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Pulmonary Embolus
James MacDougall & Annie
13 Martin R. McCarthy
70
Broncho Pneumonia
18 Stillborn
19 Harold W. Andre
28
8
4
Multiple Fractures-Mill Accident Manuel J. Andre & Alice Wentworth
19 Joseph L. Ledo
63
11
17
Broncho Pneumonia
19 Henry M. Fontes
60
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79
8 10 Arterio-Sclerosis
20 Isaac H. Perkins
82
13 Arterio-Sclerosis
22 Amy B. Washburn
92
10
10 Arterio-Sclerosis
24 Florence Briggs
67
6
6 Bronchial Pneumonia
Thomas Lawlor & Ellen Stone John Perkins & Sarah Rogan Harvey W. Weston & Martha B. Gibbs Francis T. Randall & Susan A. Watson
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Antone Pimental & Julia Souza
75 11
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Duodenal Ulcer
Theophilus Forest &
Arthur W. Freeman & Annie Kerns
28
Pulmonary Embolism Cerebral Hemorrhage
Gaetano Borghi & Adele Sitti George A. Tripp & Mary I. Schultz
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Roland S. Shaw & Maria Hipson William J. Bagen & Magdalena Hemmerly Augusto Gilli &
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James McCarthy & Mary Crowley
Manuel Ledo & Mary Texiera Hanrigus Gomes & Laopoldina Fontes
Third Degree Burns of Body
20 Ida Mahler (Died in Taunton)
DEATHS REGISTERED IN PLYMOUTH IN 1947-Cont'd
Date
Name
Age Y. M. D.
Cause of Death
Name of Parents
26 Sophia J. Howard
83
9
23
Chronic Myocarditis
26
Olin W. Hutchinson
80
7
8
27 Elise Johnson
79
7
21
30 Edith M. Robbins
78
18
Cardio Vascular Renal Disease
Sylvanus Sampson & Edith Hayward
30 Henry F. Dupuis (Died in Palmer)
14
11
15
Epilepsy
30
Arthemes Girouard
70
7 24
Hypertensive Heart Disease
Robert Howard & Ellen Costello
Carcinoma of Bladder & Prostate Jerry Hutchinson & Almire McCrillis Cerebral Thrombosis Anderson &
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Ernest Dupuis & Edith Henderson Alex Reene & Mary Loziere
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SUMMARY
BIRTHS, 1947 Number Registered 509, of which 181 were non-resi- dents.
Males
275
Females 234
509
MARRIAGES, 1947 Number Registered 212 DEATHS, 1947
Number of deaths registered 257, of which 59 were non-residents and 44 died out of town, burial taking place in Plymouth.
There have been issued from the Town Clerk's Office for the year 1947, licenses as follows:
Resident Citizen's Fishing Licenses 672
439
Resident Citizen's Sporting Licenses
129
Resident Citizen's Trapping Licenses
17
Resident Citizen's Sporting (Free) Licenses
77
Resident Citizen's Military (Free) Licenses
22
Resident Citizen's O. A. A. (Free) Licenses 8 Special Non-Resident Fishing Licenses 32
Non-Resident Citizen's Minor Fishing Licenses
0
Non-Resident Citizen's Fishing Licenses
14
Duplicate Licenses 10
Male Dog Licenses 690
Female Dog Licenses
345
Kennel Licenses 3
HERBERT K. BARTLETT, Town Clerk.
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Resident Citizen's Minor Trapping Licenses
Resident Citizen's Hunting Licenses 353
Resident Citizen's Minor and Female Licenses
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REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF STREETS AND SEWERS
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen
Gentlemen:
I herewith submit a report of the work done in the Street and Sewer Departments from January 1 to December 31, 1947.
