13/12/2023
This is a great piece written by Joe Durwin but there is more to this story and how the oldest health district in MA came to be. The Tri-Town Health Department. A three-town joint venture created a 'shared milk inspector' and we never looked back.
In total, 48 deaths were counted in Lee (not including a few outlying cases among out-of-town visitors). The septic sore throat outbreak had claimed about 1.2 percent of its population.