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7
Acute Myocarditis ..
Mch. 17
Eva H. Merritt.
72
7
21
Diabetes Mellitus.
Mch. 18
Eunice May Hollis.
Status Lymphaticus.
Mclı. 20
Freeman H. Gannett
86
9
26
Bronchitis. .
Apr. 5
Edward J. Dunn
68
5
6
Heart Disease, Diabetes
Apr. 12
Carolyn Mitchell
10
1
11
Acute Endocarditis.
Apr. 15
Josephine Fouini .
7
Apr. 15
Louise Levangie.
3
6
64
11
10
Nephritis, Cerebral, Embolus
May 17
George Hunt Carver
77
8
3
Cerebral Hemorrhage.
May 23
Charles William MacNayr
56
9
10
Carcinoma of Liver and Intestines
May 29
Thomas Casey .
75
9
13
Hypostatic Pneumonia.
May 30
Harrict E. Clark.
79
11
22
Cirrhosis of Liver ..
June 2
Harriet E. Beal
79
10
15
Myocarditis . Electric shock, Accidental.
June 7
Daniel Edward Hill
84
8
24
Cardio Renal, Angina Pectoris.
June 30
Walter Thomas Newcomb.
72 8
6
Chronic Cystitis.
July 8
Francis D. Carlton .
75
11
8
Clironic Cardiac Disease.
July 16
Esther Squire.
89
1
1
Cerebral Apoplexy
Aug 1
- Fornini
Premature Birth
Aug. 3
Sarah W. Hall.
82
11
7
Chronic Interstitial Nephritis
Aug. 13
Adelaide Victoria Fraser.
74 9
20
Chronic Cardiac Disease .
Aug. 15
Amelia Lewis Merritt. 10 18
Carcimona, Intestinal involving Pancreas. . 69
William Hendry and Sarah W. Goss James Murray and Helen Boland John Marsh and Lucy D. Studley
163
Report of Town Clerk - Deaths
Hatch Carver and Rozanna Sylvester Benjamin MacNayr and Louise Derling Cannot be learned
James Smith and Eliza Eaton
June 3
Robert P. Corthell.
1
10
41 77
4
Nephrolithiasis, with associated Nephritis .. Myocarditis. .
June 9
June 16
Timothy Duane.
74
3 Marasmus. 3 Pistol Wound in Head.
Apr. 15
Madelene Levangie.
0 29
Pistol Wound, Suicidal. 9
Apr. 25
Charles G. Everett.
William G. Hammond and Mabel H. Barrett Joseph Merritt and Hannah H. Merritt Wilson T. Hollis and Edith B. Andrews Freeman Gannett and Elvira Bailey Patrick Dunn and Mary Welch George F. Mitchell and Lucy D. Marsh Armando Fonini and Cleslia Caprara Richard A. Levangie and Madeline Arnold John P. Arnold and Louise M. Davis Benjamin H. Everett and Rebecca C. Lawrence
Jan.
31
Catherine Mckinley.
75
Peter G. Wesley and Unknown Thomas Flynn and Mary Buckley Daniel Noonan and Mary Quinn John McKinley and Catherine McIntire Wilbur A. Carter and Marthia M. Lincoln
Thomas Flynn ..
82
Broncho-Pneumonia, Heart Disease.
Darius Harrub and Wilhemina Shultz John Gabbett and Mary Cristie Carl Johnson and Inga Olson
Influenzal Pneumonia.
James P. Murphy and Elizabeth Moore
Joseph Bailey and Mary L. Sanborn Gustavus Corthell and Annie Whalon Francis Cobb Snow and Sarah J. Balck
Anna A. Snow.
.
Daniel E. Hill and Lydia Litchfield James Duane and Mary McDonald Silas Newcomb and Susan Rafferty Frank Carlton and Sarah Brewster Mathew Dreyson and - Winter Armando Fornini and Cleslia Caprara
1
Frank T. Whittaker and Emily Merritt
DEATHS REGISTERED IN SCITUATE IN THE YEAR 1929-Continued
Date
Name of Deceased
Age Y. M. D.