SEWERS
The sewer work has been carried out this year with the new extension laid on the following streets: Wellings- ley Ave., 200' of 8" sewer pipe and new manhole built, Knapp's Terrace, 350' of 8" pipe and one new manhole. Approximately 1,000' of sewer lines have been dragged and tree roots removed. Manholes have been cleaned out with several new ones built and repaired and several new services installed. The main sewer on Sandwich Street had to be repaired in front of the Jenney Gas Sta- tion because of collapse pipes. This sewer is 16' deep and required cribbing a trench 18' long and 4' wide. Three 15" pipe were replaced and 50' of main sewer had to be cleaned where sand and gravel washed into it. A six foot standpipe had to be replaced for sewer service into the Resnick property.
STREET CLEANING
The usual work of cleaning streets and catchbasins has been carried out this year.
ASPHALT SIDEWALKS
Approximately 5,580 sq. yds. of asphalt hot mix side- walks were laid on streets that were in a very dangerous condition. Other sidewalks were repaired where tree roots had raised and broken the surface. This work will be carried out this coming year.
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HIGHWAY CONST. & RECONST.
The following streets were resurfaced with asphalt, tar, sand and peastone: Grant St., Walnut St., Mckinley Road, Standish Ave., Water St., Cotton St., Alvin Road, Winter St., Union St., Manomet Ave., White Horse Road, Dias Road, Peck Ave., Vinal Ave., Gray Ave., Birch Ave. and shoulders on Cliff St. that needed to be brought up to grade. At Russell Mills Road, a mixed-in-place sur- face, of tar and gravel was laid over the old gravel sur- face 21/2" deep for a distance of 1/2 mile and 20' wide. The same type of surface was laid over the old gravel surface on Boot Pond Road, a distance of 6/10 of a mile and 22' wide, sealed with asphalt and sand.
DRAINS AND BROOKS
Samoset Street, 100' of 18" pipe was removed, cleaned, replaced and the brook filled in with gravel. Hedge Road, the brook from Court St. to the ocean was dug out with a shovel, a depth from one foot to three feet deep and four feet wide and all culverts cleaned out. Point Road, a new drain was installed on this road to take care of surface water. Forty-four feet of 12" pipe was laid with stone header at each end. Bartlett Brook was dug out with a gas shovel where the northeast storms had filled it up with sand. Off Alden St., 150' of drain pipe was removed, pipes cleaned and replaced.
CHAPTER 90 CONSTRUCTION
Main St. Ext., Main St. and Court St. from Water St. to Russell Ave. was resurfaced with 21/2" of Hot Mixed Type I laid by the Old Colony Crushed Stone Co. of Quincy. All Electric Light Co. manholes, Telephone Co. manholes, sewer manholes and water gates were raised to grade and new ones replaced where needed. In sev- eral places the sidewalk and curbing were raised to meet grades. The cost of this work was $20,000.00 with the state contributing $10,000, County $5,000 and town $5,000. I recommend having this work continue for 1948.
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GRANOLITHIC SIDEWALK & CURBING
Corner Court & Brewster Sts., 40' cement curbing was rebuilt, 4 slabs 4'x4'-4" was replaced. Corner No. Park Ave. & Court St. 30' cement curbing was rebuilt and re- placed with three slabs 3'x3'-4". At Winter St. a cement slab in a driveway was removed and curbing put in its place. Oceanview Ave., on the west side, 399' of curbing was built and on the east side 164' of curbing making a total of 563' of curbing, 7" wide and 21" deep for a side- walk to be laid this coming year. The seawall on Water St. was pointed up with stone and cement to prevent the tide water washing in back of it. A number of cement slabs were replaced where tree roots had raised them up.
MISCELLANEOUS
Fence at Black Pond, on the Old Sandwich Road, was built for a distance of 300' with wooden posts and wooden guard rail. Cliff Street had 200' of wooden guard rail fence rebuilt.
The old Town Highway Barn in the rear of the In- firmary was taken down because of its dangerous con- dition and all lumber in good condition was cleared of nails and stored away for future use.
Several roads in the outlying districts and in town were brushed out this fall in some of the most dangerous places.
Lines and grades for street and sewer work have been supplied by the Town Engineer, Edward Chase, and rec- ords of same filed at his office.
Respectfully submitted,
ELMER C. CHANDLER, Supt. of Streets and Sewers.
