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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1976-07-062 could cause the death of a child. Dr. Cosgrove said that if Mr. Freeman did those things he would have no trouble with the Board. Mr. Smith said that the longer this is left the more of a problem it is. Look at the mosquito problem and the attractive nuisance of the pond. Mr. Smith went on and suggested that Mr. Freeman get the pond drained as soon as possible and as best he could. The Board thanked Mr. Freeman for coning in. Meeting adjourned at 9:45 p.m. The following permits were signed by the Board: Mobile Food Service Francis G. MacDonald, Jr., Medford, Mass. Food Service Establishments St. Brigid's Church Howard Johnson's Restaurant Pewter Pot Muffin House Walnut Farm Trust dba Powder Horn Golf Club Pine Meadows Country Club Bora Bora, Inc. Animal Permits Carroll Bros. Frank & Charlotte Sanderson Ralph H. Davis Carl Canzanelli Arthur O'Sullivan John D. Chiesa Pools Sun Valley Pleasant Brook Pool Corp. Lexington Chalet, Inc. Paint Rock Pool Living & Learning School Five Fields Pool, Inc. Nursing Hone East Village Nursing Home BOARD OF HEALTH MEETING JULY 6, 1976 The regular meeting of the Board of Health was held Tuesday, July 6, 1976 in the Health Department Office at 7:00 P.M. Members present were: Dr. William L. Cosgrove, Chairman; Mr. James Lambie, Dr. Charles Ellicott and Director of Public Health, George A. Smith. 3 Dr. Cosgrove told the Board that John Brucchi, 63 Paul Revere Road had requested to attend a meeting of the Board to complain about the fees charged for the animal permits. Mr. Brucchi pays the full amount of $50.00 per year to keep, as his permit states, 8 horses, goats, chickens and deer. He is opefating under the grandfathers clause and has about 21/2 acres of land. The Board said they would talk to Mr. Brucchi at the September meeting. The new plan for Rosina's kitchen was discussed. Mr. Smith said they wanted to move the "Deli" down to the lower level. He went on to say he would rather they did that because it would give them more space. Under this new ROSINA'S plan they are going to install a dishwasher although they do at the present KITCHEN time use paper service in the lunch room. Dr. Cosgrove asked if Mr. Smith thought this new plan was all right? Mr. Smith said he thought it was much better than what the had now. The Board approved this plan. Mr. Smith recalled to the Board the alleged food poisoning case regard- ing clams at Friendly's that was discussed at the last meeting. A report has been received on the samples of food sent to the Food & Drug Division for analysis and they found no Salmonella or staph bacteria and all other counts were very low. Mr. Smith went on to tell the Board that Friendly's and Sheraton -Lex- ington Motor Inn had requested monthly inspections but he felt it was not the Board of Health's responsibility to give these places free quality control. The Board suggested that Mr. Smith write to these places and state that they felt very flattered that they requested such services but we did not have the time or the personnel to check eating establishments on a monthly basis. FRIENDLY'S BEDFORD ST. Mr. Smith reported that the Lexington -Sheraton Motor Inn was doing a SHERATON - good job and had improved a great deal. Since the management has been changed LEXINGTON a great deal of improvement had been made. Mr. Smith reported on the Yangtze River Restaurant opening. He said they weren't ready to open but they did advertise in the paper that a free YANGTZE buffet would be served from 12 to 2 on Friday, July 2, 1976. They were RIVER about 10 days ahead of themselves. The kitchen and the downstairs banquet RESTAURANT room were done but when Mr. Smith checked early Friday morning he found the main dining room was not ready and could not be used, a second exit from the downstairs banquet room was blocked with debris and between work- men and what have you, things were in a deplorable condition. He went on to say he contacted the Building Department, Fire Department, Police De- partment and Town Manager, Mr. O'Connell; because he felt they should not be allowed to open under those conditions. A "mob" had gathered by 11:30 a.m. to participate in the advertised free buffet, by 12 noon the line of people had stretched around Depot Square. Chief Corr and