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6.733.18
Stock
8,191.61
Water Construction Deposits
989.31
Land for New Water Supply
1,500.00
49,611.69
Revenue Reserved Until Collected
30,848.83
Water Liens Revenue
3,299.63
Water Liens
3,299.63
Surplus Revenue
61,294.45
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145,054.60
145,054.60
DEBT ACCOUNTS
65,000.00
Water Loan-May 1, 1928
1,000.00
Water Loan-May 1, 1929 Water Loan-Nov. 1, 1929
2,000.000
Water Loan-April 1, 1930
3.000.00- 1000
- Water Loan-May 1, 1931
2.000.00 ,500
Water Loan-Dec. 1, 1933
-1,000.00
Water Loan- Aug. 15, 1934
54,000.00
49000
65,000.00
65,000.00
Water Debt
2000.00 , 0 0 0
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BALANCE SHEET
ASSETS
1,913.24
375.77
Cash and Securities
TRUST AND INVESTMENT FUNDS 17,000.00 N. Y. N. H. & H. R. R. Co., Bonds
17,000.00
REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY ACCOUNTS
Land
152, 950
151,950.00
Real and Personal Property
1,550,845.82
Buildings
196,800
196,800.00
Personal Property
19. 8.8v. 92
23,508.69
Water Pipes, Mains, etc.
1,117,979.70
1,550,845.82
1,550,845.82
1,557610.68
1,178,587.13
Respectfully submitted,
EMERSON R. DIZER,
Town Accountant.
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FINANCIAL REPORT OF THE COLLECTOR FOR THE WATER DEPARTMENT From January 1, 1942 to December 31, 1942 WATER ACCOUNT
Balance Due January 1, 1942 $ 27,955.79 115,968.79
Charges to December 31, 1942
$143,924.58
Cash Received
$109,790.65
Abatements and Service Transfers
1,423.81
Transfers to Lien Account
4.334.04
Balances Due December 31, 1942
28,376.08
Paid to Treasurer $109,790.65 $143,924.58
MATERIAL AND LABOR ACCOUNT
$ 1,762.55
Charges to December 31, 1942
5,293.33
$ 7,055.88
MATERIAL AND LABOR ACCOUNT CREDITS
Cash Received
$ 4,540.44
Abatements and Service Transfers
42.69
Balance Due December 31, 1942
2,472.75
Paid to Treasurer
Respectfully sumbitted, $4,540.44 $ 7,055.88
GEORGE E. CURTIN
REPORT OF THE TREASURER FOR WATER DEPARTMENT FOR 1942
RECEIPTS
Water Rents
$109,790.65
Construction Account
4,540.44
Water Liens
4,996.04
Interest on Water Liens
73.74
Construction Deposits
3,297.88
Interest Granite Trust, Savings Department
1,074 75
Interest South Weymouth Savings Bank
116.87
Refund chcek No. 1284 W. S. Plummer, Aug. 10, 1942
1.00
Interest N. Y., N. H. and Hartford R. R. 75% Coupons due October 1, 1935
669.46
Refund Commonwealth of Massachusetts Gas Excise Tax
24.99
Total
$124,585.82
Cash on hand January 1, 1942
95,310.20
$219,896.02
PAYMENTS FOR 1942
Paid on Selectmen's Warrants for:
Notes and Bonds 1942
$ 11,500.00
Interest on Loans
2.121.25
Accounting Department
570.00
Collection Service
1,575.00
Sundry Appropriations
93,223.63
Total
$108,989.88
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Balance Due January 1, 1942
WATER ACCOUNT CREDITS
Cash on hand December 31, 1942
110,906.14
$219,896.02
CASH ASSETS
Amount due for Water Rents
$ 28,376.08
Amount, due for Construction
2,472.75
$ 30 848.83
Cash on hand December 31, 1942
110,906.14
$141,754.97
Less outstanding checks
2,820.96
$138,934.01
Due from Granite Trust Company Checking Account
$ 56,365.01
Due from Granite Trust Company Saving Account
13,463.87
Due from South Weymouth Savings Bank Petty Cash Drawer
100.00
$113,727.10
Less outstanding checks
2,820.96
$110,906.14
WATER LOAN ACCOUNT
Serial Bonds and Notes due 1943-1946 31% per cent
$ 2,000.00
Serial Bonds and Notes due 1943-44, 4 per cent
4,000.00
Serial Bonds and Notes due 1943-44 41/2 per cent
2,000.00
Serial Bonds and Notes due 1943-44. 5 per cent
2,000.00
Serial Bonds and Notes due 1943, 41/4 per cent
1,000.00
Serial Bonds and Notes due 1943-54, 21% per cent
54,000.00
$ 65,000.00
INVESTMENTS
N. Y., N. H. & Hartford R. R. 31/2 per cent Bonds due 1954
$ 17,000.00
Respectfully submitted,
GEORGE E. CURTIN, Treasurer of the Water Department.
