Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 57 Part 1.djvu/519

This page needs to be proofread.

and suppressing the spread of the same and in such emergency in the execution of any quarantine laws which may be then in force, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger-carry- ing automobiles, $300,480. Post, p. 616 . 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 adjoining Government and private industrial plants engaged in defense work, and (4) in private industrial plants engaged in defense work, to provide emergency health and sanitation services in Gov- ernment industrial plants engaged in defense work and in areas adjoining United States military and naval reservations outside the United States, and to perform the functions of the Public Health Service under the facility security program authorized by Executive 7F. R. 3765. Order Numbered 9165; such expenses to include personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, maintenance and operation of passenger-carrying automobiles, stationery, travel, printing and binding, the purchase of oils, larvicides, and other diluents without 41 U.s.o . J. regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, and items otherwise properly chargeable to the appropriation for miscellaneous and con- Transfer of funds. tingent expenses of the Public Health Service, $9,729,000, of which post, p. 8. not to exceed $53,686 may be transferred to the appropriation "Pay, and so forth, commissioned officers, Public Health Service". Post, p. 616 . 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 3 Stat. 886 . (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 Veterans' Admin- istration) of the Public Health Service and persons detained in hospitals of the Public Health Service under the quarantine or iimmi- gration laws and regulations, including necessary personnel and reserve commissioned officers of the Public Health Service, personal services in lthe l)istrict of Columbia and elsewhere, including the furnishing and laundering of white duck coats. trousers, smocks, alprons, and caps to employees whose duties make necessary the wearing of same, maintenance, minor repairs, equipment, leases; fuel, lights, Vehicles. water, freight, transportation and travel, the maintenance and oper- ation of motortrucks and passenger motor vehicles for use in field work and one for use in the District of Columbia, purchase of coLpersmentplleoyin ambulances, transportation, care. maintenance, and treatment of etc. 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 incompetent persons to hospitals for the care and treatment of the insane, and reasonable burial expenses (not exceeding $100 for any patient dying in hospital), $10,510.700. of Operation of emer- which sum not to exceed $88,700 shall be available for the furnishing by the Public Health Service to and at the request of any Federal department or independent establishment, including Government- owned corporations, of coordinating and consultative services with respect to methods and standards for operating emergency health facilities in such department or establishment, including in-service training of such emergency health facility personnel, and for providing 506 PUBLIC LAWS--CH. 221-JULY 12, 1943 [57 STAT.