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BoARD Ot' _E tLTH P"L=IKG
JULY 13 , 1064
The regular meeting of the Board of H alth was held i;onda.y
evening, T1 1 r 13 , 19 t4 at 7 00 P.1 . in the Board of Health Office .
embers 'Present were Pr. H.L. McQuillan, Chairman, Dr. ,;i l t iam
Cos -'rove , kr. James H. Jest and Lealth Director, James I . inneran
The minutes of tho June 1, 1964 meeting were an'Proved as read .
Notion was made and dully passed that Nr. R.L. PcQ,uillan be
re-elected as Chairman for the coming year.
Copy of the letter stating the Planring Boards approval SUBDI+rI'ION
of the definitive sutdivision plan entitled "Plan of Lots on P,O? haAiE r
i- ohawk 'rive , ,exir ton, Hass . ( formerly aleason Terrace ) was
placed on file by the Board. This elan .lad teen passed by the
Board et the last meeting. It will all be public severed.
Tae lette , faun t.ue Board of Selectmen stating that James AFPUe_ TI!EA'T
N. Nest Lad been re-appointed to the iloard of Health for three
years . The term expiring June 1, 1967 , was read and placed on
file .
The letter to Er. % P rs . Hoxie , d'64. Vias achusetts Avemue , ob4 1a`;5 AV
was a r roved b- the Board Er. r inneran explained that hr.
I, rs . Hoxie had complained about the glare of the street light
located in front of their _louse . In as much as air. Ca ' oll,
",uperintendent of public 'orks, has charge of the c vrtracts
and verifys the location of public street lights the complaint
was delegated to the °utl , c uorl• s Department.
T e lette ' to the two P'edical Laboratories and to all Lex- STR7P
i.ngton Doctors stating that the weekend Culture aeavice would "'-_ROaT
be drorPed r-. the Health Department at the close of school was PiOuP "PR
app rovd board.
P_-r . Nc°uillar asked if we would have to resume this service
in the fall.
P' rinne' an explained that the revision of the Communicable
D_sease JuaranLine J�egulations were coming before the Legislature
this month so until after that hearing he did not knot. .
P -. est said. . e was vary much cone rned above t the Fubl c PARFIHG
Parking Lot in the rear of the block of stores where BriFgham' s , LUT , R_ �R
PLeanzies , Scribner' s , etc . are located. The dirt and the accum- BHI :t BP' S
ulation of rub ish behind these stores is very bad and very
unsightly . I.r. West requested Mr h inneran to c,ieck this matter
out and take what steps are necessary to `et it cleaned up .
Pr. r inneran said that that particular area has been checked
and most of the debris is from Brigham' s where they nave a tal,e-
out service, therefore it has been difficult to control.
M:4. Jest asked about the other stares did they- have rul fish
stored in the rear.
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Ir. Finneran said "No" tne other store owners were very
god abort 1-erring the area around the r stores clean and
t_lcrefore it was very difficult to at them to cooperate in
i'eening the general area clean when it was almost all the
paper service Iron Bri ham1s . John Carroll has detailed s-ecial
work Forces to -,lean the area but even that has not kept it
under control. The manager of Brigham' s does send a boy out
to clean around the store but the whole parking area should be
done . Mr. Finneran said he would like to get in touch with
John Carroll and then nossibly if they ,corked directly with
the Pain O rice in Cambridge a solution could be reached .
The Board as ed if the take-out service was sto- red
would that help keep the area clean.
Mr. Finneran said Yes he believed it would.
The board then asked if tne,, had a right to make them stop
this type of se -vice .
Mr. rinneran said ties if it was causing a nealth nuisance .
The Board instructed Mr. Finneran to Tet in touch with
John t,arroll and take the necessary steps to obtain the coop-
eration of Srigham' s. If this did not work out then further
action would have to be taken by the board .
A motion was rade and dully passed that a letter be sent to
the main office of Brirlam' s reruesting that appropriate steps
be taken by them to keep the parking area clean of the paper-
service from their store .
CHILD CARE The letter. to Miriel York, 197 -rant Street , re7arding
rRNT'L-t the new licensing procedure for Child Care Centers was app-
roved by tne Board.
LAZUR The letter to Mr. ,1 Mss . John Lazur, 46 Mariam Street
46 N -'BIkM ST regarding the importance of submitting fecal specimans to
the State Diagnostic Laboratory in the case of Salmonella
was arrroved by the Board.
Mr. Finneran explained that the Visiting Nurse was not
receiving any cooperation from this family in regard to sending
in cultures on their daughter, Etar , who was diagnosed as
having Salmonella in ' ovember. According to the regulat on 3
ne ative reports must be received before release of the infec-
ted person. as yet no reports have been received.
2 MORRIS ST . The letter to 1rancis L. Benoit, 2 Morris Street , regarding
an overflowing septic system was arrroved. This matter was
taken care of immediately.
MIGRANT The letter from the State ti. alth Department in regard to
:1ORKERS a project in relation to the Health of Migrant Workers was
read by the Board and placed on file.
ANIMAL The letter to Mr Jilliam Mason, Jr. , 904 Massachusetts
,-.„R,"IT Avenue, in regard to a structural elan for a stable or paddock
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to be used to nuaae anirals was an-roved 'ny the Ford This
plan must be Futn tted nofore action can Le taken on the app-
1 cation lar nn animal permit filed in this office by Ir. Mason.
'he letters to all mutlic and semi-nuLlic swimming pool SidIP'''"ITYG
orerarors was arrroved b-r the Board. Mr. Finneran explained
that the new regulations governing the tandards of Swimming
Pools has been adopted by the Legislature . The information
in this lettn' Alis to help the operators of the public and
st.mi-public pools maintain and establish operating procedures
according to the Minimum Standards . In the future all public
or semi-ruilie pools will require a permit from the 'board of
health.
The animal permit for 2 chickens and 3 ducks for Mrs . e, JI' AL
Do-othy A. ' ;vino, 6 Fulton woad, was a -n"ov d bz the r'oard. F tiI-II'I'
The petition stating; ' hat the cesspool at !+ ha-ward Avenue 4 liAYJ RD
was unsafe dlc' unhealthy was discussed b the Hoard. A -HUE
,clr. Finneran explained that a complaint had been received
regard ng an overflowing cesspool at 4 riayward Avenue and the
owner of the rronerty was contacted and the system pumped The
owner was also advised ihat a petition had been renived by this
office and a new system would be advisable . The owner is in the
process of securing figures and inlyrmation for a new system. Since
the complaint was made the reonle who rant this b use have hEcn
away so t fere is no wa- of znow ung whether the system is functioning
pronerly.
The Board after some discussion felt that any action o this
matter must Le decided by P, -. Finneran. Mr. P'cruillan itlt that
the owner should be advised in writing of what should bL ;lone and
also tae petitioners should be advised of the action of the Board.
Er. Finneran brought before the Board the petition received C H OLLS
from the re idents in tae Blossomcrest area around Carroll ' s Fig- PIGirEHY
fiery ob lecting to the odor caused by the Ti ery The renewal of
the rermit to keep swine for Carroll' s Piggery has been held up
for the last two months because of the n. ed of so many renairs
to the f noes and the rens at the ri -'ery also because so many of
the regulations governing the keeping of rigs was in violation.
hr. Finneran went on to say that from what he had observed
only one of the sans was running the Pi„gery. The boy we working
on the farm during the day and working another job at night, there-
fore , with no extra help it would be impossible to keep this Pig-
gery in satisfactory condition.
Th. Board discussed the canditions at Car 'oll' s Pikeery over
the years and decided that they must abide by the decision made
Previously in regard to Pi, cries which was , that when the tine
came that complaints or n titions were received from the abuttors
to a niz a ery then the pirgery must go.
Mr. :;ar 'oll' s son who had been running the "ig ery came
into the meeting at 8 00 P i.
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T' r. lc 'uillan e., lained to lei-. rar'oll that a petition zr
had been "ec,_ ived f nom the atu ttors 1rd also that there we -e
so many violations to the re al tions that now they felt that
the onlTr alternative left was to refuse to issue another per-
mit
to keep swine at Carroll' s ni4cery, 31 Allen n't . , Lexing-
ton : r. .,,cquillan also explained that the Beard made a de-
cision -years ago that when complaints were made about pig -eries
then the piggeries had to mo. All records show that when these
cases come td curt the complaintants always win out , there-
fore the Loa"d feels it is a w ste of time to carry these
cases t ) court and have the p -oblem drag on f dr an indefinite
time.
hr. r'ic ne 'an read the violations of the re .;lstions to
T r Ca 'roll an explained to nim that unless he put a great
d_al of time and money into the piggery as it now stands he
could not bring it up to tele standards of the Board of Health
Lnless the Board of health standards can be met a p mit could
not be issued.
Ar. Car 'oll said lie had tried to do some of the taings and
he does put a E_reat deal of time into the Piggery. lie also
ex pressed c Incern for nis father and his uncle because the
Pi gery has b en in the family for so many years .
The Loard said they realized this and they did not like
to close a business down but still it was their duty to con-
sider all of the people involved.
P r. Bcnuillan explained that the Board would be fair as
they possible could with i' -•,. Carroll and eonld not renew the
rermit to keep swine but would rive Mr. Carroll a six month
extension on the present rermit to allow time to dispose of
the l2C rib's now on hand.
T r Car-oll asked if now that the pigs were Muing would
that also mean tear he had to disrose of his cows too.
The Beard ac s used Ca roll that the had no objections
to the sots in fact there we-'e a number of riacee in town where
cows we-e kent .
Ca-rol said he had about 21 milk cows at present .
The moars sur rested that possible he ir _nht increase his
m ll- :nerd oith the audec time he would haves alter The rigs
"e-e , ispesed of .
Mr. i. ci7uillan told l r 1.,arroll t_r_at a letter would , co to
his uncle and fat; ger explain .ng* the act on of the Joard and
also stating, that a pe-iod of six -ranths hili be allowed to
dispose of the rigs on hand. "'he s.oard once aeain assured 1. r.
Ca"moll t rat they had no o ections to i he cows and other ani-
mals now on fte r rm and a re ,mit <., o>>ld be issued for those
and als , tat s the lawn `T''aes and rr7"e hmmes am- built eater
to he rI e-'i:is hey have no alte-'nutiT*e but to oder the
pts•secles closed -!hen complaints a-'e "ec ived.
The Board a erred 1 - U enroll they would sive him all the