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REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING BOARD OF HEALTH
HELD IN OFFICE OF BOARD
JUNE 2, 1954
Present: Mayor E. L. White, Dr. J. C. Wessell, Dr. J. C. Knox and Dr. James
H. Smith.
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In the absence of the Chairman, Mayor White presided.
On motion by Dr. Wessell, seconded by Dr. Knox, the reading of the minutes of
the last meeting were dispensed with. Carried.
Dr. Wessell asked if th'e nurse paid by the Tuberculosis Association was under the
Merit System, and the Health Officer reported that she could qualify for certifi-
cation under the Merit System.
A letter of resignation from Mr. Edward S. Lamb, Asdstant Sanitarian, was read to
the Board. Dr. wessell made the motion that Mr. Lamb's resignation be accepted
with regrets. Motion seconded by Dr. Knox and carried.
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The Board instructed the Health Officer to exert every effort to find a replacement
for Mr. Lamb.
Mr. Lassiter read copy of a letter to the State Board of Health from the Kure Beach
authorities in which they were asking for help in the forcing of residents of the
Beach to connect to the city sewer where available. The Kure Beach authorities
indirectly had made the same request of this .department. Mr. Lassiter stated that
the practice of this department had been not to force connections with the city
sewer as long as the existing septic tank was properly functioning. The Board ex-
pressed the thought that the procedure we had followed in the past with regard to
sewer connections in the City of Wilmington' was the correct procedure.
The Health Officer asked that for easier bookkeeping the Malaria Control Program and
the Dyna-Fog Mosquito Fly Program be combined in one budgeted item. Motion was made
by Dr. Wessell, seconded by Dr. Knox, that the appropriating authorities be requested
to combine these two appropriations. Carried.
The Health Officer explained to the Board that the amount budgeted for State school
health dentist would be used up by the end of June 5, 1954, due to a part having been
used in the last fiscal year. Motion was made by Dr. Smith that the State dentist be
continued and paid out of the amount budgeted for 1954-1955 and that $700.00 be added
to the 1954-1955 budget. Motion seconded by Dr. Wessell and carried.
The proposed budget for 1954-1955 for the health department was presented. The item,
cost in lieu of rent for the health department building, in the amount of $2,966.36
was discussed. A letter from Dr. C~ C. Applewhite, Director Division of Local Health
Administration, State Board of Health, was read. Following the reading of Dr. Apple-
white I s letter, motion was made by Dr. Wessell, seconded by Dr. Knox, that the item,
cost in lieu of rent for the health department building, be deleted from the budget
for 1954-1955. Carried.
On motion by Dr. Wessell, seconded by Dr. Smith, the proposed budget for 1954-1955,
as amended be passed. Carried.
Mr. Edwards called to the attention of the Board that it had been necessa17 in the
case of a few dairymen to degrade them more than once,and stated that in the future
it was his intention, where a person continually violated the milk regulations to the
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point where degrading was necessary, that on the third degrading he would
revoke the pennit and it would be necessary for the dairyman to appea.r
before the local Board of Health and ask for the granting of a new pennit.
Request was made that the Health Officer report the number of eating places
graded during the previous month. The Health Officer stated that the record showed
forty-six (46) such establishments graded.
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There being no further business, the meeting adjourned.
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