Cause of Death
Names of Parents
Aug. 26
Loring
2
Hemorrhage of Brain .
Aug. 30 Sept. 2
Alice J. Lamonica
26
10
20
Injury to Brain and Multiple Injuries, Automobile Accident
Sept. 4
John Howard Crocker
82
6
15
Sept. 5
Jeremiah J. Delany
65
8
28
Sept. 15
Stillborn, Female.
35
1
Puerperal Septieemia
Sept. 26
Katherine McDonald .
38
-
.
Sept. 27
Paul R. Kelly .
3
12
Sept. 28
Arthur Cole Gardner
79
8
16
Oet. 14
Edwin Elliott Turner
55
11
13
Nov. 1
Sarah Adelaide Litehfield.
63
3
3
Aeute Nephritis
Nov. 13
Eliza Curran.
62
Cerebral Embolism.
Nov. 13
James O'Donnell.
76
56
Nov. 24
Martha J. Seaverns.
90
11
23
Cerebral Hemorrhage
Dee. 5
Arthur Briggs Curtis.
53
11
16
Heart Disease. .
Dee. 9
Albert M. Litchfield.
78
8
12
Broneho Pneumonia .
Dee. 10
Helen (Sullivan) Spinozola
31
2
17
Hyperstatic Pneumonia.
Edward Cummings and Margaret Flynn
Dec. 19
Susan Coleman Young
73
8
17
Careinoma of Pelvic Organs.
Ora S. Loring and Marie Calnan John Curton and Mary Mountain
Steven W. Preston and Johanna Murphey Ensign Crocker and Sylvia Foster John Delany and Julia Mahoney Edward Hincs and Mary Jane Hines
William A. Whiting and Ruth E. Rodswell
Marvis McDonald and Katherine McGaughin
James Kelley and Eva Rogerson Enoch C. Gardner and Eliza Gardner
Edwin Turner and Cordelia Stetson Nicholas Gibby and Rachel Shaw
Nov. 17
Rose Graee . .
Chronic Nephritis .
John Gibson and Margaret May James O'Donnell and Ann Frawley Seberiano Burgo and Mary Pierre Marsena Webb and Martha Lane William F. Curtis and Henrietta W. Mellaney Marshall :Litchfield and Mabel Curtis
Michael Sullivan and Mary Brecn
Dcc. 14
John Cummings ..
John H. Young and Susan M. Coleman
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Report of Town Clerk - Deaths
Chronie Myocarditis. .
Arteriosclerosis.
Scpt. 14
Annie Elizabeth Whittaker
56
Cerebral Hemorrhage
Sept. 16
Susan R. Smith.
Fracture of Skull, Thigh and Leg, Auto- mobile Accident ..
Broncho Pneumonia.
Myocarditis, Spasmodic Asthma
Chronie Interstitial Nephritis .
Cerebral Apoplexy, Arteriosclerosis
Toxiaemia of Pregnancy .
Chronie Endocarditis
Mary Dinan
67
66
BROUGHT INTO TOWN FOR INTERMENT
Date
Name of Person
Age Y. M. D.
Cause of Death
Place of Burial
Place of Death
1928
Mary Phyllis Sehicding . Edith M. Walling.
15
3 8
Acute Pulmonary Tuberculosis, . Cancer of Stomach with Metastosis of Liver
Common Cemetery . Union Cemetery .
Hanson Hingham
Aug. 29 Dec. 26 1929
Jan. 2
Luey O. Colman.
86
11
7
Chronic Interstitial.
Jan.
4
Catherine M. Southwick.
58
10
24
Careinoma of Bladder.
Jan.
5
Willis Rogers.
66
4
6
Broncho Pneumonia.
Jan.
6
James P. Sullivan
14
10 6
Broncho Pneumonia, Influenza
Catholic Cemetery .
Jan.
9
John E. Leslic.
