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REPORT OF WIRE DEPARTMENT
To the Honorable Joint Board of Selectmen and Board of Public Works:
Gentlemen:
I respectfully submit my report as Superintendent of Wires for the year ending December 31, 1932.
STREET LIGHTING
During the year there were twenty (20) lamps in- stalled as follows: two (2) number 20 lamps on Phillips Street; three (3) number 20 lamps on Temple Street; three (3) number 20 lamps on Newland Road; one (1) number 70 lamp on Newman Way; five (5) number 70 lamps on Warren Street, and six (6) number 75 lamps on Medford Street, from the Russell School to Warren Street. There were also two (2) number 70 lamps and one (1) number 20 lamp discontinued on Medford Street.
Summary of street lights in service December 31, 1932.
No. 20- 80 C. P. Series Incandescent Lamps 1,288 No. 70- 600 C. P. Series Incandescent Lamps 116 No. 75-1,000 C. P. Series Incandescent Lamps. 124
ORNAMENTAL LIGHTING SYSTEM
60 watt lamps multiple, burning 4,000 hours ...... 25
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REPORT OF WIRE DEPARTMENT
INSPECTION OF WIRES IN BUILDINGS
One thousand two hundred and seventy (1,270) per- mits for electrical construction were issued at fifty (50) cents for each permit.
There were two thousand and sixty-one (2,061) in- spections made, and one thousand three hundred and thirty-five (1,335) installations approved.
There were no fires caused by defective wiring in any building during the year.
POLES AND WIRES ON STREETS
The Edison Company, the Telephone Company, and the Boston Elevated replaced one hundred and forty- eight (148) poles during the year.
Respectfully submitted,
W. E. MASON,
Superintendent of Wires.
REPORT OF COMMISSIONERS OF CEMETERIES
Arlington, Mass., January 1, 1933.
The report of the Commissioners having charge of the cemeteries is herewith submitted for the year ending December 31, 1932.
INTERMENTS AND REMOVALS
Number of Bodies received at Mt. Pleasant Ceme-
tery 236
Number of Bodies interred at Mt. Pleasant Ceme- tery 235
Number of Bodies interred at Old Cemetery 1
Number of Bodies interred in Private Lots. 164
Number of Bodies interred in Single Graves. 51
Number of Bodies interred in Public Lots. 18
Number of Bodies interred in G. A. R. Lot. 0
Number of Bodies interred in Veterans Plot. 1
Number of Bodies interred in Private Tombs. 1
NUMBER OF LOTS AND GRAVES READY FOR SALE
64 Single Graves @ $50.00 per grave with care
11 Two Grave Lots @ $100.00 per Lot, with care
12 Three Grave Lots @ $105.00 per Lot (outside) 3 Three Grave Lots @ $90.00 per Lot (inside)
88 Four Grave Lots @ $140.00 per Lot (outside) 304 Four Grave Lots @ $120.00 per Lot (inside) 39 Six Grave Lots @ $210.00 per Lot (outside)
169 Six Grave Lots @ $180.00 per Lot (inside)
45 Eight Grave Lots @ $280.00 per Lot (outside)
15 Eight Grave Lots @ $240.00 per Lot (inside)
1 Seven Grave Lot @ $245.00 per Lot (outside)
$107,964.00
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REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF CEMETERIES
STOCK AND TOOLS ON HAND
2 Lowering Devices
$125.00
Lawn Mowers
180.00
Hose and Carts
75.00
Sail Cloths
30.00
Dump Truck
700.00
Evergreen Grave Coverings
140.00
Screen, Sand and Gravel
100.00
4 Wheel Barrows
15.00
Waste Barrels
15.00
Lawn Sprinklers
10.00
Tools of all kinds
130.00
Power Lawn Mower
140.00
Loam
600.00
$2,260.00
CEMETERY RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES
Receipts
Appropriation for 1932
$25,235.00
Expenditures
Salaries :
Superintendent
$3,120.00
Clerk
1,144.00
Wages
15,086.75
Outside Wages
416.42
Loam, Fertilizer, Shrubs
1,084.01
Excavating
1,127.39
Markers
134.10
Tools and Equipment
442.00
Auto Maintenance
352.32
Telephone
59.25
Office Supplies
196.56
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Fuel and Lighting
195.99
Cement and other supplies.
140.68
Engineering, Surveying, etc
83.75
Miscellaneous Expense
136.70
Drain and Roller
700.50 $24,420.42
Unexpended Appropriation
$814.58
EXPENDITURES
$24,420.42
Revenue :
Annual Care of Lots.
