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A detailed report follows :
Total number of deciduous extractions .. 240
Total number of permanent extractions ..
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Total number of fillings 156
Total number of prophylactic treatments . 212
Total number who refused treatment 7
Total number of patients 663 Receipts for the year, $155.00.
Respectfully submitted,
ROGER P. BECKMAN, D.M.D.
Report of the Inspector of Animals
December 31, 1936.
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen, Saugus, Mass.
GENTLEMEN :
I herewith submit my report as Animal Inspector for the year ending December 31, 1936.
I have inspected all dairy animals and the barns in which they are kept. I have found them all in a healthy condition. The majority of these cattle are housed in excellent sanitary
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barns. I have found only four places where housing and sanitation was poor.
This year we have had only five cows react to the tubercu- lar tests. These cows were condemned and the places in which they were kept were repaired, cleaned and disinfected with Dows B. T. B.
We have three less piggeries in Town this year than last. This was brought about by action of the Board of Health by bringing writs of prohibition. There are still a few places in town where pigs are kept that could be more sanitary. I am cooperating with the Board of Health to remedy this con- dition.
I have inspected the following number of animals:
Cattle 357
Sheep 6
Swine 1595 Goats 15
I have placed in quarantine 114 dogs reported to me as having bitten people. 1 have made 256 inspections in con- nection with this quarantine to observe their condition. There was three cases of positive rabies during the year. This was determined by examination at the Wasserman Laboratories at Harvard.
There has been many cases of persons bitten by unknown and stray dogs during the past year. In every case I have reported this to the Board of Health who recommended the Pasteur Treatment.
I wish to thank you gentlemen for your cooperation and helpfulness during the year.
Respectfully submitted,
CHARLES WILSON,
Inspector of Animals.
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Report of the Board of Public Welfare
To the Citizens of the Town of Saugus:
Your Board of Public Welfare herewith submits its annual report for the year ending December 31, 1936.
Our appropriation at the Annual Town Meeting amounted to $60,000.00 which was augmented at a subsequent Town Meeting by $6,000.00; refunds amounted to $353.50, making a total, for the year, of $66,353.50.
Our expenditures for 1936 were $65,955.17, leaving a bal- ance of $398.33 which was returned to the Town treasury.
Included in the above expenditures were the sums of $31,874.22 for Old Age Assistance, and $2,426.00 for Mothers' Aid. These latter items, coming as they now do, under the Social Security Act, will increase, and the burden on the Town, to begin with, will be quite substantial. However, when Federal and State grants are forthcoming regularly, the re- quest for appropriations in Town Meeting for these two departments of relief, will be considerably lessened owing to the fact that a revolving fund is now being created in each case.
During the year 1936, Saugus has been reimbursed by other cities and towns, and Federal and State departments, to the extent of $35,593.22 making a net expenditure of only $30,- 361.95 for this Department for the year.
The average number of families aided on Temporary Aid during the year was 250, representing approximately 1250 persons ; under Mothers' Aid and Aid to Dependent Children, 36 persons. The number of recipients on Old Age Assistance on December 31, 1936 was 178.
Owing to the curtailment of the W.P.A. quota in town and the cessation of work under Chapter 90, the Department has had to take care of quite a number of families, some of which
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were large in number. The Board has found it necessary to supply fuel to a great number of W.P.A. workers with the larger families.
We have sent to the C.C.C. this year, 33 boys from families now or formerly on relief, and in a great many cases, this enabled the families from which they came to be self sustain- ing. Favorable comment has come to us from time to time regarding the high type of young men who went from Saugus; their conduct, etc., has been exemplary and their ambition above the average, so much so, that quite a few have been promoted to executive positions which gave them added re- muneration.
We have done our utmost to lighten the burden of the tax- payer by co-operating with other departments in the Town insomuch that the following is a list of days of work per- formed in the several departments by the recipients of aid :
Public Works Department
Men 112
Days
140-4 hrs.
Town Farm
233
226-3 hrs.
