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232 BOARD OF HEALTH MEETING July 16, 1954 The regular meeting of the Board of Health was held Friday, July 16, 1954, at 3 P.M. in the Selectmen's Room, Town Office Building. Mr. McQuillan, Chairman, Mr. Cole, Dr. Cosgrove, and Mr. Jackson, Health Sanitarian, were present. Application from John F. Skinner for assistance on his wife's Mrs. hospitalization at Haynes Memorial Hospital for encephalitis was Skinner considered. Mr. Jackson reported that the Massachusetts Depart- ment of Public Health considered it reasonable that the Board of Health pay for hospitalization during the period of isolation. Mrs. Skinner was admitted May 13, 1954, and according to the hospital was considered non-infectious on May 23, 1954. The Board voted to pay for the last eight days of this period as the polio foundation had paid the first two days. Bill was received from Haynes Memorial Hospital concerning Miss Annie Ahearn who died there June 17, 1954 of tuberculosis. Ahearn Miss Ahearn had been on old age assistance in Lexington for some time. The Board of Health voted to approve the bill if Miss Ahearn had no funds. On July 19, 1954, Mr. Collins says that she had burial fund of $360.00 but it was used up by burial. Letter from Mr. Harold Stevens was read and his disposition Fidler of the Fidler premature baby case was accepted. The.Navy will baby make the father pay. Letter from Mr. Harold Stevens re Dailey piggery was re- ceived and read. It was voted to authorize Mr. Stevens to consent Dailey to the entry of a decree dismissing the sutt (Town of Lexington piggery vs. William J. Dailey), without costs and without prejudice. 1 Burgoyne ( CP • Letter from Mr. Stevens re overflowing cesspool at Burgoyne's, 80 North Street, was received. Mr. Jackson reported to the Board that the house at 80 North Hancock Street which is owned and occupied by Samuel and `Jennie M. Burgoyne is connected for sewage disposal to a cesspool located in land formerly owned by them but now owned by Thtboheau and numbered 5 Ballard Terrace; that the cesspool is overflowing and is a health menace, and that alehough he has directed Mr. Burgoyne on several occasions to correct the situation, Mr. Burgoyne has not done so. Upon consideration thereof and upon motion duly made and seconded, it was unanimously Voted: That Samuel and Jennie M. Burgoyne, as the owners and occupants of the building numbered 80 North Hancock Street in Lexington, be abd they hereby are ordered, jointly and severally, to cause said building to be connected to the common sewer in North Hancock Street not later than August 2, 1954. 1 1 Report of the L.V.N.A. for the month of June was read and filed. Appropriations statements for June and current bills were received and read.