Weymouth, Mass., Jan. 22, 1943.
I have examined the accounts of George E. Curtin, Treasurer and Collector of the Weymouth Water Department, and find them correct. The records of the Collector's Department have been checked with the Treasurer at least once each month during the year, and I am satisfied that both reports are correct.
EMERSON R. DIZER, Town Accountant.
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43,798.22
Sixty-fourth Annual Report of the Trustees of Tufts Library 1942
WES
GUSSET 1622
LABORARE LIST
VINCERE
MASSACHUSETTS
.1635.
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SIXTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE TUFTS LIBRARY TRUSTEES
Wallace H. Drake, M.D. Francis N. Drown Francis C. Haviland
Philip T. Jones
Joseph Kelley Gordon D. Paris Franklin N. Pratt
Leighton S. Vorhees
Clarance P. Whittle
SELECTMEN EX-OFFICIO
Everett E. Callahan Harry Christensen
Joseph A. Fern Sandy Roulston
Basil S. Warren George E. Curtin, Town Treasurer
OFFICERS Clarance P. Whittle, President Franklin N. Pratt, Secretary
LIBRARIAN Christine E. Evarts
ASSISTANTS
*Ruth H. Kai ** Ruth M. Loeffler *Muriel C. Lowery
Charlotte M. Macleod Ruth N. Nickerson Dorothy E. Trussell
Edith L. Payson, Cataloger Rachael M. Bodine, Children's Librarian Florence G. Truax, Extension Librarian
BRANCH LIBRARIANS
Catherine C. Condrick, North Weymouth Branch Irene E. Langevin, East Weymouth Branch Gertrude C. Andrews, Nash's Corner Station Lena B. Pratt, Pond Plain Station JANITORS Charles H. Potter
** John G. Galvin
Benjamin N. Ells, East Weymouth Branch
*Resigned ** On leave of absence in the armed services.
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INFORMATION
Hours: Main Library 9 A.M .- 9 P.M. daily. Children's Room 2.30-6 P.M. daily ; Saturday 9 A.M .- 6 P.M.
WAR EMERGENCY: During fuel shortage the Main Library will be closed all day Monday and at 6 P.M. on Wed., Thu., & Fri. eves.
Summer Hours: July and August 9 A.M .- 6 P.M. Saturday 9 A.M .- 9 P.M.
Branches: East Weymouth 2-8 P.M. daily except Wednesday. North Weymouth 2-6 & 7-8 P.M. daily except Saturday.
Weymouth Heights 2:30-6 & 7-8 P.M. Monday & Thursday. Lovell's Corner 2.30-6 & 7-8 P.M., Tuesday.
Nash's Corner 2.30-6 & 7-8 P.M. Tuesday. Pond Plain 2.30-6 & 7-8 P.M. Friday.
The Library and the Branches are not open Sundays, legal holidays, nor the 17th of Junc.
The Library is for the use of all residents of Weymouth.
Each card issued to an adult entitles the holder to one book of recent fiction (a book published within the last year), one current periodical and any reasonable number of other books.
Children under Senior High School age are entitled to a card if the appli- cation is signed by a parent or guardian. Cards issued to children entitle the holders to two books, one of which may be fiction.
All books from the circulating department, except the new fiction, may be kept for 14 days. On request, books not in demand will be charged for one month, subject to recall after 2 weeks if requested by other borrowers. Fiction published within the last twelve months and recent numbers of magazines are limited to seven days with no renewal privilege.
The vacation privilege allows a borrower to take books which are not recent publications for an extended time.
A book cannot be transferred from one card to another, but any 14-day book may be renewed at the library, by mail or by telephone (*), ubless another borrower has asked to have the book reserved. The date due, the author and title of the book, and the borrower's number should be stated when the request for renewal is made.
Any book will be reserved at the request of a borrower, who will be noti- fied as soon as the book is available. A charge of one cent is made for this service.