Cemetery
66
76-2 hrs.
Town Hall
29
23-7 hrs.
W.P.A. Commissary
16
16
Playground
10
17-2 hrs.
The W.P.A. Commissary located on Central Street, coming as it does, under this Department, has been a medium of added relief, not only to those on the Welfare rolls, but also to a large number of families whose income was small and the Board felt justified in certifying them for Commissary Relief of commodities and clothing as they are available.
On September 1st, when the new law pertaining to Old Age Assistance became effective under the Statute, it was neces- sary for us, owing to the fact that we had over 100 cases, to set up a separate department called the "Old Age Assistance Bureau."
At a special meeting of the Board of Public Welfare, held September 18, 1936, it was unanimously voted that Arthur C. Dunk and Gustave A. Anderson, of the Board of Public Welfare, and Harry F. Wentworth, an interested citizen, serve
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as members of the Bureau of Old Age Assistance. William J. Maag is the present visitor and investigator, acting under the supervision of the Bureau of Old Age Assistance.
Your Board of Public Welfare wishes to go on record at this time as thanking the private charitable organizations in the Town for their splendid co-operation in aiding so many of our people who have refrained from applying for public aid for one reason or another.
We have endeavored to conduct the Department in an effi- cient and business-like manner, keeping ever in mind our duty to the applicant for assistance, also our responsibility to the tax payer.
Respectfully submitted,
ARTHUR C. DUNK, Chairman GUSTAVE A. ANDERSON, Secretary ERNEST M. HATCH
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Report of the Chief of Police
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen:
It again becomes my pleasure to present to you my sixth annual report of the Police Department during the year 1936.
The department consists of a Chief, one Captain, one Lieu- tenant, eleven patrolmen and one reserve patrolman. There are also thirty-eight Special Police Officers. Of this amount seventeen of them are equipped with uniforms and are capa- ble of doing regular police work in emergencies. There are also the watchmen at the Lynn Water Shed, who are special Police officers. There are seven in this group.
The roster of the Police Department is as follows:
Chief John T. Stuart Captain Henry P. Wheaton Lieutenant Roland E. Mansfield
Regular Patrolmen
James P. Sullivan Thomas F. Spencer
Clarence H. Berrett
Walter F. Neal
William MacDougall
William F. Cahill
Joseph A. Lambert, Jr.
Ernest A. Dunham
James F. Maher Peter A. Flaherty
Howard P. Berrett
Reserve Patrolman John E. Luoma
Special Policemen
Gustave A. Anderson James Blair
Timothy J. Bannon
Minor Brown Rosario A. Buccheire
Oren O. Bentley
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Charles C. DeFranzo
Alexander S. McCarrier
Philip A. Farnham
Barney McCular
John W. Foley
Edward Newbury
Frank Garafano
Carl G. Pearson
Ernest M. Hatch
Willie Penney
Norman D. Hatch
Charles B. Pugsley
Percy Hawkes
Arthur B. Randall
Charles W. Herald
George Robinson
Clarence W. Howard
Henry R. Robinson
George I. Hull
Fred Sellick
Phillip A. Hull
Frank L. Symonds
Charles S. Hames
Frederick B. Willis
Warren P. Lovell
Everett Vickery
William E. Ludden, Jr.
Daniel B. Willis
John E. Mansfield
John W. White
Ernest A. Merrithew
Charles Wilson
Police Matron Mabel D. Murdoch
Special Police for Lynn Watershed
Michael A. Ahern
William Kennedy
Henry A. Dever
Dennis Mead
Albert R. Fallon Dennis Keane
Patrick Garrity
Daily reports of Officers show the following:
Complaints received and investigated 950, Doors and win- dows found open and secured 288, Stolen autos reported and recovered 72, Articles reported lost and found 122, Persons reported missing and found 65, Dogs and cats reported lost and found 203, Responded to fires 95, Persons conveyed to and from hospitals 226, Notified for other authorities 141, Disturbances reported 92, Reports of dogs doing damage 50, Complaints of ball playing 37, Reports of dead dogs and cats in street 40, Reports of property destroyed 68, Reports of persons acting suspiciously 45, Reports of articles stolen 141, Reports of breaks 56, Reports of drunken persons 58, Lights found burning 89, Reports of dog bites 47, Complaints of dogs barking 45, Holes in streets and sidewalks reported 19.
