PUBLIC LAWS--CH. 302 -JUNE 28, 1944 Transfer of funds. Post,p. 560 . Post, p. 856. 39 Stat. 885. Post, p . 716. Vehicles. Lepers, mentally In- competent persons, etc. Operation of emer- gency health facilities. Use of Ellis Island hospitals. Restriction on use of funds. Availability of funds. otherwise properly chargeable to the appropriation for miscellaneous and contingent expenses of the Public Health Service, $11,250,000, of which not to exceed $53,686 may be transferred to the appropria- tion "Pay and so forth, commissioned officers, Public Health Service". Pay of personnel and maintenance of hospitals: For medical exam- inations, including the amount necessary for the medical inspection 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 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 commissioned 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, maintenance, minor repairs, equipment, leases, fuel, lights, water, freight, transportation and travel, the purchase of eight pas- senger-carrying motor-propelled vehicles and the maintenance and operation of motortrucks and passenger motor vehicles for use in field work and one for use in the District of Columbia, purchase of ambu- lances, 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 incompetent persons to hospitals for the care and treat- ment of the insane, and reasonable burial expenses (not exceeding $100 for any patient dying in hospital); $14,180,000, of which sum not to exceed $74,750 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 corpora- tions, of coordinating and consultative services with respect to methods and standards for operating emergency health facilities in such depart- ment or establishment, including in-service training of such emergency health facility personnel, and for providing employees of such agencies (1) tuberculosis and psychiatric examinations and (2) health and nutrition instruction through lectures and demonstrations, and for printing and binding and travel expenses in connection therewith: Provided, That the Immigration and Naturalization Service shall permit the Public Health Service to use the hospitals at Ellis Island Immigration 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 Service 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 other appropriations for the Public Health Service: Providedfurther, That this appropriation shall be available for the expenses incurred in fur- nishing medical and hospital treatment, including dental care, to active-duty personnel of the Navy and Marine Corps, and the appro- 558 [58 STAT.
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