74TH CONGRESS . SESS . I. CH. 110. MAY 14, 1935 . Pa y of per sonnel and mai ntenance of hos pitals : 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 (U. S . C ., title 8, sec . 152), medical, surgical, and hospital serv- ices and supplies, including prosthetic and orthopedic supplies to be furnished under regulations approved by the Secretary of the Treas- ury, for beneficiaries (other than patients of the Veterans' Adminis- tration) of the Public Health Service and persons detained in hos- pitals of the Public Health Service under the 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 rep airs, equipment , leases, fuel, lights, water, freight, trans- portat ion and tr avel, the maintenanc e, exchang e, and ope ration of motor trucks and passenger motor vehicles for official use in field work (including not to exceed $3,000 for the purchase of motor-pro- pelled passenger -carrying vehicles) and one fo r use in c onnection with the administrative work of the Public Health Service in the District of Columbia, purchase of ambulances, transportation care, mainte nance, and treatment of lepers , includin g transpor tation to their homes in the continental United States of recovered indigent leper patients, court costs, and other expenses incident to proceed- ings 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), $5,658,460 : Provided, That the Immi- gratio n Service shall perm it the Pub lic Health Service t o 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 sim- ilar supplies and services, to be covered into the proper Immigration Service a ppropriati ons
and money collected by the Immigration Service on account of hospital expenses of persons detained in hos- pitals 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, the prevention of epidemics, or scientific work of the character provided for under the appropriations which follow . Hereafter all collections of the Public Health Service for the care and treatment of foreign seamen or other private pay patients shall be covered in the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts . Quarantine service : For maintenance and ordinary expenses, exclusive of pay of officers and employees, of United States quaran- tine stations, including the, exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use in field work and not to exceed $3,500 for the purchase of motor- propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $322,150 . Prevention of epidemics : To enable the. President, in case only of threatened or actual epidemic of infectious or contagious disease, to aid State and local boards or otherwise in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same, and in such emergency in the execution of any quarantine laws which may be then in force, $261,668, of which $8,000 shall be immediately avail- able for the suppression of an epidemic of typhus fever, including the purchase of newspapers and clippings from newspapers con- ta ining info rmation re lating to the preva lence of d isease and the public health . 229 Hospital m a in t e- nance, medical exami- nations, etc. Vol. 39, p. 885; U.S. C.,p.191. Post, p . 1 637 . Services in the Di s- trict . General expenses . Le per s, care, trans- portation, etc . Insane, etc . Provisos . Use of Ellis Island hospitals. Receipts covere d into Treas ury . Uses forbidden. Collections for treat- ment of pay pati ent s covered into Treasury . Quaran tine ser vice . Prevention of epi- d emics.
