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SECTION 24. EXCEPTIONS UNDER SPECIFIC
RULES
When in its judgment the public convenience and wel- fare will be substantially served, and where such exception will tend to improve the status of the neighborhood, the Board of Appeals may in specific cases, after public notice, a hearing, and subject to appropriate conditions and safe- guards determine and vary the application of the district regulations herein established in harmony with their gen- eral purposes and intent as follows :
(a) Permit the alterations of a one-family house or building, existing at the time this by-law is adopted and wherever located, to accommodate two families.
(b) Permit in undeveloped sections of the town temp- orary and conditional structures and uses that do not con- form to the regulations herein prescribed, provided that no such permit shall be for more than a one-year period.
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SECTION 25. AMENDMENTS.
The Planning Board upon its own initiative may, and upon petition shall, hold public hearings, fourteen days published notice of which shall be given for the consider- ation of any amendments to the zoning map or to this by- law, and report to a regular or special town meeting its recommendations as to what action should be taken. No hearing shall be held or appeals considered for any varia- tion or change of district boundaries except as provided in Section 30, Chapter 40 of the General Laws and in this Section.
SECTION 26.
This by-law shall take effect as provided by law.
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Report of the Trustees of the Free Public Library
Number of Volumes in Library Jan. 1, 1930
5166
Number of Volumes added by purchase
169
Number of Volumes donated
78
5413
Number of Volumes discarded
155
Number of Volumes in Library Jan. 1, 1931
5258
Circulation
Borrowers
North Wilbraham
10,544 219
498
Stony Hill
28
10,763
526
Rural School Deposits
estimated
1,500
12,263
RESOURCES
Appropriation Dog Fund 522.95
$1,000.00
$1,522.95
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EXPENDITURES
H. E. Huie, Insurance 19.20
Beacon Press, books
15.61
M. L. Farnham, 21.93
Robert Brooks, rebinding books 46.95
Town Water Dept., water rental
15.50
J. T. Abbott, wall paper and paint, etc. 29.11
L. J. Swetland, painting and papering, etc, 55.48 B. B. Green, wood 5.25
Gaylord Bros. repair material 19.85
Library Book House, books
247.12
Hadley Book Shop, books
2.00
M. L. Edgerton, magazines
34.10
John Ventura, care of yard
57.00
James Jaffrey, care of heater 64.00
The Cutler Co., coal 325.79
Central Mass. Elec. Co., current
82.06
The Cutler Co., fertilizer
5.70
Mrs. J. T. Abbott, services librarian
100.00
Mrs. Chas. Hitchcock, Stony Hill Branch 5.00
Palmer Register, Stationery and printing 3.75
$1,155.40
Used less than appropriation
$ 367.55
Gross Expenditures as above $1,155.40
Less Int. Henry Cutler Legacy
$50.60
Chloe Bliss Stebbins
5.05
66 Int. Abner E. Bell Fund
2.03
Books sold
1.00
66 Fines
39.63
66 Rent Town Offices 1 year
144.00
$242.31
Net Expenditures
$ 913.09
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MORTON L. DAY TRUST FUND
On hand Jan. 1, 1930
Interest credited since
$738.92 37.37
$776.29
Paid out for the Christian Herald
18.00
On hand Jan. 1, 1931
$758.29
See Auditors Report for statement of HENRY CUTLER LEGACY ABNER BELL FUND CHLOE BLISS STEBBINS FUND
Grateful acknowledgement is made of donations of books and magazines from Miss E. P. Whiting, Horace J. Rice, Raymond H. Beach and others.
Respectfully submitted,
MRS. F. W. GREEN DR. A. L. DAMON H. W. CUTLER
Trustees
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Dental Clinic Report
TO THE BOARD OF HEALTH
January 9, 1931
This report being submitted at the completion of the first year of the School Dental Clinic, it is to be expected to differ from reports for future years. Owing to the fact that very little Dental attention had been given to the children in the past I find a large amount of attention necessary, which I believe will require an increase in the number of days for Dental Clinics to be operated, before the normal or average amount of attention for each year is established.
By comparison with Dental Clinics in different commu- nities and by information from Miss Polson who is asso- ciated with many clinics, I can safely say the work accom- plished at the Dental Clinic, has been great but even so, it is inadequate to meet the necessary demand for attention. I would recommend an increase from one to two sessions each week.
