Section 180
Free patients.
About this Act
An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the administration of cantonments with a view to impart greater democratisation, improvement of their financial base to make provisions for developmental activities and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
At every hospital or dispensary maintained or aided under section 178, the sick
poor of the cantonment, and other inhabitants of the cantonment suffering from infectious, communicable
or contagious disease, and, with the sanction of the Board, any other sick persons, may receive medical or surgical treatment free of cost, and, if treated as in-patients, shall be either dieted gratuitously or, if the
medical officer in charge so directs, shall be granted subsistence allowance on such scale as the Board
may fix.