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Number of lights reported out during the year, 143. Number of doors found unlocked reported during the year. 25. Number of accidents reported during the year, 28. Value of property lost or stolen during the year and which was recovered, $676.00. Automobiles reported stolen and recovered, 2.
In conclusion it is with great pleasure that I extend in. behalf of the Police Department and myself to the Honor-
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able Board of Selectmen and other town officials our most sincere thanks for their kindly consideration during the year, and trust that the accomplishment of the department has been such as to repay them for their interest.
Respectfully submitted, ULRIC BRAULT, Chief of Police.
Southbridge, December 31. 1920.
Report of Chief Fire Warden
There were three forest fires during the year, without much damage. I wish to thank the assistant fire wardens for their assistance.
FIRE WARDENS FOR THE YEAR ENDING DEC. 31, 1920 Dennie Langevin Adelard Bouchard
Jules Livernois
Louis Pontbriand
Joseph Payant
Hilaire Cournoyer
The State Forester has divided our town into six sec- tions, for each of which one fire warden will be appointed, thus lessening the number of wardens to be appointed.
Respectfully,
AIMEE LANGEVIN, Chief Fire Warden.
REPORT OF AN AUDIT
OF
The Accounts of the Town of Southbridge 1 For the Year Ending Dec. 31, 1920
Made in accordance with the Provisions of Chapter 598, Acts of 1910 and a vote of the town.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS BUREAU OF STATISTICS STATE HOUSE, BOSTON
February 27, 1920.
To the Board of Selectmen,
Mr. Wilfred J. Lamoureux, Chairman, Southbridge, Massachusetts.
Gentlemen :
I submit herewith an audit of the accounts of the town of Southbridge for the year 1919 made in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 598 of the Acts of 1910, as amended.
This report is in the form of a report made to me by Mr. Edward II. Fenton, Chief Examiner of this Division, who was placed in charge of the work.
Very truly yours, T EODORE N. WADDELL,
Director of Accounts.
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reported payments to the treasurer were verified by com parison with the treasurer's books.
While engaged in making the audit, I received the usua. hearty co-operation of the several town officials, and, o. behalf of my assistants and for myself, I wish to expres to them my appreciation of the courtesy received and th assistance rendered.
Respectfully submitted,
EDW. H. FENTON, Chief Examiner
RECONCILIATION OF TREASURER'S CASH
Cash balance Jan. 1, 1919, $48,825 16
Receipts Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 1919, 516,627 92
$565,483 0:
Payments Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 1919, $519,765 67
Cash balance Dec. 31, 1919, 45,717 41
$565,483 0/
Bank balance Dec. 31, 1919,
per bank statement, $12,335 49
Certificate of deposit, 35,000 00
Cash in office Dec. 31, 1919, 231 00
$47,566 4!
Balance Dec. 31, 1919,
per cash book, $45,717 41
Outstanding checks-per list, 1,849 08
$47,566 4.
TAXES 1915
Outstanding Jan. 1, 1919, $21 52
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Paid treasurer, $21 52
INTEREST-TAXES 1915
Collected, $2 92
Paid treasurer,
$2 92
TAXES 1916
Outstanding Jan. 1, 1919,
$252 66
Paid treasurer 1919,
$86 88
Overpayment to treasurer 1918 (adjusted) 15 91
Abatements, 134 00
Outstanding Dec. 31, 1919, per list 14 00
Due from collector,
1 87
$252 66
INTEREST-TAXES 1916
Due from collector Jan. 1, 1919, $8 21
Paid treasurer, $8 21
TAXES 1917
Outstanding Jan. 1, 1919, $7,214 25
Due from collector Jan. 1, 1919,
183 90
Interest credited as taxes,
23 54
Abatement after payment, 8 00
Overpayment, 20
$7,429 89
Paid treasurer,
$5,577 20
Abatements,
1,068 00
Outstanding Dec. 31, 1919, per list
' 745 91
Unlocated difference,
2 88
Due from collector Dec. 31, 1919,
35 90
$7,429 89
INTEREST-TAXES 1917 Due from collector Jan. 1, 1919, $6 60
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Collected 1919,
552 04
$558 64.