$3,711.50
Watering
131.00
Opening Graves
2,992.00
Foundations
759.15
Miscellaneous
1,311.50
$8,905.15
Transfers to Town from Trust
Fund income. $3,104.00 $12,009.15
Excess of Expenditures over
Revenue and Transfers ....
$12,411.27
J. EDWIN KIMBALL, M. ERNEST MOORE, HAROLD L. FROST,
Cemetery Commissioners.
REPORT OF TOWN PHYSICIAN
February 1, 1933.
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen:
Gentlemen:
I present the report of the Town Physician for the year 1932.
Number of Office Calls 314
Number of House Calls 308
Number of Police Calls 30
Number of Maternity Cases
6
658
Respectfully submitted,
HAROLD R. WEBB, M.D., Town Physician.
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REPORT OF BOARD OF HEALTH
In compliance with the Town By-Laws the Board of Health herewith submits the Annual Report of the. De- partment for the year ending December 31, 1932.
Board meetings are held the first Monday evening of each month. Special meetings are held when occasion requires. At the Annual Town Meeting, held March 7, 1932, Ernest R. Brooks, D.M.D., was re-elected a mem- ber of the Board for a term of three years. The per- sonnel of the Board remains the same and is as follows:
ALFRED W. LOMBARD, Chairman. CHARLES F. ATWOOD, M.D. ERNEST R. BROOKS, D.M.D.
Appointees
WILLIAM H. BRADLEY, Agent, Clerk and Milk Inspector.
EZEKIEL PRATT, M.D., Bacteriologist and Physician to Board.
E. F. MACKAY, D.M.D., Dental Operator.
HELEN M. HEFFERNAN, R.N., Nurse and Assistant to Dental Operator.
ARTHUR TAYLOR, Inspector of Slaughtering.
WILLIAM H. BRADLEY, Inspector of Slaughtering.
This report will show briefly, under the several headings, the activities in which this Department en- gaged the past year. Undernourishment, particularly in the growing child, is invariably followed by disease, in one form or another, and due to the present trying condi-
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tions, under which a large number of people are living, it is extremely gratifying to note only a slight increase in the number of diseases reported to this office for the year 1932 over that of 1931. That this is so, credit, in a large measure, is, we believe, due the various local organizations and individuals for their generous and con- tinuous response to those in need.
As in other years our largest single item of expense is for the hospitalization of persons suffering with Tuberculosis. On date of December 31, 1932, we had this number hospitalized for this disease. One child at the Lakeville State Sanatorium and two at the North Read- ing State Sanatorium. For adults, we had one patient at the Rutland State Sanatorium. One at the Cambridge Tuberculosis Hospital. One at the Malden Hospital. One at the Springfield Hospital and ten at the new Middlesex County Sanatorium at Waltham. An important feature in connection with this latter institution, and one of which, perhaps, all are not aware, is the weekly clinic. At these clinics any resident of Middlesex County sus- pected of or threatened with Tuberculosis may, by appointment, have a thorough physical and X-Ray ex- amination by specialists in this disease, free of charge.
We held two public clinics the past year and admin- istered the three injections of Toxin Antitoxin for the prevention of Diphtheria to five hundred and forty-two children.
At the Annual March Town Meeting of 1932, the local Emergency Unemployment Committee, in an effort to provide work for the unemployed, caused an article to be inserted in the Warrant requesting an appropria- tion for the eradication of mosquitoes, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Health. Under this article the Town Meeting voted the sum of $3,700.00. In
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addition to this the local Department of Public Welfare contributed labor to the amount of $450.00. We began work on this project during the month of April concen- trating our efforts to the opening up of trenches to drain isolated wet areas to eliminate breeding spots in differ- ent sections of the Town. In all, we dug some thirty-five hundred feet of trenches, cleaned out some fifteen hun- dred feet of existing trenches, and starting in the Sucker Brook, at the Reservoir at Arlington Heights, removed the many years' accumulation of rubbish from the brook for its entire length to the Mystic Lake. From the appropriation of $3,700.00 we expended $3,418.83, leaving a balance of $281.17. In summing up, however, we must include the $450.00 in labor contributed by the Local De- partment of Public Welfare. This would bring the total expenditure up to $3,868.83.
At a Special Town Meeting, held January 14, 1926, a committee of five citizens was appointed by the Modera- tor to consider the condition of Spy Bond. As a result of the report of the Committee an appropriation of $6,000.00 was voted at the Annual March Meeting of the same year, to be expended under the direction of the Committee, for the improvement of Spy Pond. This Committee is deserving of the highest commendation, for under its direction the pond was transformed from a foul-smelling, almost stagnant, and more or less filthy one, into a fairly clean and clear body of water, and minus the disagreeable odors. The Committee retired from office in 1930, and at that time the care of Spy Pond together with the Reservoir at Arlington Heights was placed under the care of the Board of Health and an appropriation of $908.00 was voted to care for both bodies of water for that year. For the year 1931 an appropriation of $900.00 was voted. Notwithstanding that no appropriation for this purpose was made for the year 1932, the Board of Health, with labor furnished
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by the local Department of Public Welfare, gave both waters one treatment, using chemicals left over from 1931, and with tools loaned by the Department of Public Works and from other sources, removed the rubbish from the shores around the pond. Since taking over the care of these ponds the Board of Health has pursued the same course of chemical treatment for the waters as did the Committee, and from the experience gained would not hesitate to say that unless a small annual appropriation is made to continue these chemical treatments Spy Pond will surely fall back into the condition it was in, previous to 1926.
The attitude of the Board, in regard to the installa- tion of an incinerator for the burning of rubbish collected by Town teams, has not changed. We are still of the opinion that this is one of the outstanding necessities of which the Town stands greatly in need.
The usual licenses and permits required by Statute law and our regulations have been issued.
The financial report of the Department, giving a detailed account of expenditures and receipts for the year, together with morbidity and mortality reports and reports of appointees are appended.
In closing we wish to extend our thanks to the Arlington Visiting Nursing Association, to the Nursing staff of the Arlington public schools, and the Nursing staff of the Ring Sanatorium for assistance rendered during the year.
ALFRED W. LOMBARD, CHARLES F. ATWOOD, M.D., ERNEST R. BROOKS, D.M.D.,
Board of Health.
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FINANCIAL REPORT
Appropriation $37,480.00 Transfer from Reserve Fund (Salary of Office
Clerk) 36.00
$37,516.00
Mosquito Control (Special Appropriation) $3,700.00
Expenditures
Salaries
Middlesex County Commission- ers, board and care of patients at Rutland State Sanatorium and maintenance of Sana- torium for the year 1931 in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 385 of the Acts of 1928
$9,221.55
Board and care of patients for the year 1932 935.00
Middlesex County Commission- ers, maintenance of Middle- sex County Sanatorium for the year 1931
4,422.15
Board and care for patients at
Middlesex County Sanatorium the year 1932
4,385.50
Lakeville State Sanatorium. ..
366.00
North Reading State Sana- torium
882.00
City of Cambridge
208.28
City of Malden
196.00
City of Springfield
168.00
City of Boston 23.53
State Infirmary ... ...
5.00
$20,813.01
$9,066.00
Tuberculosis
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Hospitalization for Other Communicable Diseases
Diphtheria
$114.00
Supplies and Expenses
214.45
Scarlet Fever
3,165.00
Anti-Rabic Serum
45.14
Gonorrhea
206.00
Ophthalmia Neonatorium
34.26
Whooping Cough
4.00
Measles
.... 19.79
$3,802.64
Other Expenditures
Office Supplies
$259.32
Telephone
157.00
Auto Maintenance
327.21
Milk Inspector Expense
400.33
Dental Supplies
372.34
Laboratory Supplies
130.56
Dispensary Supplies
15.19
Burial of Animals
149.00
Total
$1,810.95
Total Expenditure
$35,492.60
Balance
2,023.40
Mosquito Control (Special Appropriation)
$3,700.00
Expended
3,418.83
Balance
$281.17
Labor Contributed by Department of Public Welfare $450.00
Total Expenditure
$3,868.83
Receipts
For licenses issued for sale of Milk from stores $93.00
For licenses issued for sale of Milk from
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vehicle
30.50
For licenses issued for sale of Oleomarg- arine 2.50
For licenses issued for sale of Alcohols .... 50.00
For licenses issued to practice Manicuring and Massage 64.00
For licenses issued to collect Meat Trim- mings
16.00
For licenses issued to manufacture Ice Cream
9.00
For licenses issued to maintain Slaughter- house 1.00
For licenses issued to maintain Pasteuriza-
tion Plant
20.00
$286.00
Other Receipts
From Dental Clinic
$426.40
From Tuberculosis
888.67
From Communicable Diseases
992.00
Total
$2,307.07
Total Receipts
$2,593.07
COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
A total of 1,073 cases of those diseases declared by the State Department of Public Health to be dangerous to the public health were reported to this office for the year 1932, against 972 for the year 1931. A comparative list is herewith presented.