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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PLYMOUTH BOARD OF HEALTH 1947
The past year has been an unusually satisfactory one for the Board of Health. The health of the community was high with the smallest number of communicable diseases reported for a number of years. Your Board of Health is still concerned with the neglect of some physicians and many parents in promptly reporting a communicable disease to the Board of Health. It is im- portant, whether or not a physician attends a case of sickness, that all communicable diseases be reported promptly to your Board of Health; this may prevent a serious epidemic.
The work of the Board during the past year has been largely of a routine nature, due we believe to the pro- gram of improvement and health control which has been followed by your Board of Health for the past years.
For the year ending December 1947 the following con- tagious diseases were reported.
Chicken-Pox ...... 22
Dog Bite
20
Measles
13
Scarlet Fever
11
Pul. Tuberculosis
1
Trichinosis
1
Whooping Cough
10
Gonorrhea ....... 3
8
Syphillis
Total 89
The program of tuberculosis control has been carried on in the usual way. Sixty-five persons were examined and x-rayed at the Plymouth County Hospital.
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All cases of contagion are being hospitalized at the Haynes Memorial Hospital in Brighton. We are sending cases to Brighton because a shortage of nurses exists in Plymouth which required closing the contagious wing of the Jordan Hospital although the town contributes to the maintenance in event it may be re-opened. The con- tract between the Jordan Hospital and the Board of Health we believe to be a favorable one for the people of Plymouth.
We wish to remind all parents that once each year there is a clinic held at the Board of Health rooms for the immunization against diptheria. This disease is on the increase according to reports of the State Depart- ment of Public Health so we advise the parents of Plym- outh children to take no chances but to bring their chil- dren to the clinic for immunization. The time and date of the clinic will be published in the local paper.
The regular and complete analysis and inspection of milk continues under the able direction of our milk in- spector and the Steele Laboratory at East Bridgewater. The reports are excellent and show that a high quality of milk is being sold in the town. Careful inspection is made at regular intervals of all eating establishments, pasteurization plants, stores, bakeries, fish markets and other places handling edible products. Your Board de- mands a high standard and is glad to report that the cooperation of Plymouth establishments has been excel- lent.
Complaints of many kinds are frequent throughout the year and all are promptly investigated and settled by the Sanitary Inspector.
The number of licenses granted in 1947 was 250 and number of permits was 481.
MEDORA V. EASTWOOD, M.D., Chairman. PAUL W. BITTINGER HERBERT H. MAXWELL Plymouth Board of Health
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REPORT OF THE PLYMOUTH VETERANS ADVISORY COMMITTEE
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen:
Gentlemen:
The Department of Veterans' Services presents here- with its report for the year 1947.
For the first time, the Department this year admin- istered the aid to needy and deserving veterans and their families known as Veterans' Benefits. This aid was formerly known as Soldiers' Relief, State Aid, and Mil- itary Aid. Its purpose is to prevent pauperization of destitute veterans.
In disbursing Veterans' Benefits, the Department acts under the supervision of the State Commissioner of Vet- erans' Services, and subject to the approval of the Board of Selectmen. The State office prepares a budget period- ically, for the guidance of the Director in paying Bene- fits. This budget was raised once in 1947, in an attempt to keep up with the cost of living, and further raises are probable. At present the budget calls for an allowance of $88 per month for a veteran and his wife receiving no other income. No veteran whose destitute condition is brought about by his voluntary idleness or continued vicious or intemperate habits is eligible for this aid.
In the other phase of its activities, as an information center for veterans, the Department assisted in 3,791 cases.
By act of the Legislature, the Department of Veterans' Services is required to keep a file of discharges of vet- erans at the request of the veterans, and to certify to the existence of such discharges upon request. At pres- ent, the file includes copies of the discharges of some 1300 Plymouth veterans, and an effort will be made dur- ing 1948 to complete the file.
