Norwich bulletin., 1910-09-28
Estimates for Year.

The estimated expenses for the next
year amount to $194,s10.1S, as follows:
almshouse $10,500 outside poor ST.,
900; insane $4,000. neglected and de-
pendent children $4,000; highways to
city $4,000; outside highways $4,000;
bridges $4,000.- contingent $500; COM
mon schools $51,890.16; interest SILL
$40; elections $4,000; vital statistics
$1,000; evening schools $1,000; COM
mutation $4,000; town clerks office
$500 property tax account S3,o4s.29;
state tax $11,52S; sinking fund S.
522.74; Norwich savings society note
$4,000; Norwich Savings society note
$4,000.
The estimated receipts are: Bal
ance on hand $4,13942; liquor licenses
S2S,o00 dog licenses s1,700; uncollect-
ed taxes $4,000; bank and insurance
taxes $500; to be raised by tax s14S,-
970.76.
Tax of "a Mills.
To meet the expenses estimated, a
tax of eight and three quarters mills
will be sufficient and is recommended
This statement is signed by the three
seleetmen, A. W. Lillibridge, F. E.
Beckwith and W. B. Wilcox.
Health Officers Report.
The report of town health officer
DR.. George Thompson is included in
the report and states that the year
has been distinguished by the large
number of contagious diseases report
ed. There were 80 cases Of measles
during the fall and winter. AS most
of them We're light it is probable that
not half of them Were reported. Ten
cases of diDhtheria were reported, four
being at the Rock Nook home. There
were eleven cas- of scarlet fever.
Five cases of tuberculous diseases
have been reported, but only one by
Norwich physician, the others being
from outside the town. The health
officer inquiries il most of the consump-
tiVes employ foreign attendance or can
it be that some of the physicians are
lax as to their duties as physicians and
citizens.
On his visits to the schoolhouses
of the town he found them in good
sanitary condition or in process of
renovation.
He recommends the advisability of
installing modern lavatories at the
West Town street school. Such i'm
provement has been made in one of
the buildings at the Wequonnoc dis
trict and it will be made in the other.
The mill villages in the suburbs of
the town are in better sanitary con-
dition than they have ever been be-
fore, and improvements are still the
order of the day. Occum presents a
strong contrast to past conditions.
There have been steady Improvements
in the surroundings there, not the
least of which is an abundant water
supply for the mill tenments.
School Visitors Report.
Acting School Visitor F. H Naples
in his report shows that he has trav-
eIed 1926 miles and for school pur-
poses has used the telephone 463 times,
attended Is board meetings and re-
ceived or written 436 letters. There
were Is examinations for teachers and
there was paid for conveyances $23.45
and for telephone tolls $3.50. There
were II visits to day schools and 33
to evening schools. He recommends
an appropriate schoolhouse in the
Bridge district. a telephone in every
schoolhouse the adoption of some text
book on agriculture and that the vote
of the next town meeting be for con-
solidation of all the school districts of
the town, under provisions which shall
give to each equal rights and privi-
leges.
The appropriations for the school
districts for the ensuing year amount
to $61,5 and there are 6,025 pupils
enumerated in the schools.