Town of Arlington annual report 1910, Part 13

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Franz Abt


(b) Kipling's Recessional Gower


Presentation of Diplomas Chairman of School Committee


Barbara Frietchie Jules Jordan Chorus of One Hundred Twenty. Accompanist, Ward Chick, A. H. S., 1911


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SCHOOL COMMITTEE


GRADUATES.


Anna Attwill Barnes George Story Chapman Nora Frances Cronin Helen Edith Crosby Edna Frances Easter Caroline Vickery Everett Judith Delano Everett .


Henry Bradley Frost Marjorie Stanwood Gott Emma Gustafson


Edward William Higgins


Irving Sylvester Hill Erma Alice Johnson


Elizabeth Keefe Walter Leonard Kelley


Helen Marguerite Shedd


Rose Elizabeth Kelly


Helen Arabella Stearns


Ray Edward Mauger


Mattie Ethel Stiles


Margaret Annette McCoy


Ethel May Storey


Viola Michaels


Ella Blanche Vail


Retta Augusta Murray


Raymond Albert Whitten


SPECIAL STUDENTS.


Frances Marion Balser John Francis Buckley Jack Gouverneur Hutchinson


GRADUATION EXERCISES OF THE NINTH GRADE. ARLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL Cotting Hall, High School Building, Thursday, June 23, 1910. At 2 P.M. PROGRAM.


Music. All in the Shade of a Greenwood Tree


Tracy


Semi-Chorus


Eugene Field


Recitation. (a) Luddy Dud (b) Night Wind Louise Hatch


Helen Lucilla O'Keefe Mildred Rogers Pattee Arthur Bacon Peirce Emma Frances Poore Mary Marcella Power


Olive Hayden Prescott Ruth Prescott May Helen Priest


Mary Helen Purcell


Eunice Margaret Quinn


Gladys Richardson Emily Dunbar Roden


Minnie Rosen William Charles Scannell


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Music. The Three Chafers Folk-song


Semi-Chorus. Melody in Bass


Declamation. Incident of The French Camp Ralph A. Philpott


R. Browning


Music. (a) Snow So Fair


Goldthwaite


Recitation. How Tom Sawyer Whitewashed the Fence Mark Twain


Olive M. Wheaton


Declamation. British Aggression Josiah Quincy, Jr.


Harold F. Kimball


Piano Selection. Second Mazurka B. Godard


Dorothy F. Munch


Presentation of Diplomas Dr. Frederick A. Bisbee


Music. The Home of Freedom Wilson


Entire Class


GRADUATES.


Hortense B. Aguere


William H. Keefe


Grace E. Belyea


Gertrude A. Kelley


William G. Burke


Ruth M. Kelley


Lauretta M. Christenson


Gladys E. Kimball


Thornton L. Cutler


Harold F. Kimball


Ruth E. Danforth Christine Darling


Louise F. Lyons


Katharine A. Donovan


Thomas H. Lyons


H. Raymond Durling Anna J. Mahoney


Beatrice M. Earle


David E. Mahoney


Gaylord H. Goldsmith


Francis M. Mahoney


B. Louise Hatch Ralph S. Hooper


Elton J. Mansell John J. McCarthy


ʼ


Lucile Hortter


D. Roy McClare


Olive Houghton


Edith McClare


Paul J. Kanaly


Bernard McGarry


:


.


(b) The Buttercup's Reply Girls' Voices


Marion J. Lunney


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SCHOOL COMMITTEE


Anna C. McKay Grace G. Milligan Grace E. Moir


Beatrice Moseley Dorothy T. Munch Ralph Neilsen Lois B. Nightingale Charles Nolan O'Donnell Mary K. O'Neil


Amy E. Schwamb William J: Sinclair Reginald T. Squire Adelaide Stickney Charles R. Stinson J. Edward Sweeney Florence E. Teel Mae C. Tole Alfred E. Viano


Lillian N. Perkins Nelly M. Peterson Ralph A. Philpott


Anna E. Waage


Olive W. Wheaton


Florence B. Whittemore


Margaret L. Purcell


Harry A. Whittemore


F. Lorenze Rimbach Hamlyn N. Robbins Charles Robinson


Philip G. Wilder Pauline Winn


Marion E. Robinson John M. Ryan


Rosamond Wood Bertha M. Yerrinton Margaret J. Yerrinton


George E. Salt


Kenneth T. Young


GRADUATION EXERCISES. LOCKE SCHOOL. June 22, 1910


Song. All in the Shade of the Greenwood Tree Tracy


Semi-Chorus


Essay. Our Choice of an Author Laura Elizabeth Robinson


Essay. The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson Adella Wilkins McMillan


Recitation. "The Road of the Loving Heart" Youth's Companion Louise Gertrude Holbrook


Song. The Three Chafers Semi-Chorus. Melody in Bass Recitation. Selection from "Kidnapped" Stevenson


Truhn


Edward Mead


Songs.


