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$5.18
5.18
Girls' Field Hockey: Players' contributions toward awards. ...
$27.00
27.00
Total Receipts
$3,848.91
Disbursements
Football:
Equipment
$659.98
Cleaning and reconditioning
487.08
Medical Services and Supplies
170.62
Transportation
119.98
Police
205.00
Officials
265.00
Tax on Admissions
533.79
Contracts and Guarantees
611.12
Ticket Sellers and Takers
108.00
Field Expenses
50.14
Printing
53.50
Change Funds Advanced
363.50
Awards
93.75
Band Appropriation
150.00
Miscellaneous :
Allen Stationery Co.
1.80
Postage
5.11
Cheerleaders' Sweaters
33.00
Cheerleaders' Uniforms
54.54
Mass. High School A. A. Dues
2.50
Paint
2.25
Drill Team Uniforms
120.00
Mittens for Cheerleaders
9.00
Armored Car Service
20.00
Bank Service Charge-November
1.19
Bank Service Charge-December
1.55
Newburyport-Advance sale of tickets
7.00
Expenses to N. E. Conference
2.64
Athletic Association Benefit Fund
5.00
N. E. Assoc. of Colleges & Sec. Schools
5.00
Expenses to N. E. Conference
1.50
Insurance Fee
1.35
Boys' Basketball:
Equipment
$58.00
Officials
76.00
Basketball League Dues
15.00
Ticket Takers and Sellers
38.00
Printing
10.00
Police
10.00
Cleaning
25.00
Admissions Tax
40.50
Transportation
90.00
Awards
11.75
Girls' Basketball:
Transportation
$25.21
Officials
29.00
Cleaning
2.21
Equipment
11.80
$4,144.89
374.25
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Baseball:
Letters and Sweaters
$ 61.00
Miscellaneous
2.30
Equipment
160.58
Awards
3.75
Officials
40.00
Transportation
114.00
381.63
Girls' Hockey:
Equipment
$65.66
Officials
20.00
Cleaning
29.06
Association Dues
2.00
Transportation
19.50
Miscellaneous
1.85
Awards
51.75
189.82
Miscellaneous :
Printing Permit Cards
$10.00
Rental of Rink for Boys' Hockey
10.00
Bank Service Charge
.30
20.30
Total Disbursements
$5,179.11
Deficit for Season
$1,330.20
Balance on hand September 1, 1944
1,906.82
Balance on hand June 27, 1945
Signed,
DOROTHY E. DIXON,
Treasurer.
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL NURSE
Superintendent of Schools,
Swampscott, Mass.
Dear Sir:
I herewith submit a report for the year ending December 31, 1945.
School visits, regular
180
School visits, extra
336
Visits to homes
239
Pupils excluded
92
Referred to family physician
160
Notice to parents
230
Referred to Clinic
22
Chest X-ray
16
Glasse's provided
9
Tuberculin tests
122
Physical examination
1079
Vision
1079
Visits for attendance
61
Visits for home adjustment
42
Truancy
26
Miscellaneous
231
Respectfully submitted,
MARY K. HAMMOND, R. N., School Nurse.
$576.62
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MEMBERSHIP BY AGE AND GRADE, OCTOBER 1, 1945
Boys
Age
Grade
5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
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27 39
4
70
2
29 27 11
67
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27 68 52 62 48 57 57 60 62 64 58 53 40
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GIRLS
Age
Grade
5
6 7 8
9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
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16 25
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SCHOOL REPORT
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SCHOOL CENSUS-OCTOBER 1, 1945
5 yrs. or over 7 yrs. or over and and under 16 under 7
Total
Registration of Minors:
Boys
112
506
618
Girls
124
617
741
Totals
236
1123
1359
Distribution of the above minors:
In public day school membership .... 127
834
961
In continuation school membership
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In vocational school membership ...
