The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-10-08
BONDS FOR new
CITY HOSPITAL
PROPOSITION TO BOND WILL BE
SUBMITTED TO VOTERS AT sPE-
GAL ELECTION NEXT TUES
DAY--MAYoR AND HEALTH or
FIcER URGES ITS NECESSITY.

One of the propositions to come be.
fore the voters at the special election
next Tuesday will be the matter OF
authorizing bond issue of $1,000 with
winch to complete the detention hospi-
| tai. In this connection the following
communications have been sent in:
From City Health Officer.
To the Voters of Fargo: The ques-
ton of issuing bonds for the compile
ton of the detention hospital will be
submitted to you on Oct IL. thought
1t advisable to call your attention to
| the great necessity for completing and
maintaining the hospital. Our city has
increased in population to such an ex-
tent that it is absolutely necessary that
we provide suitable place to care for
people who are suffering from any con-
taglous disease and have no home
where they may be cared for. AS near
as / can estimate there are about 5000
students with us from out of the city
who would come under this class. In
the past we have had no suitable place
to care for them. The hospital which
Is already under construction is mod
about fifty patients, and if the voters
decide to issue the bonds the hospital
will be ready to receive patients about
Nov. l Of this year. The construction
so far has been carried ON with funds
from the city board of health which at
present are exhausted, and TO complete
and equip the structure it will be
necessary that the bond issue be
passed. If the hospital is completed
it will be easier in the future to prevent
the spread Of contagious and infectious
diseases.
Hoping that you will fully appreciate
the needs of such am institution, /
remain, Yours respectfully,
G. A. Carpenter.
City Health officer.
From the Mayor.
The health department of this city
decided last spring that detention or
quarantine hospital was a matter of |
prime necessity After an advertise |
ment for bids a contract was entered !
into with the lowest bidder for the |
of such hospital for about |
SIS, 900. Fixtures, heating and plumb |
ing will cost between $4,000 and ST. |
900 more, as estimated by the city |
engineer. The total cost will be $751;
600 or $4,000 complete.
Pursuant to his contract the con-
tractor has about completed the con-
struction of the hospital building.
There remains the practical business
how shall it be paid for?
The health department co-operat-
ing with the city council has already
paid for the site and arranged for all
but $4,000 of the total cost.
Two ways are open to the city coun-
I'll to pay this balance of $4,000. First,
The council can include this balance
in its tax levy and thus raise the
amount at once by general taxation.
Second, bonds can be voted at the ap-
special election, the pay
nent of which will extend over a
period of years.
The hospital is a permanent i'm
1t is built principally of
Prick and steel and is practically fire
proof. 1t will be of great benefit at
he present time. But with the in
:rease of population and the resulting
Increase of pestilentiaI and contagious
diseases the necessity for and benefit
SSAAIAAAS AAOAA IAAS lI0SpIldl Will ne lar |
greater fifteen years from now than ;
is today. Should the city council
'e compelled to include the total
mount Of $4,000 in a tax levy at
his time, the rate of the tax levy
would be greatly increased and an
Unjust and heavy burden of taxation
imposed upon present property own
RS and taxpayers.
1t therefore seemed wise to the
ouncil to issue bonds for $4,000 and
equire those who in future years will
ave the benefit of the institution to
hare the burden Of paying for it, I
Whether such bonds shall be issued
5 one of the questions to be voted on G
t the special election next Tuesday. {
Dated Oct. 8, 1910. q
V. r. Lowell, y
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