78TH CONG., 2D SESS.-CH. 302-JUNE 28, 1944 private publications; purchase (not to exceed two), maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying automobiles for official use in field work; $12,339,000, of which not to exceed $142,212 may be transferred to the appropriation "Pay, and so forth, commissioned officers, Public Health Service". Grants to States for public-health work: For the purpose of assist- ing States, counties, health districts, and other political subdivisions of the States in establishing and maintaining adequate public-health services, including the training of personnel for State and local health work, as authorized in sections 601 and 602, title VI, of the Social Security Act, approved August 14, 1935, as amended (49 Stat. 634), $11,000,000. Training for nurses (national defense): For carrying out the pur- poses of the Act of June 15, 1943 (Public Law 74, Seventy-eighth Congress, as amended), $63,000,000, of which not to exceed $803,000 shall be available for administrative expenses, including printing and binding; personal services in the District of Columbia; maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying automobiles; advertising in newspapers, magazines, and periodicals without regard to the Act of March 4, 1921 (42 If. S. C . 33); and items otherwise properly chargeable to the appropriation for miscellaneous and contingent expenses for the Public Health Service: Provided, That this appro- priation is hereby made available for transfer to and consolidation with appropriations of Saint Elizabeths and Freedmen's Hospitals, in such amounts as may be deemed necessary by the Federal Security Administrator, to cover the cost of items furnished to student nurses in training under plans approved for such hospitals in accordance with the Act of June 15, 1943 (Public Law 74), as amended. Interstate quarantine service: For cooperation with State and municipal health authorities in the prevention of the spread of con- tagious and infectious diseases in interstate traffic, including the pur- chase of one and maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger- carrying automobiles, $31,531. 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, includ- ing the maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying automobiles, $336,000. Emergency health and sanitation activities (national defense): For all expenses necessary to enable the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service to conduct independently or to assist State and local health authorities in health and sanitation activities (1) in areas adjoining military and naval reservations, (2) in areas where there are concentrations of military and naval forces, (3) in areas adjoining Government and private industrial plants engaged in defense work, and (4) in private industrial plants engaged in defense work, and to provide emergency health and sanitation services in Government industrial plants engaged in defense work and in areas adjoining United States military and naval reservations outside the United States; such expenses to include personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, the acquisition by transfer from the War Department of not to exceed two hundred and fifty general-purpose automotive vehicles to be paid for by transfer of funds, maintenance and operation of passenger-carrying automobiles, stationery, travel, printing and binding, the purchase of oils, larvicides, and other diluents without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, pur- chase of reprints from State, city, and private publications, and items Vehicles. Transfer of funds. Post, p. 560. 42U.S.C.if801, 802. Post, p. 719. 67 Stat. 153. 60 U. S. C., Supp. III, app. §§ 1451-1460 . Ante, p. 111. 41 Stat. 1378. Transfer of funds. 57 stat. 153. 50 U. S. C., Supp. III, app. §1 1461-1460 . Ante, p. 111. Pos, p. 856 . 41U. . C. a5. 557 58 STAT.]
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