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R. S. Hopkins
$4.00
Appropriation
$50.00
Maurice L. Moore
28.00
Balance to Revenue
18.00
$50.00
$50.00
Moth Suppression
Labor
$348.00
Appropriation
$560.00
Trucks
202.00
Gas, Oil, Grease, etc.
10.00
$560.00
$560.00
Private Moth Suppression
Labor
$24.00
Appropriation
$40.00
Truck
16.00
$40.00
$40.00
Purchase of Power Sprayer
Sprayer
$661.00
Appropriation
$700.00
Balance to Revenue 39.00
$700.00
$700.00
Suppression Tent Caterpillars
Otto E. Nickerson
$15.00
Appropriation
$25.00
Balance to Revenue
10.00
$25.00
$25.00
(62)
Tree Warden
Removing Trees
$9.00
Appropriation $20.00
Balance to Revenue
11.00
$20.00
$20.00
Bounty on Woodchucks
Paid Bounties
$40.00 Appropriation $40.00
Shellfish Propagation
Seed Clams
$24.48
Appropriation $200.00
Labor Broadcasting Clams
83.15
Boat and Truck Hire
for Clams
51.23
Labor Boat Planting Scallops
10.12
Labor on Winkles
29.00
Sifter
1.00
$198.98
Balance to Revenue
1.02
$200.00
$200.00
Shellfish Protection
Constable
$300.00
Appropriation $350.00
Shellfish Signs
7.50
Delivering Shellfish Sign Poles to Salt Pond 2.00
Truck Labor putting up signs 3.00
(63)
Labor Material in
making signs 7.50
Labor Winkles
17.00
Labor on Scallops 3.88
Rake, Nails, Tacks,
Saws, etc. 7.12
Shellfish Notice
with Orleans 2.00
$350.00
$350.00
Health
Printing
$32.02
Appropriation $400.00
Medical Care
133.90
Dental Clinic
75.00
Services :
Ralph A. Chase
5.00
E. D. Penniman
5.00
M. W. Wiley
5.00
B. of H. Meetings :
Ralph A. Chase 18.00
E. D. Penniman
16.00
M. W. Wiley
20.00
309.92
Bal. to Revenue
90.08
$400.00
$400.00
Town Dump
Superintendent $227.50
Appropiration $500.00
Painting signs & paint 7.35
Locusts posts & carting 14.75
Wire and staples 81.12
(64)
Labor at dump 49.75
Material for gate, etc. 22.42
Burning
8.50
411.39
Balance to Revenue
88.61
$500.00
$500.00
Inspection of Animals
Harry W. Collins $25.00 Appropriation
$25.00
Dog Account
Walter F. Nickerson
$18.00
Appropriation
$20.00
Bal. to Revenue
2.00
$20.00
$20.00
Highways-General
Surveyor's Bills
$129.59
Appropriation
$250.00
Balance to Revenue 120.41
$250.00
$250.00
Highways-Chapter 81
Surveyor's bills
$9,675.00
Appropriation
$3,225.00
State Allotment 6,450.00
$9,675.00
$9,675.00
Highways-Chapter 90
Labor
$57.55 Appropriation $150.00
Trucks
139.00
County Allotment 150.00
(65)
Asphalt
250.88
State Allotment 150.00
Sand, hardening
2.62
$450.00
$450.00
Acquire Land Town Way Nauset Light Rd. Northerly
Labor
$64.00
Appropriation $400.00
Grader, Bulldozer
197.00
Survey, records
103.72
Postage, use of car
3.38
368.10
Balance to 1941
31.90
$400.00
$400.00
Snow
Labor
$205.83
Appropriation
$300.00
Trucks
110.75
Tr. from reserve
44.68
Bolts casting for
snow plow
20.15
Express snow plow
blades
3.20
Repairing snow plow
4.75
$344.68
$344.68
Purchase Hydraulic Snow Plow Lift
Snow Plow
$95.00
Appropriation
$100.00
Installation
3.00
Freight
.72
98.72
Balance to revenue
1.28
$100.00
$100.00
(66)
Public Welfare
Adm. and Express Sur-
Appropriation $1,500.00
plus commodities $144.11
Refund 15.25
Bags for commod. 19.70
Administration
21.00
Groceries and
Provisions
449.00
Clothing
11.34
Coal and Wood
61.23
Medicine and Medical Care
284.68
Rent
30.00
Cash
20.00
License
5.25
Town of Barnstable
16.50
1,062.81
Bal. to Revenue
452.44
$1,515.25
$1.515.25
Aid to Dependent Children
Aid
$1,488.25
Appropriation
$1,500.00
Adm.