Mr. O'Connell felt more damage could be done by not letting them go through with their plans of the free buffet if it was at all possible. By 12:30 things had been arranged to open for the buffet only, the second exit had been cleared and the banquet room downstairs was used. The restaurant was not allowed to open until all the other things were done. Approximately 475 people were served at the free buffet and there would have been more except some of the people that had early lunch hours had to leave because the work was not done in time to open at 12 o'clock noon. Mr. Smith said he felt that we will have a real problem with rubbish from the four restaurants in this one building. He said he had talked to Mr. Giroux, owner of the building, but he seemed oblivious to the problems. The Greek Restaurant is not too bad, but the Deli-Shuss and the House of Kim handle their rubbish badly. Yangtze River Restaurant has put in some good things to control the disposal of garbage but we have already started receiving complaints from the tenants and neighbors. Actually, Mr. Smith said, Mr. Giroux has created his own problem. He rented these stores with the promise that there would be no restaurants now he has four in the block. Dr. Cosgrove said the neighbors did appear against this restaurant at the Board of Appeals Hearing but the permit was granted. Mr. Smith said he had contacted Mr. Giroux who said he would be res- ponsible for this rubbish so we will have to wait and see. Mr. Smith reported he had inspected Wild Acre Inn and was very dis- appointed because they had gone about twenty steps backward. Mrs. Battin, Selectwoman, had asked for a report and he hadn't had a chance to write it. When the problem regarding this place developed in the Spring they were servicing a 50-50 ratio of lodgers and patients. This inspection showed that now there is about 100% patients, and it is under new management. He went on to say that he saw in some of the rooms about a hundred bottles of pills on the bureau, the rooms were dirty, dirty laundry was piled in the roans, in fact, all the work that had been done has been undone. All this information will be passed along to the Fire Department and Building De- partment. The only hold we have over this place is the Food Service Permit. The Selectmen issue the Lodging House Permit. The kitchen was really bad and it seems too bad that in just about six months they have gone from the top of the mountain to the pit. Mr. Smith said he wanted to let the Board know that he was informing the selectmen of the conditions he found. He said he felt this manager was not as good as the other one. We will hold the food permit until im- provements have been made. Dr. Ellicott said he would like to see this place under the jurisdiction of the proper State agency. He said he did not think this arrangement was in good mental health, he worried about fire in this house and he also agreed that the Selectmen should be notified of the conditions. Mr. Smith said the State will not come out because this establishment is not registered with them. If Dr. Yudowitz did apply to the State he would have a more stringent set of regulations to follow. They do not label these people as mentally ill. Dr. Cosgrove asked the Board if it was their consensus that the Board would go along with Mr. Smith in holding the food permit and sending the unfavorable report to the Board of Selectmen. The Board agreed to go along with this action. Mr. Smith reported that the Lion's Club Carnival over the fourth of July brought the usual ills. They had the animal prizes again, but the that ran that booth stated they were for display purposes only. They do have LION'S a valid Pet Shop license so there is not much we can do at the present time. CARNIVAL Dr. Cosgrove said he had a call from a member of the Concord Dog Training Club about the animals at the catnival. He said he had the Animal Control Officer check this out. Mr. Smith said this problem was not as bad as last year but next year we would have our own regulation and no games using animals as prizes will be allowed. Mr. Smith reported that Burroughs has submitted the sewer plans to the BURROUGHS engineering department. These are satisfactory but now they will have to CORP. have approval of the Conservation Committee for permission to go on Town land. The pipe will be about 17 feet