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262 BOARD OF HEALTH MEETING December 16, 1955 A regular meeting of the Board of Health was held on December 16, 1955, at 3 P.M. in the Selectmen's Room of the Town Offices with Chairman McQ uillan, Dr. Cosgrove, Mr. Cole and Mr. Lurvey present. A letter from the Planning Board concerning the Watson Watson Realty Trust Subdivision was presented to the Board by Mr. Subdivision Lurvey. The Board has no objection to the plan for the subdivision except for Lot 19 for which there is no workable sewage disposal plan. Bills totalling $972.50 were discussed, approved and Bills given to the clerk to be put through for payment. Included were bills from Whitman and Howard, a final bill for the year, $296.91; from the Lexington Visiting Nurse Associa- tion for November, $145.83; from the Middlesex Sanatorium for November, $135., and from the Boston Lying -In Hospital for the Wheeler premature baby, $343. Permits There were 11 applications for permits to transport Garbage or Rubbish in Lexington in 1956. All trucks were inspected by the Health Sanatarian, and the fee of t2 was collected and turned over to Mr. Carroll, Town Treasurer. Permits will be signed by the Board and mailed to the appli- cants. The Sanitarian's Report was discussed. Mr. Lurvey said Mr. Anderson of 179 Grove Street would appear before the Board at 3 P.M. to discuss his overflowing cesspool. Mr. Lurvey found him very uncooperative when an inspection was made upon complaint of neighbors. Countryside Mr. and Mrs. Currier of Countryside, 400 Lowell Street, and two friends, came in to talk with the Boned. Mr. Currier has had a year in which to bring his restaurant up to the Lexington Board of Health standards and still does n'ot ful- full these requirements. Mr. Currier was distressed because he had received a letter from the Board of Selectmen refusing him a Common Victuallers License for the coming year. It was explained by Mr. McQuillan that it is on the recommenda- tion of the Board of Health that the Selectmen send out such notices. The Board feels it gave Mr. Currier more than ample time to bring his establishment up to the proper standard, and the most amiable settlement of the case would be to have the restaurant close on December 31, 1955, and no new Vic- tuallers License be issued for 1956. OFCP At 4.15 P.M. Mr. Anderson of 179 Grove Street met with the Board. Mr. Lurvey had explained that Mr. Anderson was very uncooperative about remedying the situation at 179 Grove Street. The neighbors had complained about six weeks ago that sewage was bubbling up on the lot, and odors and water presented a health menace and nuisance. Mr. Anderson agreed that a load of gravel properly spread would help t "- CC 1 1 1