Paid treasurer. $535 10
Interest credited as taxes
23 54
$558 64
TAXES 1918
Outstanding Jan. 1, 1919,
$29,780 50
Excise tax,
1,655 52
$31,436 02
Paid treasurer,
$25,199 21
Outstanding Dec. 31, 1919-per list,
4,385 15
Unlocated difference, 38
Due from collector Dec. 31, 1919,
1,851 28
$31,436 02
INTEREST-TAXES 1918
Due from collector Jan. 1, 1919,
$19 78
Collected 1919, 804 77
$824 55
Paid treasurer,
$678 09
Due from collector Dec. 31, 1919,
146 46
TAXES 1919
$824 55
Commitment,
$241,086 00
December commitment,
310 25
Excise tax,
1,244 25
Overpayment,
4 39
Over-abatement,
50
Unlocated difference,
73
$242,646 12
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Paid treasurer,
$214,631 29
Abatements, 199 63
Outstanding Dec. 31, 1919-per list,
27,705 07
Due from collector Dec. 31, 1919, 110 13
$242,646 12
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Collected,
$49 72
Paid treasurer,
$48 43
Due from collector Dec. 31, 1919,
1 29
12
$49 72
SEWER ASSESSMENTS
Outstanding January 1, 1919,
$398 00
Outstanding Dec. 31, 1919-per list,
$398 00
STREET OILING ASSESSMENTS 1916
Outstanding January 1, 1919,
$477 85
2
Overpayments (adjusted),
13 76
$491 61
Paid treasurer,
$45 50
Outstanding Dec. 31. 1919-per list, 446 11
$491 61
APPORTIONED SEWER ASSESSMENTS 1918
Outstanding January 1, 1919, $59 68
Due from collector Jan. 1, 1919, 45 99
$105 67
Paid treasurer $87 42
Outstanding Dec. 31, 1919-per list, 18 25
$105 67 COMMITTED INTEREST-SEWER ASSESSMENTS 1918 Outstanding Jan. 1, 1919, $10 26
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Paid treasurer, $7 22 Outstanding Dec. 31, 1919-per list, 3 04
$10 2
APPORTIONED SEWER ASSESSMENTS 1919
Commitment,
$231 34
Paid treasurer, $45 61
Outstanding Dec. 31, 1919-per list, 155 32
Due from treasurer Dec. 31, 1919, 30 41
$231 34
COMMITTED INTEREST SEWER ASSESSMENTS 1919
Commitment,
$26 58
Paid treasurer,
$0 57
Outstanding Dec. 31, 1919-per list
22 97
Due from collector, Dec. 31, 1919, 3 04
$26 58
UNAPPORTIONED SEWER ASSESSMENTS
Outstanding Jan. 1, 1919, $1,152 30
Commitment, 2,745 33
$3,897 63
Paid treasurer,
$1,251 32
Outstanding Dec. 31, 1919-per list 2,646 31
$3,897 63
CEMETERY CASH ACCOUNT
Receipts :
Perpetual care,
$310 00
Sale of lots and graves,
235 00
Opening graves,
165 00
Annual care,
12 00
Grading lot,
9 00
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Damage to property
5 00
$736 00
Paid treasurer :
Perpetual care,
$310 00
Sale of lots and graves,
180 00
Opening graves,
135 00
Annual care,
12 00
Grading lot,
9 00
Damage to property,
5 00
$651 00
Cash on hand (paid treas. Jan. 9, 1920).
