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Primary and Grammar School Boys
Song, "Travel"
Grades VII & VIII
Class Prophecy Gladys Fulcher Valedictory Edith Knowles School
Song. "Patriot's Song"
Presentation of Diplomas
Prince H. Hurd
Chairman of School Committee
Benediction
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Graduating Class
John A. Knowles
Irma K. Penniman
Edith P. Knowles
Althea H. Bangs
Alton C. Crosby
Gladys H. Fulcher
Rebecca C. Brown Frank King
Irene M. Allby
Class Colors Red, White and Blue
ยท Class Motto Strive and Succeed
Class Flower Rose
REPORT OF HEALTH OFFICER, CAPE COD HEALTH BUREAU.
Yarmouthport, Mass., December 31, 1922.
Board of Health, Eastham, Mass.
Gentlemen :
Any plan which contributes to the better health and physical safety of the pople, come under the obligation of the Board of Health. To be sure, there are many ailments that are wholly a private matter, unless such incapacity may make the citizen a town charge. There are many conditions which affect us as a group, and from which we must be protected not only one from another but even from ourselves. There is no way of handling such cases except through a central board which can deal with all of us firmly, justly and with expedition. Te passive acceptance of adverse conditions is a thing of the past and we should now take active steps to protect our people.
One frequently hears the question : "What do we get for our money?" This is only a natural question intended to determine whether or not we are receiving the value of our money. In the town of Eastham the resident tax-payer pays seventeen cents on a thousand dollars valuation, for the service rendered. Is it possible to buy cheaper insur- ance for the same quality of service? Less than 81/2 cents
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for the protection of your children while in school. Less than 81/2 cents for the protection of your milk and other foods, the supervision of your water supply, sewage dis- posal, nuisances, communicable diseases, for free literature and lectures on health subjects and free consultation service for any questions connected with health matters. If you buy six stamps and throw away five, that is your personal concern. You have paid for your goods and may use as little as you choose. There is no home without some pro- blem. Have you solved yours ?
The law of our land is broken every minute,-murderers, felons and traitors are constantly escaping recognition and punishment. Why ? Because it would take one police officer to every person if it were necessary to maintain all law by enforcement. That the majority of people wish to do right for the sake of their friends and relatives is what makes our nation the greatest nation in the world in spite of the many wrongs we see or imagine. If one knows of the transgression of health laws, it is their duty to inform the health officer of their board of health. It is a hundred to one shot that the board or its agent knows nothing of the trouble, and there is not money enough on Cape Cod to buy service that can watch every one all of the time.
"Public Health Work" has for its objective the prevention of disease. The common communicable diseases, while of short duration, take their toll of life and money. The dis- cases of adult life that cost all of us so much in cash, anxiety, lost friends and hopes, are usually planted in child- hood, and the most of them can be prevented if recognized early. Every life saved or sickness avoided means real money to your town which may be spent in trade, improve- ments or recreations. Why do the large stores and indus- tries spend thousands of dollars to keep their employees
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healthy? It is not their love for mankind, but a strong business investment which has proved itself over and over again. For every hour lost by sickness, or a trained employee lost by death means hundreds of thousands of dollars lost over a period of time. Such work has already increased the average length of life by fifteen years since 1870. If such work is of value to one group of people, why should it not be useful to us?
It costs about two dollars and a half a year to protect a $2,000 house against fire loss, and we are not disappointed if the house fails to burn down each year. A lost house may be rebuilt, a lost life is irretrievable. Would you pay 81/2 cents to protect a life against disease and death? In either case the insurance is not a guarantee that the house will not take fire, or the individual die, but you have done all in your power to offset the catastrophe.
If you take a quart of milk a day, would you give one quart to know that the other 364 quarts were clean and safe for your children to drink?
Would you give a loaf of bread to know that your other products were clean and wholesome?
Your child can be absolutely protected against diptheria. Is it worth a dime to save its life, or at least protect it and yourself against a severe illness with the attendant costs ?
Is it better business to pay cents for protection, or dollars for cure ?
In the last analysis, the summer resident of two months pays over one-half of our protection for twelve months.
The following report shows something of the foundation already laid. With this to build upon, and the co-operation of every citizen, there is not a parallel investment among all of our appropriations.
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* Sanitary Inspections :
Dairaies-3141 : milk samples-521; below standard 110. Sediment tests-1240.
Milk supplies improved since July 1. 1921-149. New barns-15; remodelled-31 (since May 15, 1922). Cattle tuberculin tested-72; reactors killed-4. Food product places (not dairies)-55. Private premises-214.
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Oyster grant surveys-2 (four weeks' work). Clam grant surveys-1 (ten days' work). School sanitary inspections-128. Wells analyzed-48. State condemned-5. New water connections-21. New sewer connections-29.