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In private school membership
34
283
317
In State or County institutions and special school for defectives and delinquents
1
1
Not enrolled in any day school
75
5
80
Totals
236
1123
1359
Pupils Enrolled-November, 1945
Sophomores 114
Juniors 110
Seniors
Total
High School
115
339
Class I
Class II
Class III
Junior High School
116
120
138
374
Grades
1
2
3
4
5
6
Clarke
28
49
37
30
25
33
202
Hadley
34
24
33
31
25
36
183
Machon
30
36
23
21
20
20
150
Stanley
31
31
30
21
35
22
170
High School 339
Junior High
374
Elementary
705
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SCHOOL DEPARTMENT DIRECTORY
High School
Lee T. Gray, Principal
Flora A. McLearn
Charlotte Bailey
Edna I. Morrison
Ethel Bardgett
Warren W. Morton
Reginald Barry
Dorothy O'Keefe
Brooks K. Blossom
Mildred J. O'Leary
Arthur G. Cronk
Albert J. Reinhalter
James H. Dunn
Jennie M. Rodgers
Walter R. Henshaw
Eileen Soper
Antoinette Lambert
Amy D. Thissell
Harold S. Martin
Marjorie White
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Junior High School
Alice L. Shaw, Principal
Beatrice S. Hutchinson
Eleanor L. Birch
George E. Hutchinson
Mary C. Boyce
Nance Marquette
Greta O. Briggs
Florence L. Melanson
Marion P. Burlingame
Crandall P. Nodwell
Beatrice L. Cook
Lena M. Patchett
Alice T. Durgin
Mary Sexton
Hester Dwinell
Helen Warren
Thelma Fitzgerald
Emma S. White
Eleanor Flanagan
Grace Young
Clarke School
Blanche E. Doyle, Principal
Dorothea Paulson
Louise Cerica
Elizabeth Pirie
Margaret Forbes
Rosemary Roach
Marilyn Francis
Katherine Wilson
Hadley School
Alice L. Shaw, Principal
Marion Newcomb
Amy Fenwick
Hilda J. Thacher
Helen Hudson
Maxine A. Walker
Ruth K. James
Anna F. Willey
Machon School
Mary I. Perkins, Principal
Elsie B. Oakes
Hazel D. Chase
Phyllis G. Smith
Mae M. Graham
M. Elizabeth Wade
Evelyn H. Lovejoy
Stanley School
Blanche E. Doyle, Principal
Jessie C. Martin
Charlotte N. Conners -
Clara Waterman Christine Zahr
Margaret E. Durgin
Grace M. Farrell
All Schools Clara B. Chase, Supervisor of Art Anne Linscott, Teacher of Speech Walter Rich, Teacher of Instrumental Music Esther Nazarian, Supervisor of Music Mary K. Hammond, R. N., School Nurse
Superintendent of Schools Frank L. Mansur
Secretaries Bessie Heggie, Hadley School Edith Legro, High School Gertrude Donlon, Superintendent of Schools
Janitors
Elizabeth Kehoe, High School Daniel Myers, High School
Henry J. Callahan, High School Edward Newhall, High School Mario Travascio, High School
Frank Coletti, Hadley School Dean Edson, Hadley School Michael Pagnotta, Clarke School
Kenneth Cort, Machon School Thomas Bailey, Stanley School
Assistants
Marion Noonan
Jennie Bates
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Board of Health
To the Citizens of Swampscott:
The Board of Health herewith submits its report for the year ending December 31, 1945, together with those of its various officers.
Our community has once again experienced a substantial reduc- tion in the number of communicable diseases reported when com- pared with those reported during the years 1943 and 1944.
One case of non-paralytic type of Anterior Poliomyelitis (Infan- tile Paralysis) and one each of Lymphatic and Pneumococcus Menin- gitis were reported.
Chicken Pox, Measles, Mumps and Whooping Cough still con- tinue to be the predominating diseases.
Three new cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis and one of Tubercu- losis of the throat were reported and admitted to Essex Sanatorium for treatment. Five patients were discharged from the sanatorium and one case returned later for further treatment. One death occurred during the year. There are four cases receiving sanatorium care at the present time.
We were unable to conduct our annual school tuberculin patch test clinics this year because of the scarcity of X-ray films. We hope to resume the clinic during the coming year as these clinics have been of great value in the detection of the childhood type of Tuber- culosis in children.
Thirty-nine residents and three non-residents have been bitten by local dogs during the year. Five of our citizens were bitten by out-of- town dogs. None of the cases required anti-rabic treatment.
Although bad weather prevailed during the days our anti-rabic dog clinics were held 124 dogs were inoculated against the disease and 171 owners reported that their dogs had been privately inoculated.