Girls' Voices


(a) Snow So Fair


Goldthwaite


(b) The Buttercup's Reply (Canon in unison) Goldthwaite


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Recitation.


Christmas at Sea


Stevenson


May Furdon


Recitation.


Selection from "The Christmas Sermon''


Margaret Elizabeth Power


Stevenson


Song. The Home of Freedom Wilson


The Class


The History of the Class of 1910


Dorothy Danforth Doe.


Presentation of Diplomas Dr. Frederick A. Bisbee


LIST OF GRADUATES.


George Walter Berglund


Daniel Hurley


Agnes Julia Binnig


Mary Frances Kenney


Mary Josephine Bowler


Edward Joseph Leary


Melvin Farnsworth Breed


Katherine Mary Livingstone


Marian Evelyn Bushee


Edward Mead


Fred Boyd Campbell


Charlotte Frances McGee


Charles Matthew Canniff


Deborah Anna Cranston


Jeremiah Anthony Crowley


Alice Baxter Dickie


Eliza Dickson


Dorothy Danforth Doe


Alice Teresa Dolan


Thomas Joseph Donnelly


Katherine Eberhardt


May Agnes Furdon


William Joseph Furdon


Muriel Frances Salisbury


Madeline Annette Gaudelet Pauline Garman


Louis Albert Salter Elizabeth Stewart Taylor


Louise Gertrude Holbrook


Alma Lillian Whelpley


May Wilson


Cyrus William Wolffer


Elizabeth Marguerite Holt George Frederick Horner


Adella Wilkins McMillan Marian Winifred Meehan George Everett Miller Ralph Webber Morrison Mildred Caroline Partridge Margaret Elizabeth Power Mary Elizabeth Robertson Laura, Elizabeth Robinson Alice Gertrude Ross Annie Ross


Grace Florence Woodend


REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH


The Board of Health respectfully submits the following report for the year ending December 31, 1910:


The present Board, consisting of Dr. Laurence L. Peirce, Alfred H. Knowles and Dr. Guy E. Sanger, met March 14, 1910, and organized with Dr. Peirce as chairman, and Mr. Horace A. Free- man as clerk. Mr. Freeman served the Board until the time of his death, November 26, 1910, since which time the position has been filled by Mr. Thomas J. Robinson.


The general health of the Town, in regard to contagious dis- eases, has been good, there not having been any serious outbreaks of any kind.


COLLECTION OF ASHES AND OFFAL.


As pointed out in the report for 1909, the expense of this de- partment is continually increasing owing to the rapid growth of the Town, especially in some sections, and we have had to ask for an additional appropriation in order to carry on the work. We refer you to the following comparison table with that of the year. 1909:


1910


1909


Labor


Horses


Total


Labor Horses Total


Offal


$2,053.73 $747.76


$2,801.49 $1,657.44 $540.06 $2,197.80


Ashes


2,589.07 1,061.53


3,650.60 2,231.02 960.01 3,191.03


Repairs and sup-


plies


210.23


Totals


4,642.80 1,809.29 6,452.09


The garbage plant has proven successful and has placed the Town on a modern basis in regard to the disposal of the offal.


SANITARY CONDITIONS.


We feel that the present sanitary conditions of the Town are much improved over those of a year ago. In the east section, the Henderson and Teel Streets district, great improvement has been made in regard to sewer connections. In other parts of the


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Town, wherever cesspools have been called to the attention of the Board, we have in most cases been able to have connections made with the public sewer. We would refer you further to the reports of the Sanitary and Plumbing Inspectors, whose work has in every way been very satisfactory.


CONTAGIOUS DISEASES FOR WHICH THE TOWN HAS BECOME LIABLE.


