Section 1

Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That poor districts in this Commonwealth which have supplied or may hereafter supply a hospital for the care and treatment of the indigent insane, according to plans and specifications approved by the Board of Public Charities, which said insane hospital shall be provided with all the modern appliances for the treatment of the insane, with a medical superintendent of experience in the treatment of mental diseases, and who shall be in actual practice for at least five years, in which the said insane are attended by trained and skilled nurses, and in every way receive the same care and attention as they would in any State hospital for the insane, shall hereafter be entitled to the same allowance for the care and treatment of the indigent insane as is given by the Commonwealth to State hospitals for the insane, under the conditions prescribed by the act of Assembly approved June thirteenth, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, entitled "An act to provide for the care and treatment of the indigent insane of the several counties of the Commonwealth in State hospitals for the insane."