The extension of the sewer system into Bates, Beverly and Sar- gent Roads has eliminated the unsanitary conditions that have existed in those sections for a long time. There are still several unsewered sections where the public sewer is urgently needed and we have ac- cordingly furnished the Water and Sewerage Board with a list of the same with the recommendation that public sewers be constructed therein during the coming year.
Larger pipes have been installed in Hawthorne Brook as it crosses the westerly side of the Tedesco Country Club grounds and should eliminate the flooding of property along the State Road when- ever heavy rains prevail.
The opening of the dump at Phillips Park for the disposal of tree trimmings, leaves, brush and the usual waste materials of builders, contractors and others has been a great benefit to all con- cerned and has greatly reduced the number of complaints of promiscu- ous dumping of such material on vacant property along our main highways. However, the Park Department has experienced consider- able difficulty in keeping the materials levelled and the dump in sightly condition owing to the haphazard manner in which the ma- terial is deposited about the property. Many undesirable materials, such as garbage, waste paper and other filth, that should have been put out for the weekly collections of the ash and garbage contractor are also being deposited there. Such material provides an excellent
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feeding and breeding ground for rats and other vermin and is a menace to the public health and will, if continued, ultimately result in the necessity of closing the dump; therefore, great care should be taken to see that such material is disposed of through the usual chan- nels instead of at the dump.
If the dump is to be properly maintained it should be covered immediately after levelling with a layer of gravel or other similar material of sufficient depth to prevent the same from becoming a nuisance and source of annoyance to those residing in that vicinity and we accordingly hope and recommend that the Finance Committee will see that the Park Department is provided with sufficient funds to make such coverings possible.
We are of the opinion that our present Building, Plumbing and Zoning By-Laws are in many instances obsolete and do not conform to the provisions of the laws that have been enacted since their adop- tion and do not adequately provide for the health and safety of our citizens nor cover the structural changes taking place in our town. We feel that immediate action should be taken to bring these by-laws up to date and recommend that the present existing By-Law Commit- tee perform the duties for which it was appointed or give way to a new and more active committee.
In accordance with the vote of the Annual Town Meeting a legis- lative petition was filed by Representative Lester B. Morley asking for the establishment of a Mosquito Control Project at Palmers Pond at the expense of the State. A hearing was held before the Legislative Committee on Public Health who reported favorably on the petition. The progress of the bill through the House and Senate was ably and successfully handled by Representative Morley, who will undoubtedly make a full report thereon to the Board of Selectmen or to the next Annual Town Meeting. We hope that this long-standing nuisance will soon be a thing of the past.
During the year 1941 the Water and Sewerage Board spent ap- proximately $20,000 constructing a station and system of comminu- tors in order to comply with orders of the State Department of Public Health to cut up certain floating matters in our sewerage which that department alleged were polluting the water and beaches of Lynn and Nahant. While these installations disposed of our floating matters in a manner satisfactory to the State, similar floating matters still con- tinued to reach our waters and beaches.
The attention of the State was repeatedly called to the situation but their replies were always to the effect that the conditions were caused by persons using our beaches and our failure to adequately patrol and clean the beaches. The fact that our beaches were being well policed and cleaned daily, including Sundays and holidays, made such accusations absurd.
As conditions became so bad that bathing was impossible at times we decided that more strenuous action was necessary if we were to obtain recognition of our situation and its abatement; consequently a meeting for the purpose of organizing a definite plan of procedure was held on July 31, 1945, at which members of the Board of Park Com- missioners, Water and Sewerage Board, Town Counsel, Town Engi- neer, Representative Lester B. Morley, and Mr. Little and Mr. Lynch of the Division of Sanitary Engineering of the State Department of Public Health were present.
After a thorough discussion of the situation it was the unanimous opinion of those present that our own sewage system was not causing the trouble, that the conditions were a menace to the health of those using our beaches and something definite should be done to bring the
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matter to the attention of those in authority at the State Department of Public Health as neither Mr. Little nor Mr. Lynch were able to make any statement or promises as to what action should be taken or what action their superiors would take.
A committee was selected to arrange for a conference with Mr. Arthur Weston, Chief Engineer of the Division of Sanitary Engineer- ing of the State Department of Public Health for the purpose of ac- quainting him with the facts and soliciting his assistance in bringing about an abatement of conditions.
