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EXPENDITURES-CARE OF POOR
Home Relief
Sisters of St. Mary, care,
$225.94
Providence Hospital, care,
203.67
Delia Fouche, care, 100.00
L. M. Billings, care, .
258.50
Kate McIntire, board,
96.00
Lea LaBonte, rent,
80.00
City of Boston, aid rendered,
40.00
City of Springfield, aid rendered,
227.73
Town of W. Springfield, aid rendered, . 215.07
Town of Warren, aid rendered,
62.80
J. E. Dalton, medical aid,
14.00
J. W. Hastings, medical aid,
2.50
F. E. Morley, milk, .
82.11
J. F. Barry, coal and wood,
11.50
Mercy Hospital, care, .
21.45
Springfield Hospital, care,
48.00
W. F. Cook Coal Co., coal, 41.30
Frank J. Ladd, board, . 20.00
George L. Steele, medical aid,
18.00
J. W. Hamilton, supplies, 5.21
Dickieson and Co., supplies,
15.50
C. E. Smith, supplies, .
11.40
Mary U. Sullivan, rent,
79.00
D. M. Crowley, rent, .
90.00
P. V. Hastings, transportation,
1.50
E. S. Connor, transportation, 5.00
Cash aid, . 475.00
John R. Lloyd, services, 85.00
Daniel J. Collins, services, 90.00
James F. Barry, services,
25.00
$2,651.18
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State and Other Town's Poor
Hampshire Co. Sanitarium, board, $155.68
Charles E. Lynch, clothing, . 52.84
Giuseppi Spaziana, rent, . 75.00
George L. Steele, medical aid, 13.00
C. W. Hastings, supplies,
58.58
Dickieson & Co., supplies, 15.54
C. E. Smith, supplies, 27.40
W. E. Allen, wood, ..
12.00
E. A. Kellogg & Sons, supplies, .
30.68
Gaetano Ardizoni, rent, ·
84.00
William Peterson, milk,
30.20
Gustin Caruso, moving,
10.00
Cash aid, 480.00
$1,044.92
Total for poor,
$3,696.10
Appropriation, .
$2,000.00
Chargeable to State, 1,044.92
$3,044.92
HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES
General
City of Springfield, care of S. End
Bridge, . .
$461.46
City of Springfield, oil, .
143.75
Town of West Springfield, care of bridges, .
904.18
J. S. Lane & Sons, rock,
778.92
N. E. Culvert Co., supplies,
351.02
B. & A. R. R., cinders, .
25.00
E. S. Stacy, repairing scrapers,
1.50
C. W. Hegeman, supplies, .
2.50
Pierce Arrow Co., hauling rock,
81.07
American Tar Co., tar,
383.40
Evarist St. Marie, repairs,
4.50
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Durkee, White & Towne, surveying, . .
$8.06
E. Boulley, expressage, . 4.00
Carlisle Hardware Co., shovels,
6.40
J. L. Fleming, repairs, 3.00
$3,158.76
Agawam
C. O. Campbell, labor,
$799.16
C. O. Campbell, sand,
2.40
Fred Dudley, labor, .
62.38
Raymond Guy, labor,
15.00
Frank W. Randall, labor,
39.00
W. C. Crouss, sand,
8.10
Wm. Rafus, labor, .
12.00
Samuel Tougas, labor, .
111.75
Enrico Calabrese, labor,
6.94
Fred R. Belcher,
12.00
Gustin Caruso, labor, .
12.00
Ignace Statkum, sand, .
.60
F. H. Campbell, labor,
25.13
John Perusse, labor,
23.63
Thomas Riley, labor,
36.75
A. Gabourg, labor,
3.00
Theodore Campbell, labor,
1.50
A. Brissette, labor, 15.56
Will Larro, labor, .
6.00
Julius Wheeler, labor,
12.00
R. Willette, labor, .
3.00
John F. Buckley, labor,
53.39
C. A. Deveneu, labor, .
13.00
D. F. Crowley, labor,
9.00
John Finn, labor,
15.00
M. Hayward, labor,
64.25
D. M. Crowley, labor,
6.50
J. Hennessey, labor, .
6.00
C. D. Farnsworth Co., coal,
29.25
Silver Lake Ice Co., labor,
945.00
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Fred Perusse, labor, .
