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1 1 meeting will be scheduled for the first or second Monday in March and the early time of 7:00 P.M. was agreeable to all. Meeting adjourned at 8:00 P.M. BOARD OF HEALTH MEETING MARCH 9, 1964 The regular meeting of the Board of Health was held Monday, March 9, 1964 at 7:00 P.M. in the Conference Room of the New Town Office Building. All members being present. Minutes of the February 3, 1964 meeting were approved as read. The proposed testing program for Streptococcal Sore Throat STREP SORE Contacts was discussed by the Board. In order that the Board THROAT could have a resume! of the facts to date a short report was included in the Health Officerts Report. Mr. Finneran reported that a letter had been sent to Dr. Fiumara requesting permission to waive the existing quarantine of contacts which is one week without prophylactic treatment or two days with prophylactic treatment, but as no answer had been received to this letter further study of the rules and regulations governing commun- icable diseases was made. Our regulations state that we adopt the Rules and Regulations of Isolation and Quarantine of dis eases declared dangerous to the public health as written in Section 6, Chapter 111 of the General Laws, amended by Chapter 129, Acts of 1948 and further amended by Note 9 of the regula- tions which states "Public Schools are no longer required to exclude from school children exposed to the diseases listed in this table unless the regulations of the local board of health require such exclusion," (Chapter 71, Section 55, as amended by Chapter 89 of the Acts of 1952). According to the 1952 ammend- ments the State Health Department has placed all responsibility of Communicable Disease right back to the local Health Depart- ment, therefore it is up to the Board to waiver the quarantine of contacts in Streptococcal Sore Throats. Mr. West: I am attracted to this program, but would like to discuss it further. Mr. McQuillan: We must be sure this is the only solution. There is only one other Town that does anything like this. Mr. Finneran: Brookline does this type of program and Amherst. Brookline's program started as a study under Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and the Good Samaritan Hospital for Children. When the three year study program was completed the Health Department felt the program should be continued. Mr. McQuillan: I should think we could leave this sort of thing up to the Doctors.