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AN ORDINANUE PROVIDING FOR THE ERECTION OF A.COLORED
ISOLATION UNIT FOR RIW RSIDE HOSPITAL.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COMMIPSIONFRS Or THE
CITY OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY;
SECTION 1.
There is hereby created and established a unit of Riverside
Hospital to be known as the Colored Isolation Unit of Riverside
Hospital. The Commissioner of Public Property is hereby authorized
and empowered to immediately advertise for bids for the
construction of said Colored Isolation Unit of Riverside Hospital
according to plans and specifications now on file in the office
of the Commissioner of Public Property, which plans and specificatio
are hereby adopted and approved.
SECTION 2.
On account of the fact that there is now no provision for
the care of contagious and infectious diseases among the colored
people in the City of Paducah, and the public health and safety
requiring that immediate action be taken for the care and treatment
,of such diseases, an emergency is hereby declared to exist and
this ordinance shall take effect and be in force upon its
adoption.
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Signed
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Passed by the Board of Commissioners April 1, 1.930
Recorded by hunt Crossland, Clerk, April 2, 1930
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