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Poor persons of sufficient ability to pay the cost of their maintenance in the infirmary, &c. required to repay the same.
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4. Every poor person who shall be so admitted into the infirmary of the workhouse in pursuance of the authority in that behalf which is herein-before given, and every poor person who shall hereafter be admitted into any building provided by the guardians of any union for a fever hospital, or into any part of the workhouse appropriated as a fever hospital, who shall nevertheless be considered by the guardians to be of sufficient ability to pay the cost of his or her maintenance while in hospital, or some portion of such cost, shall be required to repay such proportion thereof as the guardians shall determine; provided, that such proportion shall in no case exceed the average of the general cost of maintenance, medical and surgical treatment in such hospital or infirmary; and all such sums shall be recoverable from such poor persons, or from those liable by law to maintain them, by the same ways and means as the cost of relief given by way of loan is recoverable under the Acts in force for the relief of the destitute poor in Ireland; and all such sums, or any part thereof which shall be recovered, shall be lodged with the treasurer of the union, to the credit of the electoral division chargeable for the maintenance of such poor person, or to the credit of the union, as the case may be: Provided also, that for the purpose of the recovery of the cost of maintenance as aforesaid, every master or mistress shall be deemed liable to maintain his or her domestic servant so long as the service shall continue, and also his or her apprentice residing under his or her roof.
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