Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-03-01
ANNUAL REPORT OF
CITY FOR MUNICIPAL
YEAR GIVEN OUT

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The 36th annual report Of the city
Of Waterville for the municipal year
ending Jan. 81. 1924. came from the
press yesterday. This book contains
complete reports Of every public de-
partment IN the city. The first II pages
contain a list Of all the city officers:
! next comes a page devoted to the may
ors OF Waterville from 1883 to 1923.
| Mayor Leon o. Tebbetts' report
| brings to your attention those matters
which have been of vital Importance
to the growth and welfare of our
city,. This report as we'll as the re-
ports OF the police department., school
department. city engineers report, have
already been printed in the Kennebec
Journal in full.
| The municipal property list based on
insurable and present replacement val
I ues shows total Of 1915 92o.75. No
system. paved and permanent street,
sidewalks. bridges. parks. and nom
vertible improvements.
| DR.. A. Jolly. milk inspector has pre-
\ scented the following report:
The inspection of cattle for tubercu-
losis. started four years ago, was con-
tinued in 1928, with the exception that
the owners Of dairy herds had to pay
the expenses while for the three pre-
vious years the work was done free of
charge by federal and State inspectors.
I visited during the year the barns
and premises Of our milkmen who de-
liver milk to consumers. Some of these
visits were made in company with our
Att
lions were made TO improve the sani-
and equipment.
| We have also tried to get the CO.
operation Of the milk dealers to deliver
their milk at the consumers door in
bottles instead Of the old-fashioned
way. from an open can. in an open re-
ceptacle. thus preventing foreign bod
les from getting into the milk; and. be-
| sides, the cream is better proportioned
when put up in bottles.
Licenses to sell milk in the State of
Maine are issued by the department of
agriculture and are subject to the fol-
lowing conditions:
mo milk shall be sold from known
reactor to the tuberculin test or that
shows disease of any kind. The udder
and the tanks of all mich cows shall
be kept clean.
BARNS shall be light. well ventilated
and clean. Floors. walls and ceilings
shall be tight and free from dirt. Ma
nure shall be removed from the barn
and disposed of in such way as not to
be n source of danger to the milk either
as a breeding place for flies or other
wise.
"A milk room shall be provided that
IL clean. tight and well screened. NO
! Ill 10 how IN
lnor shall 1t be used for any other pur-
pose than handling milk. The milk
room shall be away from contain. hating
surroundings.
BOTTLES, cans and all milking uten-
sils shall be sterilizcd each time be-
fore using. with boiling water or
steam. FIanks and udders shall be
cleaned directly before milking.
| "All persons handling milk shall
have their hands and clothes clean
ut time OF milking. No milk sold
shall he handled by persons having a
communicable disease such as ty-
phoid fever. scarlet fever or dipth-
iberia. No milk shall be strained in
the tie-up: 1t shall be cooled immedi-
, ately after being MIXED and stored
Mt n temperature not over 55 degrees.
No bloody. stringy or unnatural milk
shall be Sold
| Licenses issued by the State have to
be approved by the Milk Inspectors.
so during the year l have approved
Sc licenses and rejected one.
Our milk supply comes from dairy
| herds which are free from tubercu-
| losis and 1t Is gratifying to know that
! most of our dairy men realize the ne
| cessity of taking good care of their
| stock as we'll as its products.
| The City physician DIR. James E.
! Poulin presented the following report:
number Of patients attended %: num-
Der of office calls. 10: visit to homes.
| So; visits to City Home, 10; number
| of deaths. /.
| Walter w. Berry Chief Engineer of
the Watervile fire department in
closing his report for the year makes
the following recommendations:
! "In closing this report am pleased
| to state that this department has re-
sponded to 113 calls this year. SO box
alarms and II still alarms and tele-
| phone calls, and the loss sustained
| from the same has been very small.
| TT gives me n 1ote of regret to
state that ordinances relating to the
| building code. electrical inspections.
| storage OF explosives. and infiamma-
| BILE liquids. automobile garages, mo-
| ton picture machines and general fire
! hazards have become void. The off,
| ces under which this enforcement
| comes as we'll as all citizens are at
fault for this condition in regard to
these ordinances. We now enjoy
Glass "B" rating of insurance. Will
me maintain 1t by complying with
! our city ordinances. or will we lose 1t
| by going along as we are at the
| present time?
"But there IL one thing I wish to
call to the attendtion Of any who may
read these lines. and that is this
| that there are three officers known
| as the building inspector. the City
| Electrician and the Fire Marshal, and
no person. firm or corporation shall
| start to build, alter. or change In any
| manner whatsoever in the buildings
within the limits of the City OF wa
| terville, without first obtaining the
proper permit from one of the above
| three officers, in order to sustain the
desired classification.
|. "It each citizen will endeavor TO
! reduce to the best Of his knowledge
any fire hazard that he knows OF. and
! obtain the proper permit before
4 building, or altering buildings OF any
| nature. he will be cooperating with
| the department to the best OF his
knowledge and I wish to assure you
that any complaint properly present
| cd 70 this department Will receive