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2
0
Non-Support
22
24
Obscene Pictures in Possession
0
1
Open and Gross Lewdness
6
4
Pedler-Unlicensed
1
2
Rogue
1
0
Safekeeping
13
19
Sale of Obscene Literature
2
1
Selling Leased Property
1
0
Suspicious Persons
33
45
Unlawful Use of Town Property
0
2
Unnatural and Lascivious Act
1
0
Vagrancy
4
1
Violation of Auto Laws
703
1036
Violation of Auto Laws (Operating to Endanger)
18
29
Violation of Auto Laws (Operating Under Influence)
35
74
Violation of Board of Health Laws
0
1
Violation of Cigarette Law
1
0
Violation of Firearms Law
0
3
Violation of Fish and Game Law
. .
0
1
.
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Violation of Labor Law
4
0
Violation of Probation
17
20
Violation of Town By-Laws
1
9
Violation of Traffic Rules
723
767
Violation of Weekly Wage Law
1
0.
Total
2053
2490
RECAPITULATION
1949
1950
*Crimes vs. Person
29
29
*Crimes vs. Property
42
56
*Crimes vs. Public Order
2053
2490
Total Crimes for Which Arrests Were Made *Juvenile Arrests Are Included in These Totals
21.24
2575
DISPOSITION OF CASES
1949
1950
Delivered Outside
918
748
Guilty
1022
1487
Not Guilty and Discharged
53
129
Pending
7
68
Released or Discharged
124
143
Total
2124
2575
JUVENILE OFFICER'S REPORT for 1950 SCHOOL DISTRICT
OFFENSE
Out of
Town
Hardy
Crosby
Russell
Parmenter
Cutter
Brackett
Locke
Pierce
High School
J. H. West
J. H. Center
J. H. East
T. H. Ind. Arts
St Agnes
Total
Male
Female
Del-Outside
Court
Zouth Service
Board
Probation
Westboro
Bridge-
water
Dismissed
Total
Assault
Assault-Indecent
1
A. and B.
-
6
5| 2 | 1 | 3|
17
17
- 6 |
1
5
6
Destroying Property
1
7
2
2 1
2 20 |2 |1
10
48
48
Disch. Firearms
Dist. of Peace
False Alarm
1
2
1
4
1|
9 || 6 |3
Indecent Exposure
Larceny
14
1
5|
5 |
1||
26 | |
26
2
3
1|
3
Lewd
-
1
3
6
9 | 1||
3
22
20
2 | 1 | 2
2
2
Missile Throwing
Obscene Language
-
Obscene Literature
Runaway Child
2
3 | 2
3
10 |
6| 4
1
1
1
Setting Fires
6
1 | 7 || 6 |1
Stubborn Child
1
-
1|
1
Trespass
5
3| 1| 1
10
9 | 1
Total
32
1 |16
2 |
2 |1|
19 |31 |11 |20
|17 |30 |11 |14
5 ||15 |142 |
Female
2 | 1 |1
2 | 1
6
=
13
=
-
2
2 ||
2
-
-
=
-
-
5 ||15 155 ||142 | 13 | 3 | 13 ||
3 |8 |2
13
Male
30
15
2
| 2 | 1|
1
1
1
2 || 2|
1
1
1
B. and E. larceny
Mal. Mischief
Miscellaneous
-
Dispositions
File
JUVENILE OFFICER'S REPORT for 1950 - Age Group SCHOOL DISTRICT
Offense
7 Years
8 Years
9 Years
10 Years
11 Years
12 Years
13 Years
14 Years
15 Years
16 Years
TOTAL
MALE
FEMALE
COURT
Lyman
School
School
Probation
Westboro
Bridge-
water
Dismissed
TOTAL
Assault
1
1
1
Assault-Indecent
|1 |1
2 |
2 |
A. and B.
B. and E.
3 4 |2 |5 |3
17
17
Destroying Property
2 1
3| 7 | 9 8 |10
7|1 1
48
48
Disch. Firearms
Dist. of Peace
False Alarms
1
1
1|
1 |3|
1 1
9 ||6
3
-
Indecent Exposure
Larceny
1
3 |2 | 4 |6 | 2 | 8
26
26
Lewd
-
|
Miscellaneous
1
5
7 | 4 | 5
22
20
2
Missile Throwing
Obscene Language
1.
Obscene Literature
-
1 1 | 3
5
10
6
4
-
Setting Fires
5 |
1
1
7 || 6 1
-
Stubborn Child
1
1
-
1
1
4
3
1
1
10 |
9 |1
Total
3|8| 1| 3|11 |
18
27
35
30
19
.
155
142
13
Male
3| 8|
3 | 11
17
26
33
23
18
142
Female
1|
1 |1|
2
7
1
13
1
-
-
2
2
2
-
-
-
Mal. Mischief
Runaway Child
Trespass
DISPOSITIONS
File
Shirley
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ARLINGTON TOWN REPORT
MISCELLANEOUS DUTIES
1949
1950
Accidents Other Than Auto-
Personal Injury Involved
130
99
Ambulance Calls
141
187
Bank Alarms-False
37
33
Bank Alarms-Test
165
169
Buildings Found Open and Made Secure
315
487
Buildings Reported Vacant and Protected
644
536
Cases Investigated
2,967
3,387
Complaints of Children
917
764
Dead Bodies Cared for-Animal
144
138
Dead Bodies Cared for-Human
21
8
Dogs Killed
34
25
Dogs Turned Over to Dog Officer
26
9
Dog Bites Investigated
79
76
Dog Complaints
93
87
Electric Lights-Defective
632
789
Electric Wires-Defective
29
75
Fire Alarms-False
25
29
Fire Alarms-Given
139
161
Injured Persons Assisted Home
17
18
Injured Persons Assisted to Hospital
121
137
Insane Persons
15
16
Investigations for Other Departments
51
48
Lanterns Placed at Dangerous Places
23
37
Lost Children Cared For
140
85
Messages Delivered
163
151
Missing Persons
63
41
Officers at Fires
323
355
Sick Persons Assisted Home
21
20
Sick Persons Assisted to Hospital
84
68
Street and Walks-Defective
157
248
Wagon Calls
10
14
Water Running to Waste
62
54
Total
7,788
8,351
AUTOMOBILES
1949
1950
Reported stolen in Arlington
11
5
Reported stolen in Arlington and recovered
11
4
Reported stolen from other cities
4,220
4,201
Recovered in Arlington for other cities
15
10
OWNERSHIP TRANSFERRED
Permits to use by private owners
1,432
920
Used cars taken in trade by Arlington dealers
2,803
2,015
LICENSES-REGISTRATION-SUSPENDED-REVOKED
Licenses to operate suspended
152
205
Licenses to operate revoked
35
51
Registrations revoked
9
17
243
REPORT OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT
AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS
Fatalities
2
3
Involving Personal Injury
246
222
Involving Property Damage
186
169
Total
434
394
As a result of these accidents there was a total of three hundred twenty-two (322) persons injured.
The three fatal accidents were as follows:
On April 22, 1950 at 1.15 A.M. Patrick J. Toomey, forty-six (46) years of age, of 74 Richmond Road, Belmont, while operating his car, in the direction of Belmont, on Pleasant Street between Oak Knoll and Irving Street, came in contact with a tree, receiving injuries which resulted in his death practically instantaneously.
On June 17, 1950 at 4:57 P.M. Beecher E. Green, Jr., twenty-five (25) years of age, of 85 Rockwell Street, Malden, while standing between a tractor and the rear end of a truck on Washington Street, between Summer Street and Crawford Street, was crushed between the two, when the truck rolled back, thereby receiving injuries which resulted in his death on the same date at 5.43 P.M.