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Appropriations and expenditures for 1947 were as follows:
SALARIES
Appropriation Payments
$3646.37 3646.37
Balance to Revenue
OFFICE EXPENSES
Appropriation Payments
$550.00
517.60
Balance to Revenue
$32.40
VETERANS' BENEFITS
Appropriation Payments
$20,000.00
16,345.43
Balance to Revenue
$3,654.57
Respectfully submitted,
THOMAS F. QUINN
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DEPARTMENT FOR THE INSPECTION OF BUILDINGS
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen.
Dear Sirs:
The following is a summary of building activities with- in the Town for the year ending December 31, 1947.
No. Kind
Est. Cost $189,850
39 Single Family Dwellings
1 Two Family Dwelling
16,000
73 Summer Camps
88,476
20 Garages
12,050
24 Other Buildings
67,755
51 Alterations & Additions to Dwellings 65,300
19 Alterations & Additions to Other Bldgs.
38,550
227
$477,981
Respectfully submitted,
THOMAS R. BODELL,
Building Inspector.
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REPORT OF THE PARK COMMISSIONERS
The Park Commissioners submit their annual report for the year 1947.
The Training Green, Bates Park, Park Avenue and Spooner Park, have had their usual care and have been kept neat and clean during the year. The small plot on the south side of Town Brook, which was placed under the jurisdiction of The Park Department, in 1946, has been graded, loamed and shrubs have been set out. Three Dog Wood Trees have been set out at Bates Park. Four Willows have been set out at Bang's Park.
Brewster Garden has been kept in excellent condition during the year. The department takes the opportunity at this time, to thank The Town Brook Society for their co-operation and help which is greatly appreciated. We also extend our thanks to Stevens, The Florist, and Mrs. Barke, for the flowers and potted plants contributed by them.
Morton Park has been very popular during the sum- mer months as a bathing beach and picnic grounds. Vandalism has caused much repair work that was done on the buildings. All buildings have been painted. Much work has been done trimming trees, cutting and burning brush and roads have been kept in a usable condition. Receipts at the bath house were in 1947, $35.70; in 1946, $51.10.
The camping grounds at Indian Reservation and Nel- son Street have shown an increase in attendance and revenue the past year. Much work still remains to be done at The Indian Reservation that was caused by the huricane of 1944. Approximately ten cords of wood was delivered to The Welfare Department and a like amount to Stephens Field.
Indian reservation receipts were in 1947, $1,289.50; in 1946, $1,188.50.
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Nelson Street Camping receipts were in 1947, $1,714.30; in 1946, $1,588.35.
The Bathing Beaches have been well attended the past year. The swimming classes conducted at the Stephens Field and Nelson Street bath houses have been well attended and have proven to be a very worthwhile pro- ject. Stephens Field receipts were in 1947, $27.55; in 1946 were $19.50.
The playgrounds have been very popular during the season, and have been in constant use. One unit of the proposed field house at the Standish Ave., Playground will undoubtedly be ready in the Spring, as the contract has been awarded. The Kiwanis Club of Plymouth, de- serves a vote of thanks from the citizens of Plymouth for paying for a recreational leader and buying equip- ment for the playgrounds, as the Park Dept. had no funds to do so.
They took four bus loads of children that attended the programs regularly, to Braves Field to see a double ball game, and also furnished many excellent prizes. The High School and The Veterans Athletic Club practiced and held their games at Stephens Field. At several of these games there was an estimated crowd of 2500 people in attendance.
New State Laws requiring rigid inspection by The State Department of Public Safety, has resulted in quite extensive repairs to the bleachers the past year and many more repairs must be made before they can be used in the spring. The Inspector recommended new bleachers to replace the obsolete ones now in use. Owing to the high cost of building materials the department is not asking for an appropriation for this purpose this year. If activities increase and two or three thousand people are going to attend these games, something will have to be done in the near future.
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The Beach Park Bath House has been very popular this past season. The new breakwater has been com- pleted, and the beach has been clean and neat. Owing to the recent gales, a lot of filling has got to be done at the north end of the bath house.
