Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-15

| Salaries were voted as follows: First
 selectman, $2,190J second selectman,
 $200; third seleetman, $200; town clerk,
 $200; town treasurer, s, eco; three as sessors. $3,9e0; tax collector, 1 per
 cent of the total amount collected by
 him. all the same as last year.
 Authority to Borrow. ! borrow not to exceed s125,090 as need ed fer lawful obligations in the year.
 School Budget Approved.
 The budget of the town school com
 1nitee was next taken up and voted as follows Salaries, $ss,6e9; fuel sup piles and sundries, 4,59o: interest, 1 $2,S5G; repairs, $9,SS80S: insurance, $s75; evening school, $500; a total of $1175S2.0S. all as asked fer.
 Extras Taken Up.
 The next financial items taken up l were the extras in the call fer the 1 meeting.
 For State Aid for Roads.
 Town Counsel T. M. Shields explain l ed the application of the, S1 000, 900 ap- 1 propriated by the last legislature for
 state aided roads, by which if the town 1 gets $20.000 the town will be required l to pay $5,000. He presented a motion 1 of the towns intent to expend so much | money as to receive the S20.0O0 from
 v | urer to pay the S5,000 if the town gets i $2O,000 of the state aid. It was voted It was moved to indefinitely post l pone an appropriation of $75 to care
 for five lights on the Canterbury road John McJ Jennett said the lights had 1 been there five years. and Dr. Patrick 1 Cassidy spoke for the lights. The mo- l ton to postpone was lost and the $75 1 then voted
 L. o. Smith presented a resolution ] for ha C. l Otis library, with the usual require ments for an annual report from the 1 library trustees. It was voted.
 For Academy Term Bills. 1 J. B. Stanton offered a resolution and moved the adoption for the ap- propriation of sum not to exceed 1 $13,000 to pay term fees for pupils in 1 the Norwich Free Academy. 1 Former Councilman John T. Ryan | gave his opinion that the town ought i to have 8 representative on the Acad- l eny trustees, ,inasmuch as it was vot- ] ing this money He was told by the | moderator that this was not a matter l over which the town meeting had con- 1 trol.
 To a question from MT. Plaut, MT. 1 Stanton replied that the amount of l money mentioned was expected to pro- 1 vide for not less than 430 pupils nor more than 450.
 Rev. E. s. Worcester called attention 1 to the fact that this money was not | paid to the trustees of the Academy, 1 but really to the parents of the pupils | to reimburse them for the sum they paid for their children. 1 The Vote for the appropriation was passed,
 For Road on Plain Hill. The motion to appropriate not to l exceed $500 to straighten and widen the 1 Plain Hill road at Douglass Hill was i offered by Daniel Peck Mir Board | man said the road had a dangerous 1 curve and rocks in it, and was a dan | gerous spot. Dr. Cassidy commended l the appropriation, and it passed.
 Medical Supervision. | Dr. P. J. Cassidy presented the fol- l lowing resolution:
 l Resolved, That the appointment of | physicians and nurses for the public schools is hereby sanctioned and rec 1 commended, and the sum not to exceed 1 $2,o00 is hereby appropriated to cover l the expenses incurred thereby; pro ] vided, however, that no part of said
 sum shall be paid to any physician as l compensation for services rendered by
 him under said appointment MT. BOardman got to his feet and asked how the doctors were to be paid, l If not for their services, and s. S. | Thresher interjected the remark that | he hoped the matter would be voted l down at once
 MT Boardman went on to say that i he was not an opponent of the matter, 1 and he told of his own child's experi- | ence with defective eyesight in schoIo l MT. Boardman told the citizens in the meeting that not nine out of ten of those present knew anything about medical supervision, and they ought to 1 listen and learn rather than vote it l down unheard.
 pr. Cassidy Explains.
 Dr. Cassidy, who offered the resolu- tion, took the floor to explain the mat 1 ter.
 The meeting was noisy and disinclin- ed to hear him when he started, but i his clear statement of the case won and held their attention and he was applauded when he concluded He spoke of the statute which gave the 1 school board the power to provide for 1 inspection. On the point of compen- i satton, he said he had the promise of number of prominent physicians of 1 all schools of practice to do the work l required without pay. The money ask 1 ed for in the resolution would be for l nurses. There should be no more com pulsion than under the present rules and regulations. Dr. Cassidy referred | to a case of smallpox in the Occun I 1 school last Wednesday, Thursday and 1 part of Friday, with an eruption, and i on Saturday the disease was pro- nounced smallpox. The teacher needs some medical authority and backing in | sending a child home on account of 1 suspicion indications. The doctor spoke ] of the scarlet fever epidemic in Nor i wich schools last year, from which 1 there were six deaths, and in which he said, at least twenty of the cases l of medical supervision. | Frank D. Davis asked why it was l necessary to spend this money when l CTS were intelligent.
 Dr. Cassidy replied that in this case 1 the teacher was of nigh intelligence, but she needed the backing of medical | authority.
 was pretty near time that the teach CT was given authority, and he moved to indefinitely postpone the matter, which was voted with ripple of ap- | plause.
 Tax Rate Voted | A fax rate of 12 1-2 mills was vot- 1 ed as the concluding act of the meeting which adjourned shortly before 10 o'clock. ELECTION EXPENSES. l Candidates and TFeasurers Make Re- port of Expenditures. 
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