On September 3, 1950 at 12.38 A.M. Albert J. Flesch, twenty-one (21) years og age, of 13419 South Central Avenue, Los Angeles, Cal- ifornia, a member of the United States Air Force, Hanscom Field, Bedford, Mass. while operating an automobile on Massachusetts Avenue in the direction of Cambridge, between Orvis Road and Lake Street, came in contact with the inbound safety island, receiving injuries which resulted in his death on the same date at 6:50 P.M.
There were two hundred ninety-eight (298) accidents investigated and a total of seven hundred thirty-two (732) persons interviewed, this last total being arrived at as follows:
Total Number of Operators Interviewed 461
Total Number of Witnesses Interviewed 167
Total Number of Injured Persons Interviewed 104
Total Number of Persons Interviewed
732
OTHER FATALITIES
Death-Natural Causes
15
14
Death-Accidental
5
2
Death-Suicides
4
0
1949
1950
DIVISION OF INVESTIGATION
1950
The following crimes have been investigated and are classified as follows:
1950
*Breaking and Entering and Larceny Unfounded
131
28
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Cleared by Arrest 58
Not cleared by Arrest 45
*Larcenies Reported 86
Unfounded
21
Cleared by Arrest 13
Not cleared by Arrest 52
*Larceny of Automobiles 11
Unfounded
6
Cleared by Arrest
1
Not Cleared by Arrest
4
*Robbery
3
Unfounded
1
Cleared by Arrest
1
Not cleared by Arrest
1
*Includes Attempt to commit.
OTHER INVESTIGATIONS
Missing Persons
18
Assault and Battery 15
Indecent Exposure
7
Suspicious Persons
90
Outside Police Departments 113
Accidental Deaths
5
Domestic Relations
26
Non Support 62
541
Home Conditions 55
3
Suspicious Automobiles
65
Mental Cases
21
Forgery and Larceny
25
Property Damage
10
Sudden Deaths
14
Illegitimacy
3
Investigations for the District Attorney's office
18
F. B. I.
8
Gaming
20
Prowlers
26
Miscellaneous Investigations
Suspicious Fires
1950
245
REPORT OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT
Lewdness
10
Former Residents
61
Investigations for the U.S. Civil Service Comm. 254
U.S. Army
20
U.S. Navy
23
U.S. Marines
18
Selectmen's office
Jury Service 39
Licenses
245
Secretary of State's office 20
Vicious Dog Complaints 10
Claims against the Town and sidewalk accidents 17
2093 cases were investigated by the Bureau of Criminal Investigation for the year 1950.
RADIO AND PATROL CARS
Messages broadcast in 1950
11,560
Calls direct to specified cars
Arlington patrol cars
5,063
Arrests made by patrol car operators
Without warrant
446
With warrant
102
By Car No. 7-A 198
By Car No. 8-A 162
By Car No. 9-A 131
By Car No. 10-A 57
548
Total arrests by Arlington Patrol Cars
POLICE SIGNAL SYSTEM
1949
1950
Duty Calls
162,784
174,930
Telephone Calls
50
30
CRIME REPORT TO FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION TOTAL OF MONTHY CRIMES RETURNS-YEAR 1950 OFFENSES KNOWN TO THE POLICE-TOWN OF ARLINGTON
Reported or Known Unfounded Offenses
Offenses Cleared by Arrest
Criminal Homicide
0
0
0
0
(Murder or Non-Negligent Manslaughter)
0
0
0
0
Manslaughter by Negligence (Auto Fatality)
0
0
0
0
Rape
0
0
0
0
Robbery
3
1
2
1
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Aggravated Assault
0
0
0
0
Burglary-Breaking & Entering
131
28
103
58
Larceny (Over $50.00)
23
5
18
4
Larceny (Under $50.00)
63
16
47
9
Auto Thefts
11
6
5
1
TOTAL
231
56
175
73
NOTE: Attempts to commit above crimes are included in all totals.
