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Recovery of cost of maintenance of patient in hospital.
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156. Any expenses incurred by a sanitary authority in maintaining in a hospital, or in a temporary place for the reception of the sick (whether or not belonging to such authority), a patient who is not a pauper shall be deemed to be a debt due from such patient to the sanitary authority, and may be recovered from him at any time within six months after his discharge from such hospital or place of reception, or from his estate in the event of his dying in such hospital or place.
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