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GENERAL LAWS. 73
by said superintendent in the discharge of his duties. The Board of
Managers shall have the general superintendence, management and control
of the said hospital, of the grounds, buildings, officers and employes
thereof; of the inmates therein, and of all matters relating to the government,
discipline, contracts and fiscal concerns thereof; and make such
rules and regulations as may seem to them necessary for carrying out the
purposes of such hospital. They shall maintain an effective inspection
of said hospital and keep themselves informed of the affairs and management
thereof; shall meet at the hospital at least once in every month,
and at such other times as may be prescribed in the by-laws; and shall
hold an annual meeting at least three weeks prior to the meeting of the
commissioners' court at which appropriations for the ensuing year are
to be considered.
SEC. 4. The Board of Managers may also establish and operate an
out-patient department or free dispensary and clinic, at the hospital or
in the city nearest to which the hospital is located, with branch dispensaries
or clinics in every city or town in the county of five thousand
population and over, and they shall appoint a physician or physicians,
who shall serve at such dispensaries or clinics, and shall determine the
amount of time required to be spent at such dispensaries or clinics by
such physicians, and shall fix the salaries, if any, of such physicians.
Said Board of Managers shall also appoint one or more trained visiting
nurses to serve in connection with each such dispensary or clinic, and in
connection with the hospital, and shall fix their salaries, within the
limits of the appropriation made therefor by the commissioners' court.
SEC; 5. The Board of Managers may also establish, at the hospital,
or in the city nearest to which the hospital is situated, or in the largest
city in the county, a special and separate school for the education, care
and treatment of children suffering from tuberculosis. Said school
shall be conducted as a branch of the hospital and the pupils and inmates
of said school shall be considered as inmates of the hospital and subject
to all the provisions of this Act. Said Board of Managers shall appoint
a teacher or teachers, specially qualified, to instruct and care for the
pupil-inmates of said school. Said Board of Managers shall delegate the
superintendent of the hospital, a member or members of the staff of
visiting physicians, a physician or physicians in attendance upon any
county dispensary, or shall employ a physician to attend the inmates of
said school, and to supervise their care and treatment, and shall delegate
one of the hospital nurses, or a visiting nurse, or shall employ a nurse.
to assist in the care and treatment of said pupils.
SEc. 6. It. shall be the duty of the State Board of Health, from
time to time, to make rules and regulations for the care of persons suffering
from communicable disease and for the prevention and spread
of such diseases: and to prepare circulars, pamphlets, bulletins and other
publications giving information as to the cause, nature, treatment and
prevention of disease. The Board of Managers shall. from time to time,.
purchase from the State Board of Health, at the actual cost of printing,
printed copies of such rules and regulations, circulars, pamphlets, bulletins
and other publications, or shall have same printed, and shall senc
or deliver such copies to all practicing physicians in the county, to all
public schools and to such private schools as request such copies, and to
such organizations, churches, societies, unions and individuals as may
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1913-1914 [Volume 16], book, 1914; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth10838/m1/83/?q=%22thurber+%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .