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_4 <br />MOSQUITO <br />FOGGING <br />MENTAL <br />HEALTH <br />BUDGET <br />STATE <br />IMMUNIZA`STION <br />PROGRAM <br />GRANT <br />4 GARDEN <br />AVENUE <br />FLU CLINIC- <br />TOWN <br />LINIC- <br />TOWN <br />EMPLOYEES <br />HOSPITAL <br />ACCOUNT <br />BOARD OF HEALTH MEETING <br />SEPTEMBER 8, 1967 <br />The regular meeting of the Board of Health was held <br />Friday, September 8, 1967 at 7:00 P.M. in the Selectmen's <br />Room of the Town Office 3uilding. Members present were: <br />R. L. McQuillan, Chairman, Dr. Wil1ian Cosgrove and Robert <br />Heusti s, Director of Public Health. <br />The minutes of the July 17, 1967 Meeting were approved <br />as read. <br />The letter to Mr. !Wayne Lees, 29 Tower Road was approved <br />by the Board. Mr. Lees had complained of the fogging for <br />mosquitos in the early evening while families were in their <br />yards. The letter explained the operation of the fogging <br />program and also that the chemical, Dibrom, used by the <br />licensed operator as dorected was non-toxic. <br />The 3udget increase requested by the Mental Health <br />Childrem's Clinic for 1968 was discussed again by the <br />Board. Mr. McQuillan and Dr. Cosgrove will attend the meet- <br />ing with the Mental Health Association September 19, 1967. <br />The clerk was instructed to send notices of this meeting <br />to Dr. Cosgrove and Mr. McQuillan. <br />The letter from the State Health Office regarding the <br />grant of $250,000 for an immunization program was discussed <br />by the 3oard. Letters were sent to the Doctor's Advisory <br />Committee, Dr. Pyle, Consulting Physician of the Board <br />and the Lexington Visiting Nurse Association. Of the replies <br />received the majority felt that Lexington would have few <br />in the hard to reach group for which the grant was made. <br />The Board voted to table this for the time being. <br />The letter form the State Department of Public Works <br />stating that the condition that caused a nuisance in the <br />brook running in the rear of 4 Garden Avenue had been correct- <br />ed by the contractor who had done the construction work <br />on the section of .route 2 effecting the flow of the brook. <br />The Flu Clinic for Town Employees and school personnel <br />will be held October 5th and November 30th. Notices will <br />be sent to Department heads in the Town Offices and Dr. <br />Fobert, Superintendent of Schools. <br />The letter to Dr. Rudolph Fobert, Superintendent of <br />Schools, regarding the satisfactory counts of 'Whiting <br />Milk Co. products was approved by the E3oard. <br />The letter to the appropriation committee stating the <br />hospital account for the Board of Health will run about <br />$3100.00 more that the $750.00 appropriated was approved <br />