Under Chapter 213, Acts of 1902, as amended, the Town has been liable for eight contagious diseases, costing the Town $572.35. While the number of cases is smaller than in 1909 there having been eighteen in that year, the expense has been greater in pro- portion, the expense in 1909 being $800. The expense under this head cannot be foreseen, and, therefore, will be the cause of an overdraft each year.


REPORTABLE DISEASES.


The Board has adjudged the diseases known as scarlet fever, measles, typhoid fever, diphtheria, small-pox, membraneous croup, cholera, yellow fever, typhus fever, cerebro-spinal men- ingitis, hydrophobia, malignant pustule, leprosy, trichinosis, tuberculosis, ophthalmia of the newly-born, actinomysis, glanders, tetanus, varicella, whooping-cough as infectious or contagious, and dangerous to the public health and safety within the mean- ing of the Statutes. Physicians are required to report immediately to the Board every case of either of these diseases coming under their care, and postal cards conveniently printed and addressed are supplied to them for this purpose. On receipt of a card from a physician the Superintendent of Schools, Principal of High School, Trustees of Robbins Library and School Physician are notified. Mr. Charles T. Hartwell acts as fumigator in behalf of the Board.


CULTURE STATIONS.


Culture tubes for diphtheria, sputum-bottles for suspected tuberculosis and anti-toxin are provided by the State Board of Health and placed by this Board with H. A. Perham, druggist, for the use of physicians.


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NEW PLUMBING AND DRAINAGE REGULATIONS.


The plumbing and drainage regulations used in the past having proven to be unsuitable for present conditions, the Board have had under consideration the past year a new set, which after care- ful consideration has been adopted, and the same will be out of the printer's hands the first week in January. The Board wishes to express its appreciation of the work done in regard to this mat- ter on the part of one of its members, Mr. A. H. Knowles and Mr. George W. Day, the Plumbing Inspector.


SLAUGHTERING ESTABLISHMENTS.


Licenses for slaughtering have been granted to William and Frank Bowman, the same to be done on their premises, east of the lower end of Broadway, and Mr. Frank P. Winn has acted as Inspector of Slaughtering for the Board at a salary of $120 per year. Recently several letters of complaint have been received from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and from the Board of Health of the City of Boston, demanding that the Town live up to a strict interpretation of the law, which re- quires the presence of the inspector during the whole time of slaughtering. As it would be absurd to expect any one to give such amount of time for the above salary the Board will in all probability in the near future ask for a much larger salary for the Inspector of Slaughtering, to enable us to carry on the work as called for by the Statutes.


REPORTS OF OFFICERS OF THE BOARD.


The reports of the several officers of the Board are appended, to which attention is called.


FINANCIAL.


For detail as to expenditures reference is made to the report of the Auditor.


LICENSES.


Licenses have been granted as follows:


Stables: George Clark, 30 Mystic Street; John Lyons, Bucknam Court; Mary A. Law, Mill Street.


Undertakers: J. Henry Hartwell & Son, Medford Street; Daniel


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W. Grannan and William D. Grannan, 378 Massachusetts Avenue; James P. Daley, 1 Park Terrace.


Slaughtering: William and Frank Bowman, Broadway.


Lying-in hospitals: Jennie A. Grant, Pleasant Street.


MISCELLANEOUS - BOARD OF INFANTS.


The Board has given its approval to applications for licenses to board infants or children as follows: Rosa Simmonds, 32 Apple- ton Street, S. A. Gilpatrick, 14 Teele Street Place, Mary E. Smith, 16 Walnut Place, Mary E. Hallice, 43 Massachusetts Avenue, Georgianna A. Fouquet, 51 Teele Street, Sarah Scanlon, 41 Teele Street, Emma Hill, 17 Cottage Avenue, Flora A. Hill, 13 Cottage Avenue, Jennie H. Goodwin, 928 Massachusetts Avenue.


LAURENCE L. PEIRCE, M.D.V., ALFRED H. KNOWLES, GUY E. SANGER, M.D.


Board of Health


Attention is called to the following regulations of the Board of Health and extracts from the Revised Laws:


DISEASES DANGEROUS TO THE PUBLIC HEALTH.


FROM REGULATION OF BOARD OF HEALTH.


SECTION 3. Upon the outside of every house in which there is a person sick with smallpox, diphtheria, membraneous croup, measles or scarlet fever shall be placed a suitable placard with the name of the disease. The Board of Health may in special cases permit the placard to be placed upon interior apartments only. This placard shall not be defaced or removed by any per- son without authority of the Board of Health.


