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rules thereof, or who for any other reason is no longer a suitable patient for treatment therein; and shall make a full report thereof at the next meeting of the board of managers.

8. Collect and receive all money due the hospital, keep an accurate account of the same, report the same at the ensuing monthly meeting of the board of managers, and transmit the same within ten days after such meeting to the treasurer of the town, city or village by which the hospital is maintained.

9. Give a bond before entering upon the discharge of his duties, in such sum as the board of managers may determine, to secure the faithful performance of such duties. (Added by chapter 558 of the Laws of 1910.)

§ 130. Admission and maintenance of patients. Whenever a patient shall have been admitted to such hospital, the superintendent shall cause to be made such inquiry as he may deem necessary, relative to the ability of such patient, or of the relatives of such patient legally liable for his support, to pay for his care and treatment. If he find that such patient, or said relatives, are able to pay for his care and treatment in whole or in part, an order shall be made by the superintendent directing such patient, or said relatives, to pay to the treasurer of such hospital for the support of such patient a specified sum per week, in proportion to their financial ability, but such sum shall not exceed the actual cost of maintenance. The superintendent shall have the same power and authority to callect such sums from the patient, or his relatives legally liable for his support, as is possessed by an overseer of the poor in like circumstances. If the superintendent find that such patient, or said relatives, are not able to pay, either in whole or in part, for his care and treatment in such hospital, the unpaid cost of his maintenance shall become a charge upon the town, city or village by which the hospital is maintained; provided, however, that in case such patient is not a resident of said town, city or village, the cost of his maintenance shall be a charge upon the civil division of the state upon which he would be a charge as a poor person. No employce of such hospital shall accept from any patient thereof any fee, payment or gratuity whatsoever for his service. (Added by chapter 558 of the Laws of 1910.)

§ 131. Training school for nurses.-The board of managers of any hospital under this act may establish and maintain in connection therewith and as a part of the public hospital a training school for nurses. The board may, in its discretion, appoint an advisory board for such training school and define the functions of such advisory board. (Added by chapter 558 of the Laws of 1910.)

§ 132. Room for detention and examination of persons who are suspected of being insane. The board of managers may provide a suitable room for the temporary detention, observation and care of persons who are suspected of being insane and shall do so upon the direction of the governing board or of the state commission in lunacy; provided, however, that the state commission in lunacy before making such direction shall give to both the board of managers and the governing board due notice and opportunity to be heard thereon. (Added by chapter 558 of the Laws of 1910.)

§ 133. Visitation and inspection.- Members of the board of managers shall be admitted to every part of the hospital and premises, and shall have access to all books, papers, accounts and records pertaining to the hospital and shall be furnished with copies, abstracts and reports whenever required by them. All hospitals established or maintained under the provisions of sections one hundred and twenty-six, one hundred and twenty-seven, one hundred and twenty-eight, one hundred and twenty-nine, one hundred and thirty, one hundred and thirty-one, one hundred and thirty-two, one hundred and thirty-three and one hundred and thirty-four of this act shall be subject to inspection by any duly authorized representative of the state board of charities, of the state charities aid association, and of the governing board of the town, city or village by which the hospital is maintained; and the resident officer in charge shall admit such representatives into every part of the hospital and premises, and give them access on demand to all records, reports, books, papers and accounts pertaining to the hospital. (Added by chapter 588 of the Laws of

1910.)

§ 134. Existing town, city or village public general hospitals. Wherever a town, city or village has, previous to the passage

of this act, established a public general hospital, the governing board of said town, city or village may by resolution provide that thereafter such hospital shall be controlled and maintained in accordance with the provisions of this act. Any public general hospital which may hereafter be established by any governing board of any town, city or village shall be subject to all the provisions of sections one hundred and twenty-six to one hundred and thirty-four, inclusive, of this chapter. (As amended by chapter 558 of the Laws of 1910.)

$135. Application of preceding sections. Sections one hundred and twenty-six to one hundred and thirty-four, both inclusive, shall not apply to the city of New York. (As amended by chapter 558 of the Laws of 1910.)