CLASSIFICATION OF PROPERTY, STOLEN AND RECOVERED AS PER THE ABOVE REPORT
Offense
Robbery
Number 2
Value of Property Stolen $ 356.00
Breaking and Entering:
(A) Residence (dwelling)
(1) Committed during night
27
14,038.59
(2) Committed during day
20
1,264.98
(B) Non-Residence (store office etc)
(1) Committed during night
53
7,490.94
(2) Committed during day
3
3.80
*Larceny :
Over $50.00
18
1,932.30
$5.00 to $50.00
46
1,174.35
Under $5.00
1
1.00
** Auto Thefts:
5
3,775.00
TOTAL
175
$30,036.96
* Attempts to commit the above crime are included in this total.
** 10 stolen outside Arlington recovered here, not included in above total.
Number
Value of Stolen Property
Nature of Larcenies:
(a) Pocket Picking
0
$
(b) Purse Snatching
1
1.00
(c) Shop Lifting
1
17.75
(d) Thefts from Autos (Exclude auto accessories)
20
937.05
(e) Auto Accessories
0
(f) Bicycles
22
601.50
(g) All others
21
1,550.35
TOTAL
65
$3,107.65
Automobiles Recovered :
(a) Number stolen locally and recovered locally 0
(b) Number stolen locally and recovered by other jurisdictions 4
(c) Total locally stolen automobiles recovered 4
(d) Number stolen out of town and recovered locally 10
REPORT OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT
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VALUE OF PROPERTY STOLEN AND PROPERTY RECOVERED DURING THE YEAR:
Value of Property Stolen
Value of Property Recovered
(a) Curency, notes, etc.
$ 3,353.85
$ 760.90
(b) Jewelry and precious metals
7,600.98
2,625.00
(c) Furs
5,175.00
(d) Clothing
1,415.50
43.00
(e) Locally stolen automobiles
3,775.00
2,275.00
(f) Miscellaneous
8,716.63
3,414.89
TOTAL
$30,036.96
$9,118.79
TRAFFIC SIGNAL DEPARTMENT
The Department is responsible for the proper installation and main- tenance of all aids to the regulation and control of automobile traffic such as curb marking, traffic lines, signs, street markings, traffic lines, etc., and during the year maintained the following:
Bus Stops
6
Coasting
35
Cross Road
1
Curve Danger
4
Dead End Street
2
Delineators
227
Flashers
5
Heavy Trucking Prohibited
4
Hospital Zone
4
Isolated Stop
49
Keep to Right
8
No Left Turn
1
No Parking At Any Time
75
No Parking Around Island
3
No Parking Between Signs
10
No Parking Bus Stop
12
No Parking Here To Corner
43
No Parking on Crosswalk
1
No Parking on Curve
6
No Parking Taxi Stand
5
No Parking This Side
117
No U Turn
21
One Hour Parallel Parking
204
One Hour Parking Right Rear Wheel To Curb
3
One Hour Parking Thirty Degree Angle
2
One Way
13
One Way Do Not Enter
20
One Way Enter Here
2
Pedestrians Cross On Red and Amber Only
2
Railroad Warning
7
Red Reflectors
7
Right and Left Turn
1
Safety Platform Bases
4
Safety Platform Floodlights
9
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School
18
Single Line
7
Slow
35
Slow Playground
8
Slow School
1
Spot Lights
4
Thirty Miles Per Hour
13
Through Way Ends Here
3
Through Way Stop
200
Traffic Lights
37
Traffic Signals Ahead
28
Twenty Miles Per Hour
5
TOTAL 1172
Installation of curbs, lines, street markings, repainting and replacing of signs and posts were as follows:
CURBS, LINES, STREET MARKINGS
Bus Stops
300'
Center Lines
34,380'
No Parking (red curb)
775'
Parallel Parking
5,585'
Parking Meter Stalls
5,110'
Taxi Cab Stands
242'
TOTAL
46,392'
The Center Lines covered a distance of 6.05 miles
Crosswalks
123
Danger School Children (Words)
9
Danger Slow School (Words)
3
Intersection
6
Island Curbs
5
Look (Word)
160
Parking Meter Stalls
302
Safety Platform Light Bases
5
Slow (Word)
83
Slow Children (Words)
12
Slow Danger (Words)
6
Slow School (Words)
20
Stop (Word)
125
Stop Lines
115
Traffic Light Standards
28
TOTAL
980
SIGNS EDUCATIONAL AND ENFORCEMENT
Isolated Stop
20
Keep to Right
4
No Parking At Any Time
60
No Parking Around Island
1
. ..
