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Albert Walter Nelson
Stoneham
4 Wakefield
William Franklin Dodge
Wakefield
Lillian Anne Fisher
Wakefield
7 Wakefield
Francis Sidney Carter
Wakefield
8 Wakefield
Frank DeFazio Jr.
Wakefield
8 Wakefield
Vera Beatrice Farrell Allan Frederick Knowlton
Melrose
11 Wakefield
Marion Louise Panno
Chatham
11 Wakefield
Roy James Lefavour
North Saugus
11 Wakefield
Margaret Catherine Mackenzie Kenneth Smith
Wakefield Lynn
11 Wakefield
Albert Edward Robertson Melrose
Wakefield
15 Melrose
Grace Louise Manser
Melrose
18 Lynn
William Elgin Jones
Concord, N. H.
19 Wakefield
Virginia Murrell Smith Joseph Bonomo Angeline Mocciro
Wakefield
25 Wakefield
Daniel Norman Morrison Melrose Wakefield
26 Revere
Canio Sabino Caprio
Wakefield
Jennie Caligiuri Revere
26 Melrose
John William Derby
Wakefield
May Margaret Lucy Melrose
26 Wakefield
William Henry Frawley
Wakefield
Theresa Marie (Doucette) Turner
Wakefield
27 Wakefield
Thomas LeBlanc
Wakefield
Margaret Jessie LeBlanc
Wakefield
Oct. 2 Medford
Arthur Hamlen Boynton
Wakefield
Stella Chester Benson
Medford
6 Wakefield
James Patrick Toner
Melrose
Alice Irene Dingle
Wakefield
Mabelle Blanche Proctor
Revere
Blanche Louise Robinson
Wakefield
Wakefield
Margaret Ellen Purdy Roland M. Archibald
Wakefield
Chatham
Dorothy Cooper Pease
Wakefield
Mildred Elizabeth Whitten Harding Caldwell Achorn
Wakefield
Wakefield Wakefield
Agnes Beatrice Packard
144 .
TOWN OF WAKEFIELD
Date Place of Marriage
Name
Residence
8 Wakefield
Carroll Fay Jacobs Grace Ethel Fuller
Wakefield Middleton Wakefield
9 Melrose
Harrison Sydney King
Margery Anna Fulton Melrose Wakefield
10 Wakefield
George Cushman Page
Mary Elenora (Sibley) Vandenburg
Wakefield Wakefield
11 Medford
Norman Baker Kingston
Alta E. Louise Holmes
16 Winchester
Ernest Everett Belfånte
Florence Abbie Murphy
16 Wakefield
James Eaton Harris
Melrose
Catherine Whitten Clements
Wakefield
17 Wakefield
Frank Francis Pavelek Wakefield
Hazel Louise Frotten
Wakefield
20 Watertown
Cornelius Philip Delaney
Wakefield
23 Wakefield
Ruth Frances McCurley Joseph Leo Melonson
Watertown Charlestown Wakefield Wakefield
24 Wakefield
Jennie Mary Deveau Joseph Paul Cardillo Mary Rose Scipione
George Henry Curley
Wakefield Malden Wakefield
25 Wakefield
John Dennis Fraughton Wakefield
Mabel Catherine Malonson
Wakefield
26 Somerville
Clifton Leslie Knowles
Somerville
27 Wakefield
Orrin John Hale
Elizabeth Margaret Maloney
Wakefield
27 Wakefield
Edward James Mitchel
Malden Wakefield
30 Wakefield
Henry Bucci
Melrose Wakefield
31 Lawrence
Angelo Accolla
Wakefield
Rosaria Nocero
Lawrence
31 Everett
John Patrick McCarthy
Elizabeth Rita Evans
Wakefield Everett
Nov. 2 Wakefield
Ernest Cecil Hawkes
Wakefield
Laura Blanche Smith
Wakefield
3 Wakefield
Albert Richard Crocker Beatrice Mae Horn
Wakefield
Wakefield
10 Nashua, N. H.
Theodore Ballou Stella Paturgias
Nashua, N. H. Wakefield Medford Wakefield Winchester
24 Wakefield
Marion Ethel Brown
Dorothy Ethel Waitt
Wakefield Wakefield
Margaret Eleanor Ferrick
Marie Mildred Rose
RECORD OF MARRIAGES
145
Date Place of Marriage
Name
Residence
6. Everett
Perley Roger Osgood
Wakefield
Lura Atkins Vreeland
Wakefield
10 Reading
Malcolm Carter Eaton
Wakefield
11 Wakefield
Roy Windt
Lillian Mary Meuse
Wakefield
14 Melrose
Chester Linwood Frotten
Wakefield
Christine Josephine King
Melrose
14 Boston
Vincenzo Lamarca
Wakefield
Sebastiana Puleo
Wakefield
21 Wakefield
William Bruno Bergers New Haven, Conn.
