Sec. 1. The state department may make grants of money from state appropriated money to:
(1) any county or counties jointly operating a local clinic or dispensary;
(2) a sanatorium;
(3) a hospital providing outpatient care; or
(4) in a small community, a private physician;
for the treatment of persons suffering from or suspected of suffering from tuberculosis, the contacts of such persons, positive reactors, and associates of reactors.