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Thomas E. Murphy, electrical work at Verge Bldg.
21.00
Charles M. Glynn, janitor at Verge Bldg.
13.33
William Mitchell, engineer service
103.92
George C. Weeks, engineer service
190.57
Jeremiah Cullinane, operating tractor
45.13
REPORT OF TOWN W.P.A. AGENT
115
Daniel Gillis, operating roller
$133.50
George Brosseau, operating roller
114.81
John Doucette, driving truck
1.50
Albert Giles, driving truck
14.00
Louis DeCecca, spreading gravel
4.75
Chester C. Deering, labor at Moulton Playground
4.75
Ralph Kelloway, tree work
5.25
David McLeod, repairing equipment
28.19
Joseph Fredette, watchman at bridge
14.00
PAID FOR TRUCKING AND EQUIPMENT RENTALS
Charles Doyle Sr., trucks and equipment
$4,094.13
Charles Doyle, Jr., truck rental
911.50
George Bennedetto, truck rental
71.81
Guiseppe Gentilucci, truck rental
544.91
True D. Canney, truck rental
34.50
Louis Capone, truck rental
811.92
Stanley Robbins, truck rental
18.00
Percy Mc Whinnie, truck rental
985.71
Lorenzo Pizzano, truck rental
939.93
John Burbine, truck rental
561.77
Joe Cardillo, truck rental
440.30
Tony Ross, truck rental
300.76
Wm. T. Curley Jr., truck rental
169.88
Sam Bennedetto, truck rentals
160.13
Wm. T. Curley, Sr., truck rentals
27.00
Harold Butler, truck rentals
61.26
Aaron A. Butler, steam shovel rental
793.89
William Doherty, roller rental
198.75
TOTAL FOR TRUCKING AND EQUIPMENT RENTALS $11,126.15
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TOWN OF WAKEFIELD
Report of Sealer of Weights and Measures
Wakefield, Mass., January 5, 1939.
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen :
Gentlemen :
I respectfully submit the following report for the year 1938.
Adjusted
Sealed Condemned
Platform over 5,000 lbs.
7
Platform under 5,000 lbs.
1
42
Counter over 100 lbs.
8
Counter under 100 lbs.
5
40
Spring over 100 lbs.
1
4
Spring under 100 lbs.
9
75
4
Computing over 100 lbs
18
77
Personal weighing
12
Avoirdupois
363
Apothecary
79
Metric
77
Liquid
1
Meters 1 inch inlet
8
97
22
Meters over 1 inch inlet
23
38
6
Gasolene pumps
17
117
32
Oil pumps
5
1
Quantity measure on pump
35
Yard sticks
30
Cloth measuring devices
2
19180 gallon pump through testing machine.
Fees collected $208.35.
Respectfully submitted,
JAMES J. DEVLIN,
Sealer.
2
Computing under 100 lbs.
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REPORT OF ASSESSORS
Report of the Board of Assessors
January 11, 1939.
To the Citizens of Wakefield:
We herewith submit the Annual Report of the Assessors' Department for the year ending December 31, 1938.
State Tax
$26,800.00
Charles River Basin (Loan Fund) 2,195.02
Metropolitan Parks Loan S. Fund
10,685.79
Metropolitan Planning Division
144.65
Metropolitan Parks Loan Fund Ser. 2
975.55
Metropolitan Parks Loan Fund (Nantasket Maintenance) 620.52
Wellington Bridge Maintenance
20.90
Metropolitan Sewerage Loan S. Fund
14,689.45
Abatement of Smoke Nuisance
225.35
Auditing Municipal Accounts
90.00
Hospital or Home care to Civil War Veterans
240.00
Land Takings, Revere Highway
110.63
Total State and Metropolitan Charges County Tax
$56,797.86
33,909.38
State, Metropolitan and County Charges
$90,707.24
Under-estimated Charges in 1937:
County Tax
$378.60
State Tax
2,437.50
Metropolitan Parks Loan S. Fund
321.64
Land Takings, Revere Highway
74.50
Ways in Malden, Braintree and Hingham
. 04
West Roxbury and Brookline Parkway
107.11
Total Under-estimated Charges for 1937 to enter into the 1938 Tax Levy
$3,319.39
Total State, Metropolitan and County Charges Total Charges to enter into Levy for
$94,026.63
State, Metropolitan, County and Town: Charges for Town Purposes
$1,029,428.08
Estimated State and Metropolitan Charges
56,797.86
Under-estimated State and Metropolitan Charges in 1937
2,940.79
County Charges
33,909.38
Under-estimated County Charges in 1938
378.60
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TOWN OF WAKEFIELD
Transferred from Overlay Surplus to Reserve Overlay for 1938
$12,000.00 22,397.04
Total Gross Levy
$1,157,851.75
Estimated Receipts
$293,355.87
Free Cash
40,000.00
Transfer from Overlay Surplus to Reserve
12,000.00
Transfer from Light Department to Treasury
26,356.38
4916 Polls at $2.00 each
9,832.00
Total Receipts
$381,544.25
Net Levy
$776,307.50
Rate of Taxation, $37.40 per $1,000.
TOWN VALUATIONS
Buildings
Land
Personal
$15,916,990.00 3,899,005.00 940,890.00
Total Valuations
$20,756,885.00
Loss in Valuations 1938
31,860.00
Valuation of December Assessment
1,150.00
Bonded Debt of Town January 1, 1938
571,000.00
Payments made in 1938
118,000.00
Balance of Bonded Debt
$453,000.00
New Bonds issued
28,000.00
Bonded Debt of Town January 1, 1939
$481,000.00
Assets of Town including Land and Buildings, Municipal Light Plant, Water Works, Sewer and Tangible Proper- ty Less Bonded Debt
$4,831,784.00
481,000.00
Assets above Liabilities
$4,350,784.00
PROPERTY EXEMPT FROM TAXATION
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Land and Buildings
$140,500.00
United States of America, Land and Buildings 88,450.00
Literary Institutions
183,300.00
Benevolent Institutions
23,350.00
Organizations of Veterans
6,700.00
Houses of Religious Worship
587,900.00
Cemeteries, Land and Buildings
69,200.00
Total
$1,099,400.00
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REPORT OF BOARD OF ASSESSORS
Number of Polls assessed (a gain of 38 since date of Tax Levy)
4,954
Number of Motor Vehicles assessed
4,364
Valuations of Motor Vehicles
$1,035,768.12
Excise Tax Committed in 1938
$30,019.18
Number of Dwelling Houses assessed
3,435
Number of Persons, Partnerships and Corporations assessed
4,782
Value of Assessed Stock in trade
$199,250.00
Value of Real Estate assessed
$19,815,995.00
Value of Machinery Assessed
$180,425.00
Value of Live Stock assessed
$20,320.00
Value of all other Ratables assessed
$540,895.00
Number of Horses assessed
25
Number of Cows assessed
140
Number of Goats assessed
18
Number of Swine assessed
60
Number of Fowl assessed
9,070
Number of Acres of Land in Town
4,000
Number of Acres, Lake Quannapowitt
247.94
Number of Acres, Crystal Lake
82.86
Number of Acres, Town Common
2.5
Number of Acres, Park at Lakeside
6.75
Number of Acres, Hart's Hill Park
23,06
Number of Acres, Cemetery on Church Street
4.14
Number of Acres, Cemetery on Lowell Street
35.00
Area of Town Rockery
4,300 Sq. Ft.
Respectfully submitted by Wakefield Assessors,
HUGH CONNELL, Chairman, GEORGE E. BLAIR, ARTHUR C. VERGE, Secretary.
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Report of Board of Health
To the Voters and Citizens of Wakefield:
While the Board of Health has for a period of twenty-five years or more made annual reports to the town, the present Board feel that it might be desirable for the information of the townspeople to give a brief outline of the several ways in which the Board functions through its own membership or its agents.
These activities include a turberculosis clinic, presided over by the health physician and the health nurse, and held on the first and third Friday evenings and the second and fourth Tuesday afternoons of each month. This clinic frequently first discovers active cases of tuberculosis, and upon such discovery the case is usually referred to the family physician, or ar- rangement made for a chest examination and X-ray at one of the state sanatoriums. As a matter of fact where X-rays are called for in tuberculosis cases the appointments are usually made through this Board.
The matter of quarantine and the release therefrom of all cases calling for such action are conducted by this Board.
The issuance of permits for the sale of milk and cream, and the licenses to sell oleomargarine is a function of the Milk and Food Inspector coming under the direction of the Board of Health.
Burial permits are issued from this office.
Dog bites and anti-rabic treatment and anti-rabic clinics come under the authority of the Board of Health.
The Board of Health has authority to cause an entrance of any property into any available common sewer.
Nuisances of all kinds against the health conditions of the town are re- ferred to the Board of Health. It may be interesting to note that the Board of Health spent during the year 1938 $13,508.32 or 8512 cents per capita for health. For garbage collection $4,800.00 was spent, or a little more than 29 cents per capita.
