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Departments: Board of Health
2010 Town Report The Board consists of three elected members from the community. The term of office is for three years. The Board oversees a staff of 4 full time employees (Bruce T. Capman, R.S., Executive Health Officer, Kathleen Crowley, R.N., Public Health Nurse, Carol Ford, Administrative Secretary, and Susan Rowe Health Agent) and two part time employees (Ann Marie Papasodero, Health Clerk and William Peterson, Food Inspector). The Board of Health's jurisdiction and responsibilities includes such activities as adult immunization and blood pressure programs, domestic abuse, crisis intervention, Food Establishment licensing and inspections, surface water quality enforcement, tobacco control program, rabies control, West Nile Virus surveillance, local emergency planning, Right-to-Know enforcement, septic system approval and inspection, emergency planning and response, Body Art licensing, recombinant DNA licensing, communicable disease surveillance and response, recreational camp for children licensing, regulating the keeping of animals and fowl, tanning salon licensing, building permit review, subdivision review, private well permitting, housing code compliance and much more. In addition to our current mandated responsibilities the State Department of Environmental Protection has announced that local Boards of Health will assume the responsibility to permit and inspect landfills, transfer stations and recycling centers which had previously been the responsibility of the D.E.P. within the next two years. During the next two years, D.E.P. will offer solid waste trainings to Boards of Health to help with the transfer of responsibility. The Health Department Staff spent time this year developing emergency response plans for Homeland Security. During this year the Hingham Board of Health along with the Scituate, Cohasset, Hull, Norwell and Hanover Boards of Health conducted a regional flu immunization clinic at the Hanover Mall. The purpose of this drill was to train and test a regional emergency dispensing site. The Board assisted the Hingham Sewer Commission, this year, through the adoption of Fat, Oils and Grease (F.O.G.) regulations which establishes wastewater discharge and recovery requirements for commercial businesses that generate fats, oils or grease and discharge into the municipal sewer system. Permits issued in 2010 by the Board of Health are as follows: Farmers Market 25 Residential F.S. 4
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