County of Los Angeles v. State Department of Public Health

This is a controversy over certain tuberculosis subsidy payments claimed by the county of Los Angeles to be payable to it under the Tuberculosis Subsidy Law but withheld by the State Department of Public Health. The trial court ruled that such payments, in an aggregate amount of $330,715.69, had been improperly withheld from the county, should be paid over to it, and that future subsidies payable under the statute (Health & Saf. Code, §§ 410-414, 3099-3342) must be computed in accordance with the claim of the county. The application of the statute to partial-pay patients in county hospitals…