The work has been a pleasure and very successful in that part which has been completed. A great part of the success at the Dental Clinic is due to zealous endeavor and highly efficient service rendered by Miss Polson.
I wish to thank the members of the Board of Health, School Department, and the Selectmen and Town Officials for their co-operation and consideration during the past year.
Respectfully submitted,
Dr. IRVING P. DINNEEN School Dentist
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DENTAL CLINIC REPORT FOR WILBRAHAM, 1930
1/2 days-25
New patients
63
Old patients
65
Total number of visits
128
Amalgam fillings
151
Kryptex fillings
28
Permanent teeth saved
120
Cement fillings
3
Red Copper fillings
Zinc Oxide and Eugonal fillings
16
Prophylaxis
37
Extractions 87
Permanent teeth 23
Temporary teeth
64
Abscessed teeth
29
Agno 3 17
Total number of operations 339
Turned over to Town Treasurer
$83.25
7 patients-Work finished, not paid for
$15.75
8 patients being worked on
$19.00
INVENTORY REPORT FOR THE DENTAL CLINIC, YEAR ENDING 1930
One Dental Chair
One Engine (Bracket)
One Bracket Table
One Bracket Cuspidor and Fittings and Hose
One Light (on stand)
Two Coats
One Cabinet
One Card Index
One Bill Heads
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One Notice and Consent cards One Pumite Tablets
One Brown's Cleaning Fluid
Six rolls Sand Paper dishes One Jar Silver Nitrate Crystals
One Jar Zinc Oxide Powder One Box Cotton Pellets
One Bottle Eugenol One Bottle Perdentine
One Bottle Desensitrizing Paste
One-half Bottle Mercury
Four-ounces Alloy One Oil can
One Water Syringe
One Air Syringe
One Motor Pestle
Two Cement Slabs and two Spatulas
One Jar Dental Floss
One Red Copper Cement and Liquid One Kryptex and Liquid
One Dappen Glass
One Contra Angle
One Hand piece Kryptex Amber Instrument
Six Mirrors and two Handles Three Explorers Three Pliers
Two Excavators-Right and Left
Three Double End Amalgun Instruments One Box Gutta Percha
One Pkg. Celluloid Strips
Two Boxes Linen Finishing Strips
Two Napkin Holders Twelve Mandrels Seven and one-half dozens Cleaning Brushes One Cotton Rolls
One Drinking Cups and Container
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One Cooks Syringe Two Hubs One Dozen Needles
Seventy-two Carpules (Noval)
Five Large Forceps
Five Small Forceps
One Straight Elevator
One Gross Burrs
One Cotton Pellet Holder
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School Committee's Report
To the Citizens of Wilbraham :-
Your school committee respectfully submits the fol- lowing report for the year 1930.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT FOR 1930
Appropriation for school support
$62,855.00
Interest, Warriner Fund
32.46
Interest, School Lot Fund
33.72
Total available for school support
$62,921.18
Total expenditures, itemized statement follows $62,759.56
Less-
Refunds on tuition paid 63.00
Net expenditures
$62,696.56
Less than total available $ 224.62
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COST OF SCHOOLS TO THE TOWN IN 1930 FOR SUPPORT
Net expenditures above
$62,696.56
Credits
General School Fund Law, Part II
$7,339.33
General School Fund Law, Part I
2,930.40
Superintendent's Salary 859.26
Vocational Education
1,851.30
Tuition of Lyman School boys
19.44
Interest, Warriner Fund
32.46
Interest, School Lot Fund
33.72
Supplies sold
4.03
Car tickets sold
21.86
$13,091.80
Amount paid from local taxation
for support
$49,604.76
ITEMIZED STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURES
School Committee
Evanore O. Beebe
$50.00
H. W. Cutler
50.00
Mrs. Mary S. Merrick
50.00
$150.00
Superintendence of Schools and Enforcement of Law F. A. Wheeler
1,978.23
Jennie T. Abbott
39.00
Emily O. Cormier
533.32
Frank J. Patnaude
85.28
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Fannie R. Pease
7.50
A. B. Sanderson
30.00
Agnes I. Simmington
.75
Wright & Potter Printing Co.