During the year 1936 there were 545 persons arrested.
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Of this amount 528 were males, 17 females, 17 juveniles. This is a decrease over the year 1935.
These arrests were for the following offenses :-- Drunken- ness 243, Operating a motor vehicle under influence of liquor 33, Violation Motor Vehicle Laws 118, Violation road law 25, Larceny delinquent 7, Larceny 14, Violation School law 2, Non-support 1, Assault 3, Assault & Battery 8, Violation Gaming laws 1, Breaking and entering & larceny night time 4, Illigitimacy 1, Violation dog laws (unlicensed dogs) 23, Disorderly conduct 2, Setting fires without permit 3, Ma- liciously destroying property 7, Stubborn child 1, Tramp 1, Profane language 3, Evading fares 1, Fornication 1, Disor- derly house 1, Violation wage law 1, Violation of Parole 2, Robbery 2.
Dispositions of the year's arrests are as follows :- Fined 141, Filed 176, Released 103, Dismissed 10, Discharged 22, Committed to House of Correction 22, Committed to State Farm 4, Held for Grand Jury 11, Costs of Court and filed 22, Placed on Probation during the year 1936 2, Surrendered to Lyman School 2, Committed to State Hospital 1, Arrests for Out of Town Police 114.
The nativity of the persons arrested, segregated are as follows :- Americans 419, Italians 24, Scotch 3, French 9, Po- lish 20, Canadian 17, Greek 2, Irish 8, Lithuanian 2, Russian 4, English 8, Swedish 4.
The total amount of fines collected in the Saugus Police Court for the year 1936, amounted to $933. If this amount the Town of Saugus received $428, and the County of Essex $485, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts $20. From the Lynn District Court the Town of Saugus received $183.04. The vast decrease in fines from the Lynn District Court for the year 1936 over the year 1935 is caused by the Common- wealth of Massachusetts taking away the fines for Operating under the influence of liquor cases.
There is one thing I want to explain to the people, and that is you will notice our receipts from Court fines for the year 1936 has decreased very much. There are two reasons why, first the 1935 State Legislature changed the law in relation
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to the fines received from Violation of Chapter 90 which is the Motor Vehicle Law, to take effect in December 1935, which fines are now made payable to the County of Essex instead of to the Town which they are committed in. Second, the Registrar of Motor Vehicles of Massachusetts requested the different Police Departments to stop certain violators and copy their license and send them in to him instead of prose- cuting them in Court, so he could take these violators off the road, and this you see is responsible for the great reduction of Court fines. There is one more thing I wish to call to your attention, and that is our prowl car, starting January 1936 was equipped with a one way radio for very little ex- pense, transmitting service which is furnished free of charge by the State Police from Framingham Station, and which is contacted by the teletype system. This radio without any question has proved to be one of the most important steps forward in the line of efficiency, all of which means Police Work will have to be done in the future by automobiles in- stead of motorcycles. Of course our Motor Vehicles will have to be replaced every two years, which is economy to do so.
In conclusion, I wish to thank the Honorable Board of Se- lectmen, the several Town Officials, and all the citizens of the Town who by their co-operation and good will aided me in maintaining the high degree of efficiency that the Police De- partment ranks. I also wish to thank Judge Charles E. Flynn for his co-operation during the past year. Last, but not least I want to thank all the members of the Department for their part in keeping the efficiency of the Department at a high standing. I also want to thank our janitor Arthur B. Randall for the way he has kept our Police Station in such a fine condition.
Respectfully submitted,
JOHN T. STUART,
Chief of Police.
