sistent with subsection 23 of section 709, and such appropriation so made shall be used for such purposes and subject to the order of said board of administration in such manner as its regulations may provide; but the board of administration shall not incur any expense or make any contract for new buildings or for additions to present buildings, or for the purchase of land, without first being authorized so to do by the county board, nor until the county board has appropriated or provided for the raising of the money to defray such expense.

(6) CLINICS. The board of administration is hereby empowered to establish and conduct clinics in connection with the county hospital, subject to such rules and regulations as it may prescribe.

(7) DISPENSARY; EMERGENCY HOSPITAL. Said board of administration, upon authorization of the county board and subject to such rules and regulations as may from time to time be prescribed by said county board, shall have and exercise the following additional powers:

a To establish and maintain a public health and medical dispensary and conduct same as may be proper and necessary for the preservation of the public health and the prevention of disease in said county.

b To establish and maintain in connection with said county hospital, an emergency unit or department for the treatment, subject to such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by said board of administration, of persons in said county who may meet with accidents or be suddenly afflicted with sickness, not contagious, provided, however, that medical care and treatment shall only be furnished in such unit or department until such time as the patient may be safely removed to another hospital or to his or her place of abode or regularly admitted to said county hospital. [Stats. 1917 s. 697-45 to 697-49, 697-49m, 697-49n; 1919 c. 328 s. 30; 1919 c. 671 s. 15 b; 1919 c. 686.]

46.22 MUNICIPAL HOSPITAL BOARD. In any city of the third or fourth class, however organized, having a municipal

hospital therein, the board of trustees or other governing board of such municipal hospital shall have power and authority:

a To prescribe rules of order for the regulation of their own meetings and deliberations and to alter, amend, or repeal the same from time to time;

b To enact, amend and repeal rules and regulations relating to the government, operation and maintenance of such hospital and relating to the employes thereof;

c To contract for and purchase all fuel, food and other supplies reasonably necessary for the proper operation and maintenance of such hospital;

d To enact, amend and repeal rules and regulations for the admission to and government of patients at such hospital;

e To enter into contract for the construction, installation or making of additions or improvements to or alterations of such hospital whenever such additions, improvements or alterations have been ordered and funds provided therefor by the city council;

f To engage all necessary employes at such hospital for a period not to exceed one year under any one contract and at a salary not to exceed the sum of twenty-five dollars per week, excluding board and laundry, unless a larger salary be expressly authorized by the city council;

g To audit all accounts and claims against said hospital or against said board of trustees and, if approved, to issue orders upon the city treasurer for the payment of the same, such orders to be issued and signed by the president and secretary of said board of trustees, and countersigned by the city comptroller, if any. [Stats. 1917 s. 959-130; 1919 c. 328 s. 43.]

CHAPTER 47

EDUCATION AND RELIEF OF THE BLIND AND DEAF.

SCHOOLS FOR THE BLIND AND DEAF.

47.01 Objects; summer school for the blind.

47.02 Admission; nonresident tuition; school year degrees. 47.03 Compulsory education of the blind and deaf.

47.04 Library for the blind.

47.05

WISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR BLIND ARTISANS

Establishment and administration.

47.06 Inmates other then artisans; transportation for artisans.

STATE AID TO THE BLIND

47.07 Scholarships for blind students.

COUNTY AID TO THE BLIND

47.08 Persons entitled to aid; chargeability.

47.09 Examiner of the blind and deaf.

47.10 Application for aid; examination; tax levy.

FIELD WORK AMONG THE BLIND

47.11 Field agent for adult blind.

SCHOOLS FOR THE BLIND AND DEAF.

47.01 Objects; summer school for the blind. The objects of the Wisconsin School for the Blind and the Wisconsin School for the Deaf are to afford to those unfortunate classes, respectively, so far as possible, enlightened and practical education, which may aid them to obtain the means of subsistence, discharge the duties of citizens, and secure all the happiness which they are capable of attaining. A summer school for adult blind persons shall be maintained in connection with such school for the blind. [Sa's. 1917 s. 568, 574; 1919 c. 81 s. 3.]

47.02 Admission; nonresident tuition; school year; degrees. (1) All the blind and deaf residents of this state between the ages of eight and twenty-five years, of suitable capacity to receive instruction, shall be received and taught in said schools, respectively, free of charge. Like pupils may also be received from any person or corporation without this state upon the payment quarterly in advance of the sums prescribed by the state board of control; but no such pupil shall ever be received to the exclusion of any resident pupil from any of the privileges or benefits of the institution. All pupils shall equally and freely enjoy all the benefits and privileges of the school and institution, have the use of the library and books of instruction, and receive board, lodging, washing, and fuel, without preference or distinction. The steward of the school may provide means of transportation for resident indigent pupils going from and returning thereto.

(2) The state board of control shall fix the period of the school year in said schools at not less than forty weeks, prescribe the school terms and confer upon meritorious pupils therein such academic and literary degrees as are usually conferred by similar institutions, and grant diplomas accordingly. [Stats. 1917 s. 561j subs. 11, 12, 569, 575; 1919 c. 81 s. 4.]

47.03 Compulsory education of the blind and deaf. Whenever it shall be made to appear, by affidavit, to any county or municipal judge that any blind or deaf child of proper age is deprived of a suitable education by the neglect