6.15
$2,680.23
Supervisors' Salaries
Ethel C. Morse
368.00
Ralph L. Morse
23.00
Helen B. Tower
511.10
$902.10
Teachers' Salaries
Mrs. E. V. Barnes
15.00
Mary Dalton
35.00
Emily T. Dickinson
5.00
Winifred A. Egan
627.38
Ruth M. Gennett
1,020.00
Katherine A. Hart
1,170.00
Marion L. Holland
1,197.00
Marion E. Kelley
1,316.75
Helen S. Kochanek
545.00
Liane S. Laramee
85.00
Esther I. Lindell
1,170.00
Doris Vedder Lindsly
5.00
Mary G. Logan
1,200.00
Susie R. McCorrison
1,122.00
Loretta K. McDonald
1,194.00
Ruth M. Mason
1,110.00
Eleanor B. Parsons
1,216.00
Fannie R. Pease
110.00
Yolande. A. Richard
1,020.00
Minnie M. Sanderson
1,200.00
Agnes I. Simmington
1,307.00
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Ferne E. Terwilliger
1,200.00
Mabel E. Welch
1,200.00
$19,070.13
Textbooks
American Book Co.
31.67
Allyn & Bacon
1.14
Arlo Publishing Co.
46.52
Beckley-Cardy Co.
3.92
Bobbs-Merrill Co.
13.17
Milton Bradley Co.
1.87
E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
2.08
Ginn and Company
206.38
Houghton-Mifflin Co.
10.64
Iroquois Publishing Co.
32.44
Johnson's Bookstore
2.00
Laidlaw Brothers
20.39
The Macmillan Co.
21.69
Charles E. Merrill Co.
5.03
Newson & Company
48.42
F. A. Owen Publishing Co.
2.00
A. N. Palmer Co.
9.39
Rand, McNally & Co.
22.03
Benj. H. Sanborn & Co.
5.97
Charles Scribner's Sons
19.06
Silver, Burdett & Co.
12.99
University of Chicago Press
2.55
Wheeler Publishing Co.
2.53
The John C. Winston Co.
284.57
World Book Co.
2.66
Supplies American Education Press, Inc. 10.75
$811.11
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C. S. Axtell Co.
11.20
E. E. Babb & Co.
25.24
The Bobbs-Merrill Co.
12.59
Milton Bradley Co.
636.85
Campbell & Leuning
7.87
Carlisle Hardware Co.
31.86
The Carter's Ink Co.
3.00
Forbes & Wallace
12.43
A. L. Fredette
16.05
Hall & McCreary Co.
3.63
J. L. Hammett Co.
37.86
D. C. Heath & Co.
8.99
Holden Patent Book Cover Co.
14.32
Marion L. Holland
1.10
Laidlaw Brothers
17.84
Mary G. Logan
4.45
Susie R. McCorrison
12.72
Loretta K. McDonald
2.37
Massachusetts Tuberculosis League
2.00
Morrissey Brothers Co.
2.15
Ethel C. Morse
3.52
A. N. Palmer Co. 16.70
Frank J. Patnaude
7.60
Peckham, Little Co.
2.06
Public School Publishing Co.
9.88
Sackett's Letter Shop & Type. Exchange
4.85
Shaw-Walker
6.30
Agnes I. Simmington
8.87
R. L. Studor
5.25
Ferne E. Terwilliger
2.09
Thacker-Craig Paper Co.
122.25
Helen B. Tower
3.20
Mabel E. Welch
.20
Irving L. White
68.01
Geo. W. Robbins & Sons Co.
35.45
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F. A. Wheeler
Webster Publishing Co.
.62 37.90
$1,210.02
Janitors
Jerry Donohue
367.00
Louis J. Johnson
105.00
Frank J. Patnaude
1,378.00
Harriet Swetland
360.00
C. W. Vinton
100.00
$2,310.00
Fuel
M. S. Converse Co.
306.25
B. B. Green
249.75
W. H. McGuire
15.50
E. F. Peck Wood & Coal Co.
1,022.80
$1,594.30
Miscellaneous Operating Expenses
Edward E. Babb & Co.
16.26
Belmont Laundry
4.62
Alfred Bosworth
2.50
Carlisle Hardware Co.
53.71
H. W. Carter Paper Co.
113.40
Central Mass. Electric Co.
274.87
C. B. Doige Co. 5.00
East Longmeadow Public Market
.60
James B. Logan
11.60
Massachusetts State Prison
20.95
Standard Oil Co. of New York
7.35
City of Springfield
31.68
Thacker-Craig Paper Co.
22.75
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Horace S. Thomas
5.68
Wadsworth Howland Co., Inc.