Wakefield
21 Wakefield
John Joseph Moynihan
Everett Wakefield
24 Wakefield
Edward Ernest Cribby
Milton Wakefield
28 Wakefield
Edgar Muse
Wakefield
Alma Malonson
Wakefield
Dec. 3 Wakefield
Robert Powers
Melrose
Mabel Charlotte Doucette
Wakefield
Frank Alfred Butler
Wakefield
Mary Magdeline January
West Lynn Swampscott Wakefield
16 Wakefield Edwin W. Blake
Boston
Lillian G. Macleod
Boston
22 Somerville
Wilfred Douglas Baxter
Providence
Vera Grassie Archibald
Wakefield
23 Wakefield Frank Alfred Saulnier
Cambridge
Mary Mabel Meuse
Wakefield
25 Stoneham
Wakefield
25 Wakefield
Herbert Harvey Long Jr.
Wakefield
Rosanna Mary Massicotte
Wakefield
26 Boston
Walter Harold Ziegler
Boston
27 Wakefield
Louisa Elizabeth Soder Gustave John Bourque Marion Mary Doucette
Wakefield
29 Everett
George Edward Bolton
Hattie (Malone) Nickerson
29 Melrose
Gordon Lee Gallagher Josephine Williams
North Troy, Vt. Wakefield Wakefield Melrose
5 Lynn
8 Brookline
Marcus Leon Sherin
Sarah Burwen
4 Joseph Fazio Helen Biggio Stoneham
Wakefield
Wakefield
Margaret Thomas
Reading Wakefield
Mary Rose Medwesky
Mary Alice Malonson
May A. Barry
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146
TOWN OF WAKEFIELD
Record of Deaths
Any errors or omissions noted in these records should be reported to the Town Clerk at once.
Date of Death
Yrs.
Mos. Days
Jan. 2 Catherine Comer
2 Stillbirth
32
7
27
11 Emma Blanche Cox
64
2
2
11 Sadie A. Thompson
77
5
28
13 Theodore H. Pease
1
8
15
14 Effie Phielena Burns
69
0
0
15 Ellen Collins
54
0
0
16 William F. Walsh
56
0
0.
17 Albert Francis Mears
78
0
19 Ellen Chamberlain
85
0
0
20 Mary Holden
79
0
0
22 Sylvester Burditt
82
6
4
24 Mehetabel Donaldeson
80
0
0
25 James H. Bancroft
78
9
13
27 Annie Butler
77
0
0
28 Edward D. Casey
40
10
26
29 Harriet W. Johnson
32
8
20
31 Thomas W. Nicholl
66
2
8
31 Robert W. Horne
55
7
13
Feb. 2 Etta Bernice Babine
3 Hilda A. Hasselgren
26
9
21
6 Cyrus L. Davis
78
5
6
10 Dessa Swanson
46
10
7
10 Mildred W. Johnson
15
0
25
16 Charles Dutton
86
7
18
17 Margaret Scarano
36
0
0
17 Filomena Cieuzo
72
1
2
17 Stillbirth
25 John L. Joyce
28
0
21
26 Lawrence J. Muse
0
4
7
27 Stillbirth
28
8
24
12
15 Walter F. Dulong
81
8 Raymond E. Lee
RECORD OF DEATHS
147
Date of Death
Yrs.
Mos. Days
Mar. 3
Angelina Zollo
1
3
0
4 James T. Farrington
0
11
17
6 Frederick Miner Taylor
57
3
22
8 Sarah Elizabeth Denton
66
9
11
8 John J. Foley Jr.
2
8
0
8 Ellen Louise Boyers
74
10
25
9
Arthur E. Parks
72
6
2
10
Harry Irving Thayer
56
5
22
13 Procuret
10 hrs.