11.00
1,499.25
Balance to Revenue
.75
$1,500.00
$1,500.00
Aid to Dependent Children, U. S. Grants
Aid
$1,285.50
Bal. Jan. 1, 1940
$392.32
Balance to 1941
232.82
Grants
1,126.00
$1,518.32
$1,518.32
(67)
Aid to Dependent Children, Adm. U. S. Grant
Balance to 1941 $1.50 Grants $1.50
Old Age Assistance
Aid
$4,487.53
Appropriation $4,500.00
Bal. to Revenue 12.47
$4,500.00
$4,500.00
Old Age Assistance, U. S. Grants
Aid
$4,629.50 Balance Jan. 1, 1940 $264.63
Balance to 1941 31.57 Grants 4,396.44
$4,661.07
$4,661.07
Old Age Assistance, Adm., U. S. Grants
M. W. Wiley
$55.00
Bal. Jan. 1, 1940 $220.24
Grants 146.37
Printing, stationery and postage
29.14
Typing
2.00
86.14
Bal. to 1941
280.47
$366.61
$366.61
Soldiers' Benefits
Cash
$80.00
Appropriation
$300.00
Balance to Revenue
220.00
$300.00
$300.00
(68)
W. P.A.
Adm.
$34.45
Appropriation
$1,000.00
Nursery School
441.65
Refund 5.00
Household Aid
48.00
Tr. from Reserve 25.34
Roads
197.00
Research
91.26
Moth
202.17
Bags
3.80
Assessors' Project
12.01
$1,030.34
$1,030.34
Schools
Bills
$16,615.67
Appropriation
$16,900.00
Balance to Revenue 284.33
$16,900.00
$16,900.00
See Superintendent's Report
Taking Land, New School
Tr. to Pay School-
Bal. Jan. 1, 1940
$584.53
house Note
$500.00
Balance to 1941 84.53
$584.53
$584.53
Public Library
Librarian
$282.50
Appropriation
$100.00
Books
333.44
Income Billings Fund 420.00
Periodicals
12.00
Refunded dog tax
167.48
Fuel
66.48
Gift
100.00
Light
12.14
Painting Flag Staff
5.00
Repair on Top Mast
8.00
(69)
Insurance
30.40
Dues 1.00
Attending Meetings
4.00
Caneing Chair
3.25
Cards
13.95
Janitor's Supplies and Incidentals 11.11
783.27
Balance to 1941
4.21
$787.48
$787.48
Tax Title Account
Recordings
$134.88
Appropriation
$300.00
Printing
31.00
Use of car
3.00
Fees for Tax Titles
9.75
178.63
Balance to Revenue
121.37
$300.00
$300.00
Sale of Tax Title Property
Staking lots
$19.00
Appropriation $50.00
Balance to Revenue 31.00
$50.00
$50.00
Town Landings
Labor and Lumber on
Appropriation $100.00
Nauset Landing $31.66
Labor on Raft
18.50
(70)
Lumber for Raft 13.28
Barrels, Rubbish Can, etc. 10.14
73.58
Balance to Revenue 26.42
$100.00
$100.00
Landing-Nauset Beach
Transferred to pay
Balance Jan. 1, 1940 $278.37
schoolhouse note $200.00
Buying Lot 50.00
250.00
Balance to 1941
28.37
$278.37
$278.37
Landing-Cape Cod Bay
Balance to 1941 $113.07
Balance Jan. 1, 1941 $113.07
Free Band Concerts
Ralph A. Chase,
Appropriation
$150.00
Treas.
$150.00
Memorial Day
Services of Band
$30.00
Appropriation $100.00
Wreaths, flowers
10.00
40.00
Balance to Revenue
60.00
$100.00
$100.00
(71)
Community Christmas Tree
George Howard,
Appropriation $35.00
Treas.