2.88
Town of Wilbraham
1.00
$574.85
Repairs
C. A. Authier & Son
229.07
E. E. Babb & Co.
18.56
Carlisle Hardware Co.
54.48
Central Mass. Electric Co.
7.80
Burton Chmura
3.50
Commissioner of Public Safety
5.00
Middlesex County House of Correction
6.29
M. L. Farnham
331.21
Forbes & Wallace
3.35
Hampden Lumber Co.
4.90
George G. Herter
5.00
Kenney Bros. & Wolkins
51.29
Meekins, Packard & Wheat
23.00
O. J. Merkel & Sons
13.60
Morrissey Brothers Co.
39.73
The Oliver & Howland Co.
2.63
Frank Patnaude
8.24
Reformatory for Women
6.45
Geo. W. Robbins & Sons Co.
132.01
Charles S. Stacy
334.10
James S. Stephens
7.25
H. F. Swetland
543.31
Thacker-Craig Paper Co.
.75
Harry Thompson Electric Co.
72.00
C. W. Vinton
12.00
Frank Welch
2.80
F. A. Wheeler
Wyckoff & Lloyd Co.
1.35
$1,925.22
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Health
Mrs. George A. Clark
7.00
A. L. Damon, M. D.
280.50
Electric Motor Repair Co.
4.82
Elm Dental Supply Co.
17.45
A. L. Fredette
2.00
Massachusetts Tuberculosis League
1.95
Signe L. Polson
857.27
A. A. Starbuck, M. D.
33.00
Sweet Drug Co.
25.05
$1,229.04
Elementary School Transportation
Santi Belli
97.00
Gideon Dickinson
1,045.00
A. B. Sanderson
800.00
Springfield Street Railway Co.
1,148.00
$3,090.00
High and Trade School Transportation
John Baldwin
39.24
Joseph Baldwin
32.14
Eloise Bennett
76.12
Wilfred Bennett
10.82
Barbara Berry
9.84
Eleanor Brindley
12.14
Georgia Curns
52.39
James Curns
52.88
Gideon Dickinson
1,762.50
Ruth Eldridge
8.53
Daniel C. Ellinwood
227.75
Edith Ellinwood
9.00
Reba Enslin
18.50
Bertha Farnham
6.56
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Wayne Farnham
9.51
Kathryn Frost
12.14
Pauline Herter
41.70
Gordon Holdridge
6.15
Marion Holdridge
6.56
Dorothy Keyes
10.50
Lucy Lee
19.65
Hazel MacDowell
4.26
Ian Mackenzie
14.92
Mary Nietuski
89.86
Alton Nordin
21.70
Anna Opalinska
9.02
Harland Perry
25.10
Elliot Phillis
20.01
Marjorie Piper
10.33
Veronica Pirosseno
4.10
Louise Porteri
16.50
Clifford Rogers
42.30
Springfield Street Railway Co.
2,788.00
Edward Talbot
24.60
Henry Talbot
26.24
Dorothy Tilley
8.50
Langdon Wight
11.70
Isabella Wright
16.54
$5,558.30
High School Tuition
Town of Ludlow
250.00
City of Springfield
13,156.00
$13,406.00
Elementary School Tuition
Town of Ludlow $95.04
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Continuation School Tuition
City of Springfield $127.20
Trade School Tuition
City of Springfield $6,790.35
Miscellaneous Auxiliary Agencies
William F. Logan, insurance $985.90
Outlay
Charles S. Stacy, water Stony Hill
64.11
Harry Thompson Electric Co.,
wiring, No. 6 65.00
Town of Wilbraham, water Stony Hill 120.66
$249.77
Total of school orders drawn $62,759.56
APPROPRIATIONS NEEDED FOR 1931
General Expenses :
School Committee, salaries
$150.00
School Committee, expenses
20.00
Superintendent's salary
1,710.00
Other expenses
1,000.00
Expenses of Instruction :
Supervisors' salaries
975.00
Teachers' salaries
19,200.00
Textbooks
800.00
Supplies
1,000.00
Expenses of Operation :
Janitors
2,300.00
Fuel
1,600.00
Miscellaneous
600.00
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Maintenance :
Repairs
1,500.00
Auxiliary Agencies :
Health
1,350.00
Transportation
8,900.00
Tuition
21,500.00
Miscellaneous
200.00
$62,805.00
ESTIMATE OF CREDITS ON ACCOUNT OF EDUCATION FOR 1931
General School Fund Law,
Part II
$7,816.40
General School Fund Law, Part I
3,020.40
Superintendent's Salary
859.24
Vocational Education
3,355.80
Tuition, State Wards
150.00
Other tuitions
80.00
$15,281.84
Respectfully submitted,
EVANORE O. BEEBE MARY S. MERRICK H. W. CUTLER
School Committee of Wilbraham
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Report of Superintendent of Schools
To the School Committee of Wilbraham :
Herewith is submitted my report as superintendent of schools for the year ending December 31st, 1930.
Repair Work:
During the year town water was run into the Stony Hill school, a sink placed in the back of the classroom near the chimney, and a bubbler installed. Mr. Stacy, who did the plumbing, worked out a particularly satisfactory ar- rangement in that the pipes and bubbler are so arranged that we are assured there is no danger of freezing. This is a matter of much importance in a country school where a fire is not kept during the Christmas vacation. This build- ing was also painted on the interior.
At The Pines "Old Building" a new floor was laid in the sixth grade room and the north side of the roof shingled. The wood trim and metal work exterior of the brick build- ing was painted. The chair and other equipment bought for the dental clinic were set up in the teachers' room and the necessary water pipe and electric power connections made for the clinic. This is the only school in town which employs a full time janitor, and many matters of repair, which in other buildings would mean extra expense for labor, are taken care of by the janitor.
At the Wilbraham Street building the necessary con- nections have been made in the nurse's room for the dental equipment. Also a large part of the fence about the school- house lot was repaired or rebuilt.
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At East Wilbraham electric lights were put in, the in- terior of the building painted, and the seats and desks re- finished.
At North Wilbraham one end of the corridor was par- titioned off to make a room for the use of the nurse and the dental clinic. This involved some changes in the ar- rangement of the girls' toilet, but the results are entirely satisfactory, and the new nurse's room is a great conven- ience. In this building also the electric lights in the inter- mediate and grammar rooms were relocated and fitted out with new shades, greatly improving the appearance of the rooms and the efficiency of the lighting.
In every building many minor repairs were made and most of the seats and desks were revarnished.
The Gypsy School :
During October a band of gypsies set up their home on a vacant lot across the road from The Pines school. Our supervisor of attendance, than whom there is no better in the state, visited the encampment and notified the gypsies that as long as they resided in Wilbraham they must send their children to school. The gypsies took the notice in good part and said they would do it. On the following morning twenty-two gypsy children ranging in ages from seven to twelve or thirteen enrolled. The children had all been vaccinated. Some of them had attended school else- where, in Cleveland, Chicago, and other places. They were ragged and dirty, but docile and eager to learn.
With the approval of the school board the vacant port- able building at The Pines, which is used for storage pur- poses, was put in condition and a school for the gypsies set up in it. The school lasted but two or three days, when, some members of the band having got into trouble with the police department of Springfield, the whole company moved away. The whole incident was an interesting one. The cost to the town was small and consisted of the five
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dollars a day which was paid the temporary teacher. The dignity of the the law of the commonwealth with reference to school attendance was upheld. The Department of Ed- ucation, which was consulted, replied approving of the way that the situation was handled and stating that the teacher of the class would entitle the town to the regular reimburse- ment for the fraction of the school year during which she served. Let us hope that some of the children enrolled were impressed with the importance and value of securing an education.
The Pines School Fair :
On the afternoon and evening of April 24th, and again on the afternoon and evening of December 4th, The Pines school held a fair. The plan for holding a school fair was brought forward by Mrs. Tower, supervisor of art, but, in carrying out the project, she received splendid cooperation from Mrs. Simmington, principal at the Pines, and her tea- chers. The purposes in view in conducting the fair were mainly two. In the first place, the fair was an educational project. The schools of Wilbraham have no formal course in manual training or household arts, but The Pines school is equipped and staffed to do work in these subjects. The proposal to hold a school fair created a highly motivated situation. The special class room with its benches and tools, the bench in the entrance to the sixth grade, the boiler room and the janitor's work bench and tools were all used in the construction of many toys and useful articles by the boys, while projects in sewing, in rug braiding, and in other lines were carried on by the girls in the regular classrooms. In connection with the fair, Mrs. Simmington reports that no time was taken from the regular program in the lower grades and a small amount, if any, in the upper grades. This special work was done before and after school, at re- cess time, or during the noon hour. There was no loss of progress in academic subjects. The effect on the morale of the school was good. Pupils who hadn't done things or
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mixed very well previously came forward and helped. They liked to work for the fair and tried not to be absent. To quite a degree the work done proved a satisfactory sub- stitute for a more formal course in handwork and household arts.