A fine of two cents a day will be incurred for each day's detention of a book after it is due. When a book is sent for by the librarian it will be at the expense of the borrower.
For the convenience of residents in different parts of the town, books are exchanged through the stations as follows:
Lovell's Corner, Pratt School. Tuesday
South Weymouth, Fogg Memorial Library Tuesday
Nash's Corner, 924 Front Street Tuesday
Pond Plain, 189 Pond Street Tuesday
East Weymouth, East Weymouth Branch Thursday
North Weymouth, North Weymouth Branch-Athens School
Thursday
Weymouth Heights, Adams School Thursday
*Telephone: Main Library, Weymouth 1402
East Weymouth Branch, Weymouth 1677-W North Weymouth Branch, Weymouth 1571-J
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64 TH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TUFTS LIBRARY THE LIBRARY IN A WORLD AT WAR
"In the present war" says Mr. Elmer Davis, Director of the Office of War Information, "Librarians carry a responsibility such as they have never carried in our history. They are combatants from this time on. As combat- ants they have a right to know what their duties are-in what way they can fight back and what fronts are committed to their charge. Librarians occupy a position in American life which enables them to see to it that the people of this country have the facts before them."
How is the Tufts Library fighting back? What front has it been defend- ing throughout 1942?
1. The Tufts Library is one of approximately 1200 in the United States chosen by the American Library Association to be War Information Centers. It receives and has available for use current, up-to-date information on all topics connected with the war effort.
2. The library has purchased, and is ready to purchase, technical books that will be useful to men employed in the ship yards, to boys studying avia- tion, to house-wives seeking aids on war-time cooking, to the home-owner who will next spring plant a Victory garden.
3. The library is a receiving station for books given to the camp lib- raries of our service men. 6,991 books, given by Weymouth people through the Victory Book Campaign, have been sent out to the men in the service. Some of them have gone in ships over dangerous waters, some are being read today in Iceland, some are at Camp Edwards and others have travelled south, and some are still in Weymouth-the first books that were contributed to the library of the Naval Air Base.
This is a continuing need and the boys today are asking for more books; not just any books, but the books that we ourselves want to read. Books stimulate morale. They are bombs against boredom! The Tufts Library will receive such books and forward them.
4. The Tufts Library has cooperated with the Naval Air Base in South Weymouth in the establishment of a library at the Base. It continues to cooperate by loaning technical books in response to special requests for the use of men studying to win promotions.
5. The Tufts Library has made its facilities available as a meeting place for classes in First Aid, Air Raid Protection, etc.
The library service flag now has two stars. In March the janitor, Mr. John Galvin, left for service in the United States Army; and at the close of the year Miss Ruth Loeffler, our assistant in charge of the circulation desk and also assistant cataloger, was accepted for service in the U. S. Navy and will shortly leave for training as a member of the W.A.V.E.S.
Three other staff members, Miss Ruth H. Kai, Mrs. Muriel C. Lowery and Miss Harriette Sewell, have resigned to accept positions in defense work.
The two who are members of our armed forces have been granted leaves of absence and their places are filled temporarily. Mr. Charles H. Potter of Weymouth Landing is our substitute janitor, and Mrs. Mildred W. Olson of North Weymouth is filling in on the staff of the Main Library. Mrs. Olson is a former assistant in the Thomas Crane Library of Quincy. Miss Charlotte Macleod, also of North Weymouth, has received a permanent appointment to fill one of the vacancies caused by the resignations noted above. Other helpers, hired for this emergency, are, for the present, students who are work- ing part-time at the library.
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The fuel shortage is restricting the hours of service at the Main Library. This is a necessity which we regret, but the Trustees have tried to plan so that there will still be opportunity for all persons to get their books, even though they may be limited in their opportunities to visit the library. Be- cause of the fuel shortage the hours at the Main Library are at present :
Tuesday and Saturday 9 A.M. to 9 P.M. Wednesday. Thursday & Friday 9 A.M. to 6 P.M. Closed Sundays and Mondays and Legal Holidays.
Work on the roof, to repair leaks, is the only major maintenance expense that the library has had this year. Scarcity of labor and the impossibility of securing materials has prevented certain repairs which the trustees had planned, and they are therefore returning to the town over $200.00 appropri- ated for this purpose.
