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At the annual Town Election held March 1, 1943, Mr. John S. Crosby was elected a member of the Board of Health for a term of three years. Mr. Crosby appeared before the Town Clerk March 4, 1943 qualified, and was sworn to the office.
The Board met in special session and organized for the year as follows :
ERNEST R. BROOKS, D. M. D., Chairman
CARL E. BARSTOW, M. D.
JOHN S. CROSBY
The first Monday of each month was set as the regular meeting date.
APPOINTMENTS
J. Philip Bower, Agent and Clerk of the Board
Ezekiel Pratt, M. D., Bacteriologist and Physician to the Board.
*Ernest R. Brooks, D. M. D., Dentist.
Carl J. Donlon, D. M. D., Dentist.
Helen M. Heffernan, R. N., Nurse.
J. Philip Bower, Inspector of Slaughtering.
J. Philip Bower, Milk Inspector.
The usual clinics and health services, as in past years, were rendered.
Licenses and permits required by statute law and by the Regulations of the Board of Health were issued upon receipt of application.
*Temporary.
319
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH
The reports of all activities of the Department for the year with those of Appointees are appended.
Respectfully submitted,
ERNEST R. BROOKS, D. M. D., CARL E. BARSTOW, M. D., JOHN S. CROSBY,
Board of Health.
320
ARLINGTON TOWN REPORT
FINANCIAL REPORT
Appropriation
Personal Service $8,668.33
General Expense
2,500.00
Communicable Diseases
18,500.00
Total ...
......... $29,668.33
Expenditures
Personal Service $ 8,288.33
Hospitalization for Tuberculosis :
Middlesex County Sanatorium, Board and
care of patients for year ending December 31,
1943
10,862.50
North Reading State Sanatorium
458.00
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
219.25
Cambridge Tuberculosis Hospital
1,338.68
Costa Ambulance Service
14.00
Total
$12,892.43
Hospitalization and Expenses for Other Communicable Diseases.
Massachusetts Memorial Hospital :
Anterior Poliomeylitis
136.00
Chicken Pox
68.00
Mumps
28.50
Scarlet Fever
2,317.50
Septic Sore Throat
40.00
Miscellaneous Supplies and Expenses
89.12
$ 2,679.12
Antirabic Clinic, Vaccine
$377.52
Antirabic Clinic, Expense 252.00
$629.52
321
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH
Paid Chester Baker, Inc .:
Antirabic Vaccine ...... $ 39.89
Paid Physicians Administering :
Antirabic Vaccine .......... 224.00
$263.89
Total Expenditures (Communicable Diseases) $16,464.96 1 :
1
Other Expenditures
Maintenance of Office
$141.64
Telephone
117.58
Maintenance of Auto
437.53
Milk Inspector Expense
135.00
Dental Clinic Supplies
78.38
Laboratory
19.50
Burial of Animals
350.00
Travel in State
2.00
Care of Spy Pond and Reservoir
38.33
Total Expenditures (General Expense) ...... $1,319.96
RECEIPTS
Licenses Issued :
10 Sale of Alcohol
$10.00
5 Manufacture of Frozen Desserts or Ice Cream Mix (Retail) 25.00
1 Manufacture of Frozen Desserts or Ice Cream Mix (Wholesale) 100.00
5 Practice of Massage and giving of Vaper Baths 5.00
4 Collecting Meat Trimmings
8.00
49 Sale of Milk from Vehicles
24.50
105 Sale of Milk from Stores
52.50
38 Sale of Oleomargerine
19.00
2 Operating Pasteurization Plant
20.00
1 Cleaning Cesspools 1.00
322
ARLINGTON TOWN REPORT
4 Installing Septic Tanks and Constructing Cesspools 4.00
Sales of Rat Poison .90
Total Receipts from Licenses Issued $269.90
Receipts from Dental Clinic
363.50
Receipts from Communicable Diseases : From Tuberculosis
$10,367.79
Reimbursements from County Commissioners
for Dog Bites
72.90
From Other Communicable Diseases
366.00
Total Receipts (Communicable Diseases)
$10,806.69
Total Expenditures
$26,072.25
Total Receipts
11,440.09
Net Cost to Operate
$14,632.16
Cost per Capita
.37
Including debt and maintenance of Middlesex County Sanatorium
$16,248.42
Net Cost to Operate
14,632.16
Total
$30,880.58
Cost Per Capita
.77
COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
A comparative list of those diseases declared by the State Department of Public Health to be reportable is here- with presented for the years 1942 and 1943:
1942
1943
Anterior Poliomyelitis
0
2
Cat Bites
4
4
Chicken Pox
292
153
Diphtheria
0
2
Dog-Bites
163
157
Epidemic Keratoconjunctivitis
0
1
German Measles
37
486
Gonorrhea
8
9
323
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH
Malaria
1
0
Measles
294
240
Meningitis
0
4
Mumps
374
278
Paratyphoid Fever "B"
1
0
Pneumonia Lobar
35
16
Rabbit Bites
1
Scarlet Fever
53
146
Septic Sore Throat
2
1
Streptococcus Throat
0
1
Suppurative Conjunctivitis
2
1
Syphilis
26
22
Tuberculosis (Other forms)
4
1
Tuberculosis (Pulmonary)
26
17
Typhoid Fever
2
0
Typhus Fever
1
0
Whooping Cough
111
45
Total ...