9
Sale of lots and graves,
$55 0
Opening grave,
30 00
85 00
$736 00
RECONCILIATION CEMETERY DEPT. ACCOUNTS
Outstanding Jan. 1, 1919 :
Perpetual care,
$145 00
Lots and graves,
228 00
Opening graves,
73 00
Annual care,
6 00
$452 00
Charges 1919 :
Perpetual care,
$450 00
Sale of lots and graves,
328 00
Opening graves,
180 00
Annual care,
12 00
Grading lot,
9 00
Damages to property,
5 00
$984 00
$1,436 00
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Paid treasurer, Cancelled :
$651 00
Perpetual care,
$125 00
Sale of lot,
25 00
Outstanding Dec. 31, 1919 :
Perpetual care,
$160 00
Sale of lots and graves,
296 00
Opening graves,
88 00
Annual care,
6 00
$550
Cash on hand Dec. 31, 1919,
85
$1,436
SINKING FUND
Cash Savings Securities Total
Deposits
On hand at
beginning of
year
$17,000 48 $16,000 00 $33,000
On hand at
end of year $320 00 $18,027 44 $16,000 00 $34,347
Receipts
Payments
Income, $1,346 96 Savings deposits, $1,026 ! Cash on hand at end of year, *$320 (
Total, $1,346 96
Total, $1,346
*Included in general cash.
ALEXIS BOYER, Jr., SCHOOL FUND Savings Deposits Tot
On hand at beginning of year,
$200 00 $200 (
On hand at end of year,
209 09
$209 (
$150
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Receipts
Payments
Income.
$9 09 Savings Deposit. $9 09
Total.
$9 09 Total, $9 09
MARY MYNOTT LIBRARY FUND
Savings Deposits Total
On hand at beginning of year.
$1,043 80 $1,043 80
On hand at end of year, $1,000 00 $1,000 00
Receipts
Payments
Withdrawn from savings
Transferred to library $91 28
banks,
$43 80
Income. 47 48
Total, $91 28
Total, $91 28
CEMETERY PERPETUAL CARE FUNDS
Cash Savings Securities Total
Deposits
On hand at
beginning of
year
$21,670 93 $5,000 00 $26,670 93
On hand at
end of
vear $490 00 $18,670 93 $8,000 00 $27,160 93
Receipts
Withdrawn from
savings banks $3,000 00
Income, 1,240 42
Cash on hand at
end of vear, *$490 00
Lots and graves 180 00 .
Total, $4,730 42 Total, $4,730 42
*Included in General Cash.
Payments Purchase of se-
curities, $3,000 00
Care of lots, 1.240 42
Perpetual care de-
posits 310 00
TOWN OF SOUTHBRIDGE Balance Sheet-December 31, 1919
REVENUE ACCOUNTS
Assets
Cash :
In Banks and Office
$44,328 76
Accounts Receivable : Taxes :
Levy of 1916 $15 87
Levy of 1917 784 69
Levy of 1918 6,236 81
Levy of 1919
27,814 47
$34,851 84
Special Assessments :
Street Oiling 1916 Apportioned Sewer 1918 $18 25
$446 11
Apportioned Sewer 1919 185 73
Liabilities
Temporary Loans : Anticipation of revenue $50,000 00
Anticipation of
reimbursement
from State and
County 11,000 00
$61,000 00
Mary Mynott Library Fund Income 0 44
Sinking Fund Income 320 00
Cemetery Trust Fund 490 00
Tailings 53 11
Appropriation Balances : Central Street Sewer $1.137 00
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Apportioned Bewer
Primary School Plans 361 02
$1,498 02
Overlay reserved for Abatements :
Levy of 1916 $1,115 10
Levy of 1917 3,293 27
Levy of 1918 2,995 76 |
Levy of 1919
2,571 64
$29 05
Departmental
$14 00
State Aid
1,220 26
From State and County : Dudley River Road
$7,502 69
$91,641 00
$91,641 00
DEFERRED
REVENUE
Apportioned Sewer Assessment-
$300 17
Due 1920
$185 70
Due 1921
57 24
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$9,975 77 (
Sewer Assessment Revenue
$3,612 01
Sidewalk Assessment Revenue 398 00 '
Surplus Revenue $14,293 65
