53 STAT.]
76TH CONG. ,
1ST SESS.- CH. 88 -APR. 26 , 1939
appropriation for Air Corps, Army, fiscal year 1937, shall remain
available until June 30, 1940, for the payment of obligations incurred
under contracts executed prior to July 1, 1937.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT
ARMY
MEDICAL AND HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT
For the manufacture and purchase of medical and hospital sup-
plies, including disinfectants, for military posts, camps, hospitals,
hospital ships and transports, for laundry work for enlisted men and
Army nurses while patients in a hospital, and supplies required for
mosquito destruction in and about military posts in the Canal Zone;
for the purchase of veterinary supplies and hire of veterinary sur-
geons; for expenses of medical supply depots; for medical care and
treatment of patients, including supernumeraries, not otherwise pro-
vided for, including care and subsistence in private hospitals of
officers, enlisted men, and civilian employees of the Army, of appli-
cants for enlistment, and of prisoners of war and other persons in
military custody or confinement, when entitled thereto by law, regu-
lation, or contract: Provided, That this shall not apply to officers
and enlisted men who are treated in private hospitals or by civilian
physicians while on furloughs or leaves of absence in excess of
twenty-four hours; for the proper care and treatment of epidemic and
contagious diseases in the Army or at military posts or stations,
including measures to prevent the spread thereof, and the payment
of reasonable damages not otherwise provided for for bedding and
clothing injured or destroyed in such prevention; for the care of
insane Filipino soldiers in conformity with the Act of Congress
approved May 11, 1908 (24 U. S . C . 198); for the pay of male and
female nurses, not including the Army Nurse Corps, and of cooks
and other civilians employed for the proper care of sick officers and
soldiers, under such regulations fixing their number, qualifications,
assignments, pay, and allowances as shall have been or shall be pre-
scribed by the Secretary of War; for the pay of civilian physicians
employed to examine physically applicants for enlistment and enlisted
men and to render other professional services from time to time under
proper authority; for the pay of other employees of the Medical
Department; for the payment of express companies and local trans-
fers employed directly by the Medical Department for the trans-
portation of medical and hospital supplies, including bidders'
samples and water for analysis; for supplies for use in teaching the
art of cooking to the enlisted force of the Medical Department; for
the supply of Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas;
for advertising, laundry, and all other necessary miscellaneous
expenses of the Medical Department, $1,551,072.
HOSPITAL CARE, CANAL ZONE GARRISONS
For paying the Panama Canal such reasonable charges, exclusive
of subsistence, as may be approved by the Secretary of War for
caring in its hospitals for officers, enlisted men, military prisoners,
and civilian employees of the Army admitted thereto upon the
request of proper military authority, $50,000: Provided,That the sub-
sistence of the said patients, except commissioned officers, shall be
paid to said hospitals out of the appropriation for subsistence of the
Army at the rates provided therein for commutation of rations for
enlisted patients in general hospitals.
607
Supplies.
Post,p. 995.
Private treatment.
Proviso.
If on furlough, etc.
Epidemic and con-
tagious diseases.
Insane Filipino
soldiers.
35 Stat. 122 .
24 U.S. C.§ 198.
Nurses.
Civilian physicians.
Army and Navy
Hospital,Hot Springs,
Ark.
Hospital care, Canal
Zone garrisons.
Proviso.
Subsistence pay-
ments.
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