$37.00
Clement Menard, labor,
14.25
D. J. Collins, labor, .
8.00
C. W. Hastings, supplies,
15.63
J. F. Brady, sand,.
9.60
W. E. Allen, labor,
30.00
Fred C. Pomeroy, labor,
94.50
F. J. Pomeroy, sand,
11.00
N. G. King, lumber,
44.00
Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
repairs,
798.60
$3,411.87
Feeding Hills
A. H. Brown, labor,.
$16.50
S. H. Sawyer, labor,
3.00
John Kane, labor, .
4.81
C. H. Wyman, labor,
44.25
G. Blish, labor,
1.13
C. H. Wood, labor,
6.50
R. S. Farnsworth, labor,
1.13
Patrick Riley, labor, .
24.00
Michael Sheehan, labor,
9.00
F. L. Spear, lumber,
58.90
J. F. Barry, lumber,
17.32
J. C. Henley, labor,
102.00
J. F. Cleary, labor, .
32.50
F. O. Cleary, labor,
15.00
J. F. Barry, labor, .
86.75
D. L. White, labor,
644.01
Gordon L. White, labor,
3.00
Frank Ladd, labor,
72.00
Henry K. Smith, labor,
90.00
H. D. Steere, labor,
93.00
James McGurn, labor
6.00
Kerr Brothers, .
435.27
R. Peterson, labor,
6.00
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John Shea, labor, . .
$253.50
H. V. Roberts, labor,
185.25
Bert Hazleton, labor,
43.50
F. Nooney, labor,
12.00
T. Shea, pipe, 27.23
Geo. W. Hayden, labor,
36.00
John Donnelly, gravel,
2.52
E. S. Decker & Co., pipe, .
226.80
Springfield Brick Co., brick,
14.40
H. C. Puffer Co., cement,
5.70
Davitt Foundry Co., grate,
18.00
Lee S. Jenks, labor, .
134.50
E. A. Kellogg & Sons, supplies,
15.15
Ernest Whitcomb, labor,
7.88
Peter Duffizzi, labor,
8.44
Charles Redin, labor,
7.20
Charles Campbell, labor,
14.00
Chas. H. Woodard, labor,
1.02
N. G. King, lumber,
39.95
$2,825.11
Mittineague
C. A. Deveneu, labor,
$173.25
John Finn, labor,.
98.63
Carlo Castelli, labor,
1.00
D. M. Crowley, labor,
336.38
F. Menard, Jr., labor,.
6.00
Arsene Deveneu, labor,
3.00
Ervin Parent, labor,
16.50
Calix Menard, labor,
12.00
Thomas Quirk, labor,.
48.25
J. F. Crowley, labor, .
12.00
D. F. Crowley, labor,
21.75
James Caruso, labor,
234.50
Frank Menard, labor,.
66.00
Charles Thompson, labor,
63.75
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John Blair, labor, . $19.50
John F. Buckley, labor,
448.51
Amedee Jasmin, labor, 12.75
A. Gaboury, labor, . 9.00
Alfonse Brissette, labor, 54.00
August Morin, labor, 4.50
Ernest Larne, labor,
9.00
E. J. St. Louis, labor,
6.50
Menrico Rocco, labor,
15.00
Henry Ashley, labor,.
12.75
James Hennessy, labor,
9.75
Julius Wheeler, labor,
9.75
J. A. Collins, labor,
33.00
D. L. White, labor,
70.50
C. O. Campbell, labor,
129.50
J. F. Buckley, wood, .
24.00
James Jasmin, labor, .
6.00
Meddie Jasmin, labor,
12.00
Charles Nelson, labor,
58.50
Napoleon Bunyon, labor, 18.00
Roger Connor, labor, 3.00
Harry Cooley, labor, .
38.50
Enrico Milanese, labor,
1.50
Attilio Scherpa, labor, . 1.50
C. E. Smith, gravel, .
20.55
Jennie Pattison, sand,
2.00
Daniel J. Collins, labor,
131.70
$2,254.27
Springfield Street Construction
L. Luchini & Son, on contract,
$13,902.85
Total on Highways and Bridges, .
