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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
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