1,437 1,586
Number of Arlington residents hospitalized through this office, with Arlington settlement, during the year for:
Chicken Pox
1
Diphtheria
1
Infantile
1
Scarlet Fever
12
Number of Arlington residents hospitalized through this office, with no Arlington settlement, during the year for:
Chicken Pox
1
Infantile
1
Mumps
1
Scarlet Fever
6
....
Number of persons not hospitalized through this office, but with Arlington settlement, during the year for :
Scarlet Fever 1
324
ARLINGTON TOWN REPORT
Persons with Tuberculosis and having a legal settlement in Arlington placed in Institutions as follows :
Middlesex County Sanatorium ........ 12
North Reading 2
Rutland
1
Person with Tuberculosis and having no legal settlement in Arlington were placed in Institutions as follows :
Middlesex County Sanatorium 1
North Reading 1
Rutland 1
325
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH
DIPHTHERIA PREVENTION BY IMMUNIZATION
Arlington, Mass., 1922-1943
Year
Number Children Immunized
Percentage below Age-5 of those Immunized
Percentage between Age 5-10 of those Immunized
Diphtheria
Cases
Deaths
1922
110
8%
58%
45
0
1923
427
1
58
53
1
1924
203
10
67
25
0
1925
119
13
72
19
0
1926
223
17
73
12
0
1927
376
22
72
10
1
1928
0
0
0
15
0
1929
974
21
68
18
0
1930
748
30
64
23
0
1931
700
32
59
9
0
1932
543
35
54
17
1
1933
523
54
43
9
0
1934
560
58
41
10
0
1935
198
58
41
22
0
1936
535
58
41
1
0
1937
410
65
34
1
0
1938
347
78
21
0
0
1939
288
76
24
0
0
1940
337
77
23
1
0
1941
242
69
31
1
0
1942
143
90
10
0
0
1943
164
85
15
2
0
Totals for
22 years 8,170
78
22
293
3
SUMMARY OF FIVE-YEAR PERIODS
1924-1928
1929-1933
1934-1938
1939-1943
Average Annual Num- ber of Children Im- munized
184
698
410
235
Number of Children
Immunized per 1,000 Population
4.6
17.5
10
5.8
Percentage below Age
5 of those Immunized
12
34
65
79
Percentage between 5- 10
years of those
Immunized
57
57
35
21
Reported Cases-Diph- theria
81
76
14
2
Diphtheria
1
1
0
0
Population : 1925-24,943
1930-36,094
Reported
Deaths
1935-38,539
1940-40,000
326
ARLINGTON TOWN REPORT
BIRTHS AND DEATHS OCCURRING IN ARLINGTON, RESIDENT AND NON-RESIDENT DURING 1943 With Five-Year Comparative Death Rate and Infant Mortality (Stillbirths Excluded)
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
Population estimated
40,000
40,000
40,000
40,000
40,000
*Number of deaths
334
332
358
341
396
* Apparent Death Rate per 1,000 Population
8.4
8.3
9.0
8.5
9.9
Births
303
627
271
269
312
Deaths of Children under one year of age
12
11
20
6
7
Rate of Infant Mortality per 1,000 births
39.6
17.54
73.8
22.3
22.4
*Crude Rate
Age of oldest persons dying in Arlington (1943) : Male, 98 years, 0 months, 0 days. Female 95 years, 5 months, 19 days.
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 taken from the records of the Town Clerk.
