56 STAT.] 77TI CONG., 2 D SESS.-CH. 475-JULY 2, 1942 Commissioned officers, pay, and so forth: For pay, allowance, and commutation of quarters for not to exceed 568 regular active com- missioned officers (including the Surgeon General, Assistant to the Surgeon General, and assistant surgeons general) and for pay of regular commissioned officers on waiting orders, $2,362,590: Provided, That the above limitation on the number of regular active commis- sioned officers may be exceeded by the number (not in excess of thirty) of regular active commissioned officers assigned to Federal penal and correctional institutions. 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' Admin- istration) of the Public Health Service and persons detained in hos- pitals of the Public Health Service under the quarantine or immigra- tion 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, main- tenance, minor repairs, equipment, leases, fuel, lights, water, freight, transportation and travel, the maintenance, exchange, and operation of motortrucks and passenger motor vehicles for official use in field work (including the purchase of not to exceed eight motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles) and one for use in connection with the administrative work of the Public Health Service in the District of Columbia, purchase of ambulances, 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 here- after taken for commitment of mentally incompetent persons to hos- pitals for the care and treatment of the insane, and reasonable burial expenses (not exceeding $100 for any patient dying in hospital), $7,993,950: 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 avail- able), the prevention of epidemics, or scientific work of the character provided for under the appropriations which follow. Foreign quarantine service: For maintenance and ordinary expenses of United States quarantine stations and supplementary activities abroad, including personal services in the District of Colum- bia and elsewhere; the exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motortrucks and motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use in field work, $1,224,250. Prevention of epidemics: To enable the President, in case only of threatened or actual epidemic of infectious or contagious disease, to Prot0o. 39 Stat. 885. Vehicle. Lepers, insane, etc. Provisos. Use of Ellis Islmld hospitals. Restriction on use of funds.
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