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56 STAT.] 77TH CONG., 2D SESS.-CH. 475-JULY 2, 1942 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 personnel and other services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere and items otherwise properly chargeable to the appropriation for miscellaneous and contingent expenses for the Public Health Service, the purchase (not to exceed four), exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying automobiles for official use in field work, and the purchase of reprints of scientific and technical articles published in periodicals and journals, $1,419,680, of which not to exceed $190,000 may be transferred to the appropriation "Pay, and so forth, commissioned officers, Public Health Service". National Institute of Health: For necessary expenses, not appro- priated for elsewhere, of the National Institute of Health, its branches and field offices, including maintenance of buildings; for regulating the propagation and sale of viruses, serums, toxins, and analogous products, including arsphenamines and other organic arsenic com- pounds therapeutically analogous thereto; and for the preparation of curative and diagnostic products; such expenses to include personal services at the seat of government; and the purchase, repair, and cleaning of uniforms for the guard force, $743,400. National Cancer Institute: For carrying into effect the provisions of section 7 (b) of the National Cancer Institute Act, approved August 5, 1937, $534,870, including the purchase of reprints of scientific and technical articles published in periodicals and journals. Emergency health and sanitation activities (national defense) : For all expenses necessary to enable the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service to conduct independently or to assist State and local health authorities in health and sanitation activities (1) in areas adjoining military and naval reservations, (2) in areas where there are concentrations of military and naval forces, (3) in areas adjoin- ing Government and private industrial plants engaged in defense work, and (4) in private industrial plants engaged in defense work, and to provide emergency health and sanitation services in Govern- ment industrial plants engaged in defense work and in areas adjoining United States military and naval reservations outside of the United States, and not to exceed $420,000 to enable the Surgeon General, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, either inde- pendently or, subject to regulations promulgated by him, by grants to public and private hospitals, to procure and to establish reserves of liquid, frozen, or dry blood plasma or serum albumin for the treatment of casualties resulting from enemy action, such expenses to include personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, purchase, exchange, maintenance, and operation of passenger-carrying automobiles, stationery, travel, printing and binding, and items other- wise properly chargeable to the appropriation for miscellaneous and contingent expenses of the Public Health Service, $8,984,000, of which not to exceed $53,686 may be transferred to the appropriation "Pay, and so forth, commissioned officers, Public Health Service". Training for nurses (national defense): For the cost, including subsistence, but not including cash allowances to trainees, of refresher, student nurse, and postgraduate nursing courses, including courses in midwifery, provided by public agencies operating public educational facilities and by hospitals and nursing schools in accordance with 583 42U.S.C.If801, 802. 49 Stat. 635 . 42U.S.C.§803. 37 Stat. 309. 42U.S.C. 1. Transfer of funds. Ante, p. 581. 50 Stat. 562. 42 .S.C. 137f (b). 41U.B.C.I . Blood plasma, etc. Transfer of funds. Ante, p. 581 .