.
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No Parking Bus Stop
3
No Parking Here to Corner
20
No Parking This Side
4
On Hour Parallel Parking
35
One Way
5
One Way Do Not Enter
9
Posts (Repainted)
265
Posts (Replaced)
60
Slow
10
Thirty Miles Per Hour
2
Through Way Stop
65
Traffic Lights Ahead
10
TOTAL
573
The following changes were made and put into effect for greater safety for school children during 1950:
1. At Mystic and Chestnut Streets the children use only one crosswalk instead of the two as were used formerly. This procedure eliminated the needs of the officer's observation, of two crosswalks and resulted in greater safety for the children.
2. At Medford Street and Mass. Avenue the same procedure was put in effect.
3. Studies were made of routes of children in all the elementary schools and as a result changes were made at the following schools and children were rerouted:
HARDY
LOCKE
PEIRCE
RUSSELL
ST. AGNES
4. Parking has been eliminated in front of all schools during school hours. Additional signs were posted for enforcement.
5. A special school stop was made at Mass. Avenue and Lockeland Avenue for the benefit of Senior High School students. The M.T.A. co-operated in this measure.
6. Hudson Bus Lines, Inc. co-operated after a request by this depart- ment and established a special stop on Lockeland Avenue when operating on school trips.
7. M.T.A. established a special stop in front of St. Agnes School when on school trips on request by this department.
8. Ten additional crosswalks in school vicinities were painted for school patrol crossings.
9. Safety flags for use of school children were provided.
10. Portable school crossing light manufactured by maintenance de- partment for use at school crossings.
11. Sidewalks in certain school areas have been recommended by this department to the Board of Public Works.
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12. Recommendation of transfer of pupils from one school to another as a safety measure was also made by this department.
Numerous signs and crosswalks will be made available for 1951 for still greater protection of our children in ARLINGTON.
TRAFFIC SIGNAL DEPARTMENT
This department is responsible for the installation and maintenance of all traffic signals; all signs for the regulations of vehicular traffic and the painting of all traffic lines, cross-walks, stop lines, etc.
The work of this department has increased tremendously during the past few years because of the increased number of automobiles using our highways.
W. R. LeBarron Company, of Arlington, have been awarded the contract to install a complete new set of traffic signals in Arlington Center by the State Department of Public Works. This will include a complete co-ordinated flexible system of lights from Franklin Street to Mill Street and, after completion, they will be turned over to the Town for maintenance.
AUXILIARY POLICE
This fine group of citizens have again given many hours of their time working with the youth of our town. They have again this year carried on with their baseball leagues for boys up to seventeen years of age, their regular Friday evening dance for high school youngsters and their firearms instructions. They also support, under John Babine, one of the finest hockey teams in this part of the country.
We feel that a youngster busy with some properly directed sport has no time to get himself into any serious trouble.
I consider the Town of Arlington to be very fortunate to have such a group as the Arlington Auxiliary Police give so freely of their time and effort in this most worthy work which has proven such a decided success in curbing juvenile delinquency.
The finest cooperation has existed between the Superintendent of Schools, the various Principals and this department in the investigation and correction of delinquency. Credit must also be given to the character building organizations, such as, the churches, the Boys' Club, the Boy and Girl Scouts, the C.Y.O. and other organizations who have done yeoman service for the benefit of juveniles.
MISCELLANEOUS DUTIES
This particular report section shows an increase of 563 separate cases attended to over that of 1949.
A glance through this report will show the multiplicity of work performed by the members of this department in the safety and welfare of the citizens of the town.
