HEALTH. 1567

An. Code, sec. 49. 1904, sec. 38. 1888, sec. 23. 1882, ch. 155, sec. 9.

62. The municipal and county authorities may provide for the use
of the inhabitants of their respective city, town or county hospitals or
temporary places for the reception of the sick, and for that purpose may
themselves build such hospitals or places of reception or contract for the
use of any such hospital or part of a hospital or place of reception, or enter
into any agreement with any person having the management of any hospi-
tal for the reception of the sick inhabitants of their city, town or county
on payment of such sum as may be agreed on, or two or more local authori-
ties may combine in providing a common hospital.

An. Code, sec. 50. 1904, sec. 39. 1888, sec. 24. 1882, ch. 155, sec. 10.

63. Any expenses incurred by the authorities of any city, town or
county in maintaining in a hospital, or in a temporary place for the recep-
tion of the sick, a patient who is not a pauper shall be deemed to be a debt
due from such patient to the authorities aforesaid, and may be recovered
from him at any time within twelve months after the discharge from such
hospital or place of reception, or from his estate, in the event of his dying
in such hospital.

Manufacture and/or Sale of Mattresses and Related Articles.

1924, ch. 370.

64. (A). The word " mattress " shall mean any quilted pad, mattress,
mattress pad, mattress protector, bunk quilt, or box spring, stuffed or filled
with excelsior, straw, hay, grass, corn husks, moss, fibre, cotton, wool, hair,
jute, kapok, or other soft material, to be used on a couch or other bed for
sleeping purposes.

The words " Pillows," " bolster," or " feather bed " shall mean any bag,
case, or covering made of cotton or other textile material, and stuffed or
filled with excelsior, straw, hay, grass, corn husks, moss, fibre, cotton, wool,
hair, jute, feathers, feather down, kapok, or other soft material, to be used
on a bed or other article for sleeping purposes.

The word " comfortable " shall mean any cover, quilt, or quilted article
made of cotton or other textile material, and stuffed or filled with fibre,
cotton, wool, hair, jute, feathers, feather down, kapok, or other soft material.

The word " new," as used in this Section 64, shall mean any material or
article which has not been previously manufactured or used for any purpose.

The word " secondhand " shall mean any material or article of which
prior use has been made.

The word " shoddy " shall mean any material which has been spun into
yarn, knit or woven into fabric, and subsequently cut up, torn up, broken
up, or ground up.

The word " person," as used herein, shall include persons, corporations,
co-partnerships, and associations.

Words used in the singular number shall include the plural; and the
plural, the singular.

(B). No person shall employ or use in the making, remaking, or reno-
vating of any mattress, pillow, bolster, feather bed or comfortable (a) Any