Deaths of residents occurring in Arlington 326
Deaths of residents of Arlington occurring elsewhere 70
Total 396
Death rate per 1,000 population 9.9
BIRTHS OCCURRING IN ARLINGTON RESIDENTS AND NON-RESIDENTS DURING 1943
1943
Population estimated
40,000
*Number of births
312
*Apparent Birth Rate per 1,000 Population
7
*Crude Rate
327
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH
CORRECTED BIRTH RATE
Note: The corrected birth rate is found by eliminating the births of all non-residents born in Arlington and adding the births of all residents of Arlington born elsewhere, as taken from the records of the Town Clerk.
Births of residents occurring in Arlington 177
Births of residents of Arlington occurring elsewhere 229
Total
406
Birth rate per 1,000 population 11.5
SHOWING THE FIVE PRINCIPAL CAUSES OF DEATH IN ARLINGTON DURING 1943
Heart Disease
Pneumonia (All Forms)
Diseases of Coronary Artery
Cancer
Cerebral Hemorrhage
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
95
2.37
47
1.18
45
1.12
46
1.15
51
1.28
·
RESIDENT AND NON-RESIDENT DEATHS CLASSIFIED BY SEX, BY AGE AND BY CAUSE, FOR 1943-Stillbirths Excluded)
Total
CAUSES OF DEATH All Causes
Sex
Under 1 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
Male
Female
Class I
Infectious and Parasitic Diseases :
2
1
3
......
MI
2
13B Tuberculosis of the Respiratory Sys- tem, not occupational
Class II
Cancer and other Tumors:
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45D Cancer of the Maxilla
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1
1
2
1
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46F Cancer of the Liver
2
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2
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1
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47A Cancer of the Larynx
47D Cancer of the Lungs
....
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1
..
..
1
M
45F Cancer of the Pharynx
3
1
2
....
46B Cancer of the Stomach
1
.. .
.. ..
..
. . ..
2
46D Cancer of the Rectum
4
..
MI
5
46E Cancer of the Intestines
1
2
2
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1
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46G Cancer of the Pancreas
1
1
1
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48 Cancer of the Uterus
55E Cancer of Abdomen and General Carcinomatosis
57D Tumor of the Brain
Class III
Rheumatism, Diseases of Nutrition and of the Endocrine Glands :
SM
1
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....
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1
SM
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1
1
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1
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3
1
1
1
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73A Pernicious Anemia
F
Class VI Diseases of the Nervous System and Sense Organs :
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1
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81A Meningitis
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58B Acute Rheumatic Endocarditis
61 Diabetes Mellitus
F
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6.1 Status Hymphaticus
80B Encephalitis
2
1
1
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1
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52C Cancer of the Urethra
53 Cancer of the Face
M
52B Cancer of the Bladder
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2
3
2
50 Cancer of the Breast
F
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49A Cancer of the Ovary
..
1
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RESIDENT AND NON-RESIDENT DEATHS CLASSIFIED BY SEX, BY AGE AND BY CAUSE, FOR 1943-Stillbirths Excluded)
Total
CAUSES OF DEATH All Causes
Sex
Under 1 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
Male
Female
83A Cerebral Hemorrhage
83B Cerebral Embolism and Throm- bosis
83D Hemiplegia
Class VII
Diseases of the Circulatory System :
1
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1
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1
1
1
F
2
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M
3
93B Myocarditis
93D Myocarditis, Chronic and Degenera- tive
2
1
1
3
1
3
8
1
1
1
22
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3
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91C Endocarditis
92B Mitral Stenosis and Regurgitation ....
1
1
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4
1
2
1
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1
1
3
93A Myocarditis, Acute
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2
1
1
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92D Chronic Endocarditis and Valvular Heart Disease
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2
93E Myocardial Insufficiency
1
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26
2
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94A Diseases of the Coronary Arteries
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94B Angina Pectoris
F
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97 Arteriosclerosis
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99 Mesenteric Thrombosis
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3
102
Hypertensive Heart Disease
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Class VIII
Diseases of the Respiratory System: Diseases of the Larynx
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105
IF
14
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3
29
107
Bronchopneumonia
F
2
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4
1
1
1
1
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1
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109
Pneumonia, Virus
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2
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1
1
111A Pulmonary Embolism
1
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1
1
111B Edema of Lungs
3
....
1
111C Hypostatic Pneumonia
Class IX Diseases of the Digestive System:
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9
95C Acute Dilatation and Compensation ..
1
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2
3
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100A Ruptured Esophagial Varix
1
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108 Lobar Pneumonia
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95 Other Diseases of the Heart
1
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1
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RESIDENT AND NON-RESIDENT DEATHS CLASSIFIED BY SEX, BY AGE AND BY CAUSE, FOR 1943-Stillbirths Excluded)
Total
CAUSES OF DEATH All Causes
Sex
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
Male
Female
117B Perforating Ulcer of the Duodenum
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120B Ulcerative Colitis
121 Appendicitis, Acute
1
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334
ARLINGTON TOWN REPORT
REPORT OF AGENT AND CLERK
To the Board of Health, Arlington, Mass.
Gentlemen :
I herewith submit the report of the Agent and Clerk of the Board of Health for the year ending December 31, 1943.
REPORT OF AGENT
Inspections
Food producing and distributing establishments ... 963
Other Inspections 56
Complaints
Investigated and adjusted
73
Legal Settlements
Investigated
40
REPORT OF CLERK
Licenses Issued
To buy, sell and deal in Alcohol
10 Fee
$ 1.00
To manufacture Ice Cream Mix or
1 Fee
100.00
Frozen Desserts (Wholesale) ..... To manufacture Ice Cream Mix or Frozen Desserts (Retail) ...
5 Fee
5.00
To Practice Massage and to give Vapor Baths
5 Fee
1.00
To collect Meat Trimmings
4
Fee
2.00
To operate Milk Pasteurization Plant
2
Fee
10.00
To sell Oleomargerine
38
Fee
.50
To sell Milk (Stores)
105
Fee
.50
To sell Milk (Vehicles)
49
Fee
.50
To Funeral Directors
15
Fee
none
335
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH
Permits Issued
Burial or Removal Permits
428
Fee
none
To Keep Ducks
2
Fee
none
To Keep Hens
197
Fee
none
To Construct Cesspools and Septic Tanks
4
Fee
1.00
To Empty Cesspools
1
Fee
1.00
To Haul Offal Through Arlington
12
Fee
none
To hold Rummage Sales
21
Fee
none
Respectfully submitted,
J. PHILIP BOWER,
Agent and Clerk.
336
ARLINGTON TOWN REPORT
REPORT OF BACTERIOLOGIST AND PHYSICAN
To the Board of Health,
Arlington, Massachusetts.
Gentlemen :
I herewith submit my report as Bacteriologist and Physician to the Board of Health for the year ending Dec- ember 31, 1943.
Specimens Examined :
Throat Cultures 36
Sputa
9
Urethral Smears
16
Mouth Smears (Dental)
11
Total
72
REPORT OF PHYSICIAN
Home Visits
For Release upon Recovery from Communicable
Diseases 70
For Investigation
6
Bakers Examined (Physical Examination)
5
Tuberculosis Test
0
Typhoid Inoculation
0
Total
Dispensary Report 81
Patients at Dispensary ....
8
Home Visits to Tuberculosis Patients
5
Total 13
...
Assisted at the Diphtheria Clinic for Toxoid inocula- tions for immunization against Diphtheria, which was con- ducted by the Board of Health.
337
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH
Responded to all calls from the Board of Health of- fice and attending physicians for the diagnosis of commun- icable diseases.
Respectfully submitted, EZEKIEL PRATT, M. D.,
Physician to the Board.
REPORT OF DENTAL CLINIC
Board of Health,
Arlington, Mass.
Gentlemen :
A report is herewith submitted of the activities in the Board of Health Dental Clinic for the year ending Dec- ember 31, 1943.
The dental operator from January 1, 1943 to June 18, 1943 was Ernest R. Brooks, D. M. D. and from June 20, 1943 to December 31, 1943 was Carl J. Donlon, D. M. D.
The usual examinations of first-grade pupils was made in September in all schools, Public and Parochial. It was found that 62% of the 579 pupils examined needed dental treatment. Notifications were sent to the parents of these children.
The principals of the grade schools co-operated in the usual way by keeping the quota allowed each school at- tending the Clinic. Parents with pre-school children were encouraged to start dental treatment for any two years of age and up.
Following is an itemized statement of operations, patients treated and dismissed, and hours spent on the treatment:
Extractions :
Deciduous Teeth 43
Permanent Teeth 0
338
ARLINGTON TOWN REPORT
Fillings :
Deciduous Teeth
1083
Permanent Teeth 523
Treatments, Silver Nitrate 147
Treatments, Prophylactic 469
Total number of operations
2265
Total number of visits
969
Total number of patients
366,
Total number of dismissals
433
Total number of working hours
447
or mornings 149
Respectfully submitted,
ERNEST R. BROOKS, D. M. D.
CARL J. DONLON, D. M. D.
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH NURSE
To the Board of Health,
Arlington, Mass.
Gentlemen :
I herewith submit my report as Public Health Nurse for the year ending December 31, 1943.
During the year 980 visits were made to the homes of persons suffering from communicable diseases or visits re- lated thereto.
Eight persons were referred to the Board of Health physicians for examination.
Seventy patients and contacts were referred to Mid- dlesex County Sanatorium for X-ray and examination.
Assisted at the Diphtheria Immunization Clinic held at the Board of Health office in the Fall.
339
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH
Assisted at the five Antirabic Clinics conducted by the Board of Health in April.
In accordance with Chapter 119 of the General Laws fifty-five investigations were made to determine the condi- tions in the homes of persons holding or applying for licenses to maintain Boarding Homes for Infants.
Saint Agnes School was visited frequently during school hours.
Red Cross Home Nursing classes were conducted two afternoons a week through June and began again in Nov- ember.
Attended a two-day institute held by the State Depart- ment of Public Health in April. The subject was the Ken- ney Method of Treatment of Infantile Paralysis.
Gave an address on the Board of Health functions at an Institute conducted by the Arlington Planning Council at the Library Hall November 20, 1943.
Assisted at the daily sessions of the Board of Health Dental Clinic and with the examination of 579 first-grade pupils in September.
Respectfully submitted, HELEN M HEFFERNAN, R N.
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, 1943.
The approximate daily consumption of milk, from data
340
ARLINGTON TOWN REPORT
shown on application cards submitted by milk dealers dis- tributing milk throughout the Town, is as follows:
Retail, Pasteurized, Quarts
17,419
Wholesale, Pasteurized, Quarts
5,374
Total
22,793
Cream, Pasteurized Quarts
865
The daily consumption of milk, per capita, is ap-
proximately (Qts.)
......
.051/2
LICENSES ISSUED
For Sale of Milk from Stores 105
For Sale of Milk from Vehicles
49
For Sale of Oleomargerine
38
Total
192
INSPECTION
Pasteurization Plants
8
Dairies
16
Total
24
......
SAMPLES OF MILK ANALYZED
Taken from Vehicles on Street 117
Taken from Chain Stores
16
School Milk
1
Total 134
341
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH
Total Average for year :
Milk
Solids
Bacteria
Fat
Grade A
13.04
5,084
4.32
Family
12.68
14,169
3.99
Chain Stores
12.74
6,676
4.04
School
12.82
8,000
4.10
Respectfully submitted, J. PHILIP BOWER,
Inspector.
342
ARLINGTON TOWN REPORT
REPORT OF INSPECTOR OF SLAUGHTERING
To the Board of Health,
Arlington, Mass.
Gentlemen :
I herewith submit my report as Inspector of Slaughter- ing for the year ending December 31, 1943.
Not having been called upon to serve in this capacity, I have no report to make.
Respectfully submitted, J. PHILIP BOWER,
Inspector.
343
REPORT OF CEMETERY DEPARTMENT
REPORT OF CEMETERY DEPARTMENT
The report of the Cemetery Commissioners is herewith submitted for the year ending December 31, 1943.
Number of bodies Interred in Mt. Pleasant :
Private Lots
239
Single Graves
61
Public Lot 8
War Graves
1
From Other Cemeteries
1
Valuation of Lots and Graves (with perpetual
care) ..
$268,948.00
Valuation of Office Furniture
230.00
Valuation of Stock and Tools
1,000.00
CEMETERY RECEIPTS
Sale of Lots and Graves
8,860.00
Annual Care of Lots and Graves
3,680.00
Miscellaneous
2,902.35
Rent and Sale of Junk
373.89
Perpetual Care
11,467.00
Opening Graves
4,363.00
J. EDWIN KIMBALL FREDERICK W. HILL RALPH S. STEVENS
Cemetery Commissioners
344
ARLINGTON TOWN REPORT
REPORT OF THE PLANNING BOARD
The Planning Board respectfully submits herewith its annual report for the year ending December 31, 1943.
At the Annual Town Election held Monday, March 1, 1943, Serovp P. Basmajian and Herbert M. Dutcher were re-elected as members of the Board for three year terms.
The Board organized on Friday evening, March 5, 1943, with Harold C. Knight as Chairman and Charles H. Bowker as Secretary.
The Board was represented by its Chairman on the "Special Parks and Playgrounds Committee" and the "Advanced Programming and Budgeting Committee".
The Board has continued membership in the Massa- chusetts Federation of Planning Boards and has main- tained contact with the State Planning Board.
During the year eighteen Board Meetings were held, the major portion of the time being spent on the study and revision of the "Town Zoning By-Laws". This project has not been completed but is being continued.
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