Patients' support and maintenance, how paid. The said clinic shall be the headquarters of the county nurses and of the Inspector of Health, whose special duty it is to examine and diagnose cases of tuberculosis when visiting the county for the examination of tubercular cases, and where patients applying for treatment may be drafted to the proper place for treatment. It shall be a place where consultations may be had with the general practitioner with a view to diagnosis and treatment, and generally to serve as a bureau of information, and for the distribution of literature connected with tuberculosis. There shall be filed by the City, Town or Municipal Medical Officer, a list of all cases of tuberculosis reported by physicians in their respective districts; and it shall be the duty of the Provincial Inspector of Health in consultation with such medical officer and such physicians as have reported cases, and where possible with the patients themselves, to decide whether said patients shall be treated at the Sanitarium, at the District Tubercular Hospital or be cared for at home under the supervision of the county nurses. The establishment and maintenance of such a clinic shall be one of the authorized purposes for which a city, municipality or incorporated town may vote, rate, collect, appropriate and pay the amount required therefor; provided, however, that in the County of Kings, the Provincial Sanitarium, and in any other county where a sanitarium may be established under the provisions of this Act, such sanitarium may be used as a County Clinic, notwithstanding anything in this Act to the contrary. 17. (1) The charges for the support and treatment of patients at a sanitarium established in any one of the districts mentioned in Section 2, who are able to pay, or have persons or kindred bound by law to maintain them, and able to do so, shall be paid by such inmates or by such persons or kindred; and the support and treatment of pauper patients who have a stetlement in any city, town or poor district, within the respective districts established under the provisions of Section 2, shall be paid by such city, town or poor districts, if such patients are received at the sanitarium on the request of the Mayor of such city or town, or the overseers of the poor of such poor district. (2) The rate of such charges shall be fixed by the trustees of the said sanitarium, subject to the approval of the Governor-in-Council. (3) Such charges may be recovered in an action in the name of the trustees, as an ordinary debt in any court having jurisdiction. (4) Nothing herein shall prevent the admission into and treatment of patients who have no means of payment, and no legal settlement in the district in which they may reside at the time of their application; the expenses of the support and treatment of such last named patients shall be borne by the Pro vince. (5) The Governor-in-Council may authorize the payment out of the Provincial Treasury towards the support and maintenance of any sanitarium established in any of the districts provided for in Section 2, a sum of two dollars for each week's actual treatment and stay of every patient admitted to or being within such sanitarium during the fiscal year preceding the year for which such aid is given. This provision, however, to be inclusive of any amount authorized under Section 9 of the Acts of 1912. 18. (1) The trustees of any sanitarium to be Trustees may expropriate established under the provisions of Section 2, may ex-land. propriate any land adjacent to the sanitarium for the purposes of enlarging it. (2) powers, how The power conferred by sub-section (1) shall Expropriation not be exercised, unless the Provincial Health Officer exercised. reports that it is necessary for the purposes of the sanitarium, and approves of the plans, additions and improvements for which the land is required, and his report is approved by the Governor-in-Council. (3) shall have the powers conferred upon the Government of Nova Scotia by Chapter 17, Revised Statutes of For the purposes of this section, the trustees Nova Public Purposes" as to acquiring, entering upon, and using land for any public work, or building. Scotia, "Of the Expropriation of Lands for Trustees not to incur liability unless authorized. (19) Nothing in Section 10 of Chapter 16 of the or expenditure Acts of 1912, or in any of the provisions of this Act, shall authorize any Board of Trustees to incur any liability or make any expenditure not authorized by the by-law, resolution or agreement establishing the Tubercular Hospital, made by the city, incorporated town or municipal councils concerned in making the said by-law, resolution or agreement. Tax exemption. Section 8, (20) The property acquired for a Tubercular Hospital and vested in the Board of Trustees, as well as any Tubercular Hospital erected under the provisions of this Act, shall be exempt from all municipal and other taxes, including school rates or taxes. Chapter 16 of 4. Section 8 of said Chapter 16, Acts of 1912, is 1912, amended. amended by adding thereto the following section: Governor-in Council borrow$100,000 Proviso. (8A). In order to encourage the building of the authorized to respective sanitariums, under the provisions of Section 2 of this Act, the Governor-in-Council is hereby authorized to borrow a sum, not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, to be expended in securing sites, and erecting buildings and providing adequate furnishings and equipment for any of the said respective sanitariums, but any sum so expended shall be inclusive of any amounts which shall be paid out of the Provincial Treasury under the provisions of Section 8. No sum to be expended in aid of any said sanitarium shall exceed one-half the cost thereof; provided, however, that where any municipality or incorporated town in any county shall show to the satisfaction of the Governor-in-Council that, with the assistance of the aid to be given by the Province, under the provisions of this Act, sufficient means have been provided for the establishment and maintenance of a sanitarium, and that an agreement cannot be made with any other municipality or town in another county for the purpose of establishing a joint sanitarium, then the Governor-in-Council may give the aid provided for above, on condition that provision shall be made in the proposed sanitarium for the accommodation of patients from such other counties, should they subsequently enter into an agreement as contemplated under the provisions of this Act. Section added 5. The following section is added to said Chapter te Chapter 16 16 of the Acts of 1912, as section 21. of 1912. 21. Any person who knowingly makes, or is a Penalty. party to the making or procuring to be made, directly or indirectly, of any false returns, shall incur a penalty of five hundred dollars ($500.00), which may be recovered with costs by action at the suit of the Crown. CHAPTER 61. An Act to Amend Chapter 20 of the Acts of 1912, entitled "An Act to Consolidate the Acts for the Encouragement of Agriculture" in Respect to Provincial Grants to Agricultural Societies. Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: 1. pealed; another Section 18 of Chapter 20 of the Acts of 1912, Section 18, entitled, "An Act to Consolidate the Acts for the Acts 1912, reEncouragement of Agriculture," is repealed and the substituted. following section substituted therefor: 18. aside for (1) Out of the sum annually appropriated by $1500.00 to be the Legislature for the encouragement of agriculture, encouragement there shall be set apart a sum not to exceed $15,000.00, which shall be applied to the payment of grants to such Agricultural Societies as are duly organized and have otherwise complied with the provisions of this Act. Money, how apportioned. fee. (2) Out of the said sum of $15,000.00 there shall be set apart the sum of $1000.00 to aid such societies as have met with losses for which they were in no way responsible, and for encouraging them to adopt such other measures as may be deemed advisable by the Superintendent of Agricultural Societies in the advancement of the live stock interests of the Society. The remaining $14,000.00 shall be distributed ratably among the societies in proportion to the amount of their several subscriptions for the year, but no society shall receive more than $1.00 for each dollar of subscriptions, and no society shall receive a larger grant in any one year than $250.00. Membership 2. Section 19 of said Chapter 20 is amended by striking out the first sentence thereof and inserting in lieu thereof the following sentence: said Chapter amended. 19. The annual subscriptions of a Society shall, for the purposes of this Act, be an annual membership fee of not less than $1.00 for each member and the service fees actually paid by the members during the year. Section 20 of 3. Section 20 of said Chapter 20 is amended by striking out the words "ordinary annual subscription" in lines one and two thereof, and inserting in lieu thereof the words "annual subscriptions," and also by inserting the words "or secretary" after the word "president" in line six of said section. Section 9 of said Chapter amended. 4. Section 9 of said Chapter 20 is amended by striking out the words "tenth day of the month,' in line three of said section, and inserting in lieu thereof the words, "twentieth day of the month.' |