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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 G-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.
Mr. Smith discussed the massage parlour application. He said he is waiting
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.
Mr. Smith told the Board that he had invited our new Health Intern, Ellen
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
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 we:will 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.
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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