1931
1932
Anterior Poliomyelitis (Infantile Paralysis)
10
0
Chicken Pox
298
389
Diphtheria
9
17
Dog Bite
80
52
Dog Bite (Requiring Anti-Rabic Treatment)
6
4
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Encephalitis Lethargica (Sleeping Sickness)
1 0
Epidemic Cerebro-spinal Meningitis
0
1
German Measles
16
26
Gonorrhea
30
30
Influenza
9
5
Measles
111
30
Mumps
102
154
Ophthalmia Neonatorium
1
6
Pneumonia (Lobar)
31
34
Scarlet Fever
118
126
Septic Sore Throat
3
3
Syphilis
13
24
Tuberculosis (Pulmonary)
44
32
Tuberculosis (Other Forms)
12
7
Typhoid Fever
0
4
Whooping Cough
77
127
Tetanus
1
0
Cholecystitis
0
2
Total
972
1,073
Patients placed in Contagious Hospitals for
Diphtheria
3
Patients placed in Contagious Hospitals for
Scarlet Fever
37
Patients placed in Cambridge T. B. Hospital .... 2
Patients placed in Malden Hospital
1
Patients placed in Springfield Hospital 1
Patients placed in State Infirmary at Tewks- bury for Tuberculosis
1
Patients placed in Middlesex County Sana- torium
11
Patients placed in North Reading State Sana- torium
1
Patients placed in State Infirmary ......
1
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BIRTHS AND DEATHS OCCURRING IN ARLINGTON, RESI- RENT AND, NON-RESIDENT DURING 1932
WITH FIVE-YEAR COMPARATIVE DEATH RATE AND INFANT MOR- TALITY (Stillbirths Excluded)
1928
1929
1930
1931
1932
Population estimated
32,000
35,000
36,089
38,500
39,000
* Number of deaths
310
316
338
323
298
* Apparent Death Rate per 1,000 Population
9.7
9
9.4
8.4
7.6
Births
734
572
935
532
503
Deaths of Children under one year of age
31
35
27
20
16
Rate of Infant Mortality per one thousand births
42.2
61.2
29
37.6
31.8
*Crude Rate. Age of oldest persons dying in Arlington
Female, 94 yrs., 4 mths., 18 ds. Male, 92 yrs., 2 mths., 2 ds.
CORRECTED DEATH RATE
NOTE: The corrected death rate is found by eliminating the deaths of all non-residents dying in Arlington and adding the deaths of all residents of Arlington dying elsewhere, as shown by the records of the Town Clerk. Deaths of residents occurring in Arlington. 265
Deaths of residents of Arlington occurring elsewhere 78
Total
343
Death rate per one thousand population. 8.8
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SHOWING THE FIVE PRINCIPAL CAUSES OF DEATH IN ARLINGTON DURING 1932
Heart Disease All Forms
Cancer All Forms
Cerebral Hemorrhage
Pneumonia All Forms
Accidents'
Number of Deaths
Number per 1,000
of Population
Number of Deaths
Number per 1,000
of Population
Number of Deaths
Number per 1,000
of Population
Number of Deaths
Number per 1,000
of Population
Number of Deaths
Number per 1,000 of Population
64
1.64
41
1.05
34
.87
30
.77
18
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RESIDENT AND NON-RESIDENT
DEATHS CLASSIFIED BY SEX, BY AGE AND BY CAUSE, FOR 1932-(Stillbirths Excluded)
CAUSES OF DEATH All Causes
Male or
Female
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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
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DEATHS CLASSIFIED BY SEX, BY AGE AND BY CAUSE, FOR 1932-(Stillbirths Excluded)-Continued
CAUSES OF DEATH All Causes
Male or
Female
1
2
3
4
5-9
10-14
15-19
20-24
25-29
30-34
35-39
40-44
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Class IX
Diseases of the Skin and of the Cellular Tissue :
151B
Gangrene of the Leg
SM IF
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: :
: :
.
:
·
·
:
: :
: :
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: :
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.
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1
·
1
.
·
.
1
:
:
1
1
:
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.
1
1
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1
1
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.
·
1
·
: :
113
1
.
.
1
1
1
1
2
451
10 .. 2
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1
:
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: :
DEATHS CLASSIFIED BY SEX, BY AGE AND BY CAUSE, FOR 1932-(Stillbirths Excluded)-Continued
179
170
169
167
XIV
Class
164
XIII
Class
161A
XII
Class
159C1 Spina Bifida
Congenital Hydrocephalus
All Causes
CAUSES OF DEATH
SM
SM
F
M
SM
SM
HRER
Male or Female
Under 1 Year
: :
: : : :
1
: :
: :
: : : :
2
: :
: :
: : : :
3
: :
.
.
4
: :
:
5-9
10-14
15-19
:
:
.
20-24
.
.
.
.
.
30-34
.
.