$25,552.86
Available
Appropriation,
$10,000.00
Excise tax,
2,923.21
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Note issue, $10,000.00
State Highway Commission, 317.62
Street Railway Co., reimbursement, . . 42.25
Gas Light Co., reimbursement, . 19.50
Taxation for State Highway repairs,. . 798.60
Due from State Highway Com- mission, 6,951.42
$31,052.60
TOWN OFFICE
Otis H. Adams, auditor, $20.00
Edward W. Pillsbury, auditor, 20.00
Edwin Leonard, animal inspector, 99.79
Albert H. Brown, animal inspector, .
3.00
E. S. Connor, distributing reports, .
5.00
C. W. Hull, Jr., distributing reports, .
5.00
Everett Clark, distributing reports,. . 5.00
Johnson's Bookstore, office supplies, . . .
7.00
Esther G. Hall, copying, 3.45
Daily News Job Print, printing reports, . 178.14
Daily News Job Print, printing ballots, ..
31.90
Wakefield Daily Item, office supplies,. . .
4.00
A. W. Gifford, dog tax, 12.15
Pond-Ekberg Co., printing,.
4.00
W. J. Eldred, blank book,
15.00
Dover Mfg. Co., supplies, .
6.00
E. U. Leonard, sealer and meat in- spector,
251.57
W. & L. E. Gurley, supplies, 4.58
James H. Clark, services, 5.00
Harold Hudson, transportation,
Andrew Scibelli, transportation, 1.00
4.00
James Maspo, transportation,
5.00
L. Houghton, transportation,
3.00
O. C. Alderman, supplies, . 4.00
D. J. Collins, expenses of selectmen, . .
82.00
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J. W. Hastings, registrar, $10.00
E. A. Roy, registrar,
30.00
C. W. Hull, Jr., registrar, 30.00
J. D. Cleary, registrar, . 15.00
R. M. Taylor, precinct officer, 8.50
H. W. Smith, precinct officer, 11.00
Philip W. Hastings, precinct officer, 14.00
Arthur W. Taylor, precinct officer,. 11.00
P. T. Shea, precinct officer
11.00
J. H. Clark, precinct officer,
5.50
Morris Clark, precinct officer,
11.00
H. V. Roberts, precinct officer,
11.00
W. J. O'Connor, precinct officer,
4.50
J. D. Cleary, precinct officer, .
4.50
Ralph Perry, precinct officer,
8.50
W. H. Porter, precinct officer,
5.50
W. H. Seaver, precinct officer,
9.00
M. J. Carroll, precinct officer, ..
5.50
N. E. Bosworth, precinct officer, .
11.00
W. H. Lester, precinct officer,
11.00
A. A. Randall, precinct officer,
11.00
C. O. Worthington, precinct officer,
11.00
P. V. Hastings, precinct officer, .
8.50
C. F. Barden, precinct officer,
6.50
Jerrie Cavanaugh, precinct officer, 5.50
D. J. Curran, precinct officer, 11.00
E. A. Gosselin, precinct officer 5.50
Chas. Gauthier, precinct officer, 4.50
George Lamontagne, precinct officer,. .. 4.50
Fred Goulette, precinct officer, . 11.00
Arsene Deveneu, precinct officer,
4.50
H. C. Wisenburn, precinct officer, 4.50
John Donovan, precinct officer, 8.50
E. W. Pillsbury, precinct officer 8.50
Leo J. Roy, precinct officer, 2.00
Fred Larro, precinct officer,. 6.50
David Consolati, precinct officer, 6.50
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Edward St. Louis, precinct officer,. $2.00
Charles Thompson, precinct officer, . 4.50
Ernest Rivers, precinct officer, 4.50
W. H. Porter, moderator, 5.00
J. H. Clark, selectmen, 50.00
J. F. Barry, selectman, 175.00
J. R. Lloyd, selectman, . 275.00
D. J. Collins, selectman, . 305.00
Scott Adams, town counsel,
578.56
$2,526.64
Appropriation,
$2,200.00
CLERK, TREASURER AND COLLECTOR
Henry E. Bodurtha, services 1918, . ... $600.00
Henry E. Bodurtha, services 1919, 1,600.00
$2,200.00
Appropriation,
$1,600.00
CONTINGENCIES
E. U. Leonard, inspecting meats, . $122.56
Carter Ink Co., ink,
1.25
Andrew Scibelli, services,
4.00
James Maspo, services, 6.00
Esther G. Hall, copying, . 1.00
H. E. Bodurtha, express, postage, etc.,
39.62
Appropriation,
SEWERS
Attilio Scherpa, labor,
$18.00
Fred Belcher, labor,
12.25
Fred Perusse, labor, .