SEC. 4. No person shall remove or permit to be removed from any house or apartment upon which a placard has been placed, as provided in Section 3, any clothing, books or other property without a permit from the Board of Health; nor after a house is established as a hospital, under provisions of Chapter 80 of the Public Statutes, shall any occupant of such house take up a residence elsewhere without such permit. No public or circulating library book shall be taken into any house or apartment whereon a placard has been placed, as provided in Section 3, before the authorized removal of said placard. All books, papers, toys and other articles in a room where there is a person sick with scarlet fever or diphtheria which cannot be thoroughly disinfected must be destroyed.


SEC. 5. No person living in a house or interior apartment upon which a


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placard has been placed, as provided in Section 3, shall attend or visit any school in the Town without a permit from the Board of Health.


SEC. 6. No person who has visited a house in which there was at the time a case of smallpox, diphtheria, membraneous croup, or scarlet fever, shall at- tend school until the expiration of two weeks from such visit.


SEC. 7. Danger of conveying smallpox, diphtheria and scarlet fever shall not be considered to have passed until two weeks have expired after the rooms occupied by a person who has been sick with either of said diseases, and the articles used by him have been disinfected to the satisfaction of the Board of Health.


SEC. 8. In case of the removal of a child from the house where a person is sick with any of the diseases mentioned in Section 11 of Chapter 496 of the Acts of the year 1898, two weeks must elapse before such child is allowed to attend school.


SEC. 9. No case of diphtheria shall be considered recovered until a nega- tive culture has twice been obtained, at not less than three days' interval, from such patient.


SEC. 10. No case of scarlet fever shall be considered recovered until des- quamation is complete on every part of the body.


SEC. 11. No child having chicken-pox or mumps shall be allowed to attend any school in this Town.


EXTRACTS FROM THE REVISED LAWS AS AMENDED. CONTAGIOUS DISEASES.


Chapter 480, Acts of 1907: An act to provide for the compulsory notification and registration of tuberculosis and other diseases dangerous to the public Health.


Be it enacted, etc., as follows:


SECTION 1. Sections forty-nine and fifty of Chapter seventy-five of the Revised Laws, as amended by Chapter two hundred and fifty-one of the Acts of the year nineteen hundred and five, and Section fifty-two of said Chapter seventy-five are hereby amended by inserting after the word "disease," wherever it may occur in said sections, the words: - declared by the State Board of Health to be, - so as to read as follows: - Section 49. A house- holder who knows that a person in his family or house is sick of small-pox, diphtheria, scarlet fever or any other infectious or contagious disease declared by the State Board of Health to be dangerous to the public health shall forth- with give notice thereof to the Board of Health of the city or town in which he dwells. Upon the death, recovery or removal of such person, the householder shall disinfect to the satisfaction of the Board such rooms of his house and articles therein as, in the opinion of the Board, have been exposed to infection or contagion. Should one or both eyes of an infant become inflamed, swollen and red, and show an unnatural discharge at any time within two weeks after its birth, it shall be the duty of the nurse, relative or other attendant having charge of such infant to report in writing within six hours thereafter, to the Board of Health of the city or town in which the parents of the infant reside, the fact that such inflammation, swelling and redness of the eyes and un-


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natural discharge exist. On receipt of such report, or of notice of the same symptoms given by a physician as provided by the following section, the Board of Health shall take such immediate action as it may deem necessary in order that blindness may be prevented. Whoever violates the provisions of this sec- tion shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars. Section 50. If a physician knows that a person whom he is called to visit is infected with small-pox, diphtheria, scarlet fever or any other disease declared by the State Board of Health to be dangerous to the public health, or if one or both eyes of an infant whom or whose mother he is called to visit become inflamed, swollen or red, and show an unnatural discharge within two weeks after the birth of such infant, he shall immediately give notice thereof in writing over his own signature to the Selectmen or Board of Health of the town; and if he refuses or neglects to give such notice, he shall forfeit not less than fifty or more · than two hundred dollars for each offense. Section 52. If the Board of Health of a city or town has had notice of a case of small-pox, diphtheria, scarlet fever or any other disease declared by the State Board of Health to be dangerous to the public health therein, it shall within twenty-four hours there- after give notice thereof to the State Board of Health stating the name and location of the patient so afflicted, and the secretary thereof shall forthwith transmit a copy of such notice to the State Board of Charity.