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Report of the Board of Fire Engineers
Saugus, Mass., Jan. 1, 1937.
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and the Citizens of the Town of Saugus:
We herewith submit the annual report on the personnel, condition, and activities of the Fire Department for the year ending December 31, 1936.
ROSTER
Chief William R. Salsman, Jr.
Captain George B. Drew Lieutenants
Ralph E. Berrett Joseph L. Maguire
Permanent Firemen
Chester A. Tarbox
John Mclaughlin
Harold Atkinson
Alfred A. Bird
Warren Newhall
Albert F. Jervis
George Parrott
Norman T. Hull
Leo Cahill
Guy Collins
Robert Jacobs
Frank Beckford
Call Firemen
Lewis O. Gray
Lewis Richardson
Frank Garafano
John Cahill
W. Randolph Popp
Arthur Gustafson
Fred Chesley
Leslie Hitchings
Peter Walzer
Board of Fire Engineers
George Gosselin, Clerk Arthur Price George Dixon
Charles DeFronzo
Ernest W. Homan
William E. La Vene
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Vincent McGilvary, Jr. Samuel Parker William Banks
Leston Young
James B. Doyle
During the year 1936 the Fire Department responded to 426 alarms and calls for fires and other duties. There were 84 box alarms and 336 telephone calls, 48 of which were fol- lowed by box alarms to call the call firemen to duty. Thirty two of the alarms were false or needless.
The apparatus traveled a total of 2,176 miles in responding to calls: Engine #1, 389 miles, Engine #2, 890 miles, Ladder #1, 441 miles, Tender #2, 364 miles, a spare Mack pumper borrowed from the Mack Co. traveled 19 miles while Engine #2 was being repaired. The Chief's car traveled 4824 miles in responding to alarms and in the performance of duties.
The assessed valuation of buildings and automobiles, the insurance on buildings, automobiles and their contents etc. were as nearly as could be ascertained as follows:
Assessed valuation of buildings, autos, trucks, etc. $774,235.00 Loss on buildings, motor vehicles, etc. 24,205.00
Insurance on buildings, etc. 572,700.00
Insurance paid for losses on buildings, etc. 19,406.75
Estimated value of contents 173,146.00
Loss on contents 8,545.00
Insurance on contents
67,625.00
Insurance paid on contents 5,691.00
During the year 57,700 feet of 3/4 inch hose, 15,550 feet of 11/2 inch hose, 31,150 feet of 21% inch hose was laid and used at fires, a total of 104,400 feet. 39,900 feet of the above hose was used at brush and woodland fires. There were sixteen tanks of oxygen and two tanks of Co2 used.
Tabulation and classification of Fire Alarms and calls :
(1) Automobile accident.
(1) Broken sprinkler valve.
(6) Backfire in carburetor.
(3) Burning brakes.
(1) Burning fat.
(1) Boys drifting on ice.
(77) Brush fires.
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(4) Careless smoking.
(3) Cats in trees
(3) Children playing with matches.
(1) Careless use of matches.
(7) Chimney fires.
(1) Defective motor.
(8) Defective wiring.
(2) Discarded cigarettes.
(3) Drowning accidents.
(1) Defective chimney.
(25) Dump fires.
(2) Defective stoves.
(32) False alarms.
(1) Fireworks to be destroyed.
(1) Flooded cellar.
(1) Flour burning in furnace.
(1) Flour burning in furnace.
(1) Fumes igniting from cigarette.
(1) Gasoline burning in manhole.
(41) Grass fires.
(1) Grease burning in oven.
(3) Hay fires.
(1) Hot ashes in paper box.
(1) From hot exhaust pipe.
(1) Heater setting fire to roof timbers.
(10) Inhalator calls.
(1) Injured man on W. P. A.
(1) Low water in boiler.
(7) Marsh fires.
(31) Needless.
(2) North Andover flood area.
(9) Oil burners overflowing.
(1) Oil heater upsetting.
(2) Overheated stoves.
(1) Overheated oil burner.
(1) Pumping water into water mains.
