Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 57 Part 1.djvu/341

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PUBLIC LAWS--CH. 184 -JULY 1, 1943 56 Stat. 440. 56 Stat. 440 . Residents of D. C. for less than 1 year. 56 Stat. 238. Training school for nurses. For provisions, fuel, gas, water, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, medical books, schoolbooks, classroom supplies, books of reference, and periodicals not to exceed $500, maintenance of motor- trucks, and other necessary items, $297,980. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, including roads and sidewalks, $12,630, together with not to exceed $5,100 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $12,600 for this pur- pose contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1943. Tuberculosis Hospital: For all expenses necessary for operation and maintenance of the Tuberculosis Hospital at Fourteenth and Upshur Streets Northwest, $169,060, including not to exceed $108,320 for personal services; and not to exceed $3,000 for repairs and improve- ments to buildings and grounds. Not to exceed $10,000 of the appropriation of $50,000 for repairs, alterations, and improvements to the Tuberculosis Hospital at Four- teenth and Upshur Streets Northwest, contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1943, is continued available in the fiscal year 1944. Gallinger Municipal Hospital: For personal services, including not to exceed six full-time chief medical officers at $6,000 per annum each and two associate medical officers at $3,200 per annum each, to be appointed without reference to civil-service requirements, and including not to exceed $2,000 for temporary labor, $977,107, of which $26,760 shall be available for out-patient relief of the poor, including medical and surgical supplies, artificial limbs, and pay of physicians: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the care of persons, except in emergency cases, where the person has been a resident of the District of Columbia for less than one year at the time of application for admission. For maintenance of the hospital; for maintenance of the quarantine station, smallpox hospital, and public crematorium, including expenses incident to furnishing proper containers for the reception, burial, and identification of the ashes of all human bodies of indigent persons that are cremated at the public crematorium and remain unclaimed after twelve months from the date of such cremation; for maintenance and pu'rchase of horses and horse-drawnl vehicles; for medical books, books of reference, and periodicals not to exceed $500; for maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles; and for all other necessary expenses, $410,500. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $8,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $6.500 for an additional amount for repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, contained in the Sixth Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Act, 1942. Purchase of books, musical instruments and music, expense of commencement exercises, entertainments, and inspection by New York State Board of Regents, and other incidental expenses of the training school for nurses, $600. Medical charities: For care and treatment of indigent patients under contracts to be made by the Health Officer of the District of Columbia and approved by the Commissioners with the following institutions and for not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: Children's Hospital, $75,000. Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, $55,000. Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital, $55,000. Washington Home for Incurables, $19,500. Columbia Hospital and Lying-in-sylu: For general repairs, including labor and material to be expended in the discretion and under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol, $5,000. 328 [57 STAT.