Sewer Assessments- Apportioned but not due
$203 98 2,646 31
398 00
Unapportioned Sewer Unapportioned Sidewalk Committed Interest : On Sewer Assess- ments 1918 $3 04
On Sewer Assess-
ments 1919 26 01
er # 1.1:17
Due 1922
57 23
$300 17
$300 17
NON-REVENUE
ACCOUNTS
Cash :
In Banks and Office
$1,388 65
Appropriation Balances : Mechanic Street Paving
$1,125 86
Elm Street Paving
99 16
Lebanon Brook Bridge
12 66
Mechanic Street Sidewalk
12 58
Mechanic Street Sidewalk
62 48
Chapin Street Sidewalk
32 73
River Street School Lot
43 18
$1,388 65
$1,388 65
DEBT ACCOUNTS
Sinking Fund Net Funded or Fixed Debt
$34,347 44 138,852 56
Sewer Construction Loan 1899 $30,000 00 Sewer Construction Loan 1900 20,000 00
$50,000 00
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General Loan, Serial 33/4%
$10,200 00
General Loan, Serial 4%
94,550 00
General Loan, Serial 41/4%
3,750 00
General Loan, Serial 41/2%
13,700 00
General Loan, Serial 51/2%
1,000 00
$173,200 00
$173,200 00
TRUST FUND
ACCOUNTS
Mary Mynott Library Fund
$1,000 00
Cemetery Perpetual Care Fund 26,670 93
A. Boyer Fund 209 09
$27,880 02
$27,880 02
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Trust Funds : Cash and Securities
$27,880 02
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Report of Town Clerk
Vital statistics for the year ending Dec. 31, 1920 :
Number of marriages
188
Number of deaths
182
Number of births
394
Number of dogs licensed in 1919 :
Males
396
Females
44
Breeders
2
Respectfully submitted,
· W. W. BUCKLEY,
Town Clerk.
Report of Board of Assessors
The Assessors of the Town of Southbridge submit the following report for the year 1920.
Appropriations voted March meeting $286,658 23
Appropriations voted April meeting 9,500 00
Appropriations voted Aug. meeting 10,000 00
$306,158 23
State tax
30,639 40
State tax of $3.00 on each poll assessed
11,016 00
County tax
12,581 00
State Highway tax
522 89
Auditing municipal accounts
403 24
Overlayings
3,575 93
Total
$364,896 69
Less estimated revenue $30,000 00
Transfer from excess and deficiency 10,000 00
State income tax 7,325 45
Educational fund
5,000 00
$52,325 45
Total amount to be raised by taxes for the year 1920 $312,571 24
Valuation real estate April 1, 1920 $72,299 49
Tax on real estate 190,870 61
Valuation on personal property April 1, 1920 $36,379 30
Tax on personal property
96,041 30
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Valuation resident bank stock $2,764 90
Tax on resident bank stock $7,299 33
Number polls assessed April 1, 1920
3,672 at $5
18,360 01
Total valuation April 1, 1920 $111,443 69
Total taxes assessed $312,571 24
Valuation non-resident shareholders of National Bank stock $63,510 00
Tax on non-resident bank stock
Sewer apportionments, assessed
$1,676 65 339 5(
Total warrant to collector $314,587 39
SUPPLEMENTARY ASSESSMENT DEC. 20, 1920
Valuation real estate
$5,490 00
Tax on real estate
$144 94
Valuation on personal property
$22,390 00
Tax on personal property
591 1(
Additional polls assessed 68 at $5.00 340 0(
Amount of warrant to collector Dec. 20, 1920 $1,076 0-
Total amount to collector for 1920 315,663 4:
Total valuation Dec. 31, 1920
11,172,249 00 26 4(
Rate per thousand
Respectfully submitted,
PHILIAS F. X. CASAVANT, WILLIAM H. McGILPIN, ANTOINE FARLAND,
Board of Assessors.