12.25
Fred Dudley, labor, .
1.75
Geo. W. Hayden, labor,
169.85
E. S. Decker, pipe,
143.25
$174.43 $600.00
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Wm. Deforge, labor,
$12.50
E. J. St. Louis, labor,
2.00
James Collins, labor,
10.00
Giuseppi Lucardi, labor, 25.00
Arthur Roberts, pipe, 10.24
D. J. Collins, labor,
25.00
Durkee, White & Towne, surveying, . .
30.08
Entrance fees,
$472.17 $555.00
POLICE
E. S. Connor, services, $1,350.00
E. S. Connor, expenses,
169.36
F. H. Campbell, services, 255.00
W. S. Safford, services,
429.00
J. J. Deforge, services,
37.00
K. W. Birk, services, . 11.00
James Cesan, services,
3.00
City of Springfield, lockup fees,
8.00
N. E. T. & T. Co., service,
2.83
Clark B. Jones, services, .
7.00
William Buckley, transportation,
15.00
E. M. Marsh, transportation,
2.00
Herbert G. Taylor, transportation,
3.00
Ashley R. Cooley, transportation,
2.00
Walter E. Allen, services,
10.00
Publicity Printing Co., printing,
56.00
Dr. W. J. Glasgow, services,
3.00
George McLoughlin, services,
7.00
$2,370.19
AVAILABLE
Appropriation,
$2,000.00
Jitney licenses,
577.50
Court fines, .
185.00
$2,762.50
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STREET LIGHTS
Agawam Electric Co., lighting streets, $5,225.44 United Electric Light Co., lighting bridge, 104.77
$5,330.21
Appropriation,
$5,700.00
CARE AND REPAIR OF TOWN BUILDINGS
Agawam Electric Co., lighting, . $121.81
John McCleary & Son, repairing, 128.74
D. M. Smith, electrical work, 47.00
H. C. Puffer Co., supplies, . . 8.16
J. F. Barry, labor and supplies,
32.30
J. C. Healey, labor,
2.63
M. Hayward, repairs,
6.50
Quimby Co., supplies,
9.50
Geo. W. Hayden, repairs,
36.75
Interstate Electric Co., repairs, 45.37
Luigi Bruni, repairs, .
160.00
Thomas Speight, repairs,
300.00
Shean Advertising Co., services,
3.50
T. M. Walker Co., supplies, .
2.07
Kemp Electrical Appliance Co., sup- plies, .
4.80
Young Bros., eaves troughs,
118.50
R. J. Wilder, repairs,
185.00
C. H. Wood, repairs,
8.00
C. H. Wood, janitor,
86.50
D. J. Bloom, janitor,
21.50
$1,328.63
Appropriation,
$800.00
Rent of Halls, .
164.23
Due on insurance,
250.00
$1,214.23
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HEALTH DEPARTMENT
Springfield Visiting Nurse Asso., serv-
ices, . $15.05
Dr. E. H. Guild, examinations, 22.00
Dr. F. D. Jones, examinations, 6.00
Hampden County for Tuberculosis Hospital,.
192.23
D. J. Collins, services, .
55.00
J. R. Lloyd, services,
35.00
Appropriation,
ASSESSORS' DEPARTMENT
R. Mather Taylor, services, . $260.00
H. Preston Worden, services,
247.50
Alson W. Allen, services,
175.00
Louise M. Brown, copying,
50.00
P. B. Murphy, blanks, .
3.50
Johnson's Bookstore, supplies,
37.50
Wakefield Daily Item, supplies, . .45
Minnie A. Barden, searching records, . 10.00
Pond-Ekberg Co., printing,
32.00
Appropriation, .
DISTRICT NURSE
Ellen M. Dowd, salary, .
$400.00
Auto Parts and Repair Co., automo- bile, 705.66
Auto Parts and Repair Co., repairs, ...