The second main purpose of the fair was to raise money which might be used for welfare work, for playground ap- paratus, for sports equipment, or for school room decoration. The gross receipts of the two fairs were over two hundred dollars, more than half of which was profit. It is impossible to give an exact statement of the profits as the pupils still have articles for sale and from time to time dispose of some of them.
Shift in School Membership:
In December, 1924, the schools of Wilbraham had 159 pupils in the first grade. In December, 1930, the number in the first grade was 74. In December, 1924, the total en- rolment of Wilbraham pupils in elementary, high, and trade schools was 559. In December, 1930, the total enrolment was 577. The distribution of pupils by grades in December, 1924, with 148 in the first grade but 30 in the eighth grade, and 80 in high school, was somewhat abnormal. The pres- ent distribution, 74 in the first grade, 41 in the eighth grade, and 128 in high and trade school, may be expected to remain about as it is unless the enrolment in all grades should be increased by the growth of the town.
Attention is called to the fact that the expense per pupil increases in the upper grades, reaching a maximum in se- nior high school of $308.80 per pupil for pupils with perfect attendance living in the Glendale district and attending a senior high school in Springfield.
The Springfield Trade school is very popular with our boys. This year our enrolment there has reached a new maximum. There are now forty-four Wilbraham boys at-
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tending that excellent school, and the number is likely to be increased to fifty by next fall.
The Dental Clinic :
In accordance with the vote passed at the last annual town meeting, a dental clinic has been established. As the expenditure of money appropriated for a dental clinic is under the control of the board of health and statistics re- garding the work of the clinic are being published by that board, an extended report is not called for here. Sufficient to state that the clinic is proving a valuable asset to the school department and that the school board has cooperated by installing the necessary water and power connections for the dental equipment in the teachers' and nurse's rooms at The Pines, at Wilbraham Street, and at North Wilbra- ham.
The Audiometer Hearing Tests :
Through the courtesy of the Springfield school depart- ment it was possible to test the hearing of the school chil- dren in grades 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 during the fall term with an audiometer. The older and more primitive way of making the hearing tests was by the whispering method. The child to be tested stood at one end of the room facing at right angles to the teacher who stood twenty feet away at the other end of the room. The teacher in a whispering voice would then repeat numbers or words, and judge of the condition of the child's hearing by his ability or failure to catch the whispered word. It is evident that with such a method there would necessarily be much inaccuracy.
The audiometer is an instrument of precision. Essen- tially it consists of a victrola with ear phone attachments. While a record is being played, a person without ear phones hears little or no sound from the machine. Persons wear- ing the the ear phones hear numbers repeated first in loud tones which gradually diminish until they become inaudible.
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Forty or more sets of ear phones may be attached to the audiometer at one time so that a whole class of children may be tested together. Each child being tested applies the ear phone first to the right and then to the left ear. As the record is played, on a form prepared for the purpose, he writes down the numbers he hears. The last number he is able to catch and write down records the limit of his hearing.
The audiometer showed eight children in the schools of Wilbraham with a hearing loss in one or both ears ranging from nine to thirty points. The question may well be asked, now that these children with defective hearing have been located, what is to be done about it. Loss of hearing is usually caused by a diseased condition of some other organ than the ear, particularly by adenoid growths. While it is difficult to restore hearing which has once been lost, in many cases progressive loss of hearing may be stopped by the removal of adenoids or tonsils, or by other measures. If the loss of hearing is permanent and sufficient to warrant it, the handicap under which the child is placed by this can be somewhat removed by acquiring the art of lip reading. Lessons in lip reading are now being given to the hard of hearing in the junior high schools of Springfield. At least two of the eight Wilbraham children found to have sus- tained hearing loss ought to be given these lessons.
Report of the School Nurse :
The report of the school nurse for 1930 follows, and is a record of valuable work accomplished in our schools. At- tention is particularly called to her statement that every child in Mrs. Logan's room has received the diphtheria im- munization treatment. Under the leadership of Dr. Damon, the schools of Wilbraham have been pioneers in this health measure. I join heartily in Miss Polson's wish that every child enrolled might receive this treatment.
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