16 Edward Mace
74
11
15
17 Frances Hubbard
78
0
0
17 Uretta E. McAllister
99
0
4
19 Doucette
3 hrs.
19
Josiah Laybolt
82
11
13
19 Eva M. Svenson
80
5
20
20
Alice Cassidy
33
4
2
20
Albert L. Rumrill
76
7
20
20
Etta Fish Tingley
59
4
13
22
Storm
1 hour
22
Clara A. Cheney
76
8
5
22
Mary T. Gallagher
61
9
8
23
Margaret Fisher Campbell
85
0
0
24 Mary Agnes Crean
76
0
0
24
Charles William Ryder
47
9
7
25
James A. Dingle
53
7
18
27
Frank M. Crosby
70
10
0
28 Philip DeRoche
59
8
6
29 Albert Eugene Lord
73
3
28
30
Egarton Fairbanks Gibbs
29
9
30
31
George F. Hanright
56
11
0
Apr. 4 Augusta Ladd Dana
94
7
4
,
5 Gay Shaw Cochrane
27
4
2
5 George Henry Estee Fessenden
73
0
30
6 Ella Morrison Poland
79
3
0
7 Maria G. Rice
86
1
23
9 Joseph L. Doucette
21
3
2.2
10
Peter Terravecchia
72
0
0
11 Oreste Costantino
0
6
0
12 Assunta Leone
76
0
0
14 Frank Zlomanieo
59
10
0
15 Elizabeth Foley
4
8
0
15 Catherine Orsini
36
0
0
19 Lawrence A. Meuse
16
7
14
148
TOWN OF WAKEFIELD
Date of Death
Yrs.
Mos.
Days
19 Mary A. Lassell
79
0
3
21 Stanislaw Pucko
51
0
0
22 Mary Ernestine Murray
4
0
0
25 Dennis Daley
80
0
0
26 Stillbirth
48
0
0
30 Avis G. Reed
84
9
15
May 1 Valdemar O. Kalberg
59
11
3
5 Stauros Leacopulos
79
0
0
7 Margaret Lanergan
80
0
0
8 Madeline Putnam
0
0
35
8 Mary A. Mahoney
4
9
25
8 John Joseph Muse
33
7
15
12 Joseph Warren Poland
81
2
20
21 Elizabeth Muse
64
4
27
23 Gertrude Porter
1
5
19
27 Donald Stebbins
31
11
3
28 Adelaide S. Smith
75
3
13
31 Stillbirth
June 1 Walter G. Hunt
50
2
16
3 Julia Hemsworth
78
0
0
3 Guiseppe Migliore
63
0
0
4 Thomas G. Hopkins
77
0
0
5 Gerry F. Whittemore
75
7
23
7 James Landers
0
0
3
9 Alice P, Berry
25
1
27
9 Alfred M. Moore
82
3
19
10 John D'Angelo
0
8
0
11 Theresa Bickell
72
0
0
11 Margaret Anderson Stohl
75
0
0
12 Henry H. Paine
01
8
0
15 Fred Chase Lewis
71
11
16
18 Alice A. Reardon
1.2
3
9
20 Fannie Bickford Carter Johnson
66
7
20
22 Joseph C. Croghan Jr.
6
2
22 Stillbirth
23 Jefferson Jones Nichols
79
6
23
23 Blair J. Wilson
0
3
29
25 Mary E. Cuff
70
11
0
26 Mary A. Brown
80
5
6
27 Joseph M. Skulley
80
6
2
29 Annie L. Chaney
74
11
7
30 Jessie Blackwood Hill
84
2
26
1
28 Fannie White
149
RECORD OF DEATHS
Date of Death
Yrs.