$28.54
Material for Bags 2.25
$30.79
Balance to Revenue 4.21
35.00
$35.00
Free Bed-Cape Cod Hospital
Paid Cape Cod
Appropriation
$300.00
Hospital
$300.00
Town Reports
F. B. & F. P. Goss
$250.00 Appropriation
$250.00
Insurance
Workmen's Compen-
Appropriation
$500.00
sation
$210.88
Refund
141.73
General Liability 270.00
Burglary
117.50
598.38
Balance to Revenue
43.35
$641.73
$641.73
Finance Committee
Dinners
$6.25
Appropriation
$10.00
Balance to Revenue
3.75
$10.00
$10.00
(72)
Old Mill
Bags and paper for Old Mill
$3.60
Refinishing stone
87.00
Mowing
7.00
97.60
Bal. to revenue
2.40
$100.00
$100.00
Miscellaneous
Towing car
$2.00
Appropriation
$125.00
Land damage
5.00
Tr. from reserve
46.84
Bounty on seals
10.50
Surveying and restaking
R. R. Ave.
74.00
Survey Horton's
landing
26.00
Advertising hearings
20.50
Police duty
5.00
Due Orleans on 1939
Shellfish account 28.33
Express on sign .51
$171.84
$171.84
Reserve Fund
Transfers :
Appropriation
$1,000.00
Snow
$44.68
W.P.A.
25.34
Town Hall
36.95
Appropriation $100.00
(73)
Miscellaneous
46.84 Assessors' Abstract 8.14
161.95
Balance to revenue
838.05
$1,000.00
$1,000.00
Old Cemeteries
Labor
$107.50
Appropriation
$150.00
Trucks
40.50
148.00
Bal. to Revenue
2.00
$150.00
$150.00
Interest
Temporary loans
$87.50
Appropriation
$375.00
Schoolhouse
270.00
Refund
12.50
$357.50
Balance to Revenue 30.00
$387.50
$387.50
Schoolhouse Note
Merchants National
Appropriation
$2,000.00
Bank $2,000.00
Temporary Loans
Cape Cod Trust Loans $23,000.00
Co. $23,000.00
(74)
Trust Accounts
Bal. Jan. 1, 1940 $43,577.23
Balances Dec. 31, 1940 :
Int. Cemetery Trusts 5.95
Cemetery Trust $238.92
Int. W. W. Memorial 10.84
Int. Old Wind Grist Mill 13.86
Int. Christmas Tree
1.27
Int. Timothy Smith Fund 360.60
Income Timothy Smith Fund 898.05
Refund Old Wind
Grist Mill
10.00
1940 Loans 520.00
Previous Loans 8,210.87
Gifts 200.00
Expended from Old Wind Grist Mill
Account 20.05
$44,877.80
$44,877.80
Other Funds
Withdrawn labor and
corn at Old Mill $174.28
Balance Dec. 31, 1940 107.69
Balance Jan. 1, 1940 $141.20
Cash sale of meal 139.49
Interest 1.28
$281.97
$281.97
Balance
$107.69
Inc. Town Hall
trust fund 49.62
Balances Dec. 31, 1940 : Old Mill Operat- ing Fund $8.18
Town Hall Income Fund 151.00
(75)
Town Hall Trust 2,434.00 World War Memorial 442.44 Old Wind Grist Mill 555.55 Christmas Tree Fund 73.58 Timothy Smith Fund 18,176.14
Billings Fund 14,000.00
Expended from Ceme- tery Funds 6.25
Int. Town Hall trust fund
1.87
$159.18
$159.18
Revenue Account
Cash
$8,008.25
Loan
$5,000.00
Tailings
85.07
Real Estate Taxes 1939 3,186.34
Overlay 1936
496.90
Personal Taxes 1939 122.52
Overlay 1937 592.82
Poll Taxes 1940
6.00
Overlay 1939
572.41
Overlay 1940
309.23
Real Estate Taxes 1940 8,740.59
Overlay Reserve
95.63
Personal Taxes 1940 710.37
Excise 1939
4.00
Excise 1940
47.17
Moth 1939
1.25
Moth 1940
12.50
Tax Title Revenue 4,706.83
Highways, Chap. 81 579.41
Departmental
State Aid
35.00
Revenue 678.35
Temporary Aid
119.78
Old Age Assistance
471.73
Board of Health
51.84
Old Age Assistance Federal Grants 31.57
Tax Titles
2,937.57
Tax Possessions
1,769.26
Overlay 1935
2.70
Overlay 1938
11.36
Old Age Assistance Adm. Grants 280.47
Schoolhouse Land 84.53
Landing, Nauset
Beach 28.37
Landing, Cape Cod
Bay 113.07
M. V. Excise Tax
Revenue 51.17
Special Assessment Revenue 13.75
Aid Dep. Children
Federal Grants 232.82
Aid Dep. Children Adm. Grants 1.50
(76)
Sale of Real Estate Fund 1,185.00
Acquire Land Nauset Light Road 31.90
State and County Tax Overestimate 1940 2.77
Public Library 4.21
$14,598.37
Excess and
Deficiency 12,219.27
$26,817.64
$26,817.64
Respectfully submitted,
L. ISABELLE BRACKETT,
Town Accountant.
(77)
Report of Board of Public Welfare
This report is put in to give the people a little clearer view of the cost to the Town. Because the bills go out at dif- ferent times of the year and all reimbursements are not re- ceived within the year and there is always a chance of a larger allowance or disallowance, a true account cannot be given.
Public Welfare
For itemized account see Town Accountant's Report. Cash paid
out $1,062.81 from appropriation of $1,500.00 247.59 State reimbursement 15.25 Refund ·
$815.22 Cost to Town $1,515.25
Old Age Assistance
Jan. 1, 1940, No. of cases 26 Dec. 31, 1940, No. of cases 29
Expenditures
Cash Aid $4,487.53 from Town appropriation of $4,500.00
Cash Aid 4,629.50 from U. S. Grants
Total Aid $9,117.03 7,756.49 State and Federal Reimbursement
$1,360.54 cost to Town
(78)
Aid to Dependent Children
Jan. 1, 1940, No. of cases 5 Dec. 31, 1940 No. of cases 4
Expenditures
Cash Aid $1,499.25 from Town Appropriation of $1,500.00 1,285.50 from U. S. Grants
$2,784.75 2,159.46 State and Federal Reimbursement
$625.29 Cost to Town
Surplus Commodities Received and Cost to the Town
Received
Pounds
Cost
Apples
4,600
Warehouse Supervision
Bacon
554
From Welfare Appropriation $38.00
Pea Beans
900
Butter
562
From W. P. A.
Cabbage
1,925
Appropriation 9.00
Corn Meal
4,200
Cereal (Wheat)
1,300
Flour (Graham)
886
Flour (White)
6,805
Hams
427
Lard
1,909
Peaches (Dried)
495
Prunes
1,271
Pork (Salt)
480
Oranges
2,590
Potatoes
5,600
Grapefruit
1,440
Raisins
295
Rolled Oats
500
From W. P. A. Appropriation Bags 6.35
From W. P. A.
Appropriation Bags 5.75
From Welfare Appro- priation, Trucking 106.02
Total cost to Town $165.12
(79)
Rice
613
Tomatoes
913
Total weight
38,252
Evaporated Milk
144 Cans
Eggs
1.260 Doz.
Blankets
26
Respectfully submitted.
MAURICE W. WILEY
RALPH A. CHASE
EDWARD D. PENNIMAN
Board of Public Welfare
(80)
Librarian's Report 1940
Number volumes catalogued
6,519
Number volumes bought 153
Number volumes presented
5
Number volumes borrowed
6,693
Number magazines borrowed
1,249
Total fines received, also for damaged books
$20.12
As usual many books were borrowed from the Division of Public Libraries, State House, both for borrowers and Eastham school. The opening of the library on Mondays, during the summer, has proved to be very useful, both for the townspeople and summer residents.
Respectfully submitted,
MRS. BLANCHE A. KEEFE
Librarian
ADDED DURING THE YEAR
Valley of Thunder Life is for the Living Lost Sunrise Consultation Room
Beach
Parrott
Norris
Loomis
(81)
Donn Fendler Down East Duchess Son of the Sea Case of the Purjured Parrott
Fendler Blodgett Bassett Gardner
Man the Devil Didn't Want
Man to Protect You
Make the Man Notice You Head of the House
Sinfully Rich
Arabelle Arrives
Ruck Dell
Sown Among Thorns
Happy Harvest
Across the Years
And Then There Were None
Scattergood Baines Returns
Rolling Bones
General Besserling's Second Puzzle Box It was Left to Peter
D. A. Draws A Circle
Return to Love Criminal C. O. D.
Song After Midnight
Dude
Oppenheim Ruck Gardner Peggy Dorn P. Taylor Miller Brand
Clear Before 'Leven
Love's Lotus Flower
Holton Wynne
No More Gas
Code of the Northwest
I Must Ride Alone
Gun Feud
House Part Murder
Ghost Trails
Blind Loyalty
Passport for A Girl Sea-tower
Wren Greig Greig Hill (Lutz) Footner
Farnol Loring Christie Kelland Gardner
Nordhoff and Hall White Gregory Mann Poe, Jr. Tuttle Pedler Borden Walpole
(82)
Best Poems of 1939 Secret of Dr. Kildare Vanished Men Escape Station Wagon Set
Cross Knife Ranch
Case with Four Claws
Wedding Day
Riders of Buck River
Prince Came Riding
Sweet for A Season
Rehearsal for Love
Dark Wing
Sweet Grass
Lonely Road
Case of the Baited Hook
Blind Side
Lone Star Terror
Murder on Parade
Three Are Brothers
Car Belongs to Mother
Winter Murder Case
So Stands the Rock
Outlaws of Red Canyon
Make Way for Romance Little Sinner
North Side Nurse
Their Own Country
Priscilla Won't
Folly Island Rolling Stone Stranger's Gate
Round-Up Guns Range Feud
Moult Brand Marsh Vance Baldwin
Gooden Bruce Edington Raine Doran McCord
Baldwin Stringer Bower Farnol Gardner Wentworth Cole Wells
Lea Wright Van Dine Downes
Snow Harris Ayers Hancock Hobart Randall Deeping Wentworth Oppenheim Curry Billings
(83)
Footprints on the Ceiling Case of the Deadly Dairy Morgan of the Mounted Saddle and Ride Whispers Paul Revere Square
Mulberry Bush Seasoned Timber
Chad Hanna
John Deere, He Gave to the World the Steel Plow (gift) Clark This Fascinating Oil Business (gift) Ball Here's New England Federal Project How Green Was My Valley Llewellyn Rose Galbraith Hill (Lutz) Road to Glenfairlie Garth World Is Like That Norris From Off Island Riggs So You're Seeing New England Laughlin Stars Still Shine Larrimore Cottonwood Gulch (gift) Mulford Rustler's Valley (gift) Mulford Mulford
Black Buttes (gift)
New England Sampler
Chalice
D. A. Goes to Trial
There Is Always Love
101 Things for a Housewife to Do Red Saint Little and Good
Shotgun Gold
An Ocean Heritage
Come Spring
Richard Halliburton
Rawson DuBois White Наусох Adams Kent Miller Canfield Emonds
Early Doner Gardner Loring Hort Deeping Ayres Tuttle Bassett Williams Told in Letters
(84)
Quietly My Captain Waits Star for Susan Nurse Great Red Border
Fielding's Folly
Account Rendered
Eleanor Roosevelt
Women Will Be Doctors
Gentleman of the Jungle
Honey Colored Moon
As the Seed Is Sown
Doctor's Party
Riders of the Plains
Two-Gun Trail
All American Front
Spirit of the Range
Blow All Ballast
Guilty
Glasseyes Mystery
Nobody's Girl
Dude Woman
Bower Barrows Thayer Oppenheim Lea Kyne Bower
Man on Horseback
Matter of Business
Franol Seifert
Meet the Warrens
Hancock
Road to the Stars
Unmarried Couple
Great Mistake
Trail's End
Millard Greig Rinehart Raine Wayne
Home of Their Own Little Miss Independent Partners
Rees
Friday the 13th
Black Plumes
Hill (Lutz) Farjeon Allingham
(85)
Eaton Wees Logan Grinstead Keyes Wentworth Black Lees Gill Wynne Parmenter Doner Brand Scott
Shadows Tonight
Five for Bridge Back O' the Mountain Dark Lightning Ghost Plane Girl of the Crossroads
Gypsey, Gyspey Out of the Fog
Spider Web Trail
When to Whippoorwill
Money Isn't Everything
Sad Cypress
Station Wagon Murder
Murder Plus
Watch Below
Until the Shearing
Such is the Kingdom
Downes Sugrue Norris
Secret of the Marshbanks
Pedler of Dreams
Dern
Juvenile
Captain of the Eleven Air Monster
Wizard of Oz
Border Girl
Round the Mulberry Bush
Knights of the Snowstorm
Sue Barton, Rural Nurse
Story of Air-craft
Marcia's Farmhouse
Penny Marsh Along the Coast Skycruiser
Little Ugly Face
Mystery of the Missing Car
Five Bushel Farm
Ward Flint Miller Stringer Gregory Godden Lincoln Cunningham Rawlings Ruck Christie Propper Wells McFee
Sherman Green Baum Fox Alessios Orton Boylston Fraser Widdemer Deming Colmont Brier Coolidge Chapman Coatsworth
(86)
Hoot-Owl Real Boys and Girls Go Birding Mystery of the Broken Key All About David One String Fiddle
What Do You Want To Be ?