Union Cemetery .
Jan.
15
Davis C. Witherell
84
La Grippe ..
Groveland Cemetery .
Jan.
18
Sereno T. Spear. .
78 8
11
Lobar Pneumonia.
Jan.
28
William B. Eaton .
58
Feb. 1
Jane A. Wherity .
71
10
Cerebral Hemorrhage.
Syracuse, N. Y.
Feb. 4
Malina C. Pratt.
82
6
8
Chronic Myocarditis
Union Cemetery . .
Cohasset
Fcb. 12
Mary Ignacia Antonie
81
10
6
Cerebral Hemorrhage, Influenza
Norwell
Feb. 23
Emma E. Roberts.
83 3
13
Valvular Disease of Heart.
Groveland Cemetery .
Boston Stoughton
Meh. 13
Alfred W. Cook.
78
8
2
Endocarditis ..
Union Cemetery .
Meh. 18
Thomas Frank Kane
62
11
15
Margaret Curtis.
77
1
28 Cerebral Hemorrhage.
Apr. 5
George Willard Eldredge.
75
4
24
Apr. 18
Bethana Studley .
24 3
8
Chronic Myocarditis.
Fairview Cemetery
May 13
Elizabeth Vialle.
87
Cercbral Hemorrhage.
Union Cemetery ...
Boston Somerville
May 15
George L. Parker .
Broekton
May 17
Fred M. Romaine .
65
9 14
Catholic Cemetery .
Quiney Quiney
June 28
Bertha.
13
-
Union Cemetery. .
Hingham
July 1
Elizabeth Robbins.
74
24
Cerebral Hemorrhage
Fairview Cemetery .
Aug
13
Alfred Pepper . .
32
5
Epilepsy .
Seituate Cemetery . .
Cambridge
Aug. 30
Abby G. Vinal. John B. Turner
76
11
15
Broncho Pneumonia.
Groveland Cemetery .
Malden
Sept. 28
Boston
Oet.
2
Joseph H. Harvey
73
3
12
Natural Causes, No Violence
Groveland Cemetery . Union Cemetery . .
Hull
Oct. 21
Margaret H. Richardson
46
10
23 Pernicious Anaemia.
Catholic Cemetery
Marslıfield
Nov. 17 Sophia Frohn.
70
7
16 Careinoma of Intestines.
Conn.
Nov. 24 Alice M. Totman .
76 4
23
Myocarditis. .
Groveland Cemetery .
Boston
Nov. 23 Joseph H. Hartley
81
-
Pneumonia .
Dec. 23
Edwin Sanford Litehfield
69
11
15
Cerebral Hemorrhage
Mt. Hope Cemetery
Weymouth
165
Report of Town Clerk - Interments
Monson Jackson, Wyoming
Aug. 15
William T. S. Curtis ..
99
7 7
Arteriosclerosis .
Union Cemetery
Kingston
Sept. 26
Carrie S. Woodfall
62
5
1
Nephritis, Myocarditis.
Fairview Cemetery.
Somerville
Cerebral Hemorrhage
Fairview Cemetery
May 29
Stillborn . Searlet Fever
Fairview Cemetery .
Everett
June 29
Frederiek G. Doten .
75 3 22 Cerebral Hemorrhage
Fairview Cemetery .
76
Nephritis . .
Fairview Cemetery
Angina Pectoris.
Union Cemetery .
May 20
Florence Dunbar
68 10 21
Chronic Myocarditis. Chronic Myocarditis .
Mann Lot Cemetery .
Boston
Mch. 16
Louise Litehfield .
30
Lobar Pneumonia (Myocarditis).
Catholie Cemetery .
Seituate
Meh. 24
Braintree
Myocarditis
Fairview Cemetery .
Syracuse, N. Y. Boston Cambridge
Groveland Cemetery . Catholic Cemetery .
Braintree Haverhill Broekton Boston
RiversideCemetery, N. Seituate Union Cemetery .
Catholic Cemetery .
