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 SEVENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. SEss. II. Cir. 289 . 1930 . 347 and pe rsons detain ed in hospit als of the Pu blic H ealth Servic e unde r the im migrat ion la ws and regul ations, inclu ding n ecessa ry per sonnel , regu lar a nd re serve com missi oned offi cers oft he Public Health services in the Dis . trict, etc. Service, personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, General expenses. including the furnishing and laundering of white duck coats, trous- ers, smocks, aprons, and caps to employees whose duties make neces- sary the wearing of same maintenance, minor repairs, equipment, leases, fuel, lig hts, wate r, freigh t, trans portation and trav el, maint e- nance, exchange and operation of motor trucks and passenger motor vehi cles, and inclu ding not excee ding $3,0 00 fo r th e pur chase of passenger motor vehicles (at a cost not to exceed $1,000 each, includ- ing the value of any vehicle exchanged, except for ambulances), Lepers, tra nsp ort a- transportation, care, maintenance, and treatment of lepers, including tion, care, etc . transportation to their homes in the continental United States of recovered indigent leper patients, court costs, and other expenses incident to proceedings heretofore or hereafter taken for commit- ment of mentally incompetent persons to hospitals for the care and Insane, care, etc . treatme nt of the in sane, and re asonab le buri al exp enses (not e xceed- ing $100 for any patient dying in hospital), $5,8 61,7 76 : Pro vide d, UseD2 of3 Ellis Island That the Immigration Service shall permit the Public Health Service hospitals. 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, tele- phone, and similar supplies and services, to be covered into the proper Immigration Service appropriations ; and money collected by Receipts to be cov- t- the Immigration Service on account of hospital expenses of persons ered into Treasury . detained in hospitals of the Public Health Service under the immi- gration laws and regulations shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts : Provided further, That no part of this sum Uses forbidden. shall be used for the quarantine service, the prevention of epidemics, or scientific work of the character provided for under the appropria- tions which follow. All sums received by the Public Health Service during the fiscal Disposal of receipts. year 1931, except allotments and reimbursements on account of patients of the United States Veterans' Bureau, shall be covered into th e Trea sury a s misc ellane ous re ceipts. Quarantine service : For maintenance and ordinary expenses, exclu- sive of pay of officers and employees, of United States quarantine station s, inc luding the e xchang e, mai ntenanc e, rep air, a nd ope ration of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and including not exceeding $2,000 for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger- carrying vehicles (at a cost not to exceed $1,000 each, including the value of any vehicle exchanged except for ambulances), $660,000, of which $200,000 shall be immediately available. Prevention o f epi- Prevention of epidemics : To enable the President, in case only of demics. threatened or actual epidemic of infectious or contagious disease, to aid State and local boards or otherwise, in his discretion, in pre- venting and suppressing the spread of the same, and in such emer- gency in the execution of any quarantine laws which may be then in 7orce, $400,000, including the purchase of newspapers and clippings from newspapers containing information relating to the prevalence of disea se and the p ublic health. Field investigations . Fiel d inve stigat ions : For investigations of diseases of man and conditions influencing the propagation and spread thereof, includ- ing sanitation and sewage, and the pollution of navigable streams and lakes of the United States, including personal service, and includi ng the maint enance, repa ir, an d opera tion o f moto r-prop elled passenger-carrying vehicles, and not exceeding $2,400 for the pur- chase o f moto r-prop elled passen ger-ca rrying vehicl es (at a cos t not

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