BOARD OF PARK COMMISSIONERS Edward J. E. Hand, Chairman John E. Siever Arthur Sirrico
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NINETY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Water Commissioners
AND
Superintendent
OF THE
Town of Plymouth
1947
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REPORT OF THE WATER COMMISSIONERS NINETY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT
The Board of Water Commissioners submits its ninety- third annual report, covering the year 1947.
The rainfall during the year amounted to 39.71 inches, which is about six inches less than the average. At the end of the year the level of the water in Great South Pond was 103.6 which was about twelve inches lower than at the beginning of the year. Rainfall was very light during the summer and autumn.
The new Manomet Pumping Station was completed late in the year and is now available for service. A small fireproof brick and concrete building has been con- structed directly over the new twelve inch gravel-packed well which was built in 1946. This well pipe was driven to a depth of about one hundred feet. The bottom of the pipe is a fine-meshed Everdur screen, twenty-five feet in length, through which the underground water flows into the well pipe. The building houses the electric motor driven pump, with a complete up-to-date system of auto- matic controls, regulators and recording devices. A gas- olene engine is to be installed, to provide for the emer- gency operation of the pump in case of failure of the electric power supply.
The well and pump have a capacity of 700 gallons per minute, or 1,000,000 gallons per day if operated continu- ously. This is the first important addition to the supply of water for the Town, since it was piped from South Pond in 1855. It will take care of a problem which has been of great concern to the Water Department ever since the water system was extended to Manomet.
In order to take care of the delivery of the water from this new Manomet Pumping Station into the distribution system a ten-inch discharge main has been layed from the Station to the storage tank at Mr. Harlow's.
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Considerable progress has been made in the program of relaying and replacing old mains and this will con- tinue as far as the available funds permit. Most of the work this year has been carrying out the plan for the extension of the New High Service through Liberty Street, Nick's Rock Road and Cherry Street and adjacent territory, with great improvement to the service to our water-takers in that area, as far as the main has been completed.
The extension of the main on Beaver Dam Road, as authorized by the Town in March 1947, has been com- pleted, so that this neighborhood is now adequately sup- plied.
A tabulation of the construction work carried out in 1947 is shown in the report of the Superintendent, which follows.
LAND AT LITTLE SOUTH POND
Two parcels of land on Little South Pond, the so-called Faulkner and Card properties, have been purchased in accordance with the authorization of the Town in March 1947. The buildings have been removed so that there is now no dwelling on the shores of this pond-a most de- sirable accomplishment which has been before the Town for a great many years. It happened to be fifty years after the need for the removal of these houses was strongly presented by the late Nathaniel Morton, in an address to the Plymouth Commercial Club April 6, 1897.
The Holmes or Union House property, adjoining both Great and Little South Ponds, has not yet been acquired by the Town because of problems in connection with the title. There are no dwellings on this land at the present time. The matter is in the hands of the Town Counsel.
MAINTENANCE
Twice during the year it was necessary to make emer- gency repairs to one of the two pumping units at the Deep Water Bridge Station. In the opinion of Metcalf
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and Eddy, who were consulted in the matter, the unit had outlived its period of dependable operation and should be replaced immediately. This has been done and a new electrically driven centrifugal pump installed with a capacity of 350 gallons per minute. In the near future, the other belt driven plunger pump unit at this station should be replaced with a new pump of larger capacity.
Expensive repairs were also necessary to the Wolver- ine diesel engine at the Lout Pond Station.
Four very old reservoirs, constructed many years ago. for fire-fighting purposes, have been filled completely with gravel as they have not been used for a long time. They are located beneath the surface in Town Square, Shirley Square, Court Street near Clyfton Street, and High Street. After consultation with the Fire Depart- ment it was decided that they were no longer necessary and might become a hazard to the public.
Because of the increase in the expenses of operating and maintaining the water works and distribution sys- . tem and the heavy demands for the extension and con- struction of water mains, the Commissioners have under consideration an increase in the charges for water serv- ice. Present rates have been in effect since 1924 and are very low in comparison with those in other communities in the Commonwealth of similar size.