(1) Radiation from chimney.
(1) Railroad ties.
(8) Rubbish fires.
(24) Set by boys.
(4) Short circuits.
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(2) Sparks from train.
(2) Setting blanket over hot motor.
(6) Set by unknown persons.
(3) Spontaneous combustion.
(2) Struck by lightning.
(1) Sparks from decarbonizer.
(1) Sparks from welding torch.
(1) Tree fire.
(1) Tree leaves in street.
(1) Suspicious.
(30) Unknown causes.
(1) Wet carnival grounds.
(3) Wires against trees.
(31) Woods fires.
Alarms and calls by Month for 1936.
Bell Alarms Telephone Calls
Total
January
12
22
34
February
1
12
13
March
9
28
37
April
6
61
67
May
9
29
38
June
6
24
30
July
5
36
41
August
5
28
33
September
5
17
22
October
7
20
27
November
9
43
52
December
10
22
32
Totals
84
342
426
The Fire apparatus, Engine #2 and Ladder #1 and G.M.C. Tender are in fair condition and good for several years to come provided they do not meet with accidents. The Olds- mobile sedan the Chief's car is in fair condition. Engine #1 the Seagraves pumping engine is very old and showing signs of needed repairs that will be very costly as it is very unreliable and in the past year has had several costly repair jobs done to it. We recommend this engine be replaced with a new pumping engine.
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The Fire Department has done excellent work in keeping the fire loss down to such a small amount, (approx. $32,749.00) when it is noted that the department must cover a large territory nearly 111/2 square miles, and do so with a small number of men to man the apparatus and extinguish fires.
In closing we make the following recommendations :
That a fire alarm box, punch register, and a fire alarm gong be installed in the C. C. C. camp on Forest Street. The camp has a fire truck fully equipped for service, and the commandant has agreed to send it to assist us at any fires at which we might need help. If the camp had the equipment listed above it could answer some of our alarms on special signals.
We recommend the installation of a complete, new, Fire Alarm System.
We recommend that Engine #2, the Mack pump, be painted.
We recommend a program calling for the installation of new hydrants every year. those we have are too few and far between.
We recommend the taking of a parcel of land in the Clif- tondale section of the town as a site for the erection of a new fire station.
We recommend the appointment of four permanent men and ten call men. The work of the department has increased greatly during the past few years. Many times the appara- tus goes out without sufficient men to operate it properly.
We recommend that 1,000 feet of 21/2 inch hose, 1,000 feet of 11/2 inch hose, and 500 feet of 3/4 inch hose be purchased.
We recommend that fire alarm boxes be installed at the Town Infirmary, corner of Linwood and Avon, and Laurel and Mt. Vernon Streets.
We recommend that two hydrants be installed on Walnut Street between Elm Street and the Lynn line a distance of about one half mile, which now hasn't any hydrants.
We recommend that one hydrant be installed on Vine Street
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between Main Street and 68 Vine Street a distance of about 1880 feet, now without a hydrant.
We recommend that a hydrant be installed on Trull Circle near Charlotte Road, this would give better fire protection to fourteen dwellings.
We recommend that hydrants be installed at the following locations, in front of 16 Johnston Terrace, 11 Lincoln Court, on Oak Hill Road, Corner Jefferson and Newcomb Avenues, Palmetto Street, and corner Jefferson and Cleveland Avenues.
We recommend that the water main on Howard Street be extended to the Melrose line a distance of about 2000 feet, this to be connected to the Melrose water main with a valve as in case of emergency we could open this valve and draw water into our own water mains from this source.
We recommend that the water main on Broadway be ex- tended a distance of about 200 feet to the Melrose line, this to be connected to the Melrose water main with a valve as in case of emergency to draw water into our own mains from this source.
We recommend that the water main on Ballard Street be connected to the Metropolitan water supply main that runs along the Salem Turnpike. This connection to be made with a gate valve, that could supply the town needs in case of emergency.
