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Diphtheria has not prevailed save in a few isolated cases, of a mild type.
We would most earnestly press the need of an increased appropriation, that our successors may be enabled to carry on and develop the work already begun.
R. B. JORDAN, J. I. ADAMS, Board of Health.
W. H. COLLINS,
REPORT OF MILK INSPECTOR.
TO THE BOARD OF SELECTMEN, AND THE CITIZENS OF SWAMPSCOTT :-
I HAVE the honor to submit to you the following, the second annual report, for the year ending February, 1886.
Amount received from licenses $10 00
Expenditures 2 00
Balance paid into the Town treasury
$8 00
I have reason to believe that the milk that has been sold in Swampscott the last year has been of a good quality. In my report last year I requested the citizens of Swampscott to notify the Milk Inspector if the milk was not pure; as there has been no complaint, I have good reason to believe it has been of a good quality.
I respectfully submit the above.
DANIEL MARSHALL, Milk Inspector.
REPORT OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES.
WE are about entering upon our nineteenth library year, and find ourselves possessed at this time, by a steady growth in the past, of 4858 volumes, 225 of which are classed as books of reference, 229 having been added this year. As a whole, we consider the collection a fine one, and calculated to supply the wants to a considerable degree of all our readers. We find the books in good condition, generally ; some having, however, become worn out in the service have been replaced, but many have not, as in our opinion their loss will not be felt.
The Librarian reports the circulation for the past year, 16,933 volumes. Twenty dollars has been received for fines and cards.
The Library has been open every Saturday, from 2 to 9 P.M .; Wednesdays, 4 to 9; Winter months, 4 to 8.
In 1876, a complete catalogue of the books was printed. Since then, from time to time, supplements have been issued. We think the time has now arrived when a new and better classified catalogue should be prepared. A catalogue of titles only is of but little use to the public, and we desire that the new one be arranged by subjects, as well as authors. The name of a book is seldom an index to its contents. An outlay of two hundred and fifty dollars will be needed to properly carry out this work, and an ap- propriation for the same is solicited by us.
During the absence, for a few months, of our Librarian,
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REPORT OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES.
Miss Honors, in California, Miss Mary F. Carroll has substituted acceptably. Masters Jay C. Merritt and Robert Stone are gentlemanly assistants.
B. W. REDFERN, CURTIS V. MERRITT, Trustees. FRANK F. STANLEY,
REPORT OF ENGINEERS.
TO THE CITIZENS OF THE TOWN OF SWAMPSCOTT :-
The Engineers herewith present their annual report for the year ending February 28, 1886.
The organization of the department is as follows :- chief and two assistant engineers, and a company of sev- enteen men.
APPARATUS.
The apparatus consists of a steam fire engine, hose car- riage, supply wagon, ladder truck and ladders, and two thousand and fifty feet of cotton hose, all in good condi- tion. There are two hundred feet of hose pipe and wrench at Washburn's stable on Orient Street. We have added to the department this year one set double harnesses for the steamer and one single harness for wagon.
We also made arrangements with the Lynn & Boston Horse Railroad Co. for horses for the steamer and wagon, at all times when their services are needed. We had an electric bell put in the stable, so we can call them from the engine house.
FIRES AND ALARMS.
The department has been called out four times during the year,-April 20, fire in the woods; April 21, fire in
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the woods at Ware's place, where the steamer was called and did good service ; alarm on the morning of October 26, the department responded in good time-it was a small house of I. C. Wyman, on Essex Street, near the Salem line-the house was burnt down before the alarm was given ; on the evening of December 24, the department was again called out at the Orthodox church, but their services were not needed.
The board would therefore submit for your consideration the following recommendations :-
I. That the Town appropriate the sum of two hundred dollars for the purchase of a one-horse ladder truck.
2. That the Town instruct the selectmen to sell the hand engine, and the amount received be placed towards the purchase of said ladder truck.
3. That when the contract with the Fire Alarm Tele- phone Co. expires, the Town authorize the board of engi- neers to put in street boxes of the Stevens' manufacture, -they will be very much better and cheaper for the Town,-and the Town appropriate six hundred and fifty dollars for that purpose.
Respectfully submitted,
NATH'L GALEUCIA, Chief Engineer.
IVORY EMMONS,
JAMES E. PHILLIPS, Assistants.
CEMETERY REPORT.
SOME improvements have been made by gravelling ave- nues in accordance with vote and appropriation of seventy- five dollars of which seventy dollars has been used. Would recommend the same amount for the ensuing year. Would also recommend that something be done to prevent cattle entering the grounds. Would suggest that the new tomb be put in order for the reception of the dead, as I have been obliged to use the old tomb this winter.
