Health Department
Health Department
Respiratory Illness, like Flu, COVID 19 and RSV
Helpful Resources:
- Staying Home to Prevent the Spread of Respiratory Viruses
- Free at home COVID 19 test kits
- Preventing Spread of Respiratory Viruses When You’re Sick
- Protect yourself and others from getting sick
Vaccination Appointments:
*** Dalton Medical patients please call 413-684-2110
Berkshire Regional Planning Commission provides a wide range of public health services to Dalton. Public health nursing staff work with the local boards of health to provide infectious disease tracking and surveillance, wellness/vaccine clinics, and public health education within the community. If you would like more information on public health services or to arrange an educational event at your organization, please contact Sophie Carnes Jannen at scarnesjannen@berkshireplanning.org, or Leslie Drager at ldrager@berkshireplanning.org.
Berkshire Regional Planning Commission Nurse’s will be offering a Choke Saver Class on January 27th, 2025 2:00 pm at Nessacus Middle School please contact Leslie Drager at ldrager@berkshireplanning.org if you wish to attend.
ALL Board of Health permit applications, including restaurants, summer camp operators, septic designers, tobacco, body art and more, are available on-line through our permitting service, PermitEyes. Click below link to get started!–
On October 3, 2022, the Dalton Board of Health voted to adopt regulations pertaining to Restricting the Sale of Tobacco Products with an effective date of February 1, 2023. The updated regulations can be viewed by clicking the below link.
Restricting the Sale of Tobacco Products
Local boards of health in Massachusetts are empowered by state law to perform many crucial and important duties relative to the protection of the public health, control of disease, promotion of sanitary living conditions and the protection of the environment from pollution. This includes performing restaurant, public pool and housing inspections as well as reviewing plans for private wells and septic systems and investigating nuisance complaints. Enforcement of state and local regulations regarding residential camps, refuse hauling, tobacco sales and body art establishments are also required.
Board of Health Meeting Times
The Dalton Board of Health conducts their monthly meetings in-person with an option to participate via Zoom every 2nd Wednesday of the month at 4:30PM. These meetings remain open to the public and will be posted as required by law on https://www.mytowngovernment.
Beaver Conflict Resolution
Body Art Practitioners
COVID-19
Disease Updates
Food Establishments
Recreational Camps for Children
Septic System
Tobacco Sales
Treatment & Recovery Resources
Private Wells
*The Board of Health has bottles for water testing available upon request*