Section 2161. Poliomyelitis; persons twenty-one years of age and over; care and maintenance  


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  • Every county or part-county health commissioner,  city
      health officer in cities having more than fifty thousand population, and
      state  district  health officer shall, within their respective areas and
      after approval by the commissioner, provide at the remediable stages  of
      the  disease  known  as  poliomyelitis,  suitable  surgical,  medical or
      therapeutic treatment or hospital care,  and  necessary  appliances  and
      devices  for  all  persons  twenty-one  years  of  age or over including
      Indians residing on reservations, so  infected  or  exposed  who  cannot
      otherwise  be  provided  for.  In  a county the determination as to what
      persons cannot otherwise be provided for and relevant matters  shall  be
      made  by  the board of supervisors of such county against which the same
      is to be a charge and an investigation and report thereon to such  board
      upon which to make its determination shall be made by the public welfare
      commissioner  or such other county officer, or committee of the board as
      the board of  supervisors  may  designate  by  resolution.  The  charges
      approved  for  such treatment shall be in full payment thereof and shall
      be accepted by the person or corporation furnishing  such  treatment  as
      full  payment  and  no  such  person or corporation shall ask or receive
      directly or indirectly any other or additional compensation.