On December 1st, 1942 the trustees of the library were notified that on or before January 1st they must vacate the premises where the North Wey- mouth Branch was located. Suitable locations in North Weymouth are diffi- cult to find today owing to the increasing population in that section of the town. In the emergency the School Department cooperated generously and made available joi library use a class-room in the Athens School. This must necessarily be a temporary arrangement, for it is very probable that the room will be needed for school purposes by another year. Meanwhile the library is co-operating with the school so that the building need not be heated an extra day, and for the present the North Weymouth Branch of the Tufts Library will be open to the public Monday through Friday from 2 to 6 P.M. and from 7 to 8 P.M. It will be closed on Saturdays.
The increasing population at North Weymouth makes it urgently im- portant that the library look forward to larger quarters. During 1942 the circulation of books through the North Weymouth Branch increased almost 4,000 and it is still growing.
The restrictions on driving are providing people with more leisure for reading, and at the same time making it very difficult for people to get to the library for their books. This means that more books will be borrowed through the Branches and Deposit Stations, within walking distance of homes. It makes it very important for the library to strengthen its out-lying services through stations and schools.
For the purpose of economy in printing the circulation and registration tables are omitted from this report. They may be briefly summarized as follows:
REGISTRATIONS:
New registrations during 1942 1,333
Total number of active borrowers December 31, 1942 9,015
CIRCULATION :
Main library : Adult 48,496; Juvenile 18,610
Total 67,106
North Weymouth Branch :
Adult 26,995: Juvenile 11,876
Total 38,871
East Weymouth Branch:
Adult 27,673; Juvenile 11,335
Total 39,008
Weymouth Heights Station : Adult 6,009; Juvenile 3,200
Total 9,209
Lovell's Corner Station :
Adult 4,356; Juvenile 3,631
Total 7,987
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Nash's Corner Station : Adult 3,882; Juvenile 840 Total 4,722 Pond Plain Station : Adult 4,216; Juvenile 2,561 Total 6,777
Total Adult 121,627 ; Total Juvenile 52,053
Grand Total 173,680
There was, in 1942, a drop in circulation at the Main Library, East Wey- mouth, Vermouth Heights and Nash's Corner. There were gains at Lovell's Corner and very markedly at North Weymouth and at Pond Plain. Where there were losses it is interesting to note that they were five times greater in fiction than in non-fiction reading.
The front on which the library is an active combatant is the strengthen- ing of civilian morale. The reading of library books may lessen when the feverish activities of war demand our time and our attention. But our students still must do their reference work in the library: our boys and girls still need the happy world of children's books: our workers in defense industries seek information from technical books: and all of us need the back-ground literature that helps us to understand our tragic world and to plan for a better one. And when the strain is great, we need books that help us to relax, that bring enjoyment and build our morale.
In total war all our resources are part of our fighting strength. The American people must have facts, for "the issues before us are of such sig- nificance, and the decisions concerning them of such importance, that what the free nations decide now may greatly influence the future history of the world." The library is the Ordnance Department in the realm where informa- tion is a weapon with which to fight the war.
Respectfully submitted, CLARANCE P. WHITTLE, President.
By order and on behalf of the Trustees.
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THE FINANCIAL REPORT OF THE TUFTS LIBRARY FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1942
Salaries and Wages: Librarian and Assistants Janitors
$10,272,26 1,430.60
$11,702.86
Books and Periodicals
3,091.72
Service to Stations
846.81
Binding Books
859.83
Fuel
435.16
Light
391.44
Maintenance of Building
411.17
Other Expenses:
11.70
Convention Expenses Miscellaneous
839.24
850.94
$18,589.93
North Weymouth Branch :
Librarians
$1,430.49
Rent
720.00
Books and Periodicals
396.54
Maintenance of Building
162.09
Light
44.93
Transportation of Books
54,00
Sundries
.89
2,808.94
East Weymouth Branch :
Librarians
$1,651.72
Rent
1,200.00
Books and Periodicals
507.79
Light
56.61
Janitor
226.80
Maintenance of Building
124.84
Transportation of Books
53.00
Sundries
5.75
3,826.51
Total Expended
$25,225.38
Balance to 1943 Account
547.35
Balance to Treasury
754.34
Total
$26,527.07
Appropriation, March 2, 1942
$25,327.70
Appropriation, Nov. 30, 1942
547.35
Income from other sources:
Tufts Fund-Books
50.00
Tufts Fund-Reading Room
50.00
Joseph E. Trask Fund
229.56
Augustus J. Richards Fund