Report of Highway Surveyor
YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31st, 1920
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and Citizens of the Town of Southbridge :
I respectfully submit my report, as Highway Surveyor, for the year ending Dec. 31st, 1920. You will be able to con- sider from the following list of appropriations, expenditures and balances that the funds appropriated were practically all spent. In fact, many appropriations did not prove suf- ficient. The labor had to be divided sparingly on account of he high cost compared with the funds, and no permanent repairs could possibly be made. Filling holes, scraping, grading, cleaning, repairing dangerous places caused by the ce and washouts was all the schedule of the work.
However, in spite of many difficulties, I have endeavored o devote my time and energy to the best advantage of our own, dividing the money so as to give one and all the benefit of the appropriations.
Account
Appropriation Expended
Balance
Permanent roads
$4,081 25 $4,081 56
$0 19
Bridges
550 00
549 53
47
Sidewalk repairs
2,919 20
2,918 72
48
Railings
400 00
399 77
23
Sanitary cleaning
1,350 00
1,349 96
04
teneral cleaning
2,000 00
1,999 64
36
Iain and Hamilton st. cleaning 1,600 00
1,599 83
17
Iechanic st. sp.
2,000 00
1,999 57
43
Iain st. sp.
2,000 00
1,999 82
18
iling streets
2,500 00
2,494 49
5 51
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Forest fires
500 00
237 20
262 /
Highways
22,691 50 22,689 70 1 8
SUBDIVISIONS ON THE HIGHWAYS
Salaries
$1,800 00
Snow, ice
6,419 17
Washouts
2,056 56
Scraping
2,028 74
Culverts
1,285 28
General repairs, filling, etc.
5,417 04
Watering troughs
111 63
Repairing steam roller
594 27
Supplies ,miscellaneous
206 08
Engineering
19 50
Sanitary cleaning
289 25
General cleaning
626 25
Paving roads
668 95
Main and Hamilton
875 00
Main st. cleaning
219 98
S. repairs
72 00
Total
$22,689 '
I wish to thank the Selectmen, all other officers, and a the citizens of the town for their consideration and assis ance on my work.
Respectfully yours, AIMEE LANGEVIN, Highway Surveyor. 1
Report of Tax Collector
1920 TAXES
Assessors' warrant
$315,362 99
Collected to Dec. 31, 1920
$279,673 69
Abatement to Dec. 31, 1920
1,420 30
281,093 99
Balance outstanding Jan. 1, 1921
$34,269 00
1919 TAXES
Balance uncollected Jan. 1, 1920
$27,814 47
Collected to Dec. 31, 1920
22,695 05
Balance uncollected Jan. 1, 1921 $5,119 42
1918 TAXES
Balance uncollected Jan. 1, 1920
$6,236 81
Collected to Dec. 31, 1920 $6,164 11
Balance uncollected Jan. 1, 1921. $75 39
1917 TAXES
Balance uncollected Jan. 1, 1920
$784 69
Collected to Dec. 31, 1920 ' $784 69
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1916 TAXES
Balance uncollected Jan. 1, 1920
$15 87
Collected to Dec. 31, 1920 15 87
Respectfully yours, E. E. GABREE, Collector.
Report of Overseers of the Poor
To the Citizens of the Town of Southbridge :
In making our report for the past year, we feel that we wish to put more stress on our recommendations for 1921 than usual. Our applications for 1920 in regard to outside aid were normal and up to January of the present year we had not felt the depressing conditions that surrounding towns have been through.
The mothers' aid division has increased, although not in proportion to towns of corresponding population. '
We have made a strenuous effort by prosecution to stop wife and family desertions and have secured several convictions in the local court. Violators of this law will be dealt with severely from now on.
The local almshouse, in our opinion, after a careful study of the situation, should be abolished and Southbridge become a part of the proposed Worcester-Hampden Farm Association, whose by-laws we include in our report.
The Palmer farm is well located, has modern buildings and our people can be much better cared for than in our own almshouse. If we do not enter into an agreement of this kind, we must spend at least sixty-five hundred dollars ($6,500) to put our own buildings in condition to pass inspec- tion. This board, with the boards of other towns, have put a great deal of time into this proposition, and we ask your careful consideration.