RECEIPTS 1947
Plymouth
$43,091.55
Manomet
9,248.45
$52,340.00
Appropriations recommended for 1948:
Maintenance and Labor $32,831
Salaries 20,550
Truck to replace the Superintendent's car 1,000
Regular construction 7,500
Construction necessary because new By-pass 5,300
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White Horse Beach-Aves. B. and C and connections 10,200
Malaguti Development (If street is accepted by the Town) 4,000
Marjorie St. West of Oak
3,000
Cape Cod Ave., Reed Ave., Melix Ave., and adjacent sts. (If streets are accepted by the Town) (Bond Issue)
35,000
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Respectfully submitted,
EDWARD R. BELCHER, Chairman
RICHARD T. ELDRIDGE, Secretary ARTHUR ADDYMAN
DANIEL F. MULCAHY
C. BROOKS HUDSON
SUMMARY OF STATISTICS
(Published by request of the New England Water Works Association, Plymouth, Mass., Water Works.)
Population, 13,175 Date of Construction, 1855.
By whom owned, Town.
Source of Supply, Great and Little South Ponds and Wells at Manomet. Mode of Supply, Gravity for low service and Pumping for high service, Wells.
PUMPING
Builders of pumping machinery, Fairbanks-Morse and Wolverine-Gould. Description of fuel. Oil. Amount used, 10,9151/2 gallons.
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Pumpage for the year: Fairbanks-Morse, Wolverine-Gould, NHS (Electric)
187,805,000 gals.
184,223,000 gals. 23,453,000 gals.
395,481,000 gals.
Average static head, 68 ft. Average dynamic head, 74.5 ft.
Number gals. per gal. fuel oil: Fairbanks-Morse, Wolverine-Gould,
37,711
31037
Duty of Pumps:
Fairbanks-Morse, 173,311,000
Wolverine-Gould, 142,638,000
Auxiliary well supply at Manomet pumped 15,332,000 gallons.
COST OF PUMPING FIGURED ON PUMPING STATION EXPENSES, VIZ: $9,958.12.
Per million gallons against dynamic head into direct pipe, $25.179.
Per million gallons raised one foot high (dynamic), $0.3379.
COST OF PUMPING FIGURED ON TOTAL
MAINTENANCE, VIZ: $38,691.50
Per million gallons against dynamic head into direct pipe, $97.834.
Per million gallons raised one foot high (dynamic), $1.313.
STATISTICS ON CONSUMPTION OF WATER Total population, estimated 13,175. Estimated population on pipe line, 12,500. Estimated population supplied, 12,500. Total consumption for the year, 515,416,000 gallons. Average daily consumption, 1,404,400 gallons. Gallons per day to each inhabitant, 106. Gallons per day to each tap, 371.
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STATISTICS RELATING TO DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM
Kind of pipe, Cement lined sheet iron and Cement lined cast iron.
Sizes, from 2-inch to 30-inch.
Extended, 17,305 feet.
Discontinued, 2248.
Total now in use, 82 miles, 650 feet.
Cost to repair per mile, $10.69.
Number leaks per mile, 0.207.
Small distribution pipe less than 4-inches, 8 miles, 3,661 feet.
Hydrants now in use, 366 public; 73 private.
Stop gates added, 78. Discontinued, None. Number now in use, 953.
SERVICES
Kind of pipe, Lead and Cement lined.
Sizes, from one-half inch to six inches.
Total now in use, 10 miles, 4,121 feet.
Service taps added, 63. Discontinued, None.
Total now in use, 3,780.
Average length of service, 15.0 ft.
Average cost per service, $35.12.
Number meters added, 41.
Number now in use, 2,960.
Percentage of services metered, 78.3%.
SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT
To the Board of Water Commissioners.
Gentlemen:
The year 1947 was most interesting in the Water De- partment because, at last, deliveries on orders of long standing started to come through and we were able to complete many jobs. This does not mean that we had
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everything to work with but it was a vast improvement over the past few years when, at times, we could not complete even one service. Meters are still slow in com- ing and we have orders that will not be delivered until next June.
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