The Board continues the four year comparison of reportable diseases and the comparison of the cost of the same in the tables listed below:
1935
1936
1937
1938
Tuberculosis
16
7
16
11
Diphtheria
0
0
0
0
Pneumonia
9
11
18
15
Poliomyelitis
4
0
1
0
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121
1935
1936
1937
1938
Measles
5
32
434
11
Mumps
2
34
33
11
Chicken-pox
34
5
10
42
Septic Sore Throat
1
0
3
1
Scarlet Fever
3
21
45
65
Typhoid Fever
1
0
8 (para)
0
Undulant Fever
0
0
0
1
Conjunctivitis
0
0
0
1
Whooping Cough
4
4
27
11
Dog Bites
71
55
42
49
1935
1936
1937
1938
Tuberculosis
$2,198.67
$3,336.65
$6,598.93
$7,268.75
Scarlet Fever
189.00
414.00
1,039.00
1,732.29
Other Contagion
479.29
551.67
668.70
234.79
It is interesting to note that of the $7,268.75 spent by this Board for the care and treatment of tuberculosis patients, the town will receive from the state a T. B. subsidy amounting to $2,347.94.
The Health Nurse Miss Russell made the following visits to homes in connection with infectious and reportable diseases:
Tuberculosis-including contacts
646
Scarlet Fever
161
Whooping Cough
3
Chicken-pox
8
Mumps
2
Undulant Fever
1
Measles
15
Veneral
10
Dog Bites
9
Miss Russell has also during the year made the following hospital visits in connection with the care of Wakefield patients either being hospitalized or seeking admittance to the different T. B. Sanatoriums:
27 trips to North Reading State Sanatorium, North Reading, Mass.
7 trips to Middlesex County Sanatorium, Waltham, Mass.
2 trips to Malden Contagious Hospital, Malden, Mass.
2 trips to Melrose Hospital, Melrose, Mass.
3 trips to Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass.
1 trip to Childrens' Hospital, Boston, Mass.
During the year 1938 the Board of Health has hospitalized sixteen tubercular patients at the different sanatoriums, and fifteen patients with Scarlet Fever in the contagious hospitals.
Acting under Section 128, Chapter 94 with the approval of the State Department of Public Health the Board appointed Dr. Cornelius Thibeault
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as Inspector of Slaughtering. No slaughtering has been done and there has been no expense to the town.
The Board of Health cannot let an opportunity pass without stressing the hope that all citizens of the town may make use of the dumps, which are under its care. The dumps are situated on Salem Street, Aborn Avenue and Green Street.
We call again for the full co-operation of the townspeople to the end that refuse may not be placed where it will prove a nuisance to the neighbors or an eyesore to the community and prospective residents.
Respectfully submitted,
WESLEY S. GOODWIN, Chairman, CARL E. ALLISON, M. D., NED C. LOUD, Secretary.
Tuberculosis Dispensary Report
The annual report of the Tuberculosis Dispensary is herewith respect- fully submitted.
The Dispensary is open the first and third evenings in the month from 8 to 9 and the second and fourth afternoons from 3.30 to 4.30.
We have examined at the Dispensary during the year patients discharged from sanatoriums, contact cases, suspicious cases of tuberculosis and a number of underweight children. Seventy-one examinations were made.
There were nine cases of tuberculosis sent to the Middlesex County Sanatorium, one to North Reading State Sanatorium, and one to Tewks- bury State Infirmary, during the year 1938. We have at the present time six patients at the Middlesex County Sanatorium, two at Lakeville State Sanatorium, one at North Reading State Sanatorium. We urge people who have reasons to think they have tuberculosis to avail themselves of the neces- sary diagnosis and advice from their physician so that if sanatorium care is needed it can be instigated as soon as possible.
The Board of Health Nurse assists at Clinics Tuesday afternoons and Friday evenings, visits tubercular patients, investigates new cases, obtains records of all tubercular patients reported to the Health Department, ar- ranges for transportation for contacts to be X-rayed, makes appointments for treatments, and arranges for transportation for the patients admitted
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to the different sanatoriums, if they are unable to provide transportation. She also instructs those at home on living methods and care of sputum so that others may not become infected.
There were eleven new cases of tuberculosis reported to the Health Department this year, and three deaths reported.
Respectfully submitted,
IRA W. RICHARDSON, M. D., Dispensary Physician.