Norwell Weymouth
Cancer of Gall Bladder
Catholic Cemetery .
Union Cemetery .
Feb. 23 Jennie A. Merritt.
Cohasset
Fairview Cemetery .
Salem
69 3 12
58
64
10 12
57
Cardio Renal, Arteriosclerosis.
Union Cemetery .
Scituate Center Cemetery
Myocarditis
166
Report of Town Clerk - Summary
SUMMARY, 1929
Number of births registered in Scituate
for the year 1929 64
Male. 31
Female. 33
Number of marriage licenses issued
42
Number of marriages recorded
43
Number of deaths for the year
Male. 27
Female. 32
Brought to Town for interment and re- corded . 40
Number of dogs licensed for the year 356
Male @ $2.00. 277
Female @ $5.00 77
Breeders @ $50.00 2
Amount less Town Clerk's fees paid into
the County Treasury . $967 80
Resident citizens' sporting licenses, hunting and fishing @ $2.25. 183
Non-resident @ $5.25 1
Resident trapping licenses @ $2.25. 9
Minor trapping licenses @ .75.
27
Lobster fisherman's licenses @ $5.00
47
Duplicate licenses @ .50.
5
Paid Commissioners of Fisheries and Game less Town Clerk's fee. $637 95
Transient Vendors, Town license @ $15.00 8
Paid Town Treasurer . $120 00
Male residents of the Town of Scituate between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years, subject to military duty . 561
Registered voters of the Town of Scituate, December 31, 1929
Males .
995
Females 996
HARRY E. BATES, JOSEPH A. WARD, CHESTER R. SHERMAN, JETSON WADE,
Board of Registrars of Voters.
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Report of Town Counsel
REPORT OF THE TOWN COUNSEL
I will briefly call to the attention of the citizens of the Town a list of the principal matters in which I have rendered services during the past year. I cannot take the space to go into detail to show the complications involved, which have necessitated much painstaking to avoid litigation and help the Town officials in their successful management of affairs.
The list is as follows:
Scituate. Harbor Pier Permit and Dredging.
Humarock Water Legislation.
Dreamwold Inn in re license.
Settlement Cases: Advice, correspondence and court action. Investigation of purposes and restrictions on certain Town welfare funds and instituting of will book or file.
Town Warrant and Annual Meeting: Memorandum to chairman of board in re aid cases, reimbursement, etc. Report to chairman of Advisory Committee on various articles. Law research, correspondence, and conferences with Chairman and other members of Board of Selectmen, Messrs. Fenton and Waddell (Division of Accounts), As- sistant Attorney-General Simoneau, Town Moderator, and others, in re articles, appropriations and statutes. Corre- spondence and conferences in re: Layouts and Assessments. Nuisance complaints. Tort claims for personal injuries upon public ways.
Examination and Advice in re: Elm Park and approach- ing highways. Petitions for gasoline storage license. Ex- amination of Advisory Board powers and by-laws relative to subject. Releases from Edward J. Ball on harbor prop- erty for dredging. Board of Health powers as to garbage contracts. Peddlers' licenses.
Conferences and consideration of School Building Com- mittee matters.
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Correspondence in re obstructions on Jericho Road.
Memoranda of Law in re: Fences. Police. Building Committee. Barking dogs. Sealers and weighers. Stray fowl, etc.
Peggoty Beach controversies: O'Brien et al v. Inhabi- tants of Town and Park Commissioners in Massachusetts Supreme Court mandamus proceedings. Securing of park- ing space for Scituate residents. Dealings with Second Cliff Association, S. L. Bailen as attorney, and John L. Rothery in re Peggoty Beach taking and deed. Securing of proper entry upon records at Plymouth.
Preparation of deeds of land in street layouts.
Advice and conferences in re Taxes.
Advice and conferences with federal and state officials and Board of Health on law in regard to removal of garbage, dogs, etc.
Board of Selectmen: Advice and conferences: Scituate Water Tower (closing of matter). Contracts. Sunday sports and use of field at Scituate Centre. Street signals. Gas company conduct, etc.
