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598 Mr. Finneran told Mr. St. Germaine that as he obtained his milk from Maple Hill FarMAn .Wal" thaw, he.'sbould Aeie if he could get the Waltham Dairy to clean the equipment. The Waltham Health Department is the licensing agent for the Maple Hill Dairy and therefore should be responsible in seeing that the equip- ment is cleaned. Mr. Finneran said he knows the Health Officer from the Waltham Health Department has been out to Maple Hill Farm a number of times. He also suggested to Mr. St. Germaine that if the counts did not improve he should change his bottling company because if the counts did not improve the Board of Health of Lexington would have no alternative but to revoke his license to distribute milk in Lexington. B. L. Cummings had only one bad count this month and that was on cream. The Board spoke of the utensil swab counts on Early Bird Restraurant. Mr. Finneran said he was keeping after them and hoped to see improvement very soon. As things stand now there is just 2 milk companies and 2 restaurants that are causing trouble but he will keep close watch on these concerns and see that things are taken care oft GARBAGE Mr. Finneran reported that he had met with the Study Comm- DISPOSAL ittee on Waste Disposal appointed by the Board of Selectmen 1 STUDY GROUP The committee consists of Mr. Gray, Executive Secretary to the Board of Selectmen, John Carroll, Public Works Superintendent Five Members from the Town Meeting Committee and -the Health Officer. At the meeting John Carroll explained how the Hart- well Avenue Dump could be used for the disposal of garbage. This would involve draining the area by installing dikes and removing the peat down to solid clay and letting the base dry out. Two or three loads of garbage could be handled daily if this was done on a Land Fill System. Mr. Finneran said he impressed on Mr. Carroll that he would have to be sure that the land could be properly drained and dried before a plan of this nature could be carried out. Mr. Finneran said in view of the suggested plan for the Hartwell Avenue area he had requested a man from the State Department to come out and check the area an dplan of use. • The Board questioned if this would improve the collection problem. Mr. Finneran said "Yes" because it would open the contract to more and better equipped contractors for bidding. As it stands now only swine dealers may bid on the contract and there is only two or three such dealers in this area. Mr. West asked about the problem of rats and odors. Mr. Finneran said where there was a contract now with an exterminator that would have to be kept for the new dump as well as the Lincoln Street Dump. By opening pp the bids to more disposal cojpanies the bids will be higher but the service should be a great deal better because the equipment will be better. The Board asked if John Carroll had mentioned the dis- posal units for all new houses being built on public' sewer. 1