1.25
Dentists and Surgical Supply Co., supplies,
17.51
L. Houghton, gasoline and repairs, .
80.28
Mayo Brothers, gasoline, 2.24
J. P. Vincelette, gasoline,
14.48
$325.28 $400.00
$815.95 $800.00
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K. W. Birk, transportation, $6.00 State Highway Commission, registra- tion, 10.00
Appropriation,
$1,237.42 $2,000.00
MEMORIAL DAY
Avery K. Gleason, committee, $50.00
Charles O. Worthington, committee,. . 50.00
Appropriation,
$100.00 $100.00
SCHOOLHOUSE LOTS
Genevieve F. Shaughnessy, court judgment,. $283.80
Eveline J. Trevallion, court judgment, . 884.84
Amos Gosselin, court judgment, 225.00
J. D. Law Co., wire, . 46.72
$1,440.36
SURETY BONDS
National Surety Co., premiums,
$50.00
Appropriation,
$50.00 $100.00
LIABILITY INSURANCE
C. W. Hastings, Agent, premium, . . $292.28
$292.28
Appropriation, $200.00
HAMPDEN COUNTY IMPROVEMENT LEAGUE
Hampden County Improvement
League, .
$238.00
$238.00
Appropriation,
$300.00
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INTEREST
C. D. Parker & Co., Inc., temporary loans, $1,658.66
Grafton Co., temporary loans, . 229.92
Natick Five Cents Savings Bank, water loan, . 80.00
Boston Five Cents Savings Bank, water loan,. 160.00
Southbridge Savings Bank, school- house loan, . 40.00
Hull Sinking Fund Commissioners, schoolhouse loan, 240.00
Old Colony Trust Co., water loan,
960.00
Old Colony Trust Co., water loan, . 3,633.75
Old Colony Trust Co., schoolhouse loan, . 620.00
Old Colony Trust Co., sewer loan, . .
1,000.00
Old Colony Trust Co., schoolhouse loan,
630.00
Old Colony Trust Co., water loan, . .
1,080.00
Old Colony Trust Co., commission, ... 8.78
- $10,341.11
AVAILABLE
Interest on taxes and deposits, $1,849.97
Appropriation, . 8,500.00
Income from Water Dept., 2,327.81
$12,677.78
TOWN DEBT
Natick Five Cents Savings Bank, water loans, $1,000.00
C. D. Parker & Co. Inc., school- house loan,. 2,000.00
Old Colony Trust Co., water loan,. ... 1,000.00
Old Colony Trust Co., water loan, ... 3,500.00
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Old Colony Trust Co., schoolhouse loan, . . $1,000.00
Old Colony Trust Co., sewer loan, .... 1,000.00 Old Colony Trust Co., schoolhouse loan, 1,000.00
Old Colony Trust Co., water loan,
1,000.00 ·
$11,500.00
Available
Appropriation, .$10,000.00
License fees, . 1,748.99
Bank and Corporation taxes,
3,276.57
$15,025.56
LIABILITIES DECEMBER 31, 1918
One note held by Natick Five Cents Savings Bank due Jan. 1, 1921, at 4% water loan, . $1,000.00
Four notes held by Boston Five Cents Savings Bank, due $1000, annually Jan. 1, 1922-25, at 4% water loan, . 4,000.00 Three notes payable to C. D. Parker & Co., due $2000, annually July 1, 1920-22, at 4% schoolhouse loan, .. 6,000.00
Twenty-three bonds of $1000, payable annually Oct. 1, 1920-42, to Old Colony Trust Co., at 4% water loan, . 23,000.00
Bonds of 1913 water loan, payable $3500, annually July 1, 1920-43, to Old Colony Trust Co., at 412%, 79,000.00 Bonds of 1916 schoolhouse loan, $1000 payable annually July 1, 1920-34, to Old Colony Trust Co., at 4%, .. 15,000.00 Sewer bonds of 1916 issue payable $1000, annually Dec. 1, 1920-43, to Old Colony Trust Co., at 4%, .. 24,000.00
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Schoolhouse bonds of 1917 issue paya-
ble $1000, annually Sept. 1, 1920- 32, to Old Colony Trust Co., at 412%, $13,000.00
Water bonds of 1917 issue payable
$1000, annually Oct. 1, 1919-42,
to Old Colony Trust Co., at 41/2%, 23,000.00
Temporary loan payable April 10, 1920, 10,000.00
Temporary loan payable April 15,
1920, 15,000.00
Five serial notes of $2,000 each, paya- ble Dec. 10, 1920-1924, . 10,000.00
$223,000.00
ASSETS
Cash in Treasury,
$2,363.57
Due on 1916 taxes,
3,690.71
Due on 1917 taxes,.
