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SEVENTY-FIRST CONGRESS . SEss . II. Cir. 848 . 1930 . Contingent expenses. Ambulance, etc . New apparatus . New sites. Health Department. Personal services . Prevention of co n- tagious diseases . For contingent expenses, furniture, fixtures, oil, blacksmithing, gas and electri c lighti ng, flags , and ha lyards, medals o f award, and other necessary items, $29,000 . For one ambulance, motor driven, and equipment, $3,500 . For one aerial hook and ladder truck, motor driven, $15,500

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pumping engine, triple combination, motor driven, $11,000 ; and one combination hose wagon, motor driven, $8,000 ; in all, $34,500 . For new site for Engine Company No . 16 (now l ocated a t Twelft h and D Streets northwest), and Truck Company No . 3 (now located at F ourte enth Stre et an d Oh io Av enue nort hwest ), in the vici nity of Thirteenth and K Streets northwest, $150,000, to be immediately avai lab le . HEALTH DEPARTMENT SALARI ES For pers onal services, $187,790 . PREVENTION OF CONTAGIOUS DISEASES Enforcement expen- For contingent expenses incident to the enforcement of the pro- s.

visions of an Act to prevent the spread of contagious diseases in Vol . 29, p. 635.

the District of Columbia, approved March 3, 1897 (29 Stat ., pp . 635- 641), and an Act for the prevention of scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, whooping cough, chicken pox, epidemic cerebrospinal men- Vol . 34,p .859 .

ingitis, and typhoid fever in the District of Columbia, approved February 9, 1907 (34 Stat ., pp . 889-890), and an Act to provide for registration of all cases of tuberculosis in the District of Columbia, Tubercu losis regi s- for free examination of sputum in suspected cases, and for prevent- trations . Vol.35, p. 126.

ing the spread of tuberculosis in said District of Columbia, approved May 13, 1908 (35 Stat ., pp . 126-127), under the direction of the Infantile paralysis. health officer of said District, manufacture of serums, in cludi ng Venereal diseases. their use in indigent cases, and for the prevention o f infant ile Vol.43,p.ieas

paralysis and other communicable diseases, and of an Act for the prevention of venereal diseases in the District of Columbia, and Disinfecting service . for other purposes, approved February 26, 1925 (43 Stat ., pp . 1001- 1003), and for maintenance of disinfecting service, including sa l- aries or compensation for personal services, when ordered in writ- ing by the commissioners and necessary for the enforcement and execution of said Acts, and for the prevention of such other com- Smallpox station and municable diseases as hereinbefore provided, purchase of reference qu aran tine .

books and medical journals, and maintenance of quarantine station Bacterio logical exam- and smallpox hospital, $4$48,000 : Provided, That any bacteriologist ist in ation ofmi lk,e tc A employed under his ppropriation may be assigned by the helth officer to the bacteriological examination of milk and other dairy products and of the water supplies of dairy farms, and to s uch other sanitary works as in the Judgment of the health officer will promote the public health, whether such examinations be or be not Isolating wards, Gar- directly related to contagious diseases . fi eld and Prov idenc e For isolating wards for minor contagious diseases at Garfield Hospitals.

Mem orial an d Provid ence Hos pitals, maintenance, $15,500 and $8,500, respectively, or so much thereof as in the opinion of the Tuberculo sis and commissioners may be necessary ; in all, $24,000 . venereal diseases dis- For the maintenance of a dispensary or dispensaries for the treat- pensaries.

ment of indigent persons suffering from tuberculosis and of indi- gent persons suffering from venereal diseases, including payment Provisos.

for personal services, rent, supplies, and contingent expenses, Volunteer services. $29,000 : Provided , That the commissioners may accept such volun- teer services as they deem expedient in connection with the establish-