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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1982-11-08 354 BOARD OF HEALTH MEETING NOVEMBER 8, 1982 The regular meeting of the Board of Health was held Monday, November 8, 1982 at 7 15 p m in Room 0-1 (Recreation Office) of the Town Office Building Members present were Mr James W Lambie, Chairman; Dr Michael S Erdos, Linda Roemer, Ph D and George A Smith, Director of Public Health Minutes of the last meeting were accepted as read MASSAGE Mr Smith discussed the massage parlour application He said he is waiting PARLOUR for the lady, Janet DePhoure, to bring in added information about her back- ground He is also waiting to hear from Chiropractors that know Mrs DePhoure He told the Board that our regulations call for a physical therapist to be on the premises at massage parlours Philip, the owner, would have to request that the Board "waiver" this regulation if he did not plan to have a physical therapist The Board cannot remove this regulation without his request Mr Smith told the Board that Philip seems to be going out of his way to do anything we have requested HEALTH Mr Smith told the Board that he had invited our new Health Intern, Ellen INTERN Ripton to come in this evening to meet the Board Members Ms Ripton did not attend Mr Smith told the Board that we had a very successful Flu Clinic We used all of our 610 doses that we were allotted by the State Mr Smith had to FLU CLINIC go to Theatre Pharmacy and purchase 60 more doses that afternoon in case we needed more We plan to use it at make-up clinics at the blood pressure clinics at the elderly villages Next year wewill have to extend the clinic another hour and find ways to keep the clinic moving faster NON-SMOKING Dr Erdos told the Board that a group of people had approached him about SECTION IN having the larger restaurants in Town set aside a section for non-smokers RESTAURANTS Dr Erdos said that he approved of this suggestion as did the other members and the Health Director They discussed whether to make it a Board of Health Regulation or whether the group should include it as a warrant for Town Meeting After some discussion, the Board decided the first step should be to have the Health Director write a letter to all restaurant owners telling them of the group's request and asking for their views and ideas about this and ask if they would do this voluntarily GOALS OF THE The Board discussed the topic of the "goals of the Board of Health" for the BOARD OF coming year They decided to pick one or two goals to work on specifically HEALTH Different goals are 1) RDNA Regulations (underway) , 2) mosquito control, 3) report forms for reporting communicable disease and 4) school nurses (underway by T.M's Office) , 5) Visiting Nurses Program for Town Employees in regard to sessions for alcohol prevention, smoking and dieting The one item chosen to concentrate on at this time is the mosquito control In view of the current equine encephalitis cases in nearby towns the Board felt this to be a very important subject 355 Mr Smith said that we should invite the new Director of the East Middlesex Mosquito Control into the next meeting (in December) The Board discussed the regulations for DNA Research again After some discussion, they decided to have the Director send a memo to the Town Manager and the Board of Selectmen notifying them of their decision to draw up regula- tions and ask the Town Manager and the Board of Selectmen for their comments Mr Smith told the Board that the Town Manager is tenatively thinking about giving him a full-time assistant health officer Mr Lambie said when Mr Smith writes a "full time" job description for this position, the Board would like to go over it with him before submitting it to the Personnel Department This was agreed upon The following permits were signed by the Board Food Service Establishment Permits The Candy Castle 7A Meriam St , Lexington Pewter Pot Stores, Inc 1710 Mass Ave , Lexington Gloria Food Stores 137 Mass Ave , Lexington Methyl Alcohol Permits Midnight Motors 433 Marrett Rd , Lexington Hamel Service Station 329 Mass Ave , Lexington Waltham Street Mobil 396 Waltham St , Lexington Next meeting is December 13, 1982