6,523.54
Due on 1918 taxes,
11,918.55
Due on 1919 taxes, ..
36,363.70
Due from State on highways,.
6,951.42
Due for State aid,
240.00
Due on water rents, estimated,
5,000.00
Due on water connections, estimated, .
1,200.00
$74,251.49
DANIEL J. COLLINS, JOHN R. LLOYD, JAMES F. BARRY,
Selectmen, Overseers of Poor, Board of Health.
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Report of Community Nurse
To the Selectmen of the Town of Agawam:
My stay of only four months as Community and School Nurse will oblige me to be brief in my report to you on the health conditions in the town of Agawam.
The work has embraced the following: tuberculosis investigation, infant welfare and prenatal instruction, the teaching of bedside nursing, and the inspection and examina- tion of school children.
The work of the community nurse is social as well as medical, preventive as well as curative. The giving of a bath, the preparation of a single meal for a patient, may seem to be purely routine nursing work. To the uninitiated its social aspects are enormous. The union of medical and social work is wrought here.
In school nursing, the school is the center in which the bulk of my work has been performed. I will attempt to give an idea of the scope of school nursing.
Health direction by the school nurse is not something merely attached to a school system. It is a part of it. The nurse gradually assumes the supervision of the health of the pupil. The curative character of the work is being displaced by the adoption of preventive measures through education.
The vital importance of school work, then, arises from its instructive character, its educational value, its formative influence upon young lives and thoughts instead of trying to relieve temporarily morbid conditions. To prevent the occurrence of these conditions is the biggest problem of the school nurse today.
Health teaching should be a part of the school nurse's
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work in the schools. The question naturally follows-How is the nurse to do this intensive work? Can it be performed in connection with a mixture of tuberculosis, infant welfare and general community nursing? Does the distribution of interests in any line of work contribute to the highest effi- ciency? The longer the nurse is engaged in school nursing, the more efficient she becomes in that branch, other things being equal, but if her time and attention must be divided up with bedside nursing she cannot render to the school the larger service which must of necessity require concentrated, specialized effort.
The public sees first the outward visible signs of corrected conditions, and here the first, if not the most important work must be done-a few cases of pediculosis gives a bad reputa- tion to a school and the eliminating of these works wonders in raising it in grade of respectability; when a nurse follows such a case to a home she has the opportunity to give real home training.
In her talks and visits to schools the nurse detects cases of adenoids, diseased tonsils and defective eyes and teeth. A total of seven hundred and nine visits have been made to the homes of children. The consent of five parents ob- tained, arrangements were made and the children were sent to physicians or hospitals for the removal of the defect. Glasses have been prescribed and fitted to three children, and one child admitted to the charitable eye and ear infir- mary, Boston-for a series of treatment. An ailment, which, if neglected, might have marred the child's future, was taken in time and remedied. This restores the child to physical and often mental normality.
In another instance, a visit to the home of an anæmic and physically defective child observed in school has led to the finding of a grave pathological condition in the home.
When right living, household sanitation, disease pre- vention, shall have been put into the possession of every individual in the entire town of Agawam, when the American mother-to-be on the farm can receive the same direction in
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anticipation of her baby, the same care at the time of its birth, the same instructions as to proper feeding, clothing, and care after its arrival, that the properly equipped City Health Department accords to the most recent immigrant mother, and when every school child has the same advan- tages in health instruction and visiting nurse supervision as has his brother in the city schools-then and not until then will our ideal community and school nursing in Agawam be attained.
I wish to thank the superintendent of schools, teachers, . and parents who have assisted me in many ways in their kind co-operation.
Respectfully submitted,
ELEANOR E. DOWD.
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Report of the Library Trustees
BOOKS
Number at Agawam, .
4,960
Number at Feeding Hills,
3,800
Number at Mittineague,
682
BORROWERS
Agawam,
251
Riverside, .
33
Feeding Hills,
525
Mittineague, .
