Pennsylvania Act 1911-233 — INDIGENT PATIENTS IN COUNTY HOSPITALS

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INDIGENT PATIENTS IN COUNTY HOSPITALS
                  Act of Jun. 1, 1911, P.L. 623, No. 233              Cl. 16
                                  AN ACT

     Conferring authority upon the commissioners of the counties,
        respectively, within this Commonwealth, to appropriate money
        for the maintenance of such indigent residents of the county
        as may be patients in the sanatorium of any society, in the
        county, which may have been duly incorporated for the
        treatment of residents of such county suffering from
        tuberculosis.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That whenever there shall
     have been established in any county of this Commonwealth a duly
     incorporated society, chartered to maintain a sanatorium for the
     treatment therein of persons suffering from tuberculosis, it
     shall be lawful for the commissioners of such county, and they
     are hereby authorized and empowered, to appropriate out of the
     funds of such county, to such society, so much money as may be
     necessary for the maintenance of indigent persons, residents of
     the county, who may be inmates of such sanatorium and under
     treatment for tuberculosis.
        Section 2.  That such appropriation shall not exceed for each
     of such indigent inmates the sum of ten dollars per week,
     payable every three months, at the end of the period.
        Section 3.  That the commissioners of each county at all
     times shall have free access to such sanatoria, for inspection
     of its management and for the ascertainment of the number of
     indigent persons receiving treatment therein.