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 52 STAT.] 75TH CONG., 3D SESS.-CH. 55-MAR. 28, 1938 of the Public Health Service, personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, including the furnishing and laundering of white duck coats, trousers, smocks, aprons, and caps to employees whose duties make necessary the wearing of same, maintenance, minor repairs, equipment, leases, fuel, lights, water, freight, trans- portation and travel, the maintenance, exchange, and operation of motor trucks and passenger motor vehicles for official use in field work (including not to exceed $3,000 for the purchase of motor-pro- pelled passenger-carrying vehicles) and one for use in connection with the administrative work of the Public Health Service in the District of Columbia, purchase of ