- 1. Any person who shall be a resident of any county which has erected and is maintaining a hospital under the provisions of sections 205.380 to 205.450, shall be eligible as a patient or inmate of said hospital, providing that said person shall have been declared tuberculous and in a relatively advanced state of tuberculosis, by the county health officer or by a physician licensed by this state, resident within the county.
- 2. Said board of commissioners shall have the power to determine whether or not the person applying or being presented at such hospital for treatment as a patient is a subject of charity, and it shall fix such a price or compensation for the keeping and all services to be rendered to patients other than those declared subjects of charity by said board, the receipts therefrom to be paid monthly to the treasurer of the board upon accounts rendered and credited to the hospital fund, and shall be available for use in the maintenance and repair of such hospital.
- 3. The board may also admit tuberculous persons residing outside of the county anywhere within the state on the payment of a monthly compensation to be fixed by said board, and all moneys so obtained shall be applied as in the case of other pay patients.
(RSMo 1939 § 15177)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13961; 1919 § 12596