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