HomeMy WebLinkAbout1975-11-03(permits signed - continued)
Old Lexington Restaurant d/b/a Mario's, 1733 Mass Avenue
Dunkin Donuts, 373 Waltham Street
Alexander's Convenience Store, 335 Woburn St.
Animal Permits:
Philomena Chiacchia, 22 Blossom St., 2 horses
Mrs. Nathan Sidley, 2 Rogers Rd., 2 Nubian goats
Anne M. Butler, 22 Rangeway Rd., 1 horse, 2 goats
Rubbish Permits:
Beechill Corporation,
Sewage Permits:
Sewer Reamer Service,
539 Lowell St., Peabody, Mass.
17 Laurel St., Cambridge, Mass.
Meeting was adjourned at 9:15 p.m.
BOARD OF HEALTH MEETING
NOVEMBER 3, 1975
The regular meeting of the Board of Health was held November 3, 1975,
at 7:00 p.m. in Room G-15 of the Town Office Building. Members present
were Dr. William L. Cosgrive, Chairman; Mr. James W. Lambie, Dr. Charles
E. Ellicott and. Mr. George A. Smith, Director of Public Health.
The minutes of the October 14, 1975 meeting were approved with the
following change: Mr. Lambie asked that the sentence "The Board said they
would adopt any regulations or code to continue our enforcement program"
be changed to read "The Board will consider any regulations from the State
agencies before adopting new regulations.
Mr. Smith reported that we had heard nothing from Mrs. Sharkey re-
garding her animal permit. Mr. Littleton, Animal Control Officer, had
SHARKEY been up and checked the area again. They have reduced the horses to four
HORSE PERMIT and they have made some attempt at constructing a manure pit with a tarp
over it.
Mr. Smith went on to say that he had discussed this case with Mr.
Cohen, Town Counsel, and he said the Board of Health would be within
their rights to restrict Mrs. Sharkey to 4 horses and make any other
restrictions they felt necessary on this permit regardless of the "Grand-
father Clause".
Dr. Cosgrove said he felt that 4 horses was a reasonable amount to
allow Mrs. Sharkey to keep on the property she had.
Mr. Smith said if the property is not maintained in accordance with the
Health Regulations we could restrict this permit even more. If we do cut
back the 6 horses to 4 horses it could mean going to court.
Mr. Lambie asked if they had enough property for 4 horses and Mr. Smith
said they could handle 4 horses very well on the amount of land available.
Mr. Lambie and Dr. Ellicott said they would like to see things kept
cleaner than they were at present.
Dr. Cosgrove said all the junk cars were up to the Building Department.
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The Board voted and duly passed that Mrs. Sharkey be granted a 6 months
permit to keep 4 horses on her property at 13 Hazel Road. It was agreed that
this permit would be tested on merit as we went along.
Mr. Smith reported to the Board that 90 children were screened at the LEAD POISON
Lead Poison Screening Clinic and four tests showed a blood level over 39. SCREENING
These four children have been tested again but we do not have the results
of the second screening. Mr. Smith said he would have liked to have done
more but he felt that the screening was successful.
Mr. Smith explained to the Board that he would like to require that all RETAIL
retail food stores and markets be required to have a Retail Food Service STORES FOOD
Permit. At the present time we only have these stores registered when they PERMIT
are opened and this registration does not give us the control over the
stores I feel we should have.
Mr. Lambie asked what advantage would be gained in putting the stores
under a Retail Food Establishment Permit.
Mr. Smith said this type of permit would give the Board more effective
control. The permit would then be renewable each year. He went on to say
that most of the markets and food stores were getting into other things such
as "Deli" foods and take out prepared foods which, with the present setup,
we had no control over the operation. Mr. Smith went on to say he felt that
these stores should have these permits to operate and there was a section in
Article X which includes the operation of these stores.
Dr. Ellicott said if we had so little jurisdiction over these stores
now we certainly should get more and if the Food Service Permit would give it
to us then by all means they should be issued.
It was voted that all Retail Stores and Markets would now be required to
file for a Food Establishment Permit, this permit renewable yearly.
