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HOSPITALIZATION OF INDIGENT PERSONS:

Mr. Perkins presented the following matter to the Board, the resolution being adopted:

Mr. Perkins stated to the Board that in view of the provisions of Paragraphs 2, 6, and 7 of
Chapter 197 of the Acts of Assembly of 1946, approved March 23, 1946, as amended by Acts of Extra Session
of 1947, page 72, relating to the hospitalization, care, and treatment of indigent persons and the
use and allocation of funds provided for such purpose, it is probably necessary for the existing contract
between the University of Virginia Hospital and the City of Charlottesville and County of
Albemarle, which is dated July 1, 1940, be materially amended or possibly be terminated in accordance
with the provisions contained therein that said contract may be terminated by any one of the
contracting parties giving the other two parties notice of such termination in writing ninety days
prior to the first day of July of any year.

The whole question of the University's responsibility under this contract and of the advantages
that may accrue to it by termination thereof and substitution therefor of a uniform contract
in the form promulgated by the State Health Board is one which requires careful and expert study and
consideration. It is therefore suggested that this Board appoint a Committee composed of Dr. H. E.
Jordan, Dean of the Medical School, Dr. C. S. Lentz, Superintendent of University Hospital, and
W. Allan Perkins, Attorney for the University, to make such study and if necessary to confer with
similar committees from the Board of Supervisors of Albemarle County and Council of the City of
Charlottesville and report back to this Board, making such recommendations as this Committee may
deem wise.

It was, thereupon,

RESOLVED that a Committee composed of Dr. H. E. Jordan, Dr. C. S. Lentz, and W. Allan
Perkins be and is hereby appointed for the purposes set out in the preamble to this resolution.