SEC. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved June 6, 1907.]


VACCINATION.


Chap. 75, Sec. 136. A parent or guardian who neglects to cause his child or ward to be vaccinated before the child or ward attains the age of two years, except as provided in section one hundred and thirty-nine, shall forfeit five dollars for every year during which such neglect continues.


Chap. 75, Sec. 137. The Board of Health of a city or town, if in its opinion it is necessary for the public health or safety, shall require and enforce the vaccination and revaccination of all the inhabitants thereof and shall provide them with the means of free vaccination. Whoever, being over twenty-one years of age and not under guardianship, refuses or neglects to comply with such requirement, shall forfeit five dollars.


Chap. 44, Sec. 6. [Revised Laws, as amended by Chap. 371, Acts of 1906.] A child who has not been vaccinated shall not be admitted to a public school except upon presentation of a certifi- cate signed by a regular practicing physician that he is not a fit subject for vaccination. A child who is a member of a house- hold in which a person is ill with small-pox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, measles, or any other infectious or contagious disease, or


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of a household exposed to such contagion from another house- hold as aforesaid, shall not attend any public school during such illness until the teacher of the school has been furnished with a certificate from the Board of Health of the city or town, or from the attending physician of such person, stating that danger of conveying such disease by such child has passed.


NOTE. Section 139, referred to above, exempts children who present a certificate signed by a registered physician that they are unfit subjects for vaccination. Application for free vaccination by persons who are unable to pay for it, may be made to the Clerk or Agent of the Board of Health.


VITAL STATISTICS.


1910.


Total number of deaths from all causes, exclusive of still-births 176 Number of still-births 7


DEATHS BY SEXES. (Still-Births excluded.)


Number of deaths of males


86


Number of deaths of females


90


Number of deaths of unknown


00


176


DEATHS BY AGES. (Still-Births excluded.)


Male


Female Unknown


Deaths of persons under one year


Total 23


12


11


. .


From 1 to 2 years


1


. .


. .


From 2 to 3 years


. .


. .


. .


. .


From 3 to 4 years


2


2


. .


. .


From 4 to 5 years


1


1


. .


. .


From 5 to 10 years


5


4


1


. .


From 10 to 15 years


2


.


٠٠٠


From 15 to 20 years


5


4


1


. .


From 20 to 30 years


9


3


6


. .


From 30 to 40 years


16


8


8


. .


From 40 to 50 years


15


5


10


. .


1


2


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Total


Male


Female


Unknown


From 50 to 60 years


27


14


13


. .


From 60 to 70 years


28


16


12


. .


From 70 to 80 years


23


10


13


Over 80 years


19


6


13


. .


·


. .


. .


. .


Age of oldest person, 95 years, 10 months, 25 days.


NOTE. For names of persons having died see report of Town Clerk.


DEATHS BY MONTHS. (Still-Births excluded.)


1909


1910


January


10


18


February


11


12


March


17


22


. April


18


18


May


13


14


June


13


10


July


14


14


August


15


12


September


12


13


October


7


17


November


17


10


December


10


16


Total


157


176


Still-born


7


7


Total


164


183


CAUSES OF DEATH. (Still-Births excluded.)


Deaths from phthisis or consumption


19


Deaths from scarlet fever


1


Deaths from diphtheria and croup


3


Deaths from cerebro-spinal meningitis


5


Deaths from erysipelas


. .


Deaths from cholera infantum


1


Deaths from dysentery


1


Deaths from pneumonia


24


. .


Ages unknown Total


176


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Deaths from bronchitis


5


Deaths from diseases of heart 27


Deaths from diseases of kidneys


5


Deaths from cancer


15


Diseases of the brain and spinal cord


11


DEATHS FROM VIOLENCE.


From suicide


. .


From accident


4


121


Number of deaths from all other causes not specified above (not including still-births)


55


Total


176


SOCIAL RELATIONS OF DECEASED. (Still-Births excluded.)


Married


59


Single


69


Widow


34


Widower


14


Divorced


. .


Unknown


. .


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NATIVITY.