Mr. Smith announced to the Board that he was planning a Food Handlers FOOD HANDLERS
Course in January or February. Attendance can be made almost mandatory. COURSE
He will be able to have people from the State Health Department. The
course will consist of slides, lectures and hand outs. He went on to say
that he plans to have these courses during the day, they will offer the
course to a group for 3 hours in the morning and then repeat the course
again in the afternoon. This will enable all restaurant personnel, school
lunch personnel, nursing home personnel and industrial kitchen and cafe-
teria personnel to attend.
Mr. Smith explained to the Board that there were some changes in the con-
tract figures that was sent by Westbom Associates. The Board suggested that LEAD PAINT
these figures be tabled until copies of the changes could be sent to the
Board members.
Mr. Smith explained that Rosina's Kitchen at 363A Massachusetts Ave. ROSINA'S
had submitted plans for the addition of tables and chairs to their present KITCHEN
operation. He explained that he had sent the owners of the restaurant
that they must do certain things before this plan could be approved. The
most important thing is the installation of a dishwasher. The owners must
use paper service until a dishwasher is installed.
Mr. Smith explained that another "Deli" was being installed at 137 DELI GLORIA
FOODS
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Massachusetts Avenue. It will be called Gloria Foods. They will probably
be opening as soon as they install another toilet room and a final inspection
is made.
FAIRLAWN Fairlawn Nursing Home has submitted plans for the renovation of the
NURSING HOME kitchen. Mr. Smith said he thought this would be a good improvement to
their operation.
Mr. Smith explained that a number of people have been interested in
BREWSTER'S opening up another Food Establishment at Brewster's which is owned by
McManus Ice Cream Corp. He went on to explain that he has told anyone
coming into the office asking about this property that unless the building
is connected to the public sewer, which is available, he will not approve
any operation suggested. A letter has been sent to the McManus Corp. to
this effect.
COLONIAL Mr. Smith reported that he had a complaint of wormy candy purchased
PHARMACY at Colonial Pharmacy. The first complaint was made last month and at
that time an inspection was made and about 40 pounds of candy destroyed.
Today another complaint was received and more wormy candy found. Mr.
Smith said he has contacted the State Department, Food & Drug, to help
with this. What he must do is locate the distributor of the candy.
Dr. Yudowitz of Wild Acre Inn, had been scheduled to appear before the
Board at 7:30 p.m. Dr. Yudowitz did not appear and therefore Mr. Smith
WILD ACRE explained to the Board that the Selectmen are still waiting to issue a
INN lodging house permit. Dr. Yudowitz has done a lot of work of cleaning,
repairing and painting. Right now he is still pumping the septic tank
about every two weeks. He still has not applied to have this dwelling
connected to the public sewer which is something he should have done.
Mr. Smith went on to explain that Dr. Yudowitz had appeared before the
Board of Selectmen and assured them he was running a lodging house and not
a "Half -way House". We have a copy of a letter from Dr. Yudowitz to the
Selectmen assuring them of this. Mary Live of the State Mental Health De-
partment did come out to inspect the place but when Dr. Yudowitz was not
there she did not inspect the place. We have sent her a letter stating
this is to be lodging house, this is a copy of the letter from Yudowitz
to the Selectmen. Mary Love said she would notify the MacLean Hospital
of the status of this place so they would not send patients there.
Dr. Ellicott said he was concerned because of the report of the Visiting
Nurse about patients or tenants exchanging various prescription drugs.
Mr. Smith said that at the present time we must judge the establishment
as a lodging house.
Mr. Chase, Town Engineer, who attended this meeting was asked how much
he estimated it would cost to connect this property to public sewer.
Mr. Chase said if he went down in the back of the land to Highland
Avenue it would probably cost about twenty thousand dollars, this would
enable him to put in a gravity feed system. He could probably service
his own building with an ejector pot for about ten thousand dollars. Dr.
Yudowitz has been told he must petition the Selectmen for this system
and to date he has not got in touch with anyone about the work. Dr. Yudo-
witz does have his own engineer who has been working on this.
The Board after some discussion with Mr. Chase suggested a letter be
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