Whole number of interments for the year, 25.
Number of Lots sold, 2, at $25 each.
Expenditures for the year, $210.35.
J. S. BROWN, Supt.
REPORT OF SURVEYOR.
The Suryeyor makes the following report :-
Grave !.
Scrapings.
Stone.
Humphrey Street,
585
I47
46
Salem Street,
20
325
Orient Street,
178
125
IO
Essex Street,
343
20
20
Burrill Street,
315
50
15
Cherry Street,
91
70
I5
Atlantic Avenue,
I30
Pine Street,
43
20
IO
Beach Avenue,
86
8
Redington Street,
40
25
4
Rock Avenue,
IO
6
Railroad Avenue,
15
Phillips Street,
5
I2
2
Boynton Street,
II
18
New Ocean Street,
I8
25
King Street,
38
25
Rockland Street,
70
I5
Rose Street,
I4
IO
Columbia Street,
I5
I2
Blaney Street,
4
I5
Danvers Street,
25
Marshall Street.
5
IO
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JAMES P. M. S. PITMAN, Surveyor.
REPORT OF CHIEF OF POLICE.
From April 20, 1885, to February 27, 1886.
Whole number of arrests
- -
- - 27
Assault and battery
4
Violation of Sunday law
I
Violation of liquor law
5
Fornication -
-
4
Disturbing the peace
I
Fast driving -
-
2
Drunkenness
9
Insane -
- I
27
Disposed of as follows :-
Fined and paid - - - 1 I
-
- 9
Committed for non-payment of fines
4
Appealed - - - -
3
- Sent to Insane Hospital -
I
Discharged without complaint - Discharged by the Court -
-
6
3
Placed on file - -
-
-
I
-
-
-
-
-
27
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REPORT OF CHIEF OF POLICE.
MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS.
Assisting other officers
- 4
Buildings found open and secured -
I5
Complaints investigated - -
- 33
Defective places in streets reported
3
Dogs killed
- -
- 2
Disturbances suppressed -
5
Fires extinguished without alarm
-
3
Intoxicated persons taken home
I8
Injured and sick persons assisted
-
2
Search warrants for liquor served -
7
Lights furnished for dangerous places
- I2
Lost children restored - -
-
-
-
I
SETH C. KENDRICK, Chief of Police.
REPORT OF TOWN CLERK.
BIRTHS RECORDED.
Males, 20; Females, 20.
Nativity of Fathers. - Maine, 6; New Hampshire, I ; Vermont, 3 ; Massachusetts, 19; Connecticut, I ; Illinois, I; Washington, D.C., I; Ireland, 4; Prussia, I ; Nor- way, 2.
Nativity of Mothers. - Maine, 2; New Hampshire, I ; Vermont, I; Massachusetts, 25; Maryland, I; North Carolina, I; Kansas, I; Nova Scotia, I; Norway, I; Ireland, 3 ; England, I ; Prince Edward Island, I.
Fathers born in Swampscott, 8; Mothers, 9; Both, I.
Births in January, 3; February, 4 ; March, 4; April, 2; May. 3: June, 4; July, 5; August 4; September 5 ; October 3 ; November I ; December I.
MARRIAGES RECORDED, 24.
In January, 3 ; February, I ; March, o; April, 3; May, o; June, o; July, 2 ; August, o; September, 3 ; October, 3; November, 3 ; December, 6.
Oldest couple, 52 and 34 ; youngest, 21 and 19. Oldest groom, 52 ; bride, 35. Youngest groom, 21, bride, 19.
Grooms born in Swampscott, 14; brides, 14.
Nativity of Grooms. - Maine, I; Massachusetts, 18; New York, 2; Ireland, 3.
Nativity of Brides. - Maine, 3; Massachusetts, 16 ; North Carolina, I; Nova Scotia, I ; Ireland, 3.
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REPORT OF TOWN CLERK.
Occupation of Grooms. - Salesmen, I ; clerks, 7 ; mer- chants, 2 ; carpenters, 2; coachman, driver, hostler, in- surance agent, teacher, bookkeeper, stock fitter, laborer, stone mason, tinsmith, hatter and blacksmith, shoe cutter, one each.
