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SELECTMENIS MEETING 1 JULY 5, 1938. A regular meeting of the Board of Selectmen was held in the Selectmen's Room, Town Office Building, .at 7:00 P.M. Chairman Giroux, Messrs. Potter, Rowse and Clark were present. The Clerk was also present. The Health Inspector appeared before the Board. He stated that Mr. E. W. Harrod had been ordered to install a toilet at 703 Mass. Avenue and connect with the sewer. The Harrod Plumbing Inspector has given Vernon Page a permit to do this property work. Mr. Stevenson said the building laws state that a health toilet cannot be installed in the cellar of a tenement menace* house but this is not a tenement house, and they are putting this one in the cellar. The cellar is damp. What boards there are in it are rotted and the tenants do not use it at all. There are steps leading down into it which in Mr. Stevenson's opinion, are not safe and the toilet is to be in talled thirty-six feet from the foot of the stairs. Mr. Stevenson thought the odor from the toilet might go into ;the store. There is plenty of room on the second floor of the house and he thought the toilet should be in- stalled there. The tenant says she will not use it down- stairs. Mr. Stevenson thought the proposed location would be a health menace. Mr. Clark said that it would be an inconvenience but he did not see how it would be a health menace. Mr. Rowse said he thought the owner should be told that in Mr. Stevenson's opinion this was not a proper location and might develop into a health menace and if so., the toilet would have to be condemned. Mr. Stevenson agreed to do this and said it would be necessary to put in a window four feet square anyway. He retired. Mr. Rowse asked what action, if any, had been taken with regard to the inspection of dairies in the town. The Dairies Board felt it would be wise to discuss the matter with Mr. Stevenson and it was decided to request him to appear at the next meeting. Mr. Raymond appeared before the Board. He said he had received three drainage complaints during the last two heavy rains, one from Waltham Street beyond Brookside Avenue, the complaint being that the water reached way across the street Drainage and blinded the drivers, the second from Mr. Spencer who complained of water standing on Lowell Street in front of his house, and the other from a Mr. Dillman of 472 Waltham Street. His property is at the corner of Kendall Road. Mr. Raymond said that there was more than $400. left in the 1937 account for drainage for sundry streets. He would like to put in two filter basins at Lowell Street as he did not know of any other way to take care of the water. There is a possibility that these basins will be ripped out when the