Dr. Jos. E. Donais has been reappointed town physician,
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and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph N. Payant have agreed to remain at the farm for the coming year. We wish to thank the -
citizens and the town officials for their hearty cooperation. Respectfully submitted,
EUGENE MATTE, Chairman. GEO. H. HARTWELL, JR., Clerk. NARCISSE PELOQUIN.
INVENTORY AT ALMSHOUSE, DECEMBER 7, 1920
Class 1 :
14 head of cattles
$1,265 00
1 pair gray horses
600 00
22 pigs
194 00
59 fowls and chickens
103 86
$2,162 86
Class 2 :
Hay, grain and feed
$957 80
Class 3 :
Fuel 525 00
Class 4 :
Vegetables
201 95
Class 5 :
Meat, flour and tobacco
235 02.
Class 6 :
2261/2 quarts preserves
$113 25
56 60
Groceries
Class 7 :
1
$169 85
Furniture, crockery, tinware, farm-
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ing tools, auto truck
3,324 58
Grand Total
$7,577 06 ARSENE GIRARD, JOHN HALPIN, ARTHUR HARWOOD,
Appraisers.
BY - LAWS
By virtue of the authority vested in us by our respective towns, at the meeting aforesaid, and to carry out the interest of our said towns, we do hereby form ourselves into an asso- iation for the purpose of caring for the poor of our respect- ve towns, to be known as the Worcester-Hampden Farm Association.
Article 1. The association shall be formed for a period f five years with the privilege of five years more.
Article 2. The plant shall be managed by the Board of Overseers of the Poor for the towns forming the association.
Article 3. The poor of the towns interested, requiring ull support, shall be maintained at the plant selected, ex- ept the violent and uncontrollable insane.
Article 4. The expense of maintaining the poor at this lace shall be divided among the respective towns according the number of weeks' board furnished the poor belonging ) each town except the expense of rental of the farm and arden's salary, which shall be paid by the several towns in e association according to the assessed valuation as deter- ined by the Assessors for the year 1920.
Article 5. In case of death, the warden shall notify, at ice, the town to which the deceased person belongs, who all care for and bury said person at its expense.
Article 6. The board of management, under this agree- ent, shall employ a suitable physician to attend and care
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for all paupers committed to this farm when sick, and the expense thereof, including all needed medicines, shall be charged as expense as in Article 4.
Article 7. Any town desiring to join the association may do so by a vote of the association.
Article 8.
Section 1. The association shall begin.
and the annual reports shall be made the first day of January of every year thereafter.
Section 2. The association shall have authority to make contracts for the lease of real estate and personal prop- erty, to be used on the plant of the association, such con- tract to be in accordance with these By-Laws.
Section 3. The association hereby select the Palmer Poor Farm as the plant of the association, for the term of five years with the privilege of five years more if desired.
:- Article 9. Each town shall hold interest in the per- sonal property in proportion to their total valuation.
Article 10. The officers shall include a chairman, secre- tary and treasurer, to be elected annually by the manage- ment.
Article 11. Meetings shall be held once a month for the transaction of all business.
Article to be inserted in town warrant:
"To see if the town will vote to authorize or instruct the Overseers of the Poor to become a part of the Worcester- Hampden Farm Association according to the By-Laws attached."
1920 VALUATION OF TOWNS
Brimfield $946,250
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Wales
359,407
Wilbraham
2,120,623
Ludlow
8,427,628
Monson
2,090,308
Palmer
· 9,683,698
Southbridge
11,144,369
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Report of Board of Health
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen.
The Board of Health, Philias S. Caron, J. E. Donais, M. D., and Alfred J. Peloquin, organized as follows: Philias S. Caron, Chairman, Alfred J. Peloquin, Clerk. Monthly meetings have been held during the year.
Following is the contagious diseases reported :
Anterior poliomyelitis
1
Chicken pox
6
Diphtheria
5
German measles
2
Opthalmia neonatorum
2
Influenza
32
Lobar pneumonia
40
Measles
14
Scarlet fever
6
Pulmonary tuberculosis
9
Other forms tuberculosis
3
Whooping cough
3
Typhoid fever
3
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We believe that the town has been free from any form of epidemic and has been very fortunate in this matter.