Mos. Days
July 12
Philip Eager
60
0
0
15 Henry Coakley
44
10
15
15 Robert H. Davidson
74
7
2
15 Margaret T. Doyle
62
11
0
17 Ellen Daley
70
0
0
21 Rose Deraney
0
1
3
22 . Mary Frances McLaughlin
40
3
10
23 Margaret Louise Middlebrook
91
5
24
25 Dorothy A. Holt
0
11
17
26 Stillbirth
28 Eliza Jane Thornton
91
9
21
Aug. 5 H. Gertrude Lee
7 Corrine Violet Andrews
38
10
10
7 Mary Pica
0
11
13
8 Charles Crittendon
52
4
17
8
Catherine J. Cadogan
About 56
0
0
8
William Edward Oaks
73
8
13
8 Mary A. Ryan
66
11
5
9 Denis Greaney
About 85
0
0
15 Stillbirth
16 Robert Gilehand
6
2
0
17 George D. Murray
38
10
26
19 George Frederick Hufton
73
11
30
22 Mary Frances Eaton
81
1
29
24 Harry Getchell
62
4
9
Sept. 5
Nettie Melanson
21
0
13
6 Eva Clare Fuller
45
3
27
6 Luella Rand
0
2
12
11 Santo Zammitti
56
0
0
18 James Morris
About 70
5
19
25 Mary O'Toole
0
0
1
26 Patrick Hurton
60
2
7
27 Louis DeVita
54
0
0
29
Elizabeth Frances Ingram
63
4
7
Oct. 4 Thomas John Cadwalleder
58
11
28
6 Katharine Myher
52
0
0
14 Mary Julia Moulaison
24
1
6
14 Charles Wanamaker
59
11
8
16 Hannah Mary Ricker
86
0
1
14
Sylvester B. Smith
92
10
10
48
6
5
19 Jacob Coggin Hartshorne
85
1.50
TOWN OF WAKEFIELD
Date of Death
Yrs.
Mos.
Days
17 Dolly Hawkes
90
11
14
18 Emily Augusta Danforth
84
5
12
18 James Reardon
43
7
26
21 Emily Frances Tay
73
11
5
22 Frances Stoddard
90
7
1
25 Wallace Eugene Boardman
43
11
16
31 Nellie (Fay) Calahan
51
11
29
Nov. 6
Catherine Mullen
30 min. 13 hrs.
7 Lestinia A. Tilley
28
10
28
10 Stillbirth
11 John G. Clements
60
5
21
12 Elizabeth Hourihan
58
0
0
15 Muriel Creta Anderson
0
0
12
15 Bert L. Bailey
62
6
16
19 Elizabeth Muse
51
3
4
21 Matthew Donahue
52
0
0
21 Zenaide Hebert
59
0
0
22 Charles Howard Varnum
77
9
22
23 Charles William Scotland
14
11
21
24 William F. Blaikie
38
8
4
27 Mae Elizabeth Townsend
80
0
17
30 Patrick Walsh
69
0
1
Dec. 3 Louise Murphy
62
7
6
4 Alan Evans Fairbanks
5
7
1
4 Eldredge
0
0
3 hrs.
4 Ella H. Philbrick
38
4
9
9 Francis Marion Ennis
73
7
11
11 Mary A. Bodwell
7.5
0
0
18 Eugene A. Green
74
9
0
20 Mary DeLouis
17
6
5
20 Mark Muise
0
0
8
26 Beatrice DeLuca
0
0
J
7 Daniel Beyea
.
151
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH
Report of Board of Health
The annual report of the Board of Health is herewith respectfully submitted.
There were 394 cases of infectious diseases reported for the year ending December 31st, 1926, divided as follows:
Tuberculosis
17
Scarlet Fever
102
Diphtheria
21
Pneumonia
34
Measles
54
German Measles
79
Typhoid Fever
2
Chicken-Pox
36
Mumps
21
Whooping Cough
27
Influenza
1
Septic Sore Throat
2
Miss Russell made the following number of visits during the year.
Scarlet fever
244
Tuberculosis
261
Diphtheria
44
Measles
50
Mumps
10
Whopping Cough
3
Typhoid Fever
4
Chicken-Pox
10
1
There has been an epidemic of scarlet fever, during the latter part of the year, and an epidemic of mumps, chiefly among children. There has also been an increase in the number of cases of infectious diseases as compared with last year.
On account of the minor importance of mumps and chicken-pox from a public health standpoint and also on account of the failure of present quarantine regulations to prevent the spread of certain other infectious diseases, the Massachusetts Association of Boards of Health have pro-
152
TOWN OF WAKEFIELD
posed a modification of the regulations now in force. This Board has provisionally adopted these changes in its regulations, pertaining to quarantine and isolation in infectious diseases, pending their adoption by the State Department of Health. These changes have already been ad- vertised in the local newspaper.
The use of the Board of Health rooms has been granted the Visit- ing Nurse Association for its Clinic for Well Babies.
