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503 BOARD OF HEALTH MEETING JANUARY 28, 1986 The monthly meeting of the Board of Health was held Tuesday, January 28, 1986 at 7:15 p.m. in Room G-15 of the Town Office Building. Members present were: Mr. James W. Lambie, Chairman; Dr. Donald Goldmann, Dr. Howard B. Asar- kof, Mr. George A. Smith, Jr., Health Director, and Miss Jacqueline Selway, Health Sanitarian. Jacqueline gave her report to the members of the Board. She has been SANITARIAN'S doing quite a few routine inspections at the retail food/restaurant REPORT places. We had received a complaint from a patron of Dunkin Donuts that they had a bowl of chicken soup and it had worms in it. It turned out to be only pieces of veins from the chicken. Jacqy is preparing articles for the February issue of the "Food Facts" that is put together two or three times a year by the Health Director. She is planning something on food sanitation, the new regulations of the state, plus several other articles. She is also revising town's sanitation stand- ards regarding food personnel, food temperatures and bacterial hazards. Mr. Smith told the Board that he filed a complaint in Concord District 79 CLIFFE AVE. Court against the owners of property at 79 Cliffe Avenue. The owners live MALFUNCTIONING in Danvers and rents out the property. CESSPOOL Mr. Smith said the cesspool is malfunctioning and the owners of the property said they would take care of the problem and then took off for Fla. Nothing has been done to the system so Mr. Smith filed a complaint in the Concord Court against the owner. Pumping will not help relieve this system. The clerk/magistrate has given the owner until February 12 to file and GSX PERSONNEL pay his fees to connect to the town sewer. ILLNESS The GSX rubbish truck employees took ill one early evening while work- ing on one of their routes. The truck had been then taken to the landfill so that the D.E.Q.E., Health Dept., and Public Works employees and the GSX could check out what was causing the personnel to become ill. Nothing has been found up to now to cause this but checking through the trash kidney dialyses filters were found to have been thrown away. This type of thing is not suppose to be thrown into the trash. Anything with blood should be autoclaved. The trash company will refuse to collect in the area if anymore kidney filters are found in the trash. At 7:30 p.m. Mrs. Jayne Tapia, R.N., Executive Director of the Visiting Nurses, Glenda Green, R.N. and Ilene White, R.N. came before the Board at the Board's request. V.N.A. APP'T. Mr. Lambie told the nurses that the Board has not been able to get a clear picture of the Visiting Nurses work, who they service for the Board of Health, how they get their clients, etc. Public money is being used for pri- vate patients. He stated that is not a public health function but falls into the welfare area. Mr. Lambie said we should not be paying out money to the V.N.A. for private patients.