below ground. Mr. Smith reported that Kreb's School had been in and asked permission to build their stable back on the original site that the Board first approved. KREB'S It appears that they found they could not get power or water to the newer SCHOOL STABLE location. The Board agreed this would be all right if Mr. Smith agreed. Mr. Smith said he wanted to alert the Board that there are many ice cream trucks in Town but the Board of Selectmen have a policy which does not ICE CREAM allow ice cream trucks in Lexington. Mr. Smith said if these trucks were TRUCKS permitted in Town, at least the Health Department could license them and in- spect them. At the present time the Police are responsible for enforcing this policy. The Board discussed the letter from the M.D.C. regarding the sewage being dumped into the M.D.C. line at the Bow Street dumping station. M.D.C. SEWER LINE Mr. Smith explained that the M.D.C. has been spot checking the sewage dumping trucks using the Bow Street dumping station and found some of these trucks dumping large amounts of sewerage which would indicate that trucks servicing areas outside of Lexington were dumping into the Lexington line. He went on to say we have sent a letter to all sewage dumping concerns which are licensed by us to pick-up and transport sewage stating they must use this station for Lexington customers only. He went on to say that the only way he knows of to control this would be to use a man hole at the Public Works Department or at the Sanitary Landfill and charge a fee for every load dumped. Dr. Cosgrove suggested we go to Mr. O'Connell and discuss this with him. Mr. Lambie asked if the line through the town was an M.D.C. line or a Town line that connected to M.D.C. lines. Mr. Smith said he did not know but Public Works assigned the sewer dump- ing sites and therefore he felt it was their responsibility. After further discussion the Board felt that as long as the assigning of sites was the responsibility of Public Works we had done all we could in send- ing letters to people licensed by us. The Board agreed that an order should be placed for the Flu Vaccine for FLU VACCINE the Swine Flu Clinic. The request for a permit to keep one pony and a syringe permit by William MASON Mason, 904 Massachusetts Avenue was discussed by the Board. ANIMAL PERMIT b Mr. Smith explained that Mr. Mason did have a permit to keep a pony on property at 904 Massachusetts Avenue and an inspection showed that the facilities were not suitable for the horse that was on the prop- erty. The last inspection showed that there were no animals on the prop- erty. Mr. Mason lives in Tauton where he operates a riding stable and sup- posedly this pony is for his daughter who lives in the house at 904 Mass Avenue. The syringe permit is so that if Mr. Mason has to give the horse medication he may carry the syringe from Taunton to Lexington. Mr. Smith said he would suggest that the Board table this request un- til further investigation could be made because there had been complaints frau the neighbors about the pony that had been there prior to this. The Board agreed that this would be tabled for the time being. Mr. Smith reported that he had inspected the Minute Man Restaurant and found most all the cleaning had been done. The subdivision owned by Mr.Theodore Freeman entitled Bi -Centennial Farms was caning along well. The standing water had dried up and the debris was out of there now. Mr. Smith reported that the Drummer Boy Subdivision had built a swimming pool which we had just found out about. The following permits were signed by the Board: FOOD PERMITS: Hancock Market Alexander's. Pizza Shop Peking Garden Varian Vacuum Inc. Cafeteria Yangtze River Restaurant Grace Chapel Kitchen Lexington Golf Club Chadwick's Ice Cream Parlour Royal Pastry Shop Wild Acre Inn POOL PERMITS: Minute Man Regional School Lexington Christian Academy RECREATION CAMP: Meadow Breeze Day Camp ANIMAL PERMITS: Paul B. Lloyd Edward Sahatjian Robert Cataldo FROZEN DESSERTS: Deli-Shuss Grove St. Burlington St. Emerson Rd. 6 No. Hancock St. 180 Bedford St. 27 Waltham St. 121 Hartwell Ave. Depot Squaxg: Worthen Road 55 Hill Street 903 Waltham Street 317 Marrett Rd. 50 Percy Rd. 758 Marrett Road 48 Bartlett Ave. 48 Bartlett Ave. 3 horses, 10 chickens 1 pony 6 Hereford cattle 1841 Mass Avenue 1 1 MINUTE MAN RESTAURANT DRUMMER BOY SUBDIVISION