NELLIE B. RUSSELL, R. N., Dispensary Nurse.
Report of Health Officer
To the Board of Health:
Gentlemen :
I herewith submit my report as Health Officer for the year 1938.
The work of this office has been of the usual nature. Many complaints of all kinds, which have to be investigated and adjusted with diplomacy.
Last year the Board asked the citizens not to throw their old cans and rubbish on the streets but take them to the dumps. It is gratifying to report they have done so, and very rarely do we see cans and rubbish on the streets near the center of the town.
The dumps have been kept in their usual good order by Mr. John Joyce. The Board is fortunate in having a man who takes such pride in keeping them locking so good. We have the usual trouble with overflowing cess-pools but they are getting fewer each year as the Public Sewer is extended.
I have made 683 visits and inspections which have to do with health matters only.
.
Respectfully submitted,
DAVID TAGGART,
Health Officer and Agent.
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Report of Plumbing Inspector
To the Board of Health:
Gentlemen:
I submit my report for the year ending December 31, 1938.
Number of permits granted
86
Number of fixtures installed
484
Divided as follows:
Bath tubs 67
Lavatories
91
Closets 97
Sinks 76
Boilers
61
Wash trays
81
Showers 8
I have made 362 inspections during the year.
Respectfully submitted,
DAVID TAGGART,
Inspector of Plumbing.
Report of Milk and Food Inspector
To the Board of Health:
Gentlemen:
I herewith submit my report as Inspector of Milk and Food for the year ending December 31, 1938.
The year just passed has been a particularly active one, from the stand- point of milk and food inspection.
The office work, or inside work has consisted principally of the issuing of various licenses and permits, as well as taking care of all routine corres- pondence.
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The licenses granted were under the following designations:
Retail Milk 63
Dealer's Milk 47
Pasteuring Milk 4
Ice Cream Manufacturers 4
There were 17 oleomargarine permits granted. The combined total of licenses and permits issued amounted in numbers to 135.
The field work, or outside work as usual, consisted largely of dairy farm and pasteurizing plant inspections. Approximately 100 inspections of this nature were made.
The ground covered comprised 40 dairy farms and 4 pasteurizing plants.
These farms were distributed among 15 different cities and towns some of the latter being located in the State of New Hampshire. Thirty of these farms and all of the pasteurizing plants were officially approved by this office.
Of the 168 samples of milk and cream, ice cream collected and analyzed for standards of fats, solids, and bacteria, but 3 were found below require- ments. The rest were universally high in standards of cleanliness.
Approximately 90 calls were made in the food inspection work and all incoming complaints were satisfactorily adjusted.
Four conventions of Milk Inspectors were attended by me during the year 1938.
Collections from all sources amounted to $123.50 the largest of any year to date. This amount has been deposited with the Wakefield Trust Company to the credit of the town of Wakefield, and I have receipts for the same.
Thanking your Board for its all around co-operation and for the same moral support, this report is
Respectfully submitted,
LAWRENCE E. DOUCETTE,
Inspector of Milk and Food.
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TOWN OF WAKEFIELD
Report of Board of Public Welfare
For Year 1938
To the Citizens of Wakefield:
The Board of Public Welfare respectfully submit their Annual Report for the fiscal year 1938.
We wish to call your attention to the fact that, there are many relief bills to be presented in both the National and the State Legislature. Prac- tically all of these call for changes in regard to the character and the amount of relief afforded applicants. There is no doubt in our minds but some of these will be passed and we predict that when such bills are passed they will call for an increase in the expenditures in the Department.
What the future has in store for us is a matter of conjecture entirely depending upon several elements. First as to how much the W.P.A. will afford employment to our unemployed and, of course secondarily, to what extent prosperity returns. With so many uncertain elements effecting the Welfare Department we have not pretended with any degree of exactness to make any claims for the budget for the year 1939.
Trees destroyed by last September's hurricane were carted to the In- firmary and are now being cut for delivery to recipients. It is estimated that the Department will have the benefit of between 75 and 100 cords of wood for distribution.
We wish to acknowledge, with appreciation, the receipt from Mr. H. F. Taylor, Jr. of approximately 150 cords of wood, cleared from his property at Outlook Circle.
Families
Mothers' Aid Temporary Aid
Total
January
186
18
18
222
February
196
19
19
234
March
144
20
17
181
April
126
21
18
165
May
199
20
18
237
June
111
22
17
150
July
124
22
18
164
August
95
22
19
136
September
85
23
22
130
October
75
22
22
119
November
74
21
19
114
December
83
21
19
123
The Department has continued the practice of former years in assign-
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ing all able-bodied recipients to work out their orders in the various Town Departments as follows:
Highway
2,166.12 man days at $3.00 per day
$6,499.50
Park and Cemetery Dept.
