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1
4
Encephalitis Lethargica.
0
0
4
4
3
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
12
German Measles .
0
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
4
Gonorrhea
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
Influenza .
5
1
21
13
14
19
12
0
0
0
0
1
86
Measles
0
1
2
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
4
Mumps .
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
2
Ophthalmia Neonatorum
6
2
3
3
6
3
.0
0
0
2
5
5
35
Pneumonia (Lobar)
19
12
10
7
2
1.
.2
1
1
0
1
4
60
Scarlet Fever .
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
Syphilis . .
5
4
2
4
6
2
2
2
4
5
2
0
38
Tuberculosis (Pulmonary) .
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
3
Tuberculosis (other forms).
0
1
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
1
1
5
Typhoid Fever.
4
0
0
0
2
0
0
3
2
2
4
4
21
Whooping-cough .
362
Total.
10
Patients placed in contagious hospitals for Diphtheria. .
Patients placed in contagious hospitals for Scarlet Fever
9
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.
10
Patients placed in State Sanatoria .
Patients placed in tuberculosis hospitals .
4
0 -
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
.
. .
COMMUNICABLE DISEASES REPORTED BY MONTHS
·
DEATHS CLASSIFIED BY SEX, BY AGE, AND BY CAUSE FOR 1924 (Stillbirths Excluded)
CAUSES OF DEATH All Causes
M or F
Under
One Year
1
2
3
4
5-9
10-14
15-19
20-24
25-29
30-34
35-39
40-44
45-49
50-54
55-59
60-64
65-69
70-74
75-79
80-84
85-89
90-99
Total
M F
Class
I Epidemic, Endemic and Infectious Diseases:
11 Influenza .
23 Encephalitis Lethargica .
M
2
F
0
M
0
9
M
0
1
1
1
1
0
1
0
Class
II General Diseases not included in Class I:
43 Cancer of the Buccal Cavity.
1
F
1
M
4
5
M
1
2
F
2
4
M
0
F
1
1
1
3
M
0
F
2
2
6
48 Cancer of the Skin.
M
1
1
M
1
1
4
0
-
1
1
1
31 Tuberculosis of the Respiratory System. .
2
1
2
2
1
33 Tuberculosis of the Intestines and Peritoneum ..
34 Tuberculosis of the Vertebral Column. ..
41 Purulent Infection, Septicemia .
.
44 Cancer of the Stomach and Liver.
F
12 1
1
45 Cancer of the Peritoneum, Intestines and Rectum
46 Cancer of the Female Genital Organs .
47 Cancer of the Breast.
.
0
49 Cancer of Other Unspecified Organs.
.
1
Deaths Classified by Sex, by Age, and by Cause (Exclusive of Stillbirths)-Continued
CAUSES OF DEATH All Causes
M or F
Under
One Year
1
2
3
4
5-9
10-14
15-19
20-24
25-29
30-34
35-39
40-44
45-49
50-54
55-59
60-64
65-69
70-74
75-79
80-84
85-89
90-99
Total
M
F
50 Benign Tumors . .
0
52 Chronie Rheumatism.
M
0
57 Diabetie Mellitur.
M
1
F
2
58A Pernicious Anemia.
M
0
F
3
65A Leukemia ..
M
0
F
1
66 Alcoholism
M
1
F
0
69 Other General Diseases
1
Class
III Diseases of the Nervous System and of the Organs of Special Sense:
70 Encephalitis .
0
F
1
M
0
F
1
1
M
1
F
0
M
0
F
1
1
1
3
M
2
3
1
1
1
11
F
2
2
3
2
3
1
14
M
2
F
1
M
0
F
1
M
0
F
2
2
.
1
1
F
1
1
0
71B Non-epidemie Cerebrospinal Meningitis .
72 Tabesdorsalis .
74 Cerebral Hemorrhage, Apoplexy
74A Cerebral Hemorrhage.
75A Hemiplegia .
