-Report- Board of Tuberculosis Hospitals (1915)

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REPORT OF THE BOARD OF TUBERCULOSIS HOSPITAL � 1906 � 1915

Louisville and Jefferson County, Kentucky

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ACT CREATING THE BOARD OF TUBERCULOSIS HOSPITAL

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As Amended at the 1912 Session of the Legislature.

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE IN COUNTIES WHICH CONTAIN

�� A CITY OF THE FIRST CLASS OF A HOSPITAL FOR THE TREATMENT OF PERSONS AFFLICTED

�� WITH TUBERCULOSIS.

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�� BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

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�� No. 1. That in counties in this Commonwealth which contain a city of the first

class, there shall be created a board to be composed of ten persons, which shall

be a body politic and corporate, and shall be known as the �Board of Tuberculosis

Hospital,� and in which name it may sue and be sued.

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�� No. 2. The members of said board shall be appointed by the Mayor of the city

and shall serve without compensation, and the Mayor shall be ex-officio a member

of said board, and said members shall be appointed for a term of four years.

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�� No. 3. Said board shall have the power to organize and elect officers, rent

or purchase, or to erect and conduct and maintain a suitable hospital and

ground for the treatment of persons afflicted with tuberculosis, and to make all

needful rules and regulations with reference to the admission and discharge of

patients and the conduct of the affairs of the hospital, which, in their judg-

ment, seem proper, provided such regulations be not in conflict with the law.

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�� No. 4. The Mayor of the city shall have the power to fill any vacancies which

May occur in the membership of said board through death, resignation, or other-

Wise, by appointing some other person to fill out the unexpired term of such

Person as may have retired from the board during the term for which he was appointed.

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�� No. 5. For the purpose of meeting the expenses necessary to carry out the

purpose of this act, the Fiscal Court of the county and the Municipal Board of

the city in which such board shall exist are authorized, empowered and directed

each to levy a tax not to exceed five cents and not less than one-half a cent on

the one hundred dollars of taxables in their respective cities and counties, and

the sums derived from such taxation are to be paid over to the said board for the

purposes herein set forth.

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�� No. 6. Said Board of Tuberculosis Hospital shall be authorized to provide for

the instruction and training of nurses and to issue diplomas to such pupils of

good moral character as have attended its course of instruction and been engaged

as nurses in the hospital or under it�s charge for a period or periods aggregating

not less than twenty-four months, and who have also passed with credit an examina-

tion proving their competency as such trained nurses to the satisfaction of said

board.