Executive Order 1498

The Surgeon General of the Bureau of Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service is hereby directed to inspect, or cause to be inspected, all buildings and offices used by the Government of the United States in the District of Columbia for the purposes of any of the executive departments, at least once in each month, and to report to the head of the department by which such building is occupied the sanitary or hygienic condition of such buildings and offices, making to the head of such department such recommendations and suggestions as may be deemed necessary to promote the sanitary or hygienic condition of such department or office.

Wm. H. Taft.

The White House,

March 15, 1912.