92.50
William H. Pratt Fund
55.96
Arthur E. Pratt Fund
60.00
Susannah Hunt Stetson Fund
50,00
Tirrell Donation
20.00
Francis Flint Forsythe Fund
20.00
Alida M. Denton Fund
14.00
Charles Henry Pratt Fund
10.00
Total
$26,527.07
EMERSON R. DIZER, Town Accountant
January 19, 1943
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ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Town of Weymouth
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MASSACHUSETTS
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FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31,
1942
ASSESSORS' REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1942
January 9, 1943
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen
Gentlemen:
We have assessed upon the polls, motor vehicle and trailer excise, water liens and estates of all persons liable to taxation, the sum of $1,388,095.69 and have committed the same to Frank W. Holbrook, Esq., the duly elected Collector of Taxes, with our warrants in due form of law, for the collections and payments, in accordance with the votes of the Town and warrants of the County of Norfolk and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Commitment February 16, 1942
$ 10,832.80
Commitment March 10, 1942
11,126.00
Commitment April 10, 1942
5,502.00
Commitment April 10, 1942
100.00
Commitment May 6, 1942
268,560.29
Commitment June 3, 1942
34.00
Commitment July 10, 1942
1,042,305.89
Commitment August 15, 1942
45,113.28
Commitment September 1, 1942
2,877.48
Commitment September 2, 1942
64.00
Commitment November 4, 1942
8.00
Commitment November 16, 1942
1,211.81
Commitment December 16, 1942
2.00
Commitment December 16, 1942
82.88
Commitment December 31, 1942
275.26
$1,388,095.69
Divided as follows:
Real Estate
$1,035,640.34
Personal Estate
268,560.29
Motor Vehicle and Trailer Excise
60,310.63
Polls
16,836.00
Moth
783.50
Water Lien
5,964.93
$1,388,095.69
State Liabilities
State Tax
$115,200.00
State Audit of Municipal Accounts
1,237.08
Corporation Tax (Edison)
31,481.55
Smoke Inspection Service
550.27
Metropolitan Sewerage - South
22,380.87
Charles River Basin
4,581.25
Metropolitan Parks Reservation
9,374.75
Nantasket Beach Maintenance
1,093.70
Boulevards
1,923.95
Canterbury Street Highway
.23
Metropolitan Planning Division (1941)
55.38
West Roxbury-Brookline Parkway (1941)
.35
$187,879.38
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%
Deficits due to abatements in excess of overlay of prior years: Of the year 1939 $ 500.63 Of the year 1941 2,201.23 783.50 Moth Water Lien
5,964.93
$ 9,450.29
$197,329.67
County Liabilities
County Tax $ 48,010.97
Tuberculosis Hospital Assessment
16,175.06
$ 64,186.03
Estimated Receipts and Available Funds
Income Tax
$130,762.04
Corporation Taxes
39,418.51
Gasoline Tax
72,412.45
Dog Licenses
3,736.52
Public Service Enterprises
110,240.30
Licenses and Permits
16,000.00
Fines and Forfeits
200.00
Grants and Gifts
15,000.00
Moth Taxes
700.00
Motor Vehicle Excise
70,000.00
General Government
100.00
Inspection
350.00
Health and Sanitation
2,400.00
Highways
100.00
Welfare
30,000.00
Old Age Assistance
90,000.00
Soldiers' Benefits
100.00
Schools
8,500.00
Libraries
850.00
Unclassified
500.00
Alewife Fishery
200.00
Interest
6,000.00
Overestimates of the year 1941
3,968.00
Available Funds
92,000.00
$693,537.82
Summary - 1942 Accounts
Appropriations:
Town Meeting March 2, 1942 $1,660,754.18
To be taken from available funds 55,000.00
$1,715,754.18
State Liabilities
187,879.38
County Liabilities
64,186.03
Overlay Deficits of the years 1939 and 1941
2,701.86
Overlay of the year 1942
43,862.12
$2,014,383.57
Credits
Estimated Receipts
693,537.82
$1,320,845.75
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Table of Aggregates of the Town of Weymouth
Tax Rate for the year 1942:
Real and Personal Estate
Motor Vehicle and Trailer Excise
Valuation for the year 1942:
Real and Personal Estate Motor Vehicle and Trailer Excise
51,144,506 1,748,060
Number of Polls Assessed:
March 10, 1942
5,563
April 10, 1942
2,751
April 10, 1942
50
June 3, 1942
17
September 2, 1942
32
November 4, 1942
4
December 16, 1942
1
Total Number of Polls Assessed
8,418
Number of Motor Vehicles and Trailers Assessed:
February 16, 1942
1,152
August 15, 1942
5,725
September 1, 1942
536
November 16, 1942
367
December 31, 1942
124
Total Number of Motor Vehicles and Trailers Assessed
7,904
Number of Polls exempted by law or otherwise
1,051
Number of Persons assessed on property
10,919
Number of Horses assessed
77
Number of Cows assessed
285
Number of other Neat Cattle assessed
9
Number of Sheep assessed
37
Number of Swine assessed
9
Number of all other Live Stock assessed
619
Number of Fowl assessed
17,300
Number of Dwelling Houses assessed
7,130
Number of Acres of Land assessed
7,9881/2
Respectfully submitted,
CHARLES W. BURGESS, Chairman
HARRY E. BEARCE, Clerk
FRANK A. PRAY
FRANCIS A. GUNN
JOHN W. HEFFERNAN
Board of Assessors
$ 25.50 36.46
of the Town of Weymouth.
