California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Community Memorial Hospital v. County of Ventura, 49 Cal.App.4th 527, 56 Cal.Rptr.2d 732 (Cal. App. 1996):
Public health is a legitimate interest of government. Thus, the expenditure of money to promote health is an expenditure for a public purpose. That private persons may incidently benefit does not change the purpose of the expenditure. (County of Alameda v. Janssen, supra, 16 Cal.2d at p. 281, 106 P.2d 11.)
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