77 Other Forms of Mental Alienation.
80 Infantile Convulsions (under five years of age) . .
1
1
Class
IV Discases of the Circulatory System:
88 Endocarditis and Myocarditis.
89 Angina Pectoris .
M
90 Other Diseases of the Heart .
91B Arteriosclerosis
.
91C Other Diseases of the Arteries.
92 Embolism and Thrombosis (not cerebral)
M F
Class
V Diseases of the Respiratory System: 99A Acute Bronchitis .
9,9C Not Otherwise Defined (under five years of age) .
M M
2
1
1
1
2
7
101A Lobar Pneumonia .
2
1
1
2
1
1
6
105 Asth 11~ .
M
0
F
1
2
106 Hypostatic Pneumonia. .
Class
VI Diseases of the Digestive System:
111 Ulcer of the Stomach Duodenum.
111A Ulcer of the Stomach
M
0
M
1
1
2
F
1
M
1
1
123 Gall Stones.
M F
1
M
2
F
Class
VII Non-Venereal Diseases of the Genito-Urinary System and Annexa:
129 Nephritis ..
M F
1
1
1
1 2
121
2
.
1
2
1
2
7
2
1
1
14
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
11
1
1
1
1
3
2
2
1
6
2
2
1
7
1
1
0
3
2
0
1
1
100A Broncho Pneumonia . .
F M
1
1
1
3
1
2
10
5
1
0
1
0
1
118B Intestinal Obstruction
1
1
0
126 Peritonitis
2
12
1
2
10
.
1
3
2
21
M F M F M F
.
.
12
1
1
1
0
117 Appendicitis and Typhilitis
0
1
Deaths Classified by Sex, by Age, and by Cause (Exclusive of Stillbirths)-Continued
CAUSES OF DEATH All Causes
M or F
Under
One Year
H
2
3
4
5-9
10-14
15-19
20-24
25-29
30-34
35-39
40-44
45-49
50-54
55-59
60-64
65-69
70-74
75-79
80-84
85-89
90-94
Total
M
F
Class
VIII The Puerperal State:
143A Abortion .
0
147 Puerperal Phlegmasia
0
148 Puerperal Eclampsia .
1
Class
IX Diseases of the Skin and of the Cellular Tissue:
0
151 Gangrene.
1
153 Acute Abscess
1
-
Class X Diseases of the Bones and of the Organs of Loco- motion:
157 Amputations
M F
1
Class XI Malformations:
I F
1
0
Class
XII Early Infancy:
3
.
2
161B Injury at Birth
M
2
F
1
162 Other Diseases Peculiar to Early Infancy .. ...
M
1
F
3
Class XIII Old Age:
164 Senility .
M F
0
1
-
AREWEW
1
1
1
1
0
M F HWHW
0
1
1
159A Hydrocephalus.
3
161A Premature Birth
M F
2
2
1
1
3
0
Class XIV External Causes: 167 Suicide by Poisonous Gas
1
0
170 Suicide by Firearms. ..
0
180 Accidental Asphyxiation.
1
M
1
1
2
0
185 Accidental Fall.
M
2
188A Railroad Accidents .
M
0
188B Street Car Accidents.
M
0
F
1
188C Auto Accidents
M
1
2
F
1
1
0
1
182 Accidental Drowning.
F
1
1
2
F
1
1
1
1
F
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ARLINGTON TOWN REPORT
REPORT OF AGENT
To the Board of Health, Arlington, Mass.
Gentlemen: I herewith submit my report as Agent of the Board for the year ending December 31, 1924.
In so far as possible weekly inspections are carried out at all food producing and distributing establishments in the town, including markets, bakeries, lunch rooms, etc. In all seventeen hundred and eighty-five (1785) inspections were made during the past year and in some instances food unfit for human consumption was found and ordered destroyed. With very few exceptions the law in regard to cleanliness and proper care of goods is observed, and the grade of foodstuffs sold in Arlington, including that served in restaurants and lunch rooms, will compare favorably with that sold and served in other towns.
Inspections to the number of one hundred and twenty-five (125) were made at barber shops, massage parlors, waiting rooms, etc.
