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c'o,~m~s~,' Oct.
Board of Selectmen
Nantucket
Mass.
Gent lemen:
At a meeting of the County Hospital
Association I was given an opportunity to
present a modification of the tuberculosis
subsidy law in which the department is in-
terested. It was suggested that I send a
copy of the sort of legislation we had in mind
to each one of the County Commissioners so that
they might familiarize themselves with it be-
fore the meeting on November tentl~ to which I
was courteously invited. I hope at this
meeting I may h_ave the benefit of your ideas
on this matter.
Youl~ s tr~
GEORGE H. BIGEL~W,M.D.
Conmd. ssioner of l~l:}Iio ltealth
f~J THE C MASSACHUSETTS
~v/ IN THE YEAR ONE ~ NINE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-~ ~T~ EE
AN ACT RELATIVE×~0 SUBSIDIES TO CITIES AND ~0WNS FOR ?~LNONARY
Be it enacted by th~ Senate and House of Representatives
in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as
follows:
Section 1. Section seventy-six of chapter one hundred and
eleven of the General Laws, as amended by chapter two hundred and
eighty-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-six, is
hereby further amended by inserting after the word "subsidy" in
the eleventh line the following:- unless it maintains a pr~ogram
for tuberculosis prevention and control which at least meets the
required standards, which the department ms hereby authorized to
establish and from time to time alter, amend or abolish, nor, -
so as to read as follows:
Sec~$io_n 78, Every town placing its patients suffering
from tuberculosis in a county, municipal or incorporated tubercu-
losis hospital in the commonwealth, or in a ~uilding or ward set
apart for such patients by a county, municipal or incorporated
hospital therein, shall be entitled to receive from the commonwealth
a subsidy ~ five dollars a week for each patient who has a legal
settlement therein, provided that such patment is unable to pay for
his support, and that his kindred bound by law to maintain him are
unable to pay for the same; but a town shall not become entitled
to this subsidy unless it maintains a program for tuberculosis
prevention and control which at least meets the required standards,
which the department is hereby authorized to establish and from ~
time to time alter, amend or abolish, nor unless, upon examination
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authort~.od by the department, tho sputum of such patient bo found
to contain bacilli of tuberculosis, nor unless tho hospital building
or ward be approved by it, and it shall not give such approval
unless it has by authority of law, or by permission of the hospital,
full authority to inopect the same at all times. The department
may at any time withdraw its approval. In the case of hospitals
having a bed capacity which, in the opinion of the department, is
in excess of the number of beds needed for the localities which
these institutions serve for patients exhibiting tubercle bacilli
in their sputum, the subst y above provided shall be allowed_for _
such patients not exhibiting tul~orcle bacilli in their sputum as,
in the joint opinion of the superintendent or medical director o£
the institution and of a member of the department designated by the
commissioner, are bona fide ca~es of pulmonary' tuberculosis and have
been in the institution more than thirty days.
X~_. ~ Nantucket, Mass
?0: ~e ~oard of 8eleot~en
~endttures hlance
~omffort Station To~ 581.08
" " 8ooneet 2,858.96 141
8oldter's ~eltef ~,5~6.7g 97
State ~d 818.00 182.00
~nt ~enses 15,100,00 ~,000,00
~o~ ~tldtn8 i$4. g~ 65.78
~ectton a Registration 761.45
~ellfish Inspector 260.00 110.00
Health Dept. 4gl. 65 578,
~elt eft of Unemployed 1,521.45
To~ Accountant