793
man days at $3.00 per day
2,379.00
Moth Dept.
335 man days at $3.00 per day 1,005.00
Town Hall
261 man days at $3.00 per day 783.00
School Dept.
185 man days at $3.00 per day 555.00
Commodity Dept. W.P.A.
265
man days at $3.00 per day 795.00
Lafayette Building
44
man days at $3.00 per day
132,00
Recreation
24 man days at $3.00 per day
72.00
Infirmary
1,139
man days at $3.00 per day
3,418.50
Welfare
632
man days at $3.00 per day
1,896.00 ·
EXPENDITURES IN DETAIL FOR THE YEAR 1938
Salaries of Board
Appropriation
$ 500.00
Expended
500.00
Balance to Revenue
None
Outside Relief Expenses
Appropriation
$ 80,000.00
Loan
16,000.00
Refunds
794.59
Total
$ 96,794.59
Expenditures
89,982.23
Balance to Revenue
$ 6,812.36
OUTSIDE RELIEF
Salaries
$ 3,896.56
Office Expense
717.15
Aid to Dependent Children
*16,239.56
Rent
8,613.74
Board
7,332.66
Provisions and Groceries
36,829.76
Shoes, Clothing
2,586.28
Fuel
4,070.59
Auto and Truck Expense
1,227.89
Medical Attendance
2,237.81
Hospital Care
3,946.42
Burial Expense
435.50
*Does include $3,385.29 spent from Federal Funds.
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Relief to Other Cities All Others
$ 239.10
1,609.21
$ 89,982.23
Plus Unpaid Bills (Est)
7,184.46
Gross Outside Relief Expenses
$
97,166.69
Less Reimbursements :
Cities and Towns
$ 1,262.83
Aid to Dependent Children
2,992.17
Temporary Aid
3,082.84
Net Outside Relief Expenses
$ 89,828.25
DISTRIBUTION OF FUEL
During the year 1938, the Welfare Department distributed 2112 cords of wood, 12412 tons of coal and 32,495 gallons of oil.
DISTRIBUTION OF SHOES, RUBBERS AND CLOTHING
Shoes
Rubbers
Sneakers
1,209 pairs
171 pairs
45 pairs
AID TO DEPENDENT CHILDREN FEDERAL ACCOUNT
Balance on Hand, January 1, 1938
$ 560.06
Amount Received
3,428.50
Amount Expended
3,385.29
$ 603.27
WILLARD DONNELL FUND
On Hand, January 1, 1938 Receipts
$ 69.10
488.94
$ 558.04
Expended, 1938
263.77
$ 294.27
Balance, December 31, 1938
$ 3,988.56
Balance
$ 7,337.84
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REPORT OF BOARD OF PUBLIC WELFARE
OLD AGE ASSISTANCE
The report of the Old Age Assistance for the year 1938 is submitted herewith.
A statement showing both the expenditures and the receipts applying to Old Age Assistance is shown below to indicate the actual cost, more es- pecially as it applies to the tax levy on real estate.
RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES
Town Appropriation
Federal grant on hand Jan. 1, 1938
$ 47,930.00 6,012.84
Federal grants during year
33,121.24
Refund
450.50
$ 87,514.58
Balance Federal Funds
2,344.27
Amount Expended during 1938
$ 85,170.31
Unpaid Bills 1938
$
523.84
OLD AGE ASSISTANCE ADMINISTRATION .
Refund, Insurance
$ 2.39
Town Appropriation
2,175.00
Federal Funds on Hand, Jan. 1, 1938
16.81
Federal Grants for Administration
1,105.64
$ 3,299.84
Expenses
Salaries
$ 2,347.50
Automobile
302. 30.
Stationery
89.40
Postage
257.34
Rent
200.00
New Equipment
31.00
Telephone
61.06
Electricity
4.95
All others
30.20
$ 3,323.75
· EXPENDITURES
Overdraft charged to Federal Funds due us $ 23.91
Received from Commonwealth of Mass. $ 25,541.30 697.53
Other Cities and Towns
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STATEMENT OF COSTS OF OLD AGE ASSISTANCE
Payroll Expenses
Administration
Payrolls
$ 85,170.31
Total cost
$ 3,323.75
Federal Grant
33,121.24
Received Grant
1,105.64
Balance
$ 52,049.07
$ 2,218.11
Bal. due Fed. Grant
6,012.84
Bal. on Grant due
16.81
$ 46,036.23
Total Spent $ 2,201.30
Refunds
450.50
$ 45,585.73
Billed State.
