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1 1 409 BOARD OF HEALTH MEETING February 19, 1960 The regular meeting of the Board of Health was held Friday, February 19, 1960 at 3 P.M. in the Selectmen's Room of the Town Office Building. Members present were Dr. William Cosgrove, Mr. Charles Cole and Health Officer Mr. Mark D. Lurvey. The minutes of the December and.January..meeting were accepted and the.Clerk was:instructed to make the necessary corrections before putting them in the permanent record book. Mr. Lurvey reported that on January 21, 1960 a call from Dr. MARIA Potter stating that approximately 120 children had been stricken HASTINGS with Diarrhea at Maria Hastings School was received by the Health EPIDEMIC Department. Mr. Lurvey immediately called the State Health De- partment and they sent Dr. Pickering, State Health Department Epidemiologist, out to investigate this outbreak. Mr. Lurvey and Dr. Pickering worked all afternoon Thursday and all day Friday pro- curing food samples, stool specimens of food handlers and children stricken and a complete history of all the circumstances surrounding the outbreak. All laboratory reports proved negative. As the same type of outbreak was reported in another section of the State and because of the detection of a particular bacteria, considered nonpathogenic, up to this time but whereas it was found in such large numbers in this case, a culture of this organism has been sent to Washington D. C. for experimentation. Human volunteers will be used in the experiments and we will just have to wait until the experiments are concluded to find out what caused the mild epi- demic at Maria Hastings School. Letter to Grace Hussey, M.D. of the State Health Department stating that the Lexington Health Department has confirmed the PREMATURE tat that Premature Infant Bjorkan is a Lexington Settlement and INFANT- the'Health Department will be responsible for the payment of hos- BJORKEN pital charges for Premature Infant Bjorken on the recoginized $12.00 per diem was read and accepted by the Board. The bill from St. Elizabeth's Hospital, 736 Cambridge St. PREMATURE Brighton, Massachusetts for premature infant, Baby Boy Hamil- INFANT ton of *732.00 was presented to the Board. Mr. Lurvey reported HAMILTON that an investigation by Mr. Collins of the Lexington Welfare Department has proved this case to be a Lexington Settlement and therefore we are responsible for payment of this bill. The Board voted to pay this bill of $732.00 for Premature Baby Boy Hamilton. Mr. Lurvey reported that he had attended several meetings STATE on the State Sanitary Code. The State health Department wishes SANITARY to set up a uniform Sanitary Code to be used by all communities. CODE A State Code of this type would benifit the small towns and also make the Public Health Laws of all towns more uniform. The accept- ance of a Sanitary Code will enable the State Health Department to set up a list of rules for all Health Departments and also enable the State Health Department to ammend the rules when necessary. The purpose of the meeting on February 24, 1960 at the Middlesex County Sanatorium Auditorium is to inform all Boards of Health of the