Take the sick and injured cared for-this shows 243 persons, 3,387 separate cases investigated. There were 85 lost children cared for. In some instances with children, three, four and five years of age, they were held at police headquarters for hours before parents were aware they were missing.
In addition, investigations were made for several different Federal Agencies including the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Civil
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Service Department. Also many investigations were conducted for various commercial organizations throughout the country on persons who had sometime resided in Arlington.
Under the head of Miscellaneous Duties can be found an enormous amount of detail work accomplished.
I am sincerely grateful to the members of the Arlington Auxiliary Police Association who have never failed to assist the department wherever their services were requested during the year.
To the Federal, State and Town Departments I am deeply grateful for their earnest and kind assistance, especially grateful to the members of my own department. I sincerely appreciate the wholehearted at- tention to duty exercised by all members of this department during the year. It was through their diligent attention to their many duties, in all kinds of weather, that Arlington continues to be comparatively free from crime and a good place in which to live.
In closing I wish to express my sincere appreciation to your Honor- able Board, Officials of the Town Government, as well as the citizens of Arlington for their splendid assistance and cooperation during the year.
Respectfully submitted,
ARCHIE F. BULLOCK,
Chief of Police
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ARLINGTON TOWN REPORT
Report of the Fire Department
Honorable Board of Selectmen
Town Hall
Arlington, Massachusetts
Gentlemen:
I have the honor to present my Second Annual Report as Chief of the Arlington Fire Department for the year ending December 31, 1950.
MANUAL FORCE
The force consists of ninety-one men: The Chief, four Deputy Chiefs, ten Captains, eight Lieutenants, sixty-seven Firemen, and an Assistant Superintendent of the Fire and Police Signal System; also a Depart- ment Surgeon, Dr. Edward W. Feeley, and a Department Clerk, Anna B. Hurley.
APPOINTMENTS
February 5, twenty-four Provisional Firemen since June 6, 1948, appointed Permanent Firemen.
February 5, Frank H. Manning and Charles J. McCue appointed Permanent Firemen (replacements).
June 2, Robert L. Dorrington appointed Permanent Fireman (replace- ment).
July 9, John J. Carey, (Jr.) appointed Temporary Fireman (replace- ment).
RESIGNATIONS
February 4, William J. Graham (Provisional)
February 4, Richard P. Morris (Provisional)
June 10, Horace G. Aiken, was retired on disability pension after many years of faithful performance of duty.
APPARATUS
In active service are three ladder trucks, three pumping units and the Special Service Unit; one pumping unit is in active reserve together with two 600-gallon trailer pumps.
RESPONSE
The Department responded to 932 calls, of which 207 were Box Alarms, 612 Still Alarms (telephone calls), and 113 Mutual Aid (Out-of-town calls). There were 8 Multiple (2-alarm) fires. In 1949 there was a total of 863 calls.
A summary of alarms revealed that the greatest number of such calls occurred in the month of April; that more occurred on Saturday
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than any other day of the week, and also that of these calls the largest number occurred between the hours of 11:00 a.m. and noon and between 5:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m.
Forty-three false alarms were sounded as compared with 39 in 1949.
The Special Service Unit responded to 17 First Aid Emergency Calls where the Resuscitator and the Inhalator were needed to administer oxygen to persons in critical condition through serious illness or acci- dentally overcome by toxic fumes.
FIRE LOSSES
Eighty-one losses occurred, twenty-one of which accounted for $79,855.45 of the entire yearly loss.
