[Two copies of a Letter from I. H. Kempner to Galveston Chamber of Commerce, December 9, 1963] Page: 5 of 8
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IKEMPNER
Galveston Chamber of Commerce
315 Tremont
Galveston, Texas
Gentlemen:
In response to your request for a written summary of
activities for publication in your annual report, I be to ad-
vise that the outstanding local feature of our Chamber s sup-
part of the Utiiversity of Texas Medical Branch was the salute
to the University in mid-October 193'. The participation of
merchants and individual members in our Chamber of Coierce
was gratifying; as was the compliment reflected by attendance
from the staff, the faculty of the medicall ranch, its students
and employees.
The Chamber's Medical Center Committee has sought
continually better support of the Medical School by both our
city and county governments. About six years ago, at the in-
stance of your cumittee, a tax was voted and levied on all
property in the city limits of Galveston to recompense the
Medical School in part for the cost of hospitalization and
treatment of oar city indigent. This attained a tax of 10%
on $100.00 valuation on taxable property in the city limits.
Its yield, about $200,00o.o-, however, does not cover the
full cost of the treatment and its net value has lately been
reduced by the city increasing by about SJ3,1 X) tti anaal
water rate to the Medical Branch.
Your com:ittee has been entirely unsuccessful in
obtaining frog the county the medical College's cost of caring
for indigent patients resident in Galveston County beyond the
city limits. Tax payers in the city pay, as residents of the
county, the tax levied to support bonds issued for building
of the county hospital at Dickinson and for increasing its
facilities, but county authorities avoid the expense of treat-
ing county indigo ents and deflect them to the Medical school,
paying, I am told, one-tenth or less of the entailed actual
cost of patient care or cure. Ad iitedly, the Medical 'enter-- *'--~ 3 -- 3 -- 3
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Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967. [Two copies of a Letter from I. H. Kempner to Galveston Chamber of Commerce, December 9, 1963], letter, December 9, 1963; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1504426/m1/5/?rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rosenberg Library.