Transfer to hospital of person detained in case of illness

If any person so ordered to be detained in a poor-house becomes so ill that, in the opinion of a government medical officer, he cannot be properly treated therein, the officers of the poor-house, with the sanction of the Director of Medical Services, may cause the person to be conveyed to the nearest public hospital for medical treatment therein, and the person on his discharge from the hospital shall be taken back to a poor- house and there detained as hereinbefore mentioned. 71