There has been considerable improvement in the appearance of the public dumping places, but the condition of certain private dumps is such as to require the immediate attention of the owners of the property. There has also been a complaint concerning the dumping of refuse upon high- ways adjoining these private dumps.
With the completion of the pumping station for the low level sewer, this Board will recommend the extension of the sewer on Vernon Street northerly as far as Salem Street and also on streets extending between Vernon and Pleasant Streets up to Salem Street. Extension of the sewer on Pitman Avenue, Madison Avenue, and Main Street in Greenwood will also be recommended. It is expected that dwellings in other parts of the town, which are located on streets already sewered, will also be connected in the near future.
A new milk inspector has been appointed who will furnish not only analyses for butter fat and total solids, but also bacterial counts and amount of sediment from samples of milk obtained from the various dealers. While the butter fat and total solids furnish an index of the food value of the milk, the bacterial count and the amount of sediment in- dicate the cleanliness of its production and its wholesomeness as a food product. The bacteriological examination of milk should also furnish to some extent an additional safeguard against epidemics of septic throat which have been known on occasion to originate with milk. The result of the milk analyses are on file at the office of the Board and are open to inspection.
The Board fhas considered the disagreeable conditions arising from the decomposition of vegetable matter in Lake Quannapowitt, but has found no remedy for the situation that does not entail a considerable out- jay extending over a series of years which the Town may not see fit to enter upon just at present. While these conditions are disagreeable and offensive, there is about this condition nothing essentially menacing to health and it must be borne until the Town takes steps to remedy the situation. A special committee appointed by the Town is now making a study of this question.
ERNEST E. TYZZER, M. D., Chairman WESLEY S. GOODWIN, Secretary CHARLES E. MONTAGUE, M. D.
153
REPORT OF INSPECTOR OF SLAUGTERING
Report of Inspector of Slaughtering
To the Board of Health : Gentlemen :
I herewith submit my report for Slaughter House Inspection for the year ending December 31, 1926.
There were 258 pigs, 25 cows, 38 calves and 3 sheep slaughtered. Three cows with T. B. were condemned and disposed of.
Respectfully submitted,
MELVIN W. BROWN, Inspector of Slaughteriny.
Report of Inspector of Plumbing
To the Board of Health :
Gentlemen :
I submit my report for the year ending December 31, 1926.
Number of permits granted
181
Number of fixtures installed
753
Bath tubs
125
Lavatories
132
Closets
192
Sinks
165
Wash tubs
139
Respectfully submitted,
DAVID TAGGART, Inspector of Plumbing
154
TOWN OF WAKEFIELD
Report of the Milk Inspector
To the Board of Health, Wakefield, Massachusetts.
Gentlemen :
I herewith present my report for 1926, covering the period from October 1, 1926 to December 31, 1926.
On December 31, 1926 there were licensed by this Bureau, sixteen dealers and producer-dealers divided as follows :
Resident Plants Pasteurizing
3
Resident Plants Raw
8
Non-resident Pasteurizing 4
Non-resident Raw
1
INSPECTION DIVISION
Dairy and Plant Inspection
46
Stores and Restaurants
65
LABORATORY DIVISION
Chemical analysis, from wagons
33
Unsatisfactory results
None
Bacteriological examination
44
Unsatisfactory
7
Investigation of complaints
3
Court actions, convictions
1
Permits revoked
1
Licenses issued
22
Collections
$11.00
Respectfully submitted,
HAROLD R. MUNRO,
Inspector of Milk.
155
REPORT OF TUBERCULOSIS DISPENSARY
Report of Tuberculosis Dispensary
To the Wakefield Board of Health:
The annual report of the Tuberculosis Dispensary is herewith re- spectfully submitted.
During the past year the Tuberculosis Dispensary has been open Tuesdays from 3:30 to 4:30 P. M. and Fridays from 8 to 9 P. M. for the examination of patients. One hundred and twenty-five examinations were made and fifty-one patients were examined. More children have attended the clinics for the past two years than previously. These children are mostly contact cases who are underweight. Seventeen new cases of tuberculosis were reported, one less than the number reported during 1925.
There were eleven cases of tuberculosis sent to the different sana- toria. Five patients were admitted to Rutland State Sanatorium, one to the Veterans' Bureau Hospital in Rutland, three to North Reading, one to Lakeville, one to Tewkesbury. Homes of these patients were visited, and instructions given to other members of the families to keep them from contracting the disease if possible. Sputum cups were given out in all cases where they were needed.
Two patients were discharged from the Rutland State Sanatorium as arrested cases, and one arrested case from North Reading. Three pa- tients died at Rutland State Sanatorium, and two patients at the Veterans' Bureau Hospital in Rutland. These were advanced cases before going to the sanatoria. There were eleven deaths from tuberculosis dur- ing the year, this includes the deaths at the sanatoria.
We have at the present time seven patients in the different institu- tions. There are two at Rutland State Sanatorium, one at Lakeville, two at North "Reading, one in Tewkesbury and one at the Veterans' Bureau Hospital in Rutland.
We are again glad to take this opportunity to express our sincere gratitude to Mrs. Boynton for her assistance and co-operation during the past year.
IRA W. RICHARDSON, M. D., Dispensory Physician NELLIE B. RUSSELL, R. N.
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156
TOWN OF WAKEFIELD
Report of Department of Public Welfare
The Poor Department respectfully submits their report for the year ending December 31, 1926.
At the Town Home during the year we have had 25 inmates, and, at the present time, have 16. Many of them have been confined to their bed and have required constant attendance.
Following the practice of the previous year, milk in large quantities, vegetables in season, and wood have been distributed as found to be necessary.
A much needed improvement in the men's bathroom has been made. The floor and walls have been tiled, and new fixtures installed.
The Board is pleased to call your attention to the efficient manner in which the Town Farm affairs are conducted by Superintendent and Ma- tron, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Brown.
More and more are our citizens co-operating with us in the effort to relieve the needy and suffering, and again we take this oportunity to ex- press our sincere thanks to those who have so generously aided in the work.
WILLIAM C. STRONG, Chairman
CHARLES H. GERRIOR
ADELAIDE W. BOYNTON, Secretary
Inventory at Town Farm
Year Ending Dec. 31, 1926.
171 Sows
@ $45.00
$7,695.00
49 Shoats
20.00
980.00
188 Pigs (small)
7.00
1,316.00
3 Boars
25.00
75.00
20 Geese
3.00
60.00
70 Ducks
2.00
140.00
192 Hens
2.50
480.00
3 Sheep
10.00
30.00
6 Horses
1,200.00
INVENTORY AT TOWN FARM
157
8 Cows, 2 Bulls, 1 Steer and 1 Calf
1,100.00
1000 Bushels Ear Corn (grown on farm)
700.00
25 Tons Hay (grown on farm)
625.00
90 Cords Manure
540.00
1 Carload Bedding
250.00
Grain
105.00
1 Ton Lime
14.00
1 Bone Crusher
65.00
1 Grindstone
47.00
2 Double Wagons
150.00
1 Farm Wagon
75.00
1 One-Horse Cart
60.00
1 Two-Horse Cart
75.00
1 Single Cart
60.00
4 Sleds
200.00
Garbage Wagons
800.00
Shafting, Emery Wheel, Motor and Belting
225.00
Mowing Machines
100.00
Sulky Plow
75.00
Plows, Tedder and Farm Tools
3150.00
Contents of Harness Room
650.00
2 Ford Trucks
1,000.00
13 Rolls of Hog Wire
56.00
170 Gallons Gasoline
32.50
1 Meat Grinder
60.00
1 Electric Bread Mixer
300.00
1 Electric Refrigerator
3,200.00
30 Tons Furnace Coal
13.85
12 Tons Stove Coal
13 50
577.50
Household Supplies
1,650.00
household Furnishings
3,000.00
Wood, Milk and Vegetables Delivered to Needy Families
1,100.00
Town Receipts From Farm
12,568.75
Raised and used at farm:
5840 qts. Milk at .10
584.00
120 dz. eggs at .50
60.00
Dressed Poultry
144.00
Pork, 4 hogs at $40
160.00
2600 1bs. Beef at .20
520.00
Vegetables
550.00
3 Muttons
30.00
3 Veals
50.00
2,098.00
$15,766.75
$28,118.00
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TOWN OF WAKEFIELD
Report of the Committee for Building An Addition to the Franklin School
The Committee as appointed consisted of Willard B. Atwell, Albert K. Comins, William T. Curley, J. Lowe McMahon, Milton P. McLoughlin, Charles E. Montague, Winfield S. Ripley, Willis C. Robbins, and William C. Strong. Mr. Ripley and Mr. McLoughlin declined to serve. Mr. Comins later removed from town.
