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PUBLIC LAW 131-JULY 5, 1955
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the time set for such trials, including Sundays and legal holidays, a new date for trial be set by the court, cases be discontinued or settled, or demands for jury trials be waived. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Department of Public Health, including services for tuberculosis, venereal disease, hygiene and sanitation work in schools, dental health, maternal and child health, housekeeping assistance in cases of authentic indigent sick, handicapped and crippled children, cancer control, control of heart disease, public health engineering, nursing, psychiatry, ambulances, laboratories, outpatient relief of the poor, medical and surgical supplies, artificial limbs and appliances, eyeglasses, fees to physicians under contracts to be made by the Director of Public Health and approved by the Commissioners, contract investigational service, uniforms, rent, manufacture of serum in indigent cases, allowances for privately owned automobiles used for the performance of official duties by dairy-farm inspectors at the rate of 7 cents per mile but not more than $840 per annum for each automobile, subsistence in lieu of salary for the full-time employment of persons for the purpose of securing training and experience in their future vocations; not to exceed $1,000 for attendance without loss of pay or time at specialized medical or public health training courses or institutes, tuition and entrances fees, and travel expenses and fees for visiting lecturers or experts in public health and related fields; operation of hospitals, compensation of consulting physicians and dentists at rates to be fixed by the Commissioners, compensation of convalescent patients to be employed in essential work and as an aid to their rehabilitation at rates and under conditions to be determined by the Commissioners (but nothing in this paragraph shall be construed as conferring employee status on patients whose services are so utilized), not to exceed $1,000 for financial assistance for needy patients as determined by the Superintendent of Glenn Dale Hospital at rates established by the Commissioners, classroom supplies, uniforms for guards, training school for nurses, repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, support of indigent insane, deportation of nonresident insane persons (including persons held in the psychopathic ward of the District of Columbia General Hospital), reimbursement to the United States for services rendered to the District of Columbia by Freedmen's Hospital, and for care and treatment of indigent patients under contracts to be made by the Director of Public Health of the District of Columbia and approved by the Commissioners with Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, Children's Hospital, Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital, Episcopal Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, Garfield Memorial Hospital, George Washington University Hospital, Georgetown University Hospital, Providence Hospital, Washington Home for Incurables, and Children's Convalescent Home, $28,592,000: Provided, That the inpatient rate under such contracts and for services rendered by Freedmen's Hospital shall not exceed $14 per diem and the outpatient rate shall not exceed $2.40 per visit: Provided further, That amounts to be determined by the Commissioners may be expended for special services in detecting adulteration of drugs and foods, including candy and milk and other products and services subject to inspection by the Department of Public Health: Provided further, That employees using privately owned automobiles for the deportation of nonresident insane may be reimbursed as authorized by the Act of June 9, 1949 (63 Stat. 166), but not to exceed $900 for any one individual.
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