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Guardians may send inmates of workhouse to a hospital or infirmary.
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7. It shall be lawful for the guardians of any union in cases requiring special treatment to send any inmate or inmates of the workhouse of such union requiring medical or surgical treatment to any hospital or infirmary, the governor, governors, or managers of which shall be willing and able to receive such inmate or inmates, and to pay to the governor, governors, or managers of such hospital or infirmary, out of the rates of the union or electoral division, as the case may be, the cost of the maintenance and treatment in such hospital or infirmary of the persons so sent as aforesaid; and the guardians may also pay out of the rates of the union the cost of the conveyance of such persons from the workhouse of the union to such hospital or infirmary, and also the cost of the conveyance of such persons, when discharged from such hospital or infirmary, to the said workhouse; and the entire cost of such maintenance, treatment, and conveyance as aforesaid shall be deemed part of the cost of maintenance and treatment of such inmate or inmates in the workhouse of such union.
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