Married by George A. Jackson, 4 ; Wm. H. Rogers, 5; S. B. Stewart, James L. Hill, Henry Hinckley, S. Jack- son, Lynn, Percy Brown, Boston, H. M. Schemerhorn, Amesbury, C. W. Biddle, Cambridge, D. P. Morgan, Beverly, J. H. Garrison, Boston, J. A. Daly, Chelsea, one each ; J. C. Harrington, Lynn, 3; N. R. Wright, Geo. C. King, one each.
DEATHS.
Males, 17 ; Females, 18. Total, 35.
In January, I ; February, 2, March, 3 ; April, 4 ; May, 2 ; June, I ; July, I ; August, 7 ; September 6; October, 2; November, 2 ; December, 4.
Under 5 years, 7 ; 5 to 10, 2 ; 10 to 20, 4 ; 20 to 30, 4 ; 30 to 40, 5 ; 40 to 50, 2 ; 50 to 60, 4 ; 60 to 70, 2 ; 70 to 80, 3 ; 80 to 90, 2.
Causes. - Convulsions, I ; consumption, 8 ; still born, 3 ; drowned, I; scarlet fever, 2; chronic bronchitis, I ; heart disease, 3 ; pneumonia, 2 ; child birth, I ; maras- mus, I; meningitis, I; old age, 2; kidney disease, I ; metral insufficiency, I; typhoid fever, 3 ; paralysis, I ; dropsy, I ; accident, I ; disease of liver, I.
Sixty years and upwards. - Hannah Proctor, 65 ; Wm. P. M. Martin, 84; Emeline Crowell, 81 ; James Hard- ing, 70; Wm. R. Lawrence, 73; Eunice Stanwood, 78; Honora Myers, 60.
DOGS LICENSED.
Males, 107 : Females, 14; Total, 12I.
THIRTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE .
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
TOWN OF SWAMPSCOTT,
FOR THE YEAR ENDING FEB. 28, 1886.
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SCHOOL REPORT.
IN conformity with the requirements of the Statutes of the State, the members of your School Board herewith present to the citizens of Swampscott their opinion in re- lation to the condition of our schools. We think our schools never were in better working order than at the present time. Some changes have been made during the year in equalizing the number of scholars in the different schools. The first class in the First Grammar has been placed in charge of the Master of the High School, MR. BARKER, thereby making his charge number about thirty- five scholars. The first class in the Second Grammar has been put in charge of Miss A. M. MOTT of the First Gram- mar, thereby equalizing the two grammar grades, making a larger membership in the High School, and dispensing with an assistant in the Second Grammar. Particular attention has been given in the above schools to studies which will fit the scholars for the more common duties of life, while the higher attainments have not been neglected.
Bookkeeping, according to the best and most modern form, has received especial attention, and with good re- sults. Banking, commercial laws and business forms, have also been studied with like success. The languages, alge- bra, physiology, geometry, chemistry, and other high grade studies, have received their share of the time of the High School teachers. We feel it a pleasure, as well as a duty, to testify to the earnest endeavors of each and every one of our teachers to do all in their power for the best
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interest of our scholars. Although we do not expect to take the lead in superiority, we have tried hard to be among the first schools in the State. If the citizens would visit our schools more frequently they would be better able to judge of our endeavors to do well, and might give us courage to keep trying. Although the time in our schools has heretofore been all. occupied, we have been required by the recent enactment of a State law to teach physiology in relation to the effects of alcoholic drinks and narcotics upon , the system. In order to comply with the above named law, we have been obliged to spend a little less time on some other studies. Physiology is now taught in all our schools.
SICKNESS.
The usual trouble on account of sickness we have had, but not to so great an extent as in most former years. The sanitary department has received particular attention.
TRUANCY.
This department having been placed in the hands of our police force, has been attended to faithfully, and has caused but little trouble.
APPROPRIATION.
The appropriation for the maintenance of our schools having been made smaller than in previous years, your Committee have felt it a call upon them to economize. In order to do this, we have seen no other way than to reduce the pay-roll of teachers. We have dispensed with the ser- vices of one, and reduced the salaries of others, so that at the present time our pay-roll is about six hundred dollars less than in former years. The reduction of salaries was made in September, which was the commencement of the
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present school year, all teachers having been previously engaged up to that time. As will be seen by the above, we get about one-half of the total reduction, or from Sep- tember to date, to benefit us on our expenses this year. This reduction of salaries has occasioned some commotion among the friends of Miss C. F. MoTT, who has had a call to go elsewhere, on a larger salary than we feel authorized to pay. We have sailed as close to the wind as possible in all our expenses.
WATER.
A cause of serious trouble is the need of water. The Grammar, Essex Street and Farms Schools are placed under obligations to their neighbors for water.
REPAIRS.
Repairs on buildings have not been done during the last year except where absolutely necessary. Some of our buildings have not been painted on the outside for a long time and are much in need. We have endeavored to keep the inside of them tidy, but have not made much of an out- lay in money. An outlay of about one hundred dollars seems to be actually necessary to make the Grammar and High School entry ways safer and more convenient-this might be done by cutting into the recitation rooms, with no great inconvenience to them, but with great help to the entry ways.
Your Committee feel called upon to publicly express their obligations to Mr. Barker of the High School, for valuable assistance rendered many times outside of his line of duty, and without compensation.
HEATING APPARATUS.
The boiler in the Grammar School building (although
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examined twice in each year by an expert, and said to be safe for a year or two), we feel is a great coal eater, and is also getting well into years. Whenever the Town feels able, we should think it advisable to put in a new hori- zontal one that will consume less coal. Probably ten tons or more might be saved each year. An estimate has been made of the expense of a new one, which is $650. An appropriation of the above-named sum would have to be made by the Town.
SCHOOL SUPPLIES.
The recent law making it obligatory on each city and town to supply all its schools with books and materials, makes an additional expense to this town of nearly one thousand dollars per year. It also makes considerable extra work for the Committee, as they have to purchase and dispense the supplies to the several schools. The most of this work has been done during the past year by Mr. Merritt. Our depot for supplies is at the Committee's room in the Town House.
TEACHERS' MEETINGS.
Teachers and the Committee have held monthly meetings during the past year to devise ways and means for im- provements in teaching. Many useful suggestions have been made and acted upon.
The expenditures this year have been increased some three or four hundred dollars by the payment of last year's bills for school supplies, which were not rendered to the School Board in season for last year's account.
SCHOOLS, TEACHERS, AND STUDIES PURSUED.
HIGH SCHOOL,-including Advance Grammar Class.
Teachers .- Mr. E. P. BARKER, Principal ; Mrs. E. P. BARKER, Assistant. Number of scholars, 35.
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Studies .- Algebra, Astronomy, Book Keeping, English History, Commercial Laws, Rhetoric, English Litera- ture, Chemistry, Geometry, Physiology, Latin, French, Declamation, Composition, Grammar, History, Geog- raphy, Arithmetic, Reading, Spelling, Writing, Draw- ing, Botany.
FIRST GRAMMAR.
Teacher .- Miss A. M. MOTT. Number of scholars, 50.
Studies .- Grammar, History, Geography, Arithmetic, Writing, Reading, Spelling, Physiology, Drawing, Ob- servation Lessons.
SECOND GRAMMAR.
Teacher .- Miss E. J. HADLEY. Number of scholars, 50. Studies .- Grammar, Arithmetic, Writing, Reading, His- tory, Geography, Spelling, Physiology, Drawing, Ob- servation Lessons.
BEACH INTERMEDIATE.
Teacher .- Miss L. G. CHASE. Number of scholars, 29. Studies .- Arithmetic, Reading, Spelling, Writing, Geog- raphy, Observation Lessons, Language, Drawing, Phy- siology.
FARM SCHOOL, PRIMARY AND INTERMEDIATE.
Teacher .- Miss CORA E. GALE. Number of scholars; 30. Studies .- Arithmetic, Reading, Spelling, Writing, Geog- raphy, Observation Lessons, Language, Drawing, Phy- siology.
ESSEX STREET PRIMARY AND INTERMEDIATE.
Teacher .- Miss E. J. MACHON. Number of scholars, 38.
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Studies .- Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Spelling, Draw- ing, Geography, Language, Observation Lessons, Phy- siology.
PINE STREET INTERMEDIATE.
Teacher. - Miss CLARA M. COLCORD. Number of scholars, 52.
Studies. - Same as at Beach Intermediate.
FIRST PRIMARY.
Teacher. - Miss GRACE S. FULLER. Number of scholars, 48.
Studies. - Reading, Spelling, Writing, Arithmetic, Ob- servation Lessons, Language, Physiology, Drawing.
PINE STREET PRIMARY.
Teacher. - Miss A. E. BOYNTON. Number of scholars, 39
Studies. - Same as at First Primary.
BEACH PRIMARY.
Teacher. - Miss H. M. NORTON. Number of scholars, 34.
Studies. - Same as at First Primary.
Exercises in Gymnastics are given in all the schools.
The above report is respectfully submitted to the citizens of Swampscott.
CHAS. A. MORRIS, SAMUEL O. INGALLS,
School CURTIS V. MERRITT, } Committee.
March 6, 1886.
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