We recommend that some water holes be made in the following outlying sections of our town where they have no water mains.
Water Street, opp. Mr. Merrill's house,
Water Street, near Wakefield-Saugus line,
Main Street, near Howard Farm,
Eastern Avenue, near Forest Street, Skahan Farm,
Broadway, near Fellsway (White House),
Howard Street, near Henry Penney's,
Broadway, near Fellsway (Dutchland Farms),
Essex Street, near Melrose line,
Lynn Fellsway, near Melrose line,
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Lynn Fellsway, near Hunnewell Farm, Forest Street, near Edmands Farm.
These water holes could be used for fire extinguishing purposes in case of fire.
We recommend fire prevention as the best means of re- ducing the great loss of life and property from fire. Be your own fire inspector; inspect your home from cellar to attic and remove all materials and rubbish that may cause fire or constitute a fire hazard.
Familiarize yourself with the location and workings of the nearest fire alarm box to your home or place of business.
In case of fire, go to the nearest box, open the door, and pull down the hook on the inside door. If possible, wait at the box to direct firemen and apparatus to the fire.
SUGGESTIONS FOR GOOD HOUSEKEEPING.
Keep your premises clean and free from rubbish.
Keep halls, stairways, and exits to fire-escapes free from obstructions.
Put ashes, oil or inflammable materials into metal recep- tacles with metal tops.
Be careful in the use of lighted matches, candles, and cigars and cigarette stubs. Matches have no brains; smok- ing materials little more.
Never use open flame in thawing frozen water pipes; wrap cloths around them and pour hot water over them. Any flame is likely to start a fire.
Never sound false alarms. There is a heavy fine and im- prisonment for this offense or for interfering or tampering with the fire alarm system in any way.
Signed by the Chief,
WILLIAM R. SALSMAN.
Signed by the Board of Fire Engineers,
GEORGE GOSELIN, Clerk, ARTHUR PRICE.
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GEORGE DIXON, VINCENT McGILVARY, JR., WILLIAM E. La VENE, ERNEST W. HOMAN, CHARLES DE FRONZO, LESTON YOUNG, SAMUEL PARKER, JAMES B. BOYLE, WILLIAM BANKS.
Report of the Forest Fire Warden
Saugus, Mass., Jan. 1, 1937.
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen:
GENTLEMEN :
I hereby submit the annual report of the Forest Fire Warden for year ending December 31, 1936.
During the year 1936 there were 108 brush and woods fires, 41 grass fires, as against 87 brush and woods fires, and 13 grass fires in the year 1935.
During the year the following amount of hose was laid and used at brush, woods, and grass fires, 39,900 feet.
I recommend that the Town purchase 6 water pump cans, brush fire brooms, rakes, shovels, etc. for the extinguishing of grass and wood fires as this type of equipment is in very poor condition.
Respectfully submitted, WILLIAM R. SALSMAN, Forest Fire Warden.
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Report of Superintendent of Fire Alarms
To the Board of Fire Engineers and the Residents of the Town of Saugus:
The following is a report of work performed by the Fire Alarm Division of the Fire Department during 1936:
Wire placed, 40,845 feet.
Wire removed, 32,840 feet.
Poles changed over, 145.
Tower Bells repaired 7 times.
Tower Bellss repaired 7 times.
Boxes rewound after alarms, 136.
Boxes repaired :
Broken by accidents, 2. Trouble in box, 3.
Line wire repaired after breaks, 3:
2 from tree damage.
1 from defect in wire.
Cross Arms placed, 285.
Cross Arms removed, 97.
Tappers placed, (Firemen's Homes) 9.
Tappers removed, 7. Tappers repaired, 4.
Repeater rewound 167 times.
Repeater repaired 4 times.
Car Radio placed, 1.
The system has sent out 136 alarms of fire and 19 no school signals, the total number of blows being 5,901.
As shown by the number of "poles changed", a large number of poles have been changed by their owner during the year, requiring the changing of the town wires and fix- tures from the old pole to the replacement pole.
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