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i I` R E S O L I7 T I O N WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of Indian River County, Florida, is the governmental body of Indian R.'.ver County, Florida, ohareed with responsibility of processing, and part -payment for the care of those afflicted with tuberculosis in this county; and, WHEREAS, Indian River County, together with Martin County, Okeechobee County and St. Lucie County, have formed a health unit under the State Board of health of the State of Florida under the supervision and direction of one director for all four of said counties In said health unit; and, WHEREAS, this board has been advised that there will be opened and established in the immediate future a hospital for the treatment of tuberculosis at Lantana, Florida, said hospital to be under the supervision and direction of the Florida State Tuberculosis Board; and, WHEREAS, this board has been advIned that said State Tuberculosis Board has established Martin County and Okeechobee County in the area from which the now Tuberculosis Sanitorium at Lantana will receive patients and said board has established St. Lucia County and Indira River County In the area fro)a which tuberculosis sanitoriitm at Orlando will receive patients; and, WHEREAS, it would be to the best interests of Indian River County, Florida, that the tubercular patients to be transmitted for state troatment from this county be received and treated at the State Sanitortum at Lantana in order that: the District Health Unit mentioned above could send all of the patients from all of the counties in said District Health Unit to one and the same sanitorium; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of County Commissioners of Indian River County, Florida, that for the reasons hereinbefore set forth, this board does herewith regyst the Florida Stat,) `rberculoais Board to establish and include Ott. Lucie County and a N C