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94 Mr. Smith reported that Dr. Gerard and Dr. Parker came out and went to BROWN Clarke Street in regard to the bats that were in that area. They descovered BATS a colony of bats roosting in between 2 floors of a house. The bars get in between - under the roofs - up in the peaks. Lexington has some old type houses that the bats seem to like. Mr. Smith is planning to put a pamphlet together regarding bats. He said there should also be a campaign to get people to vaccinate their cats. Small brown and large brown bats are in this area. Mr. Smith said there is no way to completely eradicate bats but each per- son can have them eradicated off of their property. There can be as many as 100 bats in one colony. Vincent Bucca had come into pick up his literature on wood stoves. He WOOD wondered if the Board had come down to check out the smoke of the wood stoves STOVES in his area. I said I only know of Mr. Southard's stove but he claims the next door neighbor has one, also. Dr. Asarkof said they did promise Mr. Bucca that they would go in the fall and check this out so he and Mr. Lambie said they must go down there. Mr. Smith said that the state will not do anything - they don't feel that it is their responsibility. Mr. Smith explained to the Board that a few patients of Lexington Medical REACTION TO have had a reaction to the Td immunization vaccine, given by their nurses. Td VACCINE One patient had been hospitalized for a few days. The vaccine had gone out to other doctors but no other reactions have been reported from other physicians. we have reported this to the state and have supplied them with any in- formation we had. Mr. Smith is going to call Dr. Grady at the State Health Department to discuss this problem with him. Mr. Smith briefly discussed a resident running a clandestine operation - running a commissionary without a license/ermit. He sent a letter out to Leo ILLEGAL O'Connell of 23 Ivan Street and a letter also went out to Mr. O'Connell from FOOD the zoning/Building Departments telling him he must cease this operation. OPERATION VNA The Board did not like the report the VNA sent to them for the month of September. Besides the bill they only reported on 5 patients. Statistics did not come with the bill. Dr. Asarkof did not like two visits to a 24 year-old appendectomy to show how to change a dressing. The Board would like to know "how are they (patients) referred to VNA and How were these cases brought to their attention! do people call them directly? These visits should be prescribed by a doctor. The Board was in agreement that a letter should be written to the Visit- ing Nurses explaining what is required for a patient's visit to be covered under Board of Health payment. Dr. Asarkof said he will draw up a letter in this regard.