Mill Creek Mystery Clo
Kit and Kat
Polly Patchwork
Tim Tadpole and the Great Bull Frog
Flackk
Secret of the Rosewood Box
Orton
Mystery of Marjory
Blake
Cinchfoot
Buckskin
Hinkle Hinkle Wells
Coco the Goat
One Little Indian Boy
Brock
Curios Affair at Heron Shoals
Seaman
LaRue Coevering Chapman Boyd Berry Waltz Chapman Abbott Perkins Field
(87)
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
AND THE
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
OF THE
Town of Eastham
OF E
2
101
AUSET 1620
C
0
FOR THE YEAR
1940
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Stanley M. Walker, Chairman G. Austin Smith Mrs. Maurice A. Moore
Term expires 1943
Term expires 1941
Term expires 1942
UNION SUPERINTENDENT Charles H. Pratt
ATTENDANCE OFFICER Walter Nickerson
SCHOOL PHYSICIAN Dr. A. P. Goff
SCHOOL NURSE Miss Mary E. Morris
(90)
EASTHAM FINANCIAL STATEMENT
Expended in 1940
Needed
in 1941
General Control :
School Committee
$200.00
Superintendent of Schools,
Enforcement of Law-
Salaries and Travel
595.42
Other Expenses
9.40
$804.82
$826.00
Instruction :
Supervisors
782.00
Principal and Teachers
4,616.12
Textbooks
66.51
Supplies
204.93
5,669.56
5,779.00
Operation :
Janitors
600.00
Fuel
561.30
*Miscellaneous
160.87
1,322.17
1,250.00
Maintenance :
Repairs, Replacement and
Upkeep
282.52
282.52
240.00
(91)
Auxiliary Agencies :
School Library
48.66
Health
159.68
Transportation
3,300.00
Tuition
4,814.12
** Miscellaneous
214.14
8,536.60
8,805.00
Outlay :
New Equipment
Total
$16,615.67 $16,900.00
*Miscellaneous Operation Expenses : These include such things as light, power, bulbs, towels, cleaning material, janitor's supplies, etc.
** Miscellaneous Auxiliary Agencies : Insurance, graduation expenses, telephone, sports, etc.
Appropriated for 1940
$16,900.00
Expended in 1940
16,615.67
Balance Unexpended
$284.33
(92)
NET COST OF SCHOOLS, YEAR 1940
Total Expenditures $16,615.67
Due on Account of School Expenditures :
Mass. General School Fund Part I $645.00
City of Boston Tuition $278.84
City of Boston
Transportation 116.82
395.66
Mass. Reimbursement for High School Transportation 1,980.00
Mass. Reimbursement on account of Employment of Supt. of Schools 220.31
Receipts from toll calls 1.10
Net cost
3,242.07 $13,373.60
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Report of the Superintendent of Schools
To the School Committee of Eastham :
Herewith I submit the School Report for the Year 1940.
Reference to the Tabular Statement of Membership by Grades elsewhere in this report shows a further decrease in numbers attending the Eastham school this fall. We should remember, however, that there were forty-two attending the Orleans High School from Eastham on October first this year as compared with thirty-seven a year ago. The very creditable record which they are making speaks well for the foundation laid while in Eastham. Mr. Nickerson has called my attention to the fact that eight of the twelve freshman students from Eastham made the October honor roll or re- ceived honorable mention at Orleans High School.