160
CIRCULATION
Agawam,
5,182
Riverside, .
452
Feeding Hills,
8,060
Mittineague,
2,576
LIBRARIANS
Agawam, Ralph Perry Feeding Hills, Avery K. Gleason Mittineague, Julia E. Tower
EXPENDITURES
Agawam Electric Co., lighting, $32.09
J. C. Healey, care of building,
23.70
Nathan Burr, cleaning, 2.00
C. W. Hastings, insurance,
41.58
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J. F. Barry, fuel, . $53.44
Johnson's Bookstore, books,
202.90
Springfield News Co., books,
28.39
Forbes & Wallace, books,
527.67
Library Bureau, supplies,
9.50
Houghton Mifflin Co., books,
43.99
H. R. Huntting Co., books, .
8.65
Avery K. Gleason, services,
75.00
Ralph Perry, services,
75.00
Julia E. Tower, services,
35.00
$1,158.91
AVAILABLE
Appropriation,
$200.00
Income from Dog Fund,
597.81
Phelon Library Fund,
21.47
Rent of tenement, .
156.00
$975.28
RALPH PERRY, AVERY K. GLEASON, HENRY L. TOWER,
Trustees.
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. REPORT OF THE
Tree and Forest Warden
For the first time in three years we have Main street, Agawam, comparatively free from dead trees; although we may lose a few more by gas or otherwise, yet I think we shall be able to save most of what are left now. I would esteem it a personal favor if any one finding the least indication of gas leaks in this town would notify the Tree Warden or the Springfield Gas Light Company or, better yet, both immediately.
LABOR ON SHADE TREES
We still continue the policy of bolting trees when the necesssity becomes apparent. We have repaired several the past season in this manner.
We have cleaned up several miles of roadside brush and there is much that should be done. We never seem to catch up on this work. We have planted at least 150 new trees this season, replacing all that were removed (ex- cept one on School street), and in many new locations where there were none.
We have done the usual annual trimming and clearing up work as far as our appropriation would allow.
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SPRAYING
Although not seriously infested, as a precautionary measure, we sprayed quite a number of maple shade trees in Mittineague for cottony scale.
MOTH WORK
In this work we covered the most likely places very thoroughly last winter and spring but did not find any brown tailed nests or gypsy egg masses. Recently the State Superintendent notified your servant that these pests are spreading in some localities.
FOREST FIRES
Although we have had any number of small grass and brush fires only two (one in Feeding Hills and one in Agawam) were serious enough to do much damage. I presume $1,000.00 would easily cover the loss on forest fires the past season.
Deputy Fire Wardens appointed for 1920:
Walter E. Allen, Agawam; River 4606-M.
F. C. Pomeroy, Agawam; River 3764-W.
Dwight E. Bailey, Agawam; River 3165-W. James Kerr, Feeding Hills; River 6026-J. James H. Clark, Feeding Hills; River 7821-W.
K. W. Birk, Feeding Hills; River 6308-M. James F. Barry, Feeding Hills; River 1473-M. In case of forest fire call nearest warden.
EXPENDITURES
Henry W. Fitch, repairs, . $22.50
Frost Insecticide Co., supplies, 10.50
J. W. Adams Co., trees, 152.15
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Carlisle Hardware Co., supplies,
$1.47
D. J. Powell, supplies, .
11.36
Morris A. Cohen, supplies,
9.99
C. W. Hastings, insurance,
11.00
Pay rolls,
517.25
Forest fires,
65.50
$801.72
Appropriation, .
$800.00
EDWIN M. HITCHCOCK, Tree and Forest Warden.
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Report of Fire Commissioners
We are pleased to report that there have been no serious fires during the past year. The one notable event of the year was the installation of three combination trucks as authorized by the last annual town meeting. These trucks seem admirably adapted to our needs and should render good service for many years.
Heating plants have been placed in the stations at Mittineague and Feeding Hills, thus bringing all of the sta- tions essentially up to date in their equipment. We feel that these investments have been wise, as the department could not properly function without equipment, and also the morale of the men has been stimulated, giving them pride in their organization. They feel that the people appre- ciate what they are doing, and this inspires them with confidence in their ability to meet any emergency of the future.
For the coming year the needs will be few. Provision will have to be made for the up-keep only.
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