This year Dr. F .W. Edwards and other citizens came forward and offered to buy a new ambulance for the town, which is under the care of the Board of Health. This new machine, a "Cunningham Ambulance" was delivered to the
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town without cost in the fall and the town now has ¿ up-to-date easy riding ambulance. The other ambulan was by vote of the town at a special meeting turned over the Fire Department.
Following is the list of deaths during the year :
Diseases of the heart 14
Diseases of the brain 12
Cancer 13
Lobar pneumonia
10
Broncho pneumonia
3
Influenza-pneumonia 3
Bronchitis
1
Diabetes
6
Nephritis
5
Tuberculosis, all forms
4
Cholera infantum
1
Anterior poliomyelitis
1
Suicide
1
Accidental
5
Diphtheria
1
1
Premature birth
8
Still-born
15
Ill defined
3
All other diseases
31
Total 137
Males
69
Females
67
Unknown
1
Total
137
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Deaths by months :
January
18
July
11
February
10
August
8
March
17
September
12
April
14
October
12
May
7 November
12
.June
3
December
13
Total 137
Following will be found the reports of the Agent, Public Health Nurse, Milk Inspector and Plumbing Inspector.
Respectfully submitted,
PHILIAS S. CARON, . ALFRED J. PELOQUIN, JOSEPH E. DONAIS, M. D., Board of Health.
AGENT'S REPORT
To the Honorable Board of Health.
I herewith submit my report for the year ending Decem- ber 31, 1920.
Houses placarded for contagious diseases 12 Houses disinfected after contagious diseases 4 Garbage complaints received 178
Rubbish nuisances received
23
Dump nuisances received
10
Yard nuisances received
17
Fowl nuisances received
4
Swine nuisances received
8
Cesspool nuisance received 1
Privy nuisance received
1
Dead animal nuisance received 1
Plumbing nuisance received 1
Unclean store nuisances received 5
Wells investigated and water examined 5
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ANNUAL REPORTS
These complaints were investigated and where nuisances were found they were ordered abated.
I wish to thank the Board and the public for their part of the work to promote better health conditions amongst the people of the town.
Respectfully, ALBERT R. BROWN,
Agent of Board of Health.
REPORT OF PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE
To the Southbridge Board of Health.
Gentlemen :---
The second annual report of the Public Health Nurse for the year ending December 31, 1920, is hereby submitted.
1526 advisory visits were made. Tubercular visits 431, including active, suspicious, contacts, and arrested cases. The good results from Sanatorium treatment and the dangers of infection are impressed upon the patient.
The nurse attended 50 clinics at the Town Hall on Mon- day evenings. 34 patients were examined. 6 were found to be active, 10 suspicious, and 18 non tubercular. Special endeavor has been made to visit all persons who have been exposed to tuberculosis and try to persuade them to have a physical examination at least once a year. In this way the spread of the disease can be prevented and by early diagnosis and proper treatment patients can become ar- rested cases.
Visits on contagious and infectious diseases :- Typhoid fever 14, scarlet fever 30, ophthalmia neonatorum 11, anterior poliomyelitis 4, influenza 48. Instruction was given in the care of the patient, including bedside disinfection as terminal fumigation had been discontinued by the Board of Health.
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Prenatal visits 181. Each prospective mother was advised in regard to diet, bathing, fresh air, rest, etc. Special stress being laid upon the importance of consulting a physician at once. The address of each person was sent to the Director. Division of Hygiene, and a prenatal letter was received each month and postnatal letters until the baby was a year old.
Postnatal visits 482. These were made for the purpose of instructing the mother in the value of breast feeding and the general care of the baby. Mothers may bring their babies to the Town Hall each afternoon from 3 to 5 for weighing. Literature on Infant care and diet sheets from birth to 6 years of age may be obtained.
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