Other jurisdictions have held the imprisoning governmental subdivisions liable. City of Tulsa v. Sisler, 285 P.2d 422 (Okla., 1955); Spicer v. Williamson, 191 N.C. 487, 132 S.E. 291; Lamar v. The Board of Commissioners of Pike County, 4 Ind. App. 191, 30 N.E. 912. Those cases rested upon the statutory obligation of the imprisoning authority to supply medical needs to prisoners.

Judgment was rendered for $2,980.46. It is contended on behalf of the City that since all these prisoner patients were poor and indigent they were charges upon the county under the provisions of 56 O.S. 1951 § 31[ 56-31] et seq. This court held to the contrary in City of Tulsa v. Sisler, Okla., 285 P.2d 422. It is next contended that the City has no duty to provide medical and hospital services to indigent prisoners in the custody of its police department.

The county sheriff was under a duty to provide necessary medical treatment for prisoners in its custody and, in the absence of arrangements made by the county or the board of county commissioners for necessary medical services for such prisoners, the county is liable for necessary medical services obtained by the county sheriff in the care of such prisoners. In City of Tulsa v. Sister, 285 P.2d 422 (Okla. 1955), the Court held the City to be liable for the expense of furnishing medical care for prisoners in its jail. The Court said: "The City's liability in this case does not depend on the indigency but the imprisonment of the patients who received medical treatment."