Brought forward . - e - o - e e Postage purchased . e - - o - 15,969 Total expenditures PLANT. Paid to February 1, 1910 (see page 7) Stamp perforator . e & - $82 50 Type . . o s - e - . 605 88 Furniture . e - s - - o - . 21 00 Value of plant February 1, 1910 . . . $45,148 67 Less 5 per cent depreciation . - o - 2,257 43 SIR,- In accordance with section 24, chapter 3, of the Revised Ordinances of 1898, I submit the following as the annual report of the Public Buildings Department for the year ending January 31, 1910. This department has the care and custody of the ambulance station, South Boston; new municipal building, Upham's Corner; the new city building at Codman square, Dorchester; city building, Washington and Richmond streets, Dorchester, and Thomas Street Schoolhouse; of all buildings in use for city offices, market purposes, halls for public meetings and the several county buildings, also hired buildings or parts of same used for city offices, county purposes, wardrooms, armories, etc. The practice of hiring quarters for wardrooms, on lease or otherwise, has been discontinued, the same being vacated as the leases expired. There remains now but one hall hired for this purpose, the lease of which expires on July 31, 1910. I have continued the competitive method of obtaining proposals on repair and alteration work and in each case given the work to the lowest bidder, and am satisfied that the city has received full compensation for all expenditures made. During the year the following new special appropriations have been made to be expended by the Public Buildings Department: Curtis Hall, reconstruction of e to . . $75,000 00 New library building, Ward 22 . . . . . 30,000 00 Courthouse and police station, East Boston . 105,000 00 Clock at Peabody square, Ashmont . g g 1,200 00 Registry of Deeds, fireproof bookcases . * to 12,000 00 Plans and specifications have been prepared by Mr. Lewis H. Bacon, architect, for the reconstruction of the Curtis Hall building, the same to be equipped as a gymnasium with swimming pool, shower baths, etc. The new library building to be located on the lot of land adjoining the Curtis Hall building is now in process of erection and will be occupied by the Library Department as a branch of the Public Library. The contract for the street clock to be erected at Peabody square, Ashmont, has been awarded to the E. Howard Clock Company for $1,100, and it is to be finished complete by April 25, 1910. Plans and specifications of the new courthouse and police station, East Boston, have been prepared by Mr. Harrison H. Atwood. It was intended to erect this building on the lot of the present old East Boston High School, but the School Committee refused to surrender the premises. A second location on the northerly part of the Central square lot was considered and a proposition was received from the East Boston Company of $6,000 to convey their rights in the said land to the city, but an investigation of the conditions of the said conveyance by the Law-Department proved that the conditions could not be complied with and consequently this arrangement was abandoned. This leaves the selection of a proper site for the building to be decided later on. * Acting on authority of the Governor of the Commonwealth and the Mayor of the City of Boston, I have arranged for the carrying out of the provisions of chapter 385 of the Acts of 1907, which provides for reconstruction and preservation of the old Provincial State House in the City of Boston, and for which the Commonwealth and the City of Boston had each appropriated the sum of $7,500, or a total of $15,000. The work is being carried on under the direction of the Boston Society of Architects, which society kindly volunteered their services, and plans and specifications of Mr. Joseph Everett Chandler, an expert on colonial architecture, are being followed. Mr. Chandler's fee for professional Services is to be a nominal one, he being interested in the preservation of the building. A detailed statement of work done will be found on page 7. The following buildings or parts of same were hired for municipal purposes: For Offices: Estate numbered 37, 62–64 Pemberton square; Rooms 414–416, 730–742, 801–804, 824–828, 917—920, 926– 928 and 1151 Tremont Building; building at Mattapan; Rooms 517–529 and 610–613 Huntington Chambers; 226, 227 and 1132 Kimball Building; 501 Boylston Chambers. For Armories. No. 120 Tremont street; Bacon Hall, Roxbury; 130 Columbus avenue and 31 Irvington street. For Wardrooms: For County Purposes: The ambulance station is located on National street, South Boston, on land leased from the Carney Hospital. The station is open day and night and answers calls at any hour and in any section of the city for persons desiring treatment at the Carney or other hospitals. Number of accident cases during year . * - 109 {{ medical “ & & - o • . 520 & surgical “ & {{ . . . . 186 Austin Farm * * § l The following schedule will show the cost of maintenance of the ambulance station, the total number of patients carried and average cost of transportation for each patient for the past ten years: Cost of Total Number | Average Cost YEAR. Maintenance. °C.;" |patoried. 1900*. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,856 07 394 $9 78 1901. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,241 78 636 9 81 1902. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,388 33 736 10 03 1903. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,224 78 765 8 13 1904. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,569 83 653 10 06 1905. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,920 16 648 10 68 1906. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,489 68 637 10 18 1907 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,793 75 768 8 84 1908. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,329 53 830 7 62 1909. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,495 03 815 7. 96 * Nine months. |