53 STAT.]
76TH CONG. ,
1ST SESS. - CH. 115-MAY 6, 1939
geons general) and for pay of regular commissioned officers on
waiting orders, $1,959,800: Provided, That the above limitation on
the number of regular active commissioned officers may be exceeded
by the number (not in excess of twenty) of regular active com-
missioned officers assigned to Federal penal and correctional
institutions.
Acting assistant surgeons, pay: For pay of acting assistant sur-
geons (noncommissioned medical officers), $320,000.
Pay of other employees: For pay of all other employees (attend-
ants, and so forth), $1,000,000.
Freight, transportation, and so forth: For freight, transportation,
and traveling expenses, including allowances for living quarters,
including heat, fuel, and light, as authorized by the Act approved
June 26, 1930 (5 U. S . C. 118a), not to exceed $5,000 but not to
exceed $1,700 for any one person; the expenses, except membership
fees, of officers when officially detailed to attend meetings for the
promotion of public health; contract stenographic reporting services;
not to exceed $450 for journals and scientific books, office of the
Surgeon General; not to exceed $1,000 for the preparation of public-
health exhibits designed to demonstrate the cause, prevalence, methods
of spread, and measures for preventing diseases dangerous to the
public health, including personal services and the cost of acquiring,
transporting, and displaying exhibit material; and the packing, crat-
ing, drayage, and transportation of the personal effects of commis-
sioned officers, scientific personnel, administrative assistants, aides,
dietitians, pharmacists, and nurses of the Public Health Service, upon
permanent change of station, $25,000: Provided, That funds expend-
able for transportation and traveling expenses may also be used for
preparation for shipment and transportation to their former homes
of remains of officers who die in line of duty.
National Institute of Health, maintenance: For maintaining the
National Institute of Health, $125,000.
Pay of personnel and maintenance of hospitals: For medical
examinations, including the amount necessary for the medical inspec-
tion of aliens, as required by section 16 of the Act of February 5,
1917 (8 I. S . C . 152), medical, surgical, and hospital services and
supplies, including prosthetic and orthopedic supplies to be furnished
under regulations approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, for
beneficiaries (other than patients of the Veterans' Administration)
of the Public Health Service and persons detained in hospitals of the
Public Health Service under the quarantine or immigration laws
and regulations, including necessary personnel and reserve commis-
sioned officers of the Public Health Service, personal services in the
District of Columbia and elsewhere, including the furnishing and
laundering of white duck coats, trousers, smocks, aprons, and caps to
employees whose duties make necessary the wearing of same, main-
tenance, minor repairs, equipment, leases, fuel, lights, water, freight,
transportation and travel, the maintenance, exchange, and operation
of motortrucks and passenger motor vehicles for official use in field
work (including not to exceed $3,000 for the purchase of motor-
propelled passenger-carrying vehicles) and one for use in connection
with the administrative work of the Public Health Service in the
District of Columbia, purchase of ambulances, transportation, care,
maintenance, and treatment of lepers, including transportation to
their homes in the continental United States of recovered indigent
leper patients, court costs, and other expenses incident to proceedings
heretofore or hereafter taken for commitment of mentally incom-
petent persons to hospitals for the care and treatment of the insane,
and reasonable burial expenses (not exceeding $100 for any patient
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Proviso.
Exceeding limita-
tion on number; re-
striction.
Acting assistantsur-
geons, pay.
Pay of other em-
ployees.
Freight, transporta-
tion, etc.
Living quarters.
46 Stat. 818.
5U. S. C.§118a.
Public-health e x-
hibits.
Transportation of
personal effects.
Proviso.
Transportation of
remains of officers.
National Institute
of Health.
Post, p . 1304.
Pay of personnel and
maintenance of hos-
pitals.
Medical examina-
tions, etc.
39 S tat. 885.
8 U.S. C.§ 152.
Personal services.
General expenses.
Vehicles.
Lepers, insane, etc.
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