The meeting was arranged and held at the office of Mr. Weston on September 21, 1945, at which Mr. Weston agreed that there was no question but what our waters and beaches were being polluted with various floating matters and that while his department was aware of certain existing conditions that might be causing our trouble the department was unable to take any action toward forcing the correc- tion of conditions as regulations that the State Department has made under the provisions of a law passed this year and submitted to the Governor's Council for approval had not been acted upon. Mr. Weston stated during the conference that it was his opinion that our own sewerage was not causing the trouble and further stated that the citizens of this community could rest assured that his department would do everything within its power to locate and eliminate the source and cause of our trouble.
The Board feels that the citizens should be fully informed as to our efforts to bring about the abatement of conditions; therefore it is incorporating copies of all correspondence between this department and the State as a part of this report.
August 25, 1943.
Mr. Clarence W. Horton Health Officer Swampscott, Massachusetts
Dear Mr. Horton:
I inquired about the examination made of the beaches along the Swampscott shore, and find that this inspection was made some time ago and that a letter is now being drafted which should reach you in the very near future.
I trust this will be satisfactory to you.
Sincerely yours, ROBERT E. ARCHIBALD, M.D., State District Health Officer.
August 27,1943.
To the Board of Health Swampscott, Massachusetts
Gentlemen:
In response to your verbal request for advice relative to the source of foreign matters deposited on the various beaches in Swamp- scott, the Department of Public Health has caused the beaches in question to be examined by one of its engineers. So far as can be determined, the deposits referred to do not reach the beaches from any of the public sewer outlets in the locality. More likely they are deposited there by persons using the beaches for recreational pur-
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poses. Under the circumstances, this is a matter over which this De- partment has no control and presumably it will be necessary for the town to provide for the frequent cleaning of these beaches during the bathing season in a manner similar to that carried on in other munici- palities and by the Metropolitan District Commission.
Respectfully, ALTON S. POPE, M.D., Deputy Commissioner of Public Health.
June 8, 1944.
Vlado A. Getting, M.D. Commissioner Public Health State House Boston, Massachusetts
Dear Commissioner:
This department wishes to register a complaint that sewage and other floating matters are being deposited upon the Blaney Beach Reservation in this town whenever southeasterly winds prevail. This matter was reported verbally to your department last year.
On August 27, 1943, this department received notice from Alton S. Pope, M.D., regarding the matter, a copy of which is enclosed herein. This department wishes at this time to dispute the findings set forth in the notice by reason of the fact that our beaches are not only patrolled but are given a thorough cleaning every week day from May 15 to September 15. The floating matters to which we refer are numbered in the hundreds and the water is literally filled with them.
From the information given this department by Mr. George Atkins, a member of the Water and Sewer Board of this town, we have reason to believe that the conditions herein referred to are being created by the sewage disposals of the city of Lynn and town of Nahant.
Mr. Atkins' information was obtained last year when he per- sonally procured a boat and with a witness followed the floating mat- ters to a point off eastern Nahant.
In conclusion this department respectfully requests that this matter be given your immediate attention as we have already had a recurrence of the above conditions this year.
Very truly yours, CLARENCE W. HORTON, Health Officer.
June 9, 1944.
Mr. Clarence W. Horton, Health Officer Board of Health
Swampscott, Massachusetts
Dear Sir:
In response to your recent request for the advice of this Depart- ment, arrangements have been made for an examination by an en- gineer from this Division. When the results of that examination are
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available the Commissioner of Public Health will advise you in the matter.
Very truly yours,
ARTHUR D. WESTON, Chief Engineer.
July 13, 1944.
Board of Health Swampscott, Massachusetts
Gentlemen:
In response to the request of Clarence W. Horton, Health Officer of your board, the Department of Public Health has caused an exam- ination to be made of sanitary conditions in the vicinity of certain bathing beaches in the town of Swampscott by one of its engineers and has considered the information submitted.
As mentioned in your application, the Department advised you relative to this matter under date of August 27, 1943, but it appears that prior to your recent request for advice, a considerable quantity of objectionable floating matter was observed near the Swampscott beaches following a southeast wind. These beaches were examined on June 2, 1944, during an easterly wind, but at that time no evidence of pollution was found along the beaches with the exception of some fish scraps and a quantity of coal dust. An examination was made at the Swampscott sewage pumping station and the comminutors were found to be in operation.
An examination of the Lynn sewage pumping station and of the records kept at that station showed that the emergency outlet in Lynn Harbor was open for a short time on May 27, 1944, and had not been opened since that date.
A second examination of the Swampscott beaches was made on June 30, 1944, and again no evidence of pollution was found along the beaches. There is a possibility that the floating matters referred to in your application may have come from the sewer outlets at Nahant but the wind conditions have not been such of late as to enable the Department to determine this with certainty.
The Department will cause another examination to be made of the Swampscott beaches promptly the next time that large quantities of floating matters are observed, so that their origin may be traced, if you so request.
Respectfully,
V. A. GETTING, Commissioner.
July 18, 1944.
Vlado A. Getting, M.D. Commissioner of Public Health State House Boston, Massachusetts
Dear Doctor:
This department acknowledges your letter of July 13, 1944, rela- tive to examinations at the Blaney Beach Reservation for evidence of pollution of which this department complained.
In reply would say that Mr. Frederick C. Burk, Superintendent of
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Parks, has been requested to notify this office immediately whenever future pollutions occur so that we may in turn notify your department.
These pollutions only occur under certain conditions but when they do occur they cause a general protest from the thousands of per- sons who visit our beaches during the summer months.
Very truly yours, CLARENCE W. HORTON, Health Officer.
Vlado A. Getting, M.D. Commissioner of Public Health State House Boston, Massachusetts
July 25, 1945.
Dear Commissioner:
As a result of a request of Captain John J. Murphy of the Metro- politan District Police the Engineering Division of your department caused an examination to be made of the conditions affecting bathing conditions along the beaches operated by the Metropolitan District Commission in Lynn, Nahant and Swampscott in 1939 and again in 1940, and as a result and upon orders of your department under date of August 15, 1940, this Town expended a sum in excess of $12,000, for the erection of a station and the purchase of a comminutor that has been in operation 24 hours per day since installation.
However, the installation mentioned above has not eliminated the pollution of our beaches as each time the wind is in the south to east position our beaches and waters are filled with thousands of floating condoms in addition to the garbage, toilet paper and other floating filth.
Each year since that time written or telephone complaints have been made to the Division of Sanitary Engineering, Dr. Archibald, State District Health Officer, Ernest Sullivan, Sanitary Engineer of this District and your office, but the pollution still continues to exist and the Board of Park Commissioners, our citizens and others who have occasion to use our beaches for bathing and recreational pur- poses are demanding to know when your department may be expected to show the same interest and dexterity in locating the source or sources of our pollution.
In conclusion, I beg to assure you that unless immediate action is taken to abate present conditions a more definite action will be taken by the citizens of this community to bring about a cessation of existing conditions.
Very truly yours, CLARENCE W. HORTON,/ Health Officer.
July 27, 1945.
Board of Health Swampscott, Massachusetts
Gentlemen:
In response to a telephone communication from the Agent of your Board on July 9, 1945, relative to certain debris on the shore line of
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Swampscott, the Department of Public Health caused the shore line to be examined later in the day and samples of the water to be analyzed. The inspection showed that the beaches were as clean as can be expected in the absence of adequate personnel for maintenance, and the results of the bacteriological examination showed that the water was free from sewage pollution at the time the samples were collected between 4:00 and 4:20 P.M. on the date the application was made. Nuisance conditions were not present at the time of this examination.
Since the above statement was drafted, the Department has re- ceived a statement from Clarence W. Horton, Health Officer of Swampscott, dated July 25, 1945, discussing the alleged objectionable conditions further and demanding to know when this Department will correct the situation.
The Department is convinced from such information as is at pres- ent available that the conditions referred to in Mr. Horton's recent letter are not the result of the discharge of sewage from any munici- pal sewer in this region. If the conditions were such as those indi- cated in Mr. Horton's letter, bacteria characteristic of sewage would be present in considerable numbers which was not the case at the time of the recent examination.
The Department is informed by an official of the Metropolitan District Commission that the officers of that Commission have re- ceived no complaints relative to foul matters on the Metropolitan beaches near Swampscott since the improvements in the Swampscott sewage disposal system were completed.
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