1890年波士顿消防部门。
The board of fire commissioners of Boston, Mass., has made its report to the Mayor of the operations of the past year. The alarms of fire numbered 1025. The loss has not yet been fully adjusted, but the waste is estimated at not above the average.
The cost of running the department for the last twelve months, including the draft for January, 1891, has been $815,350.62. In addition there have been expended for new apparatus and charged to the special equipment account, $48,818.90, leaving a balance to the credit of that account of $12,911.10. The expenditures of the department year beginning May 1, have been $630,849.94, leaving a balance to cover operations until May 1, 1891, of $293,564.29. This sum accounts for a transfer of $12,556.77 to the fire alarm telegraph, that branch of the service having been placed under the con trol of the inspector of wires, according to the new ordinance creating that position.
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