Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-02-15

charges, when such medical service shall
exceed the sum of IS, including medi-
| cine, to any one pauper, without the
| consent of a majority of the Board of
Supervisors Of the above said county.
RULE IL
No contracts for surgical operations
shall be authorized by the township
trustees with any doctor or doctors,
to any paupers or poor persons without
the consent of the majority of the said
| Board of Supervisors, and no bills by
them shall be audited for any surgical
operations not authorized by said Board
of Supervisors Of this county. Nothing
! in this shall be so construed to pre-
vent the township trustees authorizing
a surgical operation to a poor person
who may meet with a serious accident
when immediate medical care or an
| operation may be necessary and which
! shall not exceed in the total the sum
of $685.
RULE III.
Nor shall the township trustees grant
relief to any poor person or persons who
are not residents of Winneshiek county
unless service has been accepted by the
County Auditor from the county of their
residence or without the consent of the
Board of Supervisors of Winneshiek
County.
RULE w.
| Nor shall the township trustee give
| relief to any poor person or persons
exceeding the sum of SO to any family,
aside from the medical service, without
! the consent of the Board of SuperViS-
ors; but where the husband or father
| is able-bodied and under the age Of SIS
years, and who can perform a days
labor, or where one or more male minor
| children have reached the age of II
/ years and are in good health no such
relief shall be given.
RULE v.
Nor shall the township trustee give
relief to any poor person or persons for
a longer period than one year, where
such person or persons may own real
estate property unless the said real
estate property is conveyed to Winnie
shiek county, Iowa. Nor shall any such
relief be given to a poor person or per-
| sons who may have disposed of such
property with the intent of becoming
county charge; nor shall such relief ex-
coed 50 per week, not including medical
care.
RULE VI.
! Nor shall the township trustees give
relief to any poor person or persons
who are not the heads of families of
small children, but it shall be the duty
| of the township trustee when applica-
said person or persons to the County
| Foor Farm.
RULE VII.
No bill for medical aid furnished any
pauper in Winneshek County will here
after be allowed by the Board of Super
visors unless accompanied by the writ
ten requisition of the Township Trus-
| tees, signed prior to the rendering of
! the said services
RULE VIII.
And it shall be the duty of the Coun-
| ty Board of Supervisors to visit the
home of every pauper who is now or
who may hereafter become a county
charge, and they shall PROFOUND such
questions as to them may seem proper.
RULE TX.
The rates or fees as established by the
Northeastern Iowa Medical Association
shall govern in all cases where doctors
comply with the above restrictions as
established by the Board of Supervisors
of Winneshiek County, but doctors will
be required to furnish free of charge
any or all medicine by them prescribed
for the relief of all paupers of the above
said county and no bill will be audit
ed by this Board of Supervisors unless
signed by all three township trustees
in the township where pauper resides.
DEBORAH, IOWA, $500.
The following questions must be an
swered by the applicant for public aid
and the answers certified to by the
Township Trustees before aid exceeding
$500 can be furnished any person OF
family and the statement mailed to the
County Auditor as provided in Rule
Three.
All aid must cease with the first meet.
ing of the Board of Supervisors unless
further aid be authorized by them.
Name of applicant for aid. ............
Members of the family. ...............
Husband Gf living) age. disability.
Wife Off living) age. disability. .....
Children Age. Sex. Disability.
Children Age. Sex. Disability.
Children :. Age. Sex. Disability.
Children Age. Sex. Disability.
When did you move into Winneshieh
County? 49,. .......
Where did you live one year ago? .....
Have you ever heretofore received pub
lie aid? ...................
If so. where, when and for how long,
| Where were you born?. ...............
What is your occupation. ............
Signed,
The foregoing questions were answer
ed in our presence.
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| TRUSTEES.
The Auditor was instructed to have
800 copies of this resolution printed and
supply the Township Trustees and
Clerks with copy of same.
The following schedule of accounts
were allowed and the Auditor instructed
to issue warrants on the proper funds
in payment of same:-
SCHEDULE OF ACCOUNTS.
Adjourned January Session, 1905.