One hundred and seventy (170) complaints requir- ing investigation were received and adjusted. Numerous minor complaints of which no record was made were received and adjusted by the agent without action by the Board.
Upon request of various physicians hospitalization for persons afflicted with communicable disease was pro- vided as follows:
Patients placed in contagious hospitals 19
Patients placed in State Sanatoria 10
Patients placed in tuberculosis hospitals 4
Legal settlements investigated 27
Three tenements were inspected upon the completion of renovation after removal of persons afflicted with communicable diseases.
Respectfully submitted,
WILLIAM H. BRADLEY,
Agent.
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REPORT OF THE BACTERIOLOGIST AND PHYSICIAN
Gentlemen: I herewith submit my report as Bacte- riologist and Physician to the Board for the year ending December 31, 1924.
Laboratory Report
Specimens examined
Pos.
Neg.
Total
Throat Cultures
13
279
292
Sputa
17
81
98
Widal Test
3
31
34
Blood Smears
0
12
12
Urethral Smears
8
19
27
Total
41
422
463
Patients examined at Tuberculosis Dispensary
43
Visits to homes of tuberculosis patients
19
Visits to homes for investigation and release of persons recovered from communicable diseases
73
Bakery employees examined
4
Von Pirquet Tests administered
2
Persons vaccinated
30
I have also assisted at the Schick Test clinics held during the year.
Respectfully submitted, EZEKIEL PRATT, M. D.
REPORT OF NURSE
To the Board of Health, Arlington, Mass.
Gentlemen: I herewith submit my report as Board of Health Nurse from January 1 to March 31, 1924.
Cases
Diphtheria
6
Measles
32
Scarlet fever
45
Tuberculosis
115
Typhoid fever
3
Miscellaneous
11
Total 212
Visits to homes of
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I inspected one home after the removal of a Tuber- culosis patient and one home after the removal of a Scarlet-fever patient. Made one inspection of a Board- ing House for Infants.
Number of patients attending Tuberculosis Clinics 16
Respectfully submitted, ETHEL M. FISHER, R. N.
REPORT OF NURSE
To the Board of Health, Arlington, Mass.
Gentlemen: I herewith submit my report as Board of Health Nurse from April 1 to December 31, 1924.
Cases
Visits to homes of
Diphtheria 23
Measles
49
Scarlet fever
9
Typhoid fever
3
Whooping-cough
4
Tuberculosis 309
Anterior Poliomyelitis 1
Schick Tests 18
Miscellaneous 13
Total 429
Assisted Drs. Atwood and Pratt with the Schick Test Clinics held in Dispensary.
Assisted Dr. Pratt with immunization of six Diph- theria contact cases.
Cultured 24 Diphtheria contact cases for Diagnosis.
Cultured 4 Diphtheria contact cases for release.
Cultured 1 Suspicious sore throat.
Number of patients attending Tuberculosis Clinics 27
Tuberculosis patients under supervision at this date 86 Patients in State Sanitoria at this date 7
Respectfully submitted, LOUISE L. LaPORTE, R. N.
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BOARD OF HEALTH
REPORT OF THE DENTAL CLINIC
To the Board of Health, Arlington, Mass.
Gentlemen: I herewith submit the annual report of the work performed in the Dental Clinic during the year ending December 31, 1924.
Extractions Deciduous teeth 480
Permanent teeth
89
Fillings
Deciduous teeth
616
Permanent teeth
1406
Treatments Deciduous teeth
78
Permanent teeth
320
Prophylactic treatments
223
Total number of operations
3212
Total number of sittings
1446
Total number of new patients
208
Total number of cases dismissed
157
Home visits by Dental Assistant
15
During the week of the reopening of the schools for the fall term the usual examination of all the children attending the second grade was made. It was found that 86.7% of the 451 children examined had defective teeth. Parents were notified and the Clinic has been well attended. The children have shown considerable interest in a series of health posters loaned to us by the State Dept. of Health. The principals of the various schools have been especially helpful by sending pupils at their appointed hours.
Respectfully submitted,
EDGAR F. MACKAY, D. M. D.
REPORT OF MILK INSPECTOR
To the Board of Health, Arlington, Mass.
Gentlemen: I herewith submit my report as Milk Inspector for the year ending December 31, 1924.
The amount of raw milk sold in Arlington is de- clining each year, showing that the consumer is realizing the value of pasteurization as a protection to health.
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The quality of the milk sold from a solids and fat stand- point remained about the same as last year. Bacteria counts have with a few exceptions been satisfactory, in- indicating care in handling and prompt and efficient cool- ing. A summary of the year's work follows:
For sale of Milk from stores 128
Licenses Issued
For sale of Oleo from stores 28
For sale of Milk from vehicles 40
Total 196
Fees collected and paid to Collector of Taxes $98 00
Inspections
Milk Plants L
18
Dairies 2
Lunch Rooms 2
Total 22
Taken from vehicles on street 199
Taken from schools 7
Taken from stores
23
Taken from restaurants 15
Total 244
Respectfully submitted,
ALFRED W. LOMBARD, Inspector.
REPORT OF INSPECTOR OF SLAUGHTERING To the Board of Health, Arlington, Mass.
Gentlemen: I herewith submit my report as Inspec- tor of Slaughtering for the year ending December 31, 1924.
Calves slaughtered
2913
Condemned 44
Sheep slaughtered 4
Samples Analyzed
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BOARD OF HEALTH
Goats slaughtered 1
Time required for inspection two hundred and fifty- three hours and twenty minutes. Respectfully submitted,
CHESTER L. BLAKELY, M. D. V., Inspector,
REPORT OF INSPECTOR OF SLAUGHTERING
To the Board of Health, Arlington, Mass.
Gentlemen: I herewith submit my report as Inspec- tor of Slaughtering for the year ending December 31, 1924.
Calves slaughtered 160
Condemned 3
Time required for inspecting 16 hours
Respectfully submitted, WILLIAM H. BRADLEY,
Inspector.
REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE FOR THE YEAR 1924
To the Citizens of the Town of Arlington:
Your School Committee organized for the year on March 7 last. Since the issue of its last report the Committee has held ten regular meetings and eight special meetings, and a very large number of meetings of sub-committees, notably the committees on Finance, on Repairs and on Rules. The rapid growth of our school system in recent years and the consequent addi- tions to our housing facilities and our corps of teachers have placed upon the Committee elected by you to ad- minister your school system a growing responsibility and an increasing necessity for devotion of time and of service. It is a pleasure to bear witness to the fidel- ity with which the members of our School Committee, without stint of time or effort, have discharged the trust you have committed to them.
Last March the Committee lost the services of three members, Carl H. Carroll and John W. Downs, who re- tired after three years of service, and Foster P. Doane, who served out the term left vacant by the resignation in the fall of 1923 of Herbert A. Snow. These vacancies were filled by the election of George E. Russell, Albert H. Morris and Eugene F. Freeman. During the past year the school system has lost by retirement two of its veteran teachers, Miss Jennie A. Chaplin and Miss Eliza- beth A. Day. Miss Chaplin served the schools of Arling- ton for thirty years, and as principal of the Cutter School, by her executive capacity and the strong hold of her personality upon her pupils made her school a model of what a school should be. Miss Day, in a long
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service of forty years, left upon the incoming classes at the Russell School, through many years, the impress of an influence that they will always remember with gratitude.
The main accomplishments of the past year have been the three steps taken in fulfilment of the building program announced two years ago, and the further re- organization of the school system along the lines recom- mended in the Superintendent's report of last year. The opening of the Peirce School and the addition at the Cut- ter School have relieved the congestion at the Cutter and Locke schools. At the Crosby School, at present the largest in town, with over 900 students, the committee has attempted to cope with the overcrowding by trans- fer of the portable from the Junior High School Center, and the use of the platoon system in Grade I. An end to these makeshifts is in sight, with the purchase of the Lake Street lot, as recommended by the School Com- mittee last year, and the prospect that by next fall sev- eral rooms in the new building to be erected on that site will be available for classes. With this relief in East Arlington, the town will need to consider next the needs of the Center, where overcrowding exists at the Russell, the Parmenter and the Junior High Schools. It is clear that a Junior High School East and an addition to the Parmenter School must be provided within the next two or three years. Arlington has at present a school enrol- ment of about 4200 pupils. In this, and in the size of its High School enrolment, it leads the towns in the State, Brookline only excepted, and stands ahead of several of the cities."
Of constructive changes within the school system, especially worthy of mention are the elimination of de- partmental work in grades IV and V, and of classes in typewriting from grade VIII. In the latter grade prac- tical arts have been made elective; a three year pro-
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gram in Social Science, with the first year in geography, the second in history and the third in government, has been put into operation in the Junior High Schools.
During the past year the School Committee has recommended to the voters at Town Meeting the instal- lation of boilers in the Junior High School Center, the building of a shelter for girls on the Spy Pond Play- ground, the erection of a building on Lake street, and the installation of gymnasium lockers at the High School. It proposes to bring other recommendations before the voters at the next annual town meeting, carrying out the convictions that the Superintendent and the Com- mittee, after a great deal of study, have reached regard- ing the immediate and urgent needs of our growing school system.
It is a pleasant duty to acknowledge the uniform courtesy and spirit of co-operation which has been given us by the Finance Committee of Twenty-one and the officials of the town.
A. H. RICE, For the Committee.
REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
January 19, 1925.
To the School Committee and Citizens of Arlington:
Herewith I beg to submit, in my second annual re- port, the following statement of what seem to me to be the outstanding features of school interest, exclusive of the most important work of the instruction and train- ing of children, during the year 1924.
I. ECONOMY and the SCHOOL BUDGET
In the report of one year ago certain economies in organization effected during the year were explained with the statement that, "The increased cost to the town of the School Department for 1923 and 1924 is only one third of the increased cost of 1921 and 1922, two periods very similar in growth of school population and new school accommodations." These economies continue in effect and show their influence on the new school budget in spite of the large increase caused by new schools and additional teachers to conduct them. Comparative fig- ures and percentages presented to the Finance Com- mittee of Twenty-One by the School Department show that, had the reorganizations of 1923 and 1924 not been accomplished, the School Budget for 1925 would have been sixty thousand dollars more than is asked.
II. SCHOOL ACCOMMODATIONS
The erection of the Peirce School and the addition to the Cutter School have relieved the crowded school conditions at the western end of the town. The pro- posed school on Lake street will relieve the overcrowding of the Crosby School at the eastern end. These addi- tional accommodations should make conditions in these two sections comfortable for a few years.
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In the meantime, the Russell and Parmenter, the Junior High Centre, and the High School will claim attention.
RUSSELL and PARMENTER SCHOOLS: Due to the large building operations between Warren street and the Boulevard the increase of pupils at the Russell School has been at about the same rate as at the Crosby School, and the Russell may be said already to be crowded in spite of the fact that one class room is used as an assem- bly room. Six of the eleven classes at the Russell School have forty and more pupils, one having forty-four and another forty-seven. These are too large and should be divided.
The Parmenter School has one class without a room, the extra class having sessions in the corridor; one class housed at the Russell School; and another in a portable building-makeshift of the war period. This room is unbearably hot on warm days, cold and draughty on cold days, and a great hindrance to the administration of the discipline of the school.
The simplest solution of the problem of overcrowd- ing at both the Russell and Parmenter Schools lies in the purchase of property adjoining the Parmenter School, and the erection of a four room addition to that build- ing. This or some similar measure should be under- taken at once to relieve the situation.
JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL CENTRE: The Junior High School Centre is crowded, but not as a result of moving the two room portable. Economies in class room organization have overcome the loss of those two rooms. This school was as crowded last year and the year before even with the portable building. The Junior High School Centre is crowded because every available space is used to the limit and class groups in the second and third years average nearly forty pupils. These groups
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are altogether too large for efficient work on a depart- mental basis. One more group should be made in each class to reduce the average from forty to thirty or thirty- five.
The Junior High School Centre will be increasingly more crowded until Junior High School East is built. The classes from the Crosby and Russell Schools have been coming to the Junior High School Centre at the rate of four classes per year. Next fall and thereafter they will come at the rate of seven classes per year. Septem- ber 1925 will bring three or four more classes, September 1926, six or seven more classes, and September 1927, nine or ten more classes than the building can possibly accommodate. Junior High East should be available for use not later than September 1927. Until that time extreme inconvenience must be suffered by Junior High Centre teachers, pupils and their parents in an effort to carry on the work under a platoon system to care for the excess classes. If Junior High East could be ready one year earlier, by far the greater part of this incon- venience could be avoided.
It had been intended to care for the first year of overcrowding at the Centre School by organization of - a Junior High School unit at the Russell School or the High School building, but the large increase in the num- ber of students at both of these schools has made that plan impossible.
HIGH SCHOOL: There are one hundred more stu- dents in the Senior High School than there were last year. Two hundred more students will be promoted from the Junior High Schools this June than will gradu- ate from the Senior High School. With the additions from out of town this means at least 250 increase in the High School enrolment in September 1925, bringing the number of students to 850 or 900. This is about a capacity enrolment for the High School building.
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We can manage for the coming year 1925-26 by remodeling the two lunch rooms into class rooms, and the swimming pool room into a lunch room. We can get through the following school year 1926-27 by re- modeling the two wardrobe rooms into supervisors' of- fices, the two supervisors' offices into class rooms, and by installing in the corridors steel lockers for the street clothing of students. If the increase continues so that the number of pupils exceeds 900, plans should be made to relieve the situation either by the construction of an addition to the present plant or by the erection of a separate unit such as a Commercial High School, a Tech- nical High School or a Classical High School, whichever appears to be the most desirable plan.
III. THE SUB-PRIMARY and REGRADING PROGRAM
For a number of years in Arlington the schools were organized on the nine-four plan or nine grades in prepara- tion for the four year High School course. While this plan was going out of effect in Massachusetts, the Arling- ton School Department re-named the grades, Sub-pri- mary, First to Eighth, instead of First to Ninth. As the first grade work was taught in the Sub-primary grade, this plan effected no other change than that of re-numbering. The result has been that the Arlington schools have been "out of step" with those of neighbor- ing towns in having nine grades where others have eight, or seven grades to Junior High School, where others have six. On this account children coming into our ele- mentary schools from other towns have had to suffer a "set back" of one year in the public school course. It has been rightly claimed by principals and teachers that the pupils did not suffer the loss of a year in the type of school work done because each of our grades was covering the work of the next higher grade. It must be admitted, however, that one year more was required of each pupil entering the elementary schools from another town, in order to finish the public school course.
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The Arlington schools have an unusually good repu- tation. At the State Department of Education, through- out the State of Massachusetts, in the town itself, one hears them spoken of as good schools. This fact has been one large contributing factor in the rapid growth of the town. But the non-conformity of grading with other school departments has been responsible for making many, if not all, new residents having children in the elementary schools, dissatisfied and unhappy resi- dents. Sooner or later this condition would react as a deterrent to the growth of the town, and threaten the good reputation which our schools enjoy at home and abroad.
An effort was made to correct the situation two years ago when the School Committee authorized the reorganization of the Sub-primary work, placing those classes on a single session basis with a course designed to prepare for first grade, teaching the beginning of writing, reading through the primer, and some kinder- garten work. Since that time, not second grade work, as previously, but first grade work has been taught in the first grade and a normal grading program has thus been started.
This change, however, could improve the grading situation only a year at a time so that six years would be required to eliminate the grading irregularity from the elementary system. Realizing the desirability of earlier adjustment of the situation the School Commit- tee authorized this year a regrading program worked out by the school administration which will result in making the grading of the Arlington School Depart- ment uniform with that of the majority of others. It is planned that this change will be completely in effect by September of this year, so that thereafter pupils entering from other towns need not face the necessity of taking one year longer to finish the public school
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