I have previously expressed most hearty endorsement of the Eastham faculty and the work they are doing. In this re- spect I can simply say that the past year has shown a con- tinuance of the record. This winter all three teachers are tak- ing a course in Elementary School Methods at the Hyannis State Teachers College. One hundred per cent is an unusual enrollment in professional improvement. Miss Verrill also spent her last summer vacation at Gorham carrying out a plan which she has been following for a series of years.
The condition of books and supplies is maintained in ex- cellent shape and show careful conservation. The new read-
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ing system which was introduced three or four years ago has been kept up to date. Recent new materials and methods in line with the latest study of reading have been incorpor- ated. New texts in the subjects of health and music were pur- chased this fall.
Music, art, club and assembly periods have continued to occupy a prominent place among school activities. The as- sembly room gives an excellent opportunity to practice pub- lic speaking and dramatics.
During the early fall we were all saddened by the sud- den passing of Miss Bessie I. Armstrong who had acted as school nurse for so many years. Her duties were assumed by Miss Mary E. Morris who does both town and school nurs- ing. She is giving complete service as approved by the State Department of Public Health. Emphasis is placed on the edu- cational phases of the work as well as the curative work. Miss Morris submits the following report :
"The primary aim of every public health nurse in a school nursing service is to help in securing maximum health for every school child through his own intelligent coopera- tion and that of all others who influence his environment. The environment in this school-age group is the school in which the child spends a large part of his day. The nurse thus serves as a connecting link between the home, the school and the community, and can utilize the interest of all groups to help in the promotion of the health of the child.
To this end advisory conferences have been held with the pupils, teachers, and parents. Effort has been made to have parents present at the annual physical examination conducted by Dr. A. P. Goff as a means for giving individual health instruction to parent and child both at the time of the
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inventory and later and to emphasize the need for a thor- ough annual health examination by the family physician.
A complete dental health program has been carried on. The teachers are integrating dental health in their teaching with the following objectives :
1. To teach the children the structure and use of their teeth.
2. To develop the proper attitude in knowledge and habits necessary for the protection of their teeth.
3. To create a friendly attitude toward the dentist and desire to obtain the best individual improvement possible.
Pre-school and infant nursing supervision has been car- ried out through home visits and through group and indivi- dual instructions at Well Child Conference. The primary aim of this program is to help parents lay a good foundation for future health. New problems of adjustment to family life and to experience outside the home are met in this age group. The nurse, therefore, to make her teaching effective interprets the principles of child psychology and child training.
An effort will be made to continue the splendid work carried on by the late Miss Armstrong for so many years.
The community has participated in every possible way. The interest shown by the Board of Health, Selectmen, School Board and Health Council has been greatly appre- ciated. The Health Council continues to function by assist- ing at the various health activities and holding of their monthly meetings.
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Thanks are extended to all who helped to make the health program possible by their kind cooperation."
STATISTICAL REPORT
Pre-school Hygiene Service
Admitted to nursing service 38
Field nursing visits 239
Infant Hygiene Service
Admitted to nursing service 9
Field nursing visits 49
Maternal Hygiene Service
Admitted to ante partum service 3
Field visits to ante partum service 15
Admitted to post partum nursing service 3 Field visits to post partum service 10
School Health
Admitted to nursing service 12
Field school visits 9
Examinations by Dr. A. P. Goff
68
Children accompanied by parent
16
Inspections by nurse 120
Health talks 8
Inspections by Dr. Ralph Kenney
60
No. of dental operations
145
No. of fillings 85
No. of extractions 22
No. of prophlaxis
38
Tuberculosis
Admitted to nursing service 7
Field nursing visits 15
Crippled Children's Service
Admitted to nursing service 3
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In making a report on the work in art Mr. Brayton makes the following statement with respect to method :
"In this method we do not dictate or copy, but rather discuss a given subject and allow the child to create his pic- ture in his own way with guidance enough to enable him to cross over the rough spots.
Creative illustration teaches the child to think, not to copy. In our educational system today there is great need to develop the child's mind so that he may plan and work out problems for himself.
In the first six grades we draw subjects of everyday life, subjects that are close to the child such as holidays, playtime, indoor and outdoor activities.
The general background of design is started in the grades with the use of shapes and the three laws of order, repetition, alteration and progression.
In the Junior High School grades a great deal of stress is laid upon design and color theory. Before the beginning of high school drawing the child must have a good understand- ing of color and its use in art and in everyday life.
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