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Health Department
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Welcome to your Public Health
Department
MISSION STATEMENT
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Our mission is to protect and
improve the health of all Waltham residents. This
means providing you and your family with protection from the basic threats to
public health such as communicable disease outbreaks, food
borne illnesses, safe and sanitary housing and environmental threats.
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Here, you will find information and links for many health concerns.
Included are current health
advisories.
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Your Public Health department is
committed to be a helping resource to every individual in the
City. We welcome your suggestions, comments, and questions for our
website.
Sincerely,
Walter
Sweder
Public
Health Director
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The
Board of Health Meets once monthly. Meetings are held in
the Public Meeting Room at the Waltham Government Center
at 119 School Street. Meetings are open to the public. |
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Address
City of Waltham Health Department
119 School Street
Waltham, MA 02451
Hours
Monday thru
Friday 8:30
am to 4:30
pm
Email
Phone Number
Main Number: (781)314-3305
Health Promotion programs: (781)314-3305 Office
of Weights and Measures
Kathleen
Cox
Phone
Number
781-314-3865
Email
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Licenses and Inspections
The Health Department licenses and inspects the following food
establishments:
- All restaurants: every 3 months, or upon a complaint
- Mobile food operations
- Bakeries
- Temporary food set-ups
- Food stores
The following require licenses and are subject to inspection:
- Caterers' permits
- Day Camps
- Food Service permits
- Funeral Directors
- Mobile Food permits
- Retail Food permits
- Sandblasting permits
- Septic System permits
- Swimming Pool permits
- Tanning Facilities
- Tobacco permit
- Transportation of Garbage
- Massachusetts Rental Voucher Program (MRVP)
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Housing Services
CODE ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM AND RENTAL UNIT INSPECTIONS
A. PURPOSE:
To protect the health, safety and well-being of the occupants
of housing and of the general public.
B. SCOPE:
Massachusetts State Law states that "no person shall occupy"
as owner-occupant or let to another for occupancy any dwelling,
dwelling unit, mobile dwelling unit or rooming unit for the purpose
of living, sleeping, cooking or eating therein, which does not
comply with the requirements of the State Sanitary Code.
C. AUTHORITY:
105 C.M.R. 410:000 State Sanitary Code Chapter II: is adopted
under authority of M.G.L. c.111, s.s. 3, and 127A.
D. DUTY:
Code Inspectors duty to detect and site violations and deficiencies
noted in areas below, in accordance with the above mentioned code.
D (1)
- Kitchen and bath facilities.
- Hot water and potable water.
- Heating, plumbing and electrical systems.
- Heating and hot water temperatures.
- Temporary wiring. ventilation and sewerage disposal.
- Metering of electricity and gas.
- Smoke detectors, locks, asbestos.
- Temporary housing and space use.
- Exits and auxiliary emergency lighting systems.
- Insect and rodent control (garbage and rubbish, storage and
disposal)
- Curtailment of services, facility, equipment or utilities.
D (2). Structural Elements
- Foundations Ceilings
- Floors Roofs
- Walls Staircases
- Doors Porches
- Windows Chimneys
- Other Structural Elements
- The Code Enforcement Inspector shall determine if any other
conditions present are violations of
- said code or are conditions which may endanger or materially
impair the health or safety, and
- well-being of an occupant or the public.
- Inspections are performed either as part of the routine on
going program or as the result of
- occupant complaint.
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Communicable Disease Control
- Investigates and follows-up Waltham residents who have contracted
a communicable disease.
- Submits data to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
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Tobacco Control
- Provides tobacco related and cessation education
- Enforces local regulations
- Provides compliance checks regarding underage sales
SmokeFree
Communities Project
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Administratives
- Issues burial permits
- Distributes biologics (vaccines) to local providers
- Receives public complaints regarding a vast array of public
health concerns
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