.
. :
35-39
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: : : :
40-44
.
. .
45-49
: :
: : : :
50-54
:
.
55-59
: : :
.
60-64
:
: : : :
65-69
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: : : :
70-74
.
: : : :
75-79
. :
: : : :
80-84
1
.
.
: :
: : : :
85-89
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·
: : ·
·
: : : :
90-99
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1
1
:
6
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:
M |F
Total
1
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1
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2
1
1
1
159A
XI
Class
Senility
Old Age :
Premature Birth
Early Infancy :
452
Accidental Burns
Suicide by Firearms
Suicide by Drowning
Suicide by Poisonous Gas
External Causes :
Malformations :
·
1
6
1
:
25-29
.
:
.
1
.
..
:
·
.
·
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182 Accidental Drowning
185 Accidental Traumatism by Fall
188B Accidental Traumatism by Street Cars
S M F MI
1
1
1
1
4 .
1
188F Accidental Traumatism by Other Vehi- cles
202 Other External Violence
Class XV 205A
Ill-defined Diseases :
Ill-defined Cause of Death
SM F
1
..
. .
Total
132 166
Stillbirths
.
. .
5
10
.
·
1
1
1
1
1
1
188C Accidental Traumatism by Automobiles
F F HRER ARIAN
3
SM F SM
·GI
1
. .
4
1
.
1 1
453
454
ARLINGTON TOWN REPORT
PERMITS ISSUED No Fee
For the keeping of 14 Cows
10
For the keeping of 136 Ducks
9
For the keeping of 7 Goats.
4
For the keeping of 6,630 Hens
171
For the keeping of 36 Swine.
5
For the construction of Cesspools
27
For the emptying of Cesspools.
33
For the hauling of Offal through Arlington
50
For the holding of Rummage Sales.
1
Respectfully submitted,
WILLIAM H. BRADLEY, Agent and Clerk.
REPORT OF BACTERIOLOGIST AND PHYSICIAN
To the Board of Health,
Arlington, Mass.
Gentlemen:
I herewith submit my report as Bacteriologist and Physician to the Board for the year ending December 31, 1932.
Report of Bacteriologist
Blood Smears 13
Sputa
78
Throat Cultures
229
Specimens Examined
Urethral Smears. 55
Total ... ... 375
455
BOARD OF HEALTH
Report of Physician
Home Visits
For release upon recovery from Communicable
Disease 85
Bakers Examined (Physical Examination) . . 16
Dispensary Report
Patients at Dispensary 11
Home Visits to Tuberculosis Patients 26
I also assisted in administering the Immunizing treatment of Toxin Anti-Toxin for the prevention of Diphtheria to the five hundred forty-two children at the two public clinics, held the past year.
Respectfully submitted,
EZEKIEL PRATT, M.D.
REPORT OF DENTAL OPERATOR
To the Board of Health.
Gentlemen:
I herewith submit my report of the work performed in the Dental Clinic during the year ending December 31, 1932.
The number of pre-school children applying for treatment at the Clinic increases steadily. The type of work necessary in the mouths of these children, whose ages range from two to six, has convinced us that more time must be given to the younger child. For this rea- son the age limit was lowered again this year. Unless a
456
ARLINGTON TOWN REPORT
child has been dismissed before he leaves the first grade he is not eligible for Clinic care. A child dismissed dur- ing this time may continue treatment until through the fourth grade.
In September the first-grade pupils were examined and notices sent to the parents of children needing care. Seventy-six per cent of the six hundred and fifty children examined required treatment.
The school authorities have co-operated with us and the regular quota of school children came on appointed days.
The individual number of children treated, includ- ing 196 pre-school children, was 573.
A summary of the work follows:
Pre-School All Children
Extractions
L Deciduous
46
398
Permanent
31
Deciduous
772
2,226
Fillings
Permanent
8
741
Deciduous
417
1,043
Treatments
Permanent
55
Prophylactic
118
365
Total number of Operations
1,361
4,859
Total number of Sittings
367
1,354
Total number of Patients
154
321
Total number of Cases Dismissed .. 160
521
Total number of Working Hours, 519 ...... or 173 Mornings
Respectfully submitted,
EDGAR F. MACKAY, D.M.D.
457
BOARD OF HEALTH
REPORT OF DENTAL ASSISTANT
To the Board of Health.
Gentlemen :
My work in this connection consisted of assisting the Dental Operator at the daily sessions of the Clinic and in the semi-annual examination of first-grade pupils of the Public and Parochial Schools.
I also continue working with the parents, teaching them the benefits of early care and encouraging them to start their infants receiving treatment early enough for it to be preventive.
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