54 STAT.] 76TH CONG., 3D SESS.-CH. 428-JUNE 26, 1940 Acting assistant surgeons, pay: For pay of acting assistant sur- geons (noncommissioned medical officers), $323,300. Pay of other employees: For pay of all other employees (attend- ants, and so forth), $1,021,500. National Institute of Health, maintenance: For maintaining the National Institute of Health, $141,000. Pay of personnel and maintenance of hospitals: For medical exam- inations, including the amount necessary for the medical inspec- tion of aliens, as required by section 16 of the Act of February 5, 1917 (8 U. S. C. 152), medical, surgical, and hospital services and supplies, including prosthetic and orthopedic supplies to be furnished under regulations approved by the Administrator of the Federal Security Agency for beneficiaries (other than patients of the Veter- ans' Administration) of the Public Health Service and persons detained in hospitals of the Public Health Service under the quaran- tine or immigration laws and regulations, including necessary per- sonnel and reserve commissioned officers of the Public Health Service, personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, includ- ing the furnishing and laundering of white duck coats, trousers, smocks, aprons, and caps to employees whose duties make necessary the wearing of same, reasonable fees (not to exceed $50 for each blood donation) to Government employees and others for services as donors of blood to be used in transfusions, maintenance, 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 adminis- trative work of the Public Health Service in the District of Colum- bia, 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 here- after taken for commitment of mentally incompetent persons to hos- pitals for the care and treatment of the insane, and reasonable burial expenses (not exceeding $100 for any patient dying in hospital), $7,362,000: Provided,That the Immigration Service shall permit the Public Health Service to use the hospitals at Ellis Island Immigra- tion Station for the care of Public Health Service patients free of expense for physical upkeep, but with a charge of actual cost of fuel, light, water, telephone, and similar supplies and services, to be covered into the proper Immigration Service appropriations; and money collected by the Immigration Service on account of hospital expenses of persons detained in hospitals of the Public Health Serv- ice under the immigration laws and regulations shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: Provided further, That no part of this sum shall be used for the quarantine service (except for persons detained in hospitals of the Public Health Service at points where no quarantine hospital facilities are available), the prevention of epidemics, or scientific work of the character provided for under the appropriations which follow. Quarantine service: For maintenance and ordinary expenses, exclusive of pay of officers and employees of United States quaran- tine stations, including the exchange, maintenance, repair, and oper- ation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use in field work and not to exceed $5,000 for the purchase of motor- propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $280,000. Prevention of epidemics: To enable the President, in case only of threatened or actual epidemic of infectious or contagious disease, 585 Acting assistant sur- geons, pay. Pay ofother employ- ees. National Institute of Health, maintenance. Payofpersonneland maintenance of hos- pitals. Post, p. 1033 . 39 Stat. 885. Vehicles. Lepers, insane, etc. Parovio. Use of Ellis Island hospitals. Restriction on use of funds. Quarantine service. Prevention of epi- demics.
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