Fence Viewers (Charles Turner).
Special Town Meeting: Details in re school articles. Zoning by-laws. Planning Board by-laws. Conferences and memorandum for Town Moderator in re articles and powers as presiding officer. Conference with Town Clerk et al in re publication and filing. Miscellaneous conferences and ad- vice. Layouts, articles, betterment assessments, etc. Peti- tions of voters for layouts.
Court Cases : Henry T. Cole litigation, pending. Sargent land court petition, settled. Henneberry v. Town, drainage damage case, pending. Maguire v. Town, drainage damage case, pending. Adams v. Town, Bill in Equity, referred to Master and settled.
Leslie v. Town, taxes, inactive.
Advice and conferences with Planning Board regarding Old Town Landing. Miscellaneous matters.
The case of Henry T. Cole v. the Inhabitants of the Town based upon services in connection with the new Town
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Way contract and the vote of the Town to pay him eight thousand dollars is the most important pending matter.
The Peggoty Beach controversy should not arise again, generous citizens of the Second Cliff, through their Associa- tion, having helped solve the problem by providing adequate parking space for Scituate people. The usual entry of the taking made in 1925 has been recently secured at the Land Court Registry of Deeds in Plymouth. Upon investigation of the details of the procedure followed in making the taking, I have found that the Board of Park Commissioners, follow- ing the vote of the Town on November 28, 1925, to make the necessary appropriation, did actually adopt the layout which they had proposed for adoption on November 4 and then filed the order of taking in the manner prescribed by law. The refusal last summer of the owner from whom the land was taken by eminent domain to give a deed without certain restrictions and a suggestion of the right to repossess led to the careful consideration of the question of legality of the taking at the time of the mandamus proceedings brought by abutters to enjoin parking. The receipt of fifteen thousand dollars plus certain costs and interest by the former owner and a judgment satisfied in the court action wherein the owner's damages were fixed by law in the amount received make it seem probable that there will be no further contro- versy with the former owner.
The two matters to which I have specially referred above illustrate the need of great care in the handling of the details of civic developments and undertakings. Conflicting inter- ests of parties affected by municipal activities necessarily cause some disputes, and our aim must be the avoidance of all such disputes as possible by foresight and due regard for legal rights.
I thank the Town officials and citizens for their con- stant cooperation which has made my second year of service a pleasure.
Respectfully submitted,
VERNON W. MARR, Town Counsel.
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List of Jurors for 1929
LIST OF JURORS FOR 1929
PREPARED AS PROVIDED IN CHAPTER 348, ACTS OF 1907
Ainslie, Elwood F., Old Oaken Bucket Road, Clerk Bates, Aaron, Summer Street, Farmer
Bates, Harry E., Clapp Road, Painter Bates, Burleigh E., Mordecai Lincoln Road, Painter Bergengren, Ralph W., First Parish Road, Writer Blanchard, Archie M., Glades Road, Hotel Proprietor Bonney, Allerton L., off Country Way, Mason Cole, Alfred B., Brook Street, Carpenter Crowley, Jerome F., Jr., Common Street, Banker
Duffy, George W., Front Street, Restaurant Keeper Dunbar, Seth A., Studley Royal, Painter Dwyer, George F., off Willow Street, Fisherman Franzen, Frederick C., Booth Hill Road, Retired Freeman, Don. W., Stockbridge Road, Salesman Hernan, Thomas F., Roslin Road, Laborer Hyland, Ellery B., Cedar Street, Farmer Litchfield, Fred L., Clapp Road, Painter
Litchfield, Joseph H., Central Street, Laborer Littlefield, Albert L., Gannett Road, Teaming McCarthy, Jere, Willow Street, Fisherman Merritt, Roy C., Clapp Road, Farmer Mitchell, George F., Clapp Road, Trucking Murphy, Joseph N., Cherry Lane, Clerk Murray, Woodworth N., Old Oaken Bucket Road, Salesman Nason, Frank L., Michael Avenue, Sales Executive Otis, George H., Elm Street, Marketman Peters, Horace H., Grove Street, Painter Rothery, John L., First Cliff, Insurance Sharp, Franklin T., Booth Hill Road, Clerk Spear, Chester F., Lighthouse Road, Carpenter Stearns, Robert T., Old Oaken Bucket Road, Physician
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List of Jurors for 1929
Stenbeck, Harry T., Otis Street, Merchant Sylvester, Harold G., Booth Hill Road, Salesman Tobin, Henry P., Crescent Avenue, Fisherman Totman, Aubrey W., Driftway, Carpenter Turner, James W., Captain Pierce Road, Contractor Turner, Thomas S., Turner Avenue, Fisherman Wagner, Charles M., Country Way, Farmer Welch, James W., First Parish Road, Fisherman Wilder, Herbert E., Country Way, Garage Proprietor Young, Howard H., Common Street, Contractor Young, John R., First Parish Road, Mechanic
ARTHUR H. DAMON, WILLIAM W. WADE, W. IRVING LINCOLN, Selectmen of Scituate.
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Report of Chief of Police
REPORT OF CHIEF OF POLICE
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen:
I herewith submit the report of the Police Department for the year ending December 31, 1929.
5
Arrests for other departments .
1
Neglect of family .
6
Drunk.
13
Keeping and exposing intoxicating liquor for sale ..
4
Illegal sale of intoxicating liquor .
2
Manufacturing of intoxicating liquor .
1
Operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor
4
Disturbing the peace
8
Indecent exposure.
1
Larceny
3
Obstructing railroad tracks with intent to wreck train .
2
Motor violations.
50
Automobiles transferred on record.
104
Pistol permits issued other than to officials. 37
Pistol permits issued to officials.
18
Automobile accidents investigated .
22
Persons injured (minor)
21
Deaths (pedestrian) .
1
Complaints investigated .
538
Papers served for other departments .
93
Automobiles reported stolen .
1
Automobiles recovered and returned to owners . .
1
Automobiles recovered and returned to other de- partments . 1
Stray dogs disposed of 48
Automobile licenses to operate suspended . 21
Assault and battery .
4
Committed to insane hospital .
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Automobile registrations revoked . 5
Doors found unlocked in business district. 41
Vacant houses inspected . 1,400
Total fines imposed . $2,450
Sentenced to the House of Correction. 1
Sentenced to the House of Correction and suspended 6
Fires covered . 31
RECOMMENDATIONS AND REMARKS
I respectfully recommend that an article be placed in the warrant calling for the appropriation of five hundred dollars for the purpose of erecting a two-car garage for the housing of police property. It is also recommended that uni- form traffic signals of metal be purchased and permanently placed to replace the wooden ones now in use, which have be- come very unsightly and unsatisfactory. There should be an exit to the New Town Way (known as the Parking Space) at Scituate Harbor, so as to help relieve congestion on Front Street, which is quite a serious problem and will be more so in the future.
The "Stop and Go" traffic signals at Gannett and Hatherly Road and Jericho and Willow Street have worked as near one hundred per cent as is possible. Not one accident has occurred at either place since they were installed; pre- vious to their installation there had been many serious acci- dents at both corners.
It is my opinion that more of these traffic signals could be used to good advantage. The cost of operation of these signals is twenty-six cents for twenty-four hours per block; a total cost at the four corners of one dollar and four cents for each twenty-four hours, which is about four and one-half cents per hour day and night; this amount includes furnish- ing, installing and maintenance.
.
POLICE PROTECTION
I am on duty or on call day and night, and we have one patrolman on duty days; at night there are five patrolmen, one located at Scituate Harbor, one at North Scituate, and
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Report of Police Department
one at the Police Station. Two patrolmen are on what is known as a roving patrol, covering the entire Town and not stationed in any particular place; this patrol is on from ten p. m. to five a. m. These men report to the station from the police boxes located in various parts of the Town and their reports are recorded by the patrolman on duty at the station. This patrol covers over one hundred miles per day. Since the police signal system was installed and put into operation on May 25, 1929, there has been recorded at the station 22,843 reports from the various patrolmen and 104 emergency calls put out to boxes by the officer at the station.
