The Chemical Exposure Office at the Broome County Health Department offers information and investigation on environmental exposure to toxic and hazardous chemicals.

All children should have a blood lead test done at ages one and two. Lewis County Public Health offers a simple finger prick test at our office; all testing is free.

The agency also provides information on rabies and other mosquito-borne diseases like EEE, West Nile and Zika viruses, as well as prevention from tick bites and other diseases. If you find a wild animal and feel it should be tested for rabies, call Lewis County Public Health.

Through the Broome County Health Department, this clinic provides routine childhood and adult immunizations such as: polio, hepatitis B, diptheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis, DTAP, and measles-mumps and rubella. Offers immunizations for overseas travel.

The NYS Department of Labor operates the Division of Safety and Health, (DOSH), which is responsible for enforcement of NYS Labor Law and Code Rules & Regulations. These cover public safety and health in the private employment sector and occupational safety and health in the public employment sector.

The Broome County Health Department offers Communicable Disease Control, which provides follow-up on certain communicable diseases. Information on communicable diseases and their prevention.

•1-800-458-1158

•Covering the Following Programs:

◦Asbestos and Lead Removal

◦Community Health Studies

◦Community Sanitation Issues

◦Fish Advisories

◦Food Protection, Recalls and Illnesses

◦Hazardous Waste Sites

◦Health Effects of Pesticides, Insect Repellents, and Chemicals

◦Indoor Air Quality

◦Oil or Chemical Spills

◦Public Water Supplies

◦Radon, Radiation, Radioactive Materials

◦Regulated Facilities Such as Motels, Restaurants, Children's Camps and Public Beaches

◦Smoking and Tobacco Regulations

◦Worker Safety Issues

Exterminates bed bugs.

Public Water Supply: inspections and surveys are performed at public water supplies.

Permitted Facility Inspections: Operation and maintenance of facilities serving the public will minimize disease outbreaks and health risks. In the Food Protection Program, restaurant inspections are regulated and standardized. Temporary Residence Program inspections include hotels, motels, campgrounds, and children's camps. Public Bathing Facility inspections are performed any place where residents are swimming, with the exception of swimming areas at Allegany State Park. Tattoo/Body Piercing program inspections are performed to prevent infections and transmission of blood-borne pathogens.

Contaminant Control: includes Childhood Lead Poisoning Control if a referral from Nursing Division states child has elevated lead in bloodwork, Clean Indoor Air Act

(CIAA), Adolescent Tobacco Use Prevention Act (ATUPA), and Hazardous Chemical/Radiological Waste Site Remediation.

Vector Control: Rabies Vaccination Clinics offered every January, May and September; Mosquito Surveillance and Control begins in May, ends in August; Lyme Disease/Deer Tick Education programs are ongoing.

Contaminant Control: includes Childhood Lead Poisoning Control if a referral from Nursing Division states child has elevated lead in bloodwork, Clean Indoor Air Act (CIAA), Adolescent Tobacco Use Prevention Act (ATUPA), and Hazardous Chemical/Radiological Waste Site Remediation.

Vector Control: Rabies Vaccination Clinics offered every January, May and September; Mosquito Surveillance and Control begins in May, ends in August; Lyme Disease/Deer Tick Education programs are ongoing.

restaurants includes temporary food events and mobile units, mobile home parks, public health complaints, private water concerns and sampling, required inspections of water supplies and sewage systems for property transfers, rabies – bat in sleeping areas, animal bites, bites/exposure of people and pets by wild animals, sewage problems – both self and neighbors

Exterminates bed bugs.

Public Health strives to teach the public the importance of proper handwashing, preventing communicable diseases as well as the prevention and treatment of bed bugs, head lice, scabies and ticks.

Delaware County Public Health also offers several rabies clinics around the County starting in the spring.