THE GENERAL CITY LAW.

Chapter 21 of the Consolidated Laws.

HOSPITALS FOR TREATMENT OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS. Section 140. Establishment of hospitals.

141. Selection of site.

142. Jurisdiction of local board of health.

140. Establishment of hospitals. A city of the first class shall have power whenever its board of health shall deem it necessary for the promotion of the health of its inhabitants, to establish, equip and maintain, outside of its corporate limits, and not within the limits of any other city or any village, a hospital or hospitals for the regular treatment of the disease known as pulmonary tuberculosis.

§ 141. Selection of site. Whenever a city of the first class shall desire to exercise the power conferred by this article it shall through its board of health, select such locality outside of its corporate limits, but within the state, and not within the corporate limits of any other city or any village, as it may consider best adapted by reason of climatic and other conditions for the treatment of such disease, and shall make application to the state board of health for the approval of the site so selected. Upon such approval being given the city may acquire title to such lands as its

board of health may designate, within the limits of the locality submitted to and approved by the state board of health. The provisions of law relating to the acquiring of private property for public purposes are hereby made applicable as far as may be necessary to the acquirement of title to such lands.

§ 142. Jurisdiction of local board of health.-All hospitals or institutions now or hereafter established or maintained by any city of the first class for the regular or special treatment of persons suffering from the disease known as pulmonary tuberculosis shall be subject to the approval of the local board of health; special wards or pavilions for the treatment of cases of pulmonary tuberculosis in existing hospitals shall be provided with separate nurses, cooking utensils, washing and plumbing facilities.

SPECIAL STATUTES PROVIDING FOR APPROPRIATIONS TO CERTAIN HOSPITALS AND DISPENSARIES IN NEW YORK STATE.

ALBANY HOSPITAL, ALBANY.

AN ACT making appropriations for certain expenses of government, and supplying deficiencies in former appropriations.

Chapter 433, Laws of 1909.

Section 1. The treasurer shall pay, on the warrant of the

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For the maintenance and medical and surgical care by a hospital of such officers, members and employees of the several departments, bureaus and branches of the state government located in Albany as may be injured or become sick while in the performance of their duties, four thousand dollars ($4,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, said persons to be admitted upon the certificate of the superintendent of public buildings after proper evidence of disability shall have been filed with such superintendent over the signature of the head of the department, bureau or branch of said government in which said duties were performed and of a physician or surgeon duly authorized to practice medicine in the state of New York.

BINGHAMTON CITY HOSPITAL, BINGHAMTON.

AN ACT to create a board of managers, and to provide for the control and management of a nonsectarian city hospital, in the city of Binghamton.

Chapter 135, Laws of 1904.

Section 1. Within thirty days after the passage of this act, the mayor of the city of Binghamton shall appoint six citizen taxpayers of said city, to serve as hospital managers, who, with the mayor from time to time of said city, are hereby constituted a body corporate, by the name of "The Board of Managers of the Binghamton City Hospital," and in that name may sue and be sued, prosecute, complain and defend in any court; and may receive and hold for the use and benefit of the Binghamton city hospital, gifts, devises and grants of real and personal property.

§ 2. Within fifteen days after the aforesaid appointments, the persons so appointed shall meet at the city clerk's office in said city, and then and there determine by lot the order in which their respective terms of office shall expire, and the determination so made shall, within twenty days thereafter, be certified by said clerk to the common council of said city. If, for any cause said managers fail to assemble and determine as aforesaid, the said common council shall, within twenty days thereafter, make such determination. The term of office of one of said managers shall expire on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and five, and one on the first day of each April thereafter.

3. The mayor of the city of Binghamton, at the regular meeting of the common council of said city, next preceding the first day of April, nineteen hundred and five, and next preceding the first day of April in each succeeding year thereafter, shall appoint a citizen taxpayer of said city manager in place of the one whose term is about to expire on the first day of April in that year,* The term of office of each manager so appointed shall commence on the first day of April next after his appointment, and shall continue for the period of six years and until his successor shall have been appointed and shall qualify. Any vacancy

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