26,157.30
$ 19,428.43
Billed Cities
1,034.17
$ 18,394.26
Bal. Federal Grant
2,344.27
Town Spent
$ 16,049.99
OLD AGE ASSISTANCE CASE LOAD BY MONTHS
January
228
July 246
February
232
August
251
March
239
September
249
April
234
October
246
May
241
November
249
June
242
December
257
Total 2,914
Average per month
242-11/12
REPORT OF TOWN INFIRMARY
A W.P.A. project for the construction of a Laundry, Smoking-room and Dormitory was started at the Infirmary. When completed this addition should make for considerably better living and operating conditions.
Dry rot has started in the Dining-room and back Hallway floors and is rapidly getting worse. Data for a W.P.A. project for the remedying of this condition is now being prepared.
Appropriation
Expenditures
$ 8,620.00 8,806.13
Overdraft
$ 186.13
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NUMBER OF INMATES MONTHLY FOR 1938
January
26
May
24
September 25
February
25
June
26
October
21
March
24
July
25
November
23
April
25
August
25
December
24
Total for year
293
1
Average
24-5/12
INFIRMARY
Superintendent
$ 1,080.00
Other Employees
1,208.60
Groceries and Provisions
2,328.75
Dry Goods and Clothing
83.36
Fuel and Light
904.61
Care of Buildings
211.90
Household Supplies
522.25
Gasoline
93.34
Truck Expense
341.51
Medical
388.94
Tobacco
242.20
Seeds, Fertilizer and Feed
371.21
Telephone
81.74
Barbering
72.30
Water
355.96
Oil Burner Maintenance
15.00
All Others
519.91
$ 8,806.13
Plus Unpaid Bills
12.25
$ 8,818.38
Receipts
Board Received 1938
$ 860.00
Vegetables
270.91
Miscellaneous
30.75
$ 1,161.66
Vegetables raised and used at Infirmary
286.97
Total Receipts for 1938
$ 1,448.63
Net Cost
$ 7,369.75
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COMPARATIVE OPERATING STATEMENT
1938
Gross Cost per week per Inmate Net Cost per week per Inmate
$ 6.91
5.77
1937
Gross Cost per week per Inmate 7.79 $ Net Cost per week per Inmate 6.28
We wish to express our appreciation to all private individuals and or- ganizations who made donations of any kind during the past year.
HAROLD C. ROBINSON, Chair man, DENNIS P. HOGAN, Secretary, HELEN M. RANDALL, LEO M. CONWAY, RALPH P. ROWE.
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REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Report of School Committee
ORGANIZATION OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE
School Committee for 1938
Harry B. Allman, Chairman 43 Greenwood Street
Term Expires 1939
Mrs. Eva Gowing Ripley, Secretary 40 Emerson Street
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Thomas F. Kenney, Treasurer 12 Charles Street
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William E. Jones 29 Lafayette Street
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Mrs. Mary Louise Tredinnick 129 Pleasant Street
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Patrick H. Tenney 14 Emerson Street
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SUB-COMMITTEES
The Committee as a whole acts as sub-committees with the following chairmen:
Mrs. Tredinnick-Text Books and Supplies
Mrs. Ripley-Teachers and Salaries
Mr. Tenney-Finances and Accounts
Mr. Jones-Courses of Study
Mr. Kenney-Public Property
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
Willard B. Atwell, 94 West Chestnut Street
SECRETARY TO THE SUPERINTENDENT
Pauline E. Meads, 240 Lowell Street
CLERK
Doris Skinner, 9 Franklin Street
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TOWN OF WAKEFIELD
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE
To the Citizens of Wakefield:
The School Committee presents its annual report for the year of 1938.
Among the important actions of the Committee were:
Accepted a gift of a bronze tablet to the Warren School to the memory of Major H. M. Warren, presented by the Auxiliary of the Sons of Union Veterans.
Restored the ten per cent cut to all employees as of January 1. This cut had been in effect since July 1, 1932.
In April began a study of ways to return to a single session for the High School.
Installed a "Sprinkler Watchman" in the High School.
Authorized home instruction for physically handicapped children. Tried as an experiment in the spring and continued in the fall for the school year.
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