The Committee organized by appointing Dr. Charles E. Montague Chairman and Superintendent of Schools Willard B. Atwell, Secretary. Frank Irving Cooper was invited to study the proposition and at a later date the Frank Irving Cooper Corporation was elected architect.
Contractors were invited to submit bids for the building complete with separate items for the heating and ventilating, for plumbing, and for electric wiring.
John W. Duff, Inc., was the lowest bidder on the building itself, and after conference he agreed to assume the entire contract, taking without profit the lowest submitted bids on heating and ventilating, plumbing, and electric wiring. The Committee bought the plumbing fixtures, hardware, and electric fixtures direct. .
The Committee have erected an addition to the old building, consist- ing of eight school rooms, an auditorium on the ground floor seating 800, Enlarged teachers' room and principal's office, emergency rooms, entirely new plumbing throughout the building, a new heating and ventilating plant for the entire building, and have furnished it complete. Granolithic walks about the building have also been constructed. The old building has been repainted inside and out.'
The original appropriation of $145,000 was increased $14,000 at the request of residents of the district for the purpose of removing the roof to the old building and improving the general appearance. The improved appearance has justified the expenditure.
The money was expended as follows:
Building including heating and ventilating, plumbing and electric wiring
Architect
$133,919.68 7,955.37
REPORT ON ADDITION TO FRANKLIN SCHOOL
159
Inspector Employed by Town
1,000.00
Plumbing Fixtures
1,988.20
Hardware
1,825.00
Electric Fixtures
541.00
Insurance
307.06
Fire Alarm
110.54
Electric Clocks
686.00
Curtains
563.70
Sewer Connection
216.88
Moving Old Portable Building
175.00
Furniture
7,758.51
Walks and Grading
1.836.42
Miscellaneous
115.35
Balance
1.29
$159,000.00
CHARLES E. MONTAGUE, Chairman WILLARD B. ATWELL, Secretary WILLIAM C. STRONG
WILLIS C. ROBBINS
J. LOWE McMAHON
WILLIAM T. CURLEY
160
TOWN OF WAKEFIELD
Report of Recreation Commission
To the Citizens of the Town of Wakefield:
The Recreation Commission has finished its third year as an official Board of the Town.
We had an appropriation this year of $1,500, which' has been used wholly on supervised summer playgrounds. This is the first year that we have had an appropriation by the town, the money being raised wholly by voluntary subscriptions the two previous years. Owing to this appro- priation, the commission was able to extend the scope of its work con- siderably. If this work is going to be carried on successfully, the im- portance of an adequate appropriation cannot be stressed too strongly. .
Most all of the work this summer was concentrated on the park. The season started Wednesday, July 6th, and closed Saturday, August 28th. There was an average daily attendance of 376 boys and girls. The at- tendance record for the summer for boys'was 6,740 and for girls 8,496, or a total of 15,236, making the average cost on this basis less than ten cents per child. In addition to the usual playground activities 145 special classes were held in artcraft. The weather was particularly bad, there being at least two whole weeks of rain. We had the use of the dance hall at the Lakeside on such days and also the use of the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium. At the boat house we had the use of all the boats needed for teaching rowing.
Mr. Norman H. Mac Connell of Wakefield was director this summer. He was assisted by Miss Elizabeth Mclaughlin and Miss Myra Keebler, both of Cambridge; Miss Catherine Sullivan and Mr. Fred Grant of Wakefield.
It is the hope of the Commission that they will be able to furnish recreation throughout the year, both for adults and children. We believe playgrounds in the five sections of the town equipped for both winter and summer sports would meet a real need not only in providing a safe place for children to play, but also in contributing to the health and happiness of the whole community.
LAURENCE W. CHURCHILL, Chairman.
161
REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Report of School Committee
ORGANIZATION OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE
School Committee for 1926-27
John B. Sawyer, Chairman, Summit Avenue
Term Expires 1929
Mrs. Ida Farr Miller, Secretary, 30 Lawrence Street, Chelsea
Term Expires 1927
Harry B. Allman, Treasurer, Greenwood Avenue
Term Expires 1927
Mrs. Eva Gowing Ripley, Emerson Street
Term Expires 1928
Leo A. Rogers, Stedman Street
Term Expires 1929
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