The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1903-12-10

Common Councilmen were present. Tn
roll of accounts was passed. Following ar
the amounts under the various appropria
tiOns:
Contingent. t...................... .....$ 794
Highways and bridges. ............ yOUO
Fire Department. nt.................... 20. o
General school purposes ...''.'..'' 4So. = =
School contingent; ht;...:;;t.,. t;.;;,o,,::. 20 90 :. .
Repairs and insurance, schO0inOuses, 90 .;
Free text books. S.......-......'-'''' 81.
Total. ...................... o.
C. H. Sargent, Collector of Taxes, re
ported collected and paid to the City Treas
urer since Sept. 7th, S2,3S661.
petition was received from the Belfast
Billposting 60. for a license for distributing
advertising matter in this city. The peti
ton was laid on the table in the Board OF
Aldermen.
A petition was received from the New
England Telephone & Telegraph Co. fol
permission to locate poles and wires, witt
necessary connections, on the following
streets: Centre Belmont road from Lin
colnville road to Belmont town line; John
street from High street to Waldo avenue
Waldo avenue from John street to resi-
dence of Alonzo Shute Main street from
Cross street to Front street; Cross road
so called, from Northport avenue to resi-
dence of S. G. Norton. hearing was
ordered for January Sth.
The Committee on Fire Department was
instructed to hire a competent person to
take care of the hose of the Department at
salary of not more than s. per month.
A petition was received from Eli Z. Mer-
riam asking that suitable foot-bridge be
built at the Head of the Tide while the
bridge is not passable. The petition was
granted.
The City Treasurer was authorized to
convey to Mary Alice Godfrey the real es-
tate sold for taxes of 1897 to 1901, inclusive,
against the estate of F. W. Berry, on pay
ment of $794O, the amount 'of taxes and
costs.
The following were drawn as traverse
jurors for the January term of Supreme
Judicial Court at Belfast: Charles W.
Follett, Percy S. Edgecomb, Charles c.
Coombs, Fred S. Hutchings.
The report of the Secretary of the Board
of Health on contagious diseases was read,
accepted and ordered ON file. 1t is as fol-
lows:
To the Mayor and City Government:
Gentlemen l take great pleasure in sub
mitting this second extra report to the City
Government on the smallpox situation, in
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Our third and last case has been freed
from quarantine and up the present no
new cases are reported or suspected Con-
Sidering the amount of travel and free COM
munication between our city and the sur
rounding cities which have numerous
cases, we may consider ourselves very for
tunate
During the past four weeks two persons
with eruptive diseases were reported and
the same carefully quarantlned until In
vestigation proved them to be other than
smallpox.
At the recommendation of the Board of
Health the school board advised the supelln-
tendent to exclude from the public schools
all pupils who had not been successfully
vaccinated within the past four years. That
action with the impulse which the dread OF
smallpox gives the general public has left
our city quite Thoroughly vaccinated and
consequently but sterile ground for small
poX to thrive upon. Even SHOULD case OF
two appear in our midst this coming win
ter, it is not to be dreaded as it was three
months ago when there were great num-
Der of unVaccinated persons among us.
Within the past six weeks there has been
quite an outbreak of scarlet fever. which
in itself and its sequence is one OF the most
fatal of children's diseases. As the cpl
demic seemed to be largely confined to the
South Primary school, by the recomenda-
ton of the Board of Health Supt. Dunton
closed the same temporarily. In all there
were seventeen cases reported and sixteen
from that school building, Or directly trac-
able to it. AS fast as the cases were re-
ported the families were placed under rea-
sonable quarantine and for the last two
weeks but two new cases have been re-
ported. One room in the North Primary in
which a scholar who had it went, was
thoroughly fumigated and the whole South
Primary building. l believe at this date
the disease is fully under control: -,
have made some changes in the method
of fumigating and also have pnrch,aseai n mas i. a
second fOrmaldehyde generator for the city:
Fumigating and disinfectlng by means or
generating formaldehyde gas in the only
means recognized by our State Board OF
Health or recommended by the. U. S. Hos,
pital Marine Service. To disinfect closed
space of 1000 cubic feet takes about 16
ounces of 40 per cent. formaldehyde solu-
ately thirty minutes after the same is at
the boiling point to generate. In other
words to fumigate an ordinary house re-
ouires the constant attention of one man
from six to ten hours and from two and
One-half quarts or two gallons OF formalde-
There is no question but that this method
is more expensive than that formerly used,
the burning of sulphur candles, but on the
other hand it is pr0pOrtonately much more
effective or it would not be universally adop-
ted for that purpose.
1t seemed unreasonable to me that the
detail execution of diSnfecting building
should require the attending presence OF
physician when with exact directions any
intelligent man could do the work as well
at much less compensation. So instructed
Mr., Joseph Darby how to run the genera
tors and with the directions gave hlm the
work has been conducted satisfactorily az
considerable reduction in cost to the city.
| advised two generators for the reason
that it takes just One-half DIS much time, a
saving of at least one dollar or more per
day, and also it is of great convenience TO
the people on whose premises we are at
work. With the means now at hand tne
Board of Health ought to handle contagious
diseases as well as any OF the cities IN the
State Respectfully submitted,
JOHN STEVENS, NJ. ID.
Sec'y Board of Health
Johnson-Clark.