Communicable Diseases :
Visits to make diagnosis-207. Secondary visits-99. Cases quarantined-195. Laboratory tests and immunization-492.
Examined suspects-846. Health conferences with individuals and groups-340.
Schools and Educational : Lectures-44. Attendance-6157. Literature distributed-2942 pieces.
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Individual examination of children -- 7027.
Found with defects-4684.
Defects corrected-1080.
Nutritional Clinics-76.
Weighed and measured-657. Conferences with parents-161.
Baby clinics-10.
Schick Clinics-2. Tested-121.
Found susceptible to diphtheria-87.
Found not susceptible-34.
Respectfully submitted,
R. B. SPRAGUE, M. D., Health Officer-Cape Cod Health Bureau, Field Agent U. S. Public Health Service.
*In compliance with the many requests for a report of the work as a whole the above figures have been submitted. For those wishing details regarding any item or items. such will be gladly submitted upon request.
WARRANT
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Barnstable, ss.
To Harvey T. Moore, Constable of the Town of Eastham, in said County, Greeting :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of said Town, qualified to vote in elections and Town affairs, to meet in the Town Hall in said Eastham, on Monday, February 5, 1923, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to act upon the following articles, viz :
Art. 1. To choose a moderator to act at said meeting.
Art. 2. To hear the reports of the Selectmen, and all reports and committees and act thereon.
Art. 3. Shall license be granted for the sale of certain non- intoxicating beverages in this town ?
Art. 4. To choose all necessary Town Officers for the ensuing year.
Art. 5. To fix the rate for the collection of taxes assessed for the year 1923
Art. 6. To see what sum of money the Town will raise for the Public Library and make appropriation for the same. Art. 7. To raise such sums of money as may be necessary to defray Town charges for the ensuing year, and make appropriations for the same.
Art. 8. To see in what manner the Town will dispose of its Refunded Dog Tax, and act thereon.
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Art. 9. To see in what manner the Town will support its Poor for the ensuing year.
Art. 10. To see in what manner the Town will repair its roads and bridges and appropriate money for the same.
Art. 11. To see if the Town will give the Collector of Taxes the same power as the Treasurer has when Collector of Taxes.
Art 12. To see if the Town will authorize the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money in anticipation of revenue of the municipal year, beginning January 1, 1923, to an amount not to exceed $12,000.00.
Art 13. To see what sum of money the Town will appro- priate for the suppression of the Gypsy and Brown Tail Moth.
Art 14. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate a sum of money for and elect a Director for the Cape Cod Farm Bureau as authorized by Sects. 41 and 45, Chap. 128, Vol. 1, Pages 1107-1108, Mass. Gen. Laws, relating to Agriculture.
Art. 15. To see what sum of money the Town will appro- priate towards the repair and maintenance of Town Roads, or do or act anything thereon.
Art. 16. To see what action the Town will take regarding the wages of laborers, teams and trucks on Town work for the ensuing year, or do or act anything thereon.
Art. 17. To see if the Town will vote to make an appro- priation for Memorial Day.
Art. 18. To see what action the Town will take regarding the Herring Brook, or do or act anything thereon.
Art. PQ. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of $215.00 for the purpose of continuing the services of the Cape Cod Health Bureau, said sum to be placed in the hands of the Town Treasurer, subject to the Board of Health and School Committee, or take any action thereon.
Art. 20. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purchase of fire fighting brooms, and the replacement of other fire fighting apparatus.
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Art. 21. To see if the Town will vote to increase the salary of the Chairman of the Board of Selectmen.
Art. 22. To see what action the Town will take regarding electrically lighting the State Highway through said Town.
Art. 23. To see if the Town will vote to build a new bridge over Boat Meadow Creek on the site of the old bridge, the same to be completed in 1923, and appropriate a sum of money for the same, or do or act anything thereon.
Art. 24. To see if the Town will vote to petition for the installation of an accounting system by the Commonwealth, Chap. 516, Acts 1922.
Art. 25. To see if the Town will accept or reject the resolution requesting legislation : (1) to fix the maximum price at which coal may be sold in any congressional dis- trict /or part thereof; (2) to provide for prior sales and shipments to consumers and to retailers of coal.
Art. 26. To see if the Town approves the action taken by the Selectmen in objecting to the renewal of licenses for large roadside billboards, and authorizes the Selectmen to continue to oppose the granting of licenses for roadside advertising which disfigures the landscape.
Art. 27. To see if the Town will vote to pay a bounty on crows killed within the town boundries.
Polls will open at 10 o'clock A. M.
Hereof fail not and make due returns of this Warrant with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk, at the time and place of meeting. as aforesaid. Given under our hands at Eastham this twenty-second day of January, 1923.
ARTHUR W. PARNELL, WILLIAM B. HIGGINS, DANIEL W. SPARROW, Selectmen of Eastham.
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