Nativity of Deceased (Still-births excluded)


Nativity of Parents Father Mother


Arlington


40


6


7


Massachusett 3


45


30


33


Other New England States


20


29


21


Other States


8


6


5


Canada and. the Provinces


22


18


21


England, Scotland and Wales


7


15


12


Ireland


23


42


41


Italy


2


6


5


Russia


6


7


7


Other co tries


3


5


7


Unknown


12


17


Total


176


176


176


1


1


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American parentage


71


Foreign parentage


88


Mixed parentage


21


Unknown parentage


3


Number of non-residents having died in Arlington


15


Number of residents having died in other places


27


CONTAGIOUS DISEASES REPORTED.


Diphtheria Scarlet Fever Typhoid


Measles


1910


1909


1910 1909


1910 1909


1910


1909


Total 1910 1909


January


2


5


3


6


. .


. .


22


3


27


14


February


4


3


5


1


. .


1


7


1


16


6


March


1


2


4


1


. .


. .


9


2


14


5


April


1


4


11


3


. .


. .


5


2


17


9


May


3


4


3


3


. .


1


3


1


9


9


July


1


2


4


1


1


1


1


3


8


September


3


2


2


.


. .


. .


3


4


October


. .


1


6


.


. .


1


1


. .


2


11


December


4


7


3


. .


.


1


2


12


5


Total


19


30


42


32


2


9


49


14


112


85


LOCATION OF CONTAGIOUS DISEASES.


Drawing a line through the Town Hall building, and extending it north and south, the location of the above contagious diseases would be as follows:


1910 East


1910 West


1909 East


1909 West


1910 Total


1909 Total


Diphtheria


7


12


19


11


19


30


Scarlet fever


22


20


10


22


42


32


Typhoid fever


. .


2


4


5


2


9


Measles


20


29


8


6


49


14


Total


49


63


41


44


1


2


85


.


.


1


2


1


1


. .


2


3


7


2


November


. .


3


2


4


. .


4


·


-


-


-


-


. .


.


·


. .


. .


2


.


9


June


. .


4


3


August


. .


-


-


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REPORT OF THE SANITARY INSPECTOR.


ARLINGTON, MASS., December 31, 1910.


Board of Health,


Gentlemen: I have the honor to submit my report as Sanitary Inspector for the year ending December 31, 1910.


The duties pertaining to this office have been about the same as that of previous years.


All complaints have been given consideration and thoroughly investigated.


Where an actual nuisance or unhealthful conditions were found to exist the same have been abated. Satisfactory adjustments have been made to all complaints.


Respectfully submitted, CHARLES T. HARTWELL, Sanitary Inspector.


REPORT OF THE FUMIGATOR.


ARLINGTON, MASS .; December 31, 1910.


Board of Health,


Gentlemen: I have the honor to submit my report as Fumigator for the year ending December 31, 1910.


Whole number of cases fumigated seventy.


Thirty-nine cases of scarlet fever, requiring the fumigation of one hundred and seventeen rooms


Seventeen cases of diphtheria, requiring the fumigation of thirty- one rooms.


Thirteen cases of tuberculosis, requiring the fumigation of nine- teen rooms.


One case of cerebro-spinal meningitis, requiring the fumigation of two rooms.


Halls, stairways and closets whenever necessary.


Respectfully submitted,


CHARLES T. HARTWELL,


Fumigator.


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REPORT OF THE INSPECTOR OF PLUMBING.


LEXINGTON, MASS., January 15, 1911.


To the Board of Health, Town of Arlington.


Gentlemen: I herewith submit my annual report as Inspector of Plumbing for your Town.


Total applications made for permits were granted, 144; number of permits issued on account of which work is not yet completed, 24; number of calls made in connection with work, 454.


. There has been almost no friction between the plumbers and the Inspector, and I am hoping that the new ordinance will be of considerable benefit in making clear what will be required on the work, and better if possible the commendable work being done.


Respectfully, G. W. DAY. Inspector of Plumbing.


REPORT OF THE INSPECTOR OF MILK.


January 1, 1911.


To the Board of Health, Town of Arlington.


· Gentlemen: I have herein the honor to present to you my first report as Inspector of Milk from April 1 to December 31, 1910. Upon taking this office I discovered the apparatus for proper milk. inspection to be wholly inadequate, and through your co-operation I have been able to procure by a special appropriation from the Town such apparatus as to enable me to test milk in a thorough manner as to its chemical composition, and also for adulteration.




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