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BOARD OF HEALTH MEETING
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OCTOBER 17, 1983
' The regular meeting of the Board of Health was held Monday, October 17, 1983
at 7 30 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 , George A Smith, Jr , Health Director and Deborah Halko,
Sanitarian/Intern
SANITARIAN Mrs Deborah Halko, Sanitarian/Intern reported to the Board that she and Mr
REPORT Smith had inspected a few hourses for asbestos They did find asbestos in
most instances and Mr Smith advised the residents what they should do
Mr Smith and Debbie went to Hanscom Air Force Base to discuss mosquito control
The Air Base was interested in what Lexington was doing and they plan to do co-
operative work with Lexington on mosquito control
Debbie told the Board she is checking out the restaurants for the "No Smoking"
sections Most restaurants have complied There are a couple that do not have
designated areas, as yet
Debbie has completed testing the outdoor swimming pools for the summer season
Mr Smith is going to start Debbie now in inspecting hotels
MOSQUITO Mr Smith asked the Board if the draft of the mosquito control report was o.k ?
CONTROL The Board agreed it was all right to type and send to the Town Manager and the
Board of Selectmen This concludes mosquito control for this year
Mr Lambie asked if we have data on a monthly basis and what we sprayed
Mr Smith said, "Yes", we did have some data on a monthly basis and he will get
it all together Mr Smith said the E.M.M C P will get back $8,000 00 from
the State and $500 00 will be applied to the Lexington account
Mr Lambie asked if we should do anything different next year
ANNUAL FLU Mr Smith Said"No, but he would spray in the Spring" He said the first case
VACCINE of EEE could come as early as July
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Mr Smith said he'd like the mosquito spraying trucks to be better marked next
year and would like flashing lights on them so that people would be able to
identify them when they are on the streets
Mr Smith reported that we did around 688 people at the flu clinic including
a few at the Greeley Blood Pressure Clinic We had ordered separate vaccine
for the nursing homes
WINNING Mr Smith told the Board that a Mrs Pesce had been into the office about
FARM dumping on the Winning Farm Land Mr Smith does not see any threat there at
this time Mrs Pesce wants to sell the land to Conservation and wants to make
sure she can get a fair price
The Board of Selectmen are going to discuss this at their meeting and Mr Lambie
said that he would attend this meeting to listen to the discussion
The League of Women Voters President came into the office and told the Director
that she was upset because the Lexington paper did not print the article relating
to the Hazardous Waste Day coming up She is sending some literature home with
the school children so that residents will be aware of this Hazardous Waste Day
The Director said he also was going to check to see if the League had put it
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COURT Mr Smith had filed a complaint in Concord District Court against a resident
COMPLAINT at 376 Lincoln Street He had ordered this resident to connect to the Town
sewer because of a malfunctioning system
Mr Smith said the day after the court complaint was filed the resident finally
tied into town sewer, so this problem resolved itself
The Director told the Board that we have had an emergency medical telephone
number at an answering service for many years He feels it is now time to cancel
this service out The Lexington doctors have basically formed an "associate
group" and have a Lexington Emergency Access Phone number
This has been given to the police and fire departments and mailed to Lexington
residents It is therefore unnecessary to keep the "emergency" number at the
answering service
At 8 30 p m. the Board of Health went to G-25 and met with the Planning Board
in reference to the RDNA The two boards discussed their views on how to handle
this problem It must be decided whether to allow this research in Town and, if
so, what ordinances should be adopted
It was decided that other departments should get together with these two depart-
ments, including zoning, Board of Appeals, Selectmen, Town Manager to discuss
this very important topic before the Collaborative Research should be allowed
to develop this research, if it will be allowed in Town It was also decided
it would possibly to to Town Meeting or have a Public Hearing
The next meeting will be on November 14, 1983
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