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REPORT OF THE BOARD OF REGISTRARS
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen
We respectfully submit the annual report of the Board of Registrars of Voters for the Year of 1942.
The Board of Registrars during the year of 1942 held 18 evening sessions and 49 daily sessions for the registrations of voters.
The total number of voters at the close of registrations as of the Special registration October 19, 1942, were as follows:
Male
Female
Total
Precinct 1
1073
1060
2133 .
Precinct 2
710
702
1412 .
Precinct 3
1094
1119
2213 . .
Precinct 4
419
406
825.
Precinct 5
519
513
1032 .
Precinct 6
935
855
1790 .
Precinct 7
479
460
939 ·
Precinct 8
483
507
990 ·
Precinct 9
671
688
1359 .
Totals
6383
6310
12693
Respectfully submitted
JOHN F. REARDON, Chairman LAWRENCE CORRIDAN EDWARD McINTOSH JULIAN R. MERCHANT, Clerk
REPORT OF THE INSPECTOR OF ANIMALS
East Weymouth, Mass.
Jan. 1, 1943
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen
Gentlemen:
Following is the report of the Inspector of Animals for the year ending Dec. 31, 1942.
Number of dogs quarantined
85
Number of pole cats quarantined 1
Number of dog bites investigated 3
Respectfully submitted, JOHN H. REIDY,
Inspector of Animals.
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REPORT OF THE WEYMOUTH VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen
Gentlemen:
The Weymouth Visiting Nurse Association has completed twenty- eight years of service to the people of the Town of Weymouth and sub- mits the following report.
The Board of Directors has held ten regular meetings with an average attendance of twelve members.
The Chairman of Nurses reports 5664 calls made by the nurses with a total number of 859 patients. Fifty-two well-baby clinics were held with 675 babies examined.
Respectfully submitted, ESTHER W. WARREN, Secretary.
REPORT OF THE MOTH SUPERINTENDENT 1
January 5, 1943
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen East Weymouth, Massachusetts
Gentlemen:
Please accept the report of the Moth Department for 1942.
The Gypsy Moth has been brought under control in Weymouth. There was practically no defoliation of our shade trees and woodlands this past year.
The Elm Leaf Beetle was kept in check. This was accomplished by giving the elm trees two sprayings.
Canker worms gave us some trouble in Weymouth Heights, East and North Weymouth, but by quick action, we were able to avert any damage to the elms and maples.
The Tent Caterpillars were a difficult pest. We sprayed the wild cherries along highways, in yards and fields and thousands of wild cherry trees and bushes were cut and burned, thus destroying millions of egg clusters which would hatch in 1943.
The fall web worm nests were cut off and burned.
There was a slight outbreak of sawflies in a few sections of the town.
A sum of $2,052.75 was appropriated for private spraying and the town was reimbursed by the sum of $2,318.75.
Respectfully submitted,
WILLIAM E. MacQUINN,
Moth Superintendent.
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REPORT OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT
Weymouth, Mass., January 9, 1943
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen
Weymouth, Massachusetts
Gentlemen:
I herewith submit the annual report of the services rendered by the Police Department for the year ending on December 31, 1942.
Causes of Arrest
Crimes against the person
32
Crimes against property
72
Crimes against public order, etc.
886
Total Arrests for the Year
990
Miscellaneous Report
Complaints investigated 1027
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