PUBLIC LAW 173-JULY 31, 1953
HEALTH
Automobile allowances. Special services.
Patient rates.
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DEPARTMENT
General administration, Health Department: For expenses necessary for the Health Department (excluding hospitals), including services for tuberculosis, venereal disease, hygiene and sanitation work in schools, dental health, maternal and child health, housekeeping assistance in cases of authentic indigent sick, handicapped and crippled children, cancer control, control of heart disease, public health engineering, nursing, psychiatry, ambulances, laboratories, and out-patient relief of the poor, including medical and surgical supplies, artificial limbs and appliances, eyeglasses, and fees to physicians under contracts to be made by the Director of Public Health and approved by the Commissioners; such expenses to include contract investigational service; uniforms; rent; manufacture of serum in indigent cases; and allowances for privately owned automobiles used for the performance of official duties by dairy-farm inspectors at the rate of 7 cents per mile but not more than $840 per annum for each automobile; $2,900,000: Provided, That amounts to be determined by the Commissioners may be expended for special services in detecting adulteration of drugs and foods, including candy and milk and other products and services subject to inspection by the Health Department. Operating expenses, Glenn Dale Tuberculosis Sanatorium: For expenses necessary, including compensation of consulting physicians and dentists at rates to be fixed by the Commissioners; compensation of convalescent patients to be employed in essential work of the sanatorium and as an aid to their rehabilitation at rates and under conditions to be determined by the Commissioners; but nothing in this paragraph shall be construed as conferring employee status on patients whose services are so utilized; classroom supplies; uniforms for guards; and repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds; $2,579,411. Capital outlay, Glenn Dale Tuberculosis Sanatorium: For equipment installation for building housing high tension electrical distribution system, $20,000. Operating expenses, Gallinger Municipal Hospital and the Tuberculosis Hospital: For expenses necessary including expenses of the training school for nurses and repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $5,835,000. Capital outlay, Gallinger Municipal Hospital: For replacing boilers and roofs at the Tuberculosis Hospital at Fourteenth and Upshur Streets, Northwest, and converting present service elevator shafts in medical building to incinerator, $75,700. Medical charities: For care and treatment of indigent patients under contracts to be made by the Director of Public Health of the District of Columbia and approved by the Commissioners with institutions, as follows: Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital; Children's Hospital; Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital; Episcopal Eye, E a r and Throat Hospital; Garfield Memorial Hospital; George Washington University Hospital; Georgetown University Hospital; Providence Hospital; Washington Home for Incurables; and Children's Convalescent Home; $770,000: Provided, That the in-patient rate shall not exceed $13.44 per diem and the out-patient rate shall not exceed $2 per visit. Freedmen's Hospital: For reimbursement to the United States for services rendered to the District of Columbia by Freedmen's Hospital, $300,000: Provided, That the in-patient rate shall not exceed $13.44 per diem and the out-patient rate shall not exceed $2 per visit.
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