§ 2150. Typhoid fever; carriers; care and maintenance, in
institutions. Whenever any person is declared by the commissioner to be
a carrier of typhoid fever bacilli and whenever, for the protection of
the public health, the commissioner certifies to the necessity of
continued isolation; or, whenever, the sanitary code prohibits a carrier
of typhoid fever bacilli from engaging in his usual occupation, such
person may be given hospital or institutional care under the
surveillance of the local health officer at the expense of the state if
the hospital or institution in the judgment of the commissioner is
properly equipped for the care and maintenance of said person.