For many years past the Town has been troubled with many of the summer homes being entered and ransacked; since the system of inspecting and marking the vacant houses and having the day and night patrol on duty this trouble has been nearly eliminated. During the fall of 1928 and the winter of 1929 only six were reported to the department and nothing of value taken; up to January 1 this year, all houses have been inspected and no breaks found. Telephone calls and letters received from the property owners commending the department for their interest is proof that the Police Department is advancing in the right direction.
Each year brings calls for increased police protection, especially in the regulation of traffic and in investigations. Considering that we have more than one hundred and twenty miles of road and fourteen miles of shore line to be patrolled, on which there are over fourteen hundred unoccupied houses for nine months of the year, and with a limited number of men for detail, the officers of the Police Department have achieved excellent results which deserve commendation from the citizens and from their superiors.
I take this occasion to publicly commend them for their loyalty and devotion to their duty. Your Honorable Board has cooperated in every way possible to strengthen the Police Department and to give the Town better police pro- tection.
Respectfully submitted,
CHARLES M. LITCHFIELD,
Chief of Police.
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Report of Fire Department
REPORT OF SCITUATE FIRE DEPARTMENT
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen:
The year 1929 has passed with a very small fire loss for the Town. On April 28 two houses were destroyed at Huma- rock, one of which could undoubtedly have been saved had apparatus been able to reach the scene of the fire, another at Surfside, that of Mr. Frank H. Torrey which was well under way before notification was received by the department; con- sequently a great amount of effort had to be directed on the adjoining property which resulted in the extinguishment of the fire at this point. The response and good work of both the permanent and call men, with the help of the Coast Guard, at this fire should not pass unnoticed. Numerous calls of minor importance have been taken care of by the perma- nent force on still alarms which we believe is economy.
A permanent man has been added to the department. This strengthens the fire-fighting force at the Minot Station one hundred percent, and with a call man sleeping there nights we feel safe in saying the fire protection to these property owners has been greatly increased. Station 3 also has a call man staying there nights, whose value has been demon- strated on several occasions.
Three companies of the department have engaged in a competitive hose-coupling contest at the Center near the Town Hall, for all the grounds for this branch of the work were unsuitable. Much interest and enthusiasm were shown, together with the acquisition of speed and knowledge.
Your Engineers hereby respectfully submit the following recommendations for the year 1930: the purchase of a new Ford fire truck for Hose 5, Scituate Center; more protection for the Humarock residents; the installation of twenty-one hydrants for the West End, this we consider necessary at this time; extensions of the fire alarm line at Minot; a satis-
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Report of Fire Department
factory drill field for both permanent and call men; zoning and building laws; the numbering of all the streets; and in the near future the erection of a Central Fire Station on town property, with a ladder truck operating from this point as advised by the New England Insurance Exchange.
ARCHIE W. TORREY, Chief JAMES FINNIE, JOHN S. FITTS, ALBERT F. TURNER, PHILIP L. SCHUYLER,
Engineers.
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Report of Forest Warden
REPORT OF THE FOREST WARDEN
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen:
During the year 1929 the Forest Fire Department has responded to seventy alarms, with only a slight loss in the wooded areas, ninety percent of these being grass or growth on waste land. There is no record of any of these fires being started intentionally. Those who have had permits to burn rubbish, etc., have used good judgment.
The forest fire truck has been placed on a new Ford chassis, a seventy-gallon pump added with extra equipment of pump cans, etc., all of which make a better appearing and much more effective piece of apparatus for extinguishing forest fires. I feel that the appropriation for 1930 should be slightly increased to cover the extra cost of burning for individuals and eliminating roadside hazards.
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