor account
75
Cash in bank
7,757 81
$15,613 37
JOSEPH S. MEACOM, Treas., in account with Town of Saugus. April I. DR.
To balance from Joseph Whitehead . $7,757 81 A. Dudley Johnson, interest 1889 tax
100 00
A. Dudley Johnson, tax 1890
600 00
A. Dudley Johnson, interest 1890 tax 100 00
A. Dudley Johnson, tax 1891 2,600 00
A. Dudley Johnson, interest 1891 400 00 $11,557 81 $11,557 81 .
Amount carried forward .
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Amount brought forward
. $11,557 81
To A. Dudley Johnson, tax 1892 . $5,000 00
A. Dudley Johnson, interest 1892 200 00 A. Dudley Johnson, tax 1893 · 26,700 00
Interest on deposits
178 77
George M. Amerige, court fines .
299 00
Frank W. Joy, police service
307 50
Overseers, board for Mrs. Raddin
126 75
Edward Brewer, rent of Town Hall
120 00
Hussey, Chandler & Tucker
estate, tax title 30 So
J. S. Meacom, license
I 00.
G. H. Perkins, license
1 00
Gay & Stanwood, loan
5,000 00
Hose No. I, pool license
2 00
Hose No. 2, pool license
2 00
Hose No. 3, pool license
2 00
Cliftondale Athletic Club, pool license . 2 00
Union Club, pool license
2 00
Depot carriage, license
I 00
Gay & Stanwood, loan
10,000 00
Overseers, administrator, James
Eaton estate 34 00
Overseers, board for Saunders child
12 40.
Joseph Newhall, sale of lots in cemetery ·
653 65
J. S. Ross, water guarantee .
2 50
L. L. Parsons, water guarantee
Gay & Stanwood, loan 2 50
5,000 00
J. L. Edmands, highway depart- ment 100 09
Gay & Stanwood, loan
5,000 00
Sylvanus C. Small, water
guarantee 245 83
C. W. Chadwick Burleigh, tax title
City of Lynn, water rebate . 97 10
1,191 14
David McPearson, milk analysis . 15 00
A. F. Hill, milk analysis 15 00
John M. Berrett, milk analysis
15 00
James B. True, milk analysis ·
15 00
Michael Briggs, milk analysis
15 00
Alonzo Wentworth, Town Farm, wood
33 00
60,423503
Amount carried forward .
$71.980 84 ·
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Amount brought forward
. $71,980 84 ·
To City of Lynn, highway department J. Kendall Jenkins, discount on County tax
8 00
Eliphas S. Gage, tax title .
38 25
J. M. Bird, water guarantee
2 50
Gay & Stanwood, water loan
5,000 00
Gay & Stanwood, premium on . water loan
50 00
Eliza A. Williams, water guar- antee
4 00
Gay & Stanwood, loan
5,000 00
Salem Savings Bank, schoolhouse loan
.
17,000 00
From State : corporation tax National Bank tax
92 20
Military aid
85 50
State aid
1,057 00
Support of State paupers
102 90
Temporary support of State
paupers
4 00
Returned by Water Commis-
sioners . .
6 12
J. L. Edmands, filling
12 40
Charles F. Clark, milk licenses 19 50
Proceeds of Sinking Fund . · 3,500 00
32.747 8z
$104,728 66
CR
By Town of Saugus, bonds paid $3,500 00
County tax .
2,656 59
Interest on Town notes .
4,307 37
Charles Osgood, registering deeds, 7 00
Commonwealth on account of
license .
50
Lynn Institution for Savings 5,000 00 ·
Gay & Stanwood, notes 15,000 00
Salem Savings Bank, water prin- cipal
1,500 00
Lynn Institution for Savings, water principal 1,000 00
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