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81 <br />LANTANA TUBERCULOSIS._SANITORIUM RESOLUTION <br />Commissioner Stewart introduced the following Resolution and moved its adoption <br />as follows, toliwit: <br />WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of Indian River County, Florida, is the <br />governmental body of Indian River County, Florida, charged with responsibility of processing <br />and part -payment for the care of those afflicted with tuberculosis in this county; and, <br />WHEREAS, Indian River County, together with Martin County, Okeechobee County and <br />St. Lucie County, have formed a health unit under the State Board of Health of the State of <br />Florida under the supervision and direction of one director for all four of said counties <br />in said health unit; and, <br />WHEREAS, this board has been advised that there will be opened and established in <br />the immediate future a hospital for the treatment of tuberculosis at Lantana, Florida, said <br />hospital to be under the supervision and direction of the Florida State Tuberculosis Board; <br />and, <br />WHEREAS, this board has been advised that said State Tuberculosis Board has estab- <br />lished Martin County and Okeechobee County in the area from which the new Tuberculosis Sani- <br />torium at Lantana will receive patients and said board has established St. Lucie County and <br />Indian River County in the area from which tuberculosis sanitorium at Orlando will receive <br />patients; and, <br />WHEREAS, it would be to the best interests of Indian River County, Florida, that <br />the tubercular patients to be transmitted for state treatment from this county be received <br />and treated at the State Sanitorium at Lantana in order that the District Health Unit mention- <br />ed above could send all of the patients from all of the counties In said District Health <br />Unit to one and the same sanitorium; now, therefore, <br />BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of County Commissioners of Indian River County, <br />Florida, that for the reasons hereinbefore set forth, this board does herewith request the <br />lorida State Tuberculosis Board to establish and include St. Lucie County and Indian River <br />County within the area from which State Tuberculosis Sanitorium at Lantana will receive <br />patients. <br />BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a certifiedcopy of this Resolution be forwarded to the <br />Florida State Tuberculosis Board, to theSSuperintendent of the Tuberculosis Sanatorium at <br />Lantana, to the State Board of Health, to the Honorable Alex MacWilliam, representative <br />from Indian River County, Florida, and to the Honorable Evans Crary, Senator from this <br />Senatorial District. <br />The foregoing Resolution was duly seconded by Commissioner Waddell and unanimously <br />adopted. <br />At the request of Douglas Baker, Clerk, the Board authorized the purchase of a <br />typewriter for the Clerk's office. Said authorization was made upon motion of Commissioner <br />Stewart, seconded by Commissioner Waddell and carried. <br />Upon motion of Commissioner Stewart, seconded by Commissioner Waddell and carried, <br />Douglas Baker, Clerk, was instructed to write a letter to the Florida Railroad Public <br />Utilities Commission, Tallahassee, Florida, requesting an investigation of the telephone <br />service in Indian River Copnty and particularly of the failure of Southern Bell Telephone <br />and Telegraph Company to extend and make available additional services in areas not now <br />adequately served. <br />Notary Public Bond for Katherine B. Yynn in the sum of $500.00 with Hartford <br />Circuit Court <br />Accident and Indemnity Company as surety was approved June 9 by Douglas. Baker, Clerk/ <br />