The total assessed value of property endangered, insurance thereon, loss sustained, and the insurance paid are as follows:
Assessed Value
Insurance
Damage
Buildings
$2,240,850.00 321,100.00
$3,564,500.00
$71,093.48
Insurance Paid $71,093.48 20,466.18
Total
$2,561,950.00
$3,877,100.00
$95,559.66
$91,559.66
FIRES WHICH CAUSED LOSS OF MORE THAN $1,000
January 8, Economy Grocery Stores, 1-10 Park Terrace and 15-27 Mystic Street
$ 8,005.26
January 20, Michael Pochini, 113 Mt. Vernon Street 2,758.60
January 21, Edith Ordway, 95 Harlow Street 7,569.50
January 22, Town of Arlington, Gardner Street 1,200.00
February 6, Natalie Quealey, 66-68 Tufts Street 4,100.00
February 6. Ketunah Risch, 107 Jason Street
1,909.00
February 21, Fred Rooke, 174 Summer Street
4,142.00
February 21, Salvatore Caterino, 65-67 Palmer Street
1,032.75
March 2, Carl Bostrom, 53 Huntington Road
2,031.33
March 15, Warren Morgan, 69 (R) Brand Street
1,670.09
April 10, Willard Cannon, 6 Pilgrim Road
1,250.00
April 16, Masincino Luongo, 465 Appleton Street
6,500.00
May 21, Nazareth Gechijian, 432-436 Massachusetts Avenue May 21, George Finley, 55 Forest Street
1,165.65
July 2, Jennie Yadwish, 79 Hibbert Street
6,209.00
July 17, Anna Mclaughlin, 71 Medford Street
1,116.00
September 29, Edna Lovering, 56-58 Teel Street
3,944.00
October 16, Annie Holbrook, 40 Mystic Street
2,005.00
November 4, Nazareth Gechijian, 432-436 Massachusetts Avenue
4,364.02
November 30, Armen Dohanian, 36-38 Windsor Street ... December 20, Arlington Coal & Lumber, 41 Park Avenue
3,417.00
APPROPRIATION
1950 Appropriation
Expended
$316,846.30 316,198.26
Balance
$ 648.04
Contents
312,600.00
24,466.18
10,500.00
4,966.25
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CREDITS
Fees for 44 permits to blast
$22.00
Fees for 19 permits for inflammables 9.50
Fees for 9 permits for tar kettles
4.50
Fee for 1 permit for fireworks .50
15.86
Sale of Junk
$52.36
REPORT OF DEPARTMENT SURGEON
Dr. Edward W. Feeley, Department Surgeon, rendered the following services during 1950: House calls 4, office calls 35, hospital calls 4, station calls 8, and physical examinations 32.
In addition he responded to many alarms and had conferences with the Chief on medical matters pertaining to the Department.
FIRE PREVENTION
All places of business, public building, schools, hospitals, convales- cent homes, and places of public assembly were inspected each month, a yearly total of 9,500 inspections.
A record was made of existing conditions, together with the date when corrections were made. Regular inspection of this type of occu- pancy greatly decreases the causes of fire and results in smaller fire losses to property and contents.
Ten fires occurred in these regularly inspected places, causing a loss of $15,282.51.
Recharged 171 fire extinguishers in these buildings.
INSPECTION OF DWELLINGS
The Twenty-seventh Annual Voluntary Inspection by the Firemen of the cellars of every home in Arlington was made during Fire Pre- vention Week, October 8 - 14; 8,687 houses were inspected, checked for fire hazards and a record of each inspection established.
Owners and occupants were advised to correct possible hazards which would contribute to the start or the increase of fire.
Eighteen fires occurred in cellars of residences; 13 were caused by defective oil burners and one by spontaneous ignition. There were 14 cellar fires in 1949.
The following is compiled as a result of Dwelling House Inspections:
Total Houses
8,687
Single Houses
5,487
2-Apartment houses
2,991
Of more than two apartments
209
Vacant apartments
2
House with power oil burners
5,674
Combustible roofs
Houses with range oil burners
4,356
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REPORT OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT
INSPECTIONS
1
Dwellings
8,687
Mercantile
9,500
Power oil burners
751
Range oil burners
109
Total inspections
19,047
FIRE DRILLS IN SCHOOLS
The annual fire drill under the supervision of the Officers of the Fire Department was conducted in public, parochial and private schools.
A record was made of the number of classrooms, pupils, exits used and the time required to vacate each building, a copy of which was sent to the School Department.
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