57 STAT.] 78TH CONG., 1ST SESS.-CHS. 95, 96-MAY 10, 1943 SEC. 3. The term "dependents" shall include a lawful wife, unmar- ried dependent child (or children) under twenty-one years of age, and the mother and father of a member of the Navy or Marine Corps if in fact such mother or father is dependent on such member. The term "child (or children)" shall include a natural or adopted child or stepchild. The widows of deceased naval and Marine Corps per- sonnel shall be entitled to hospital care in like manner as dependents. SEC. 4. In addition to those persons, including the dependents of naval and Marine Corps personnel, now authorized to receive hos- pitalization at naval hospitals, hospitalization and dispensary service may be provided at naval hospitals and dispensaries outside of the continental limits of the United States and in Alaska, to the officers and employees of any department or agency of the Federal Gov- ernment, to employees of a contractor with the United States or his subcontractor, to the dependents of such persons, and in emer- gencies to such other persons as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe: Provided, That such hospitalization and dispensary service to other than the dependents of naval and Marine Corps personnel shall be permitted only where facilities are not otherwise available in reasonably accessible and appropriate non-Federal hospitals. The charge for hospitalization or dispensary service for persons other than dependents of naval and Marine orps personnel as specified in this section shall be at such rates as the resident shall from time to time prescribe, and shall be deposited as provided in section 2. SEC. 5 . Hospitalization of the dependents of naval and Marine Corps personnel and of the persons outside the naval service men- tioned in section 4 of this Act shall be furnished only for acute medical and surgical conditions, exclusive of nervous, mental, or contagious diseases or those requiring domiciliary care. Dental treat- ment shall be administered only as an adjunct to in-patient hospital care and shall not include dental prosthesis or orthodontia. SEC. 6 . During such periods as the Coast Guard may operate as a part of the Navy, the provisions of this Act shall apply to depend- ents of personnel of the Coast Guard in like manner and to the same extent as to dependents of personnel of the Navy and Marine Corps. Approved May 10, 1943. [CHAPTER 96] AN ACT To provide for the issuance of devices in recognition of the services of merchant sailors. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Ameerica in Congress assembled, That the Adminis- trator, War Shipping Administration, is hereby authorized to provide and issue (a) a seamen's service insignia of appropriate design to any person who, at any time during the period (hereinafter referred to as the war period) beginning December 7, 1941, and ending with the termination of the present war, serves on any vessel in the American merchant marine, and (b) a seamen's war zone insignia or device of appropriate design to any person who, at any time during the war period, serves on any vessel in the American merchant marine while sailing in any war or combat zone. SEC. 2 . The Administrator is authorized to provide and issue a seamen's honor bar to any person who, at any time during the war period, serves on any vessel in the American merchant marine which, at the time of such service, is attacked or damaged by an instru- mentality of war. The Administrator is further authorized to pro- vide and issue a star (to be attached to such bar) to any such 81077° -- 44 PI. I-- 81 "Dependents." "Child." Widows. Civilian employees, etc., outside U. S. Rates. Treatment, restric- tions. Coast Guard. May 10, 1943 [lI. H. 2281] [Public Law 52] Merchant seamen's service insignia. War zone insignia. Honor bar. Star attachment.
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