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55 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CH. 269-JULY 1, 1941 industrial activities; subsistence and care of inmates; expenses incurred in pursuing and identifying escaped inmates, including rewards for their capture; expenses of interment or transporting remains of deceased inmates including the remains of persons vol- untarily admitted; purchase and exchange of farm products and livestock; lawbooks, books of reference, and periodicals; furnishing and laundering of uniforms and other distinctive wearing apparel necessary for employees in the performance of their official duties; transportation and subsistence allowance when necessary, within continental United States and under regulations approved by the Administrator of the Federal Security Agency, of persons volun- tarily admitted and discharged as cured; tobacco for inmates; pur- chase and exchange (not to exceed $725), and maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $1,478,000, and the Surgeon General is authorized to utilize Government-owned automotive equipment in transporting to and from school, children of Public Health Service personnel on duty at the Public Health Service hospitals at Fort Worth, Texas, and Lexington, Kentucky, who have quarters for themselves and their families on the station reservations. Grants to States for public-health work: For the purpose of assist- ing States, counties, health districts, and other political subdivisions of the States in establishing and maintaining adequate public-health services, including the training of personnel for State and local health work, as authorized in sections 601 and 602, title VI, of the Social Security Act, approved August 14, 1935, as amended (49 Stat. 634), $11,000,000. Disease and sanitation investigations: For carrying out the provi- sions of section 603 of the Social Security Act, approved August 14, 1935, and section 1 of the Act of August 14, 1912, including person- nel and other services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere and items otherwise properly chargeable to the appropriations for printing and binding, stationery, and miscellaneous and contingent expenses for the Federal Security Agency and Public Health Service, the provisions of section 6, Act of August 23, 1912 (31 U. S . C . 669), to the contrary notwithstanding, the packing, crating, drayage, and transportation of the personal effects of commissioned officers, and other personnel of the Public Health Service upon permanent change of station, and including the purchase (not to exceed $2,500), exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying automobiles for official use in field work, $1,665,000, of which not to exceed $215,790 may be transferred to the appropriation "Pay, and so forth, commissioned officers, Public Health Service": Provided, That $19,250 shall be transferred from this appropriation to the appropriation "Printing and binding, Federal Security Agency", and $142,605 shall be transferred from this appropriation to the appro- priation "Traveling expenses, Federal Security Agency". National Cancer Institute: For carrying into efect the provisions of section 7 (b) of the National Cancer Institute Act, approved August 5, 1937, $565,000: Provided, That $14,825 shall be transferred from this appropriation to the appropriation "Traveling expenses, Federal Security Agency", and $10,000 shall be transferred from this appropriation to the appropriation "Printing and binding, Federal Security Agency". Emergency health and sanitation activities (national defense): For all expenses necessary to enable the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service to assist State and local health authorities in health and sanitation activities (1) in areas adjoining military and naval Vehicles. 42 U. S. C. HJ801, 802. Post, p. 831 . 49 Stat. 635. 42 U. S. C.§803. 37 Stat. 309. 42U. S.C . §1. 37 Stat. 414. Ante, p. 481 . Proviso. Ante, p. 471. 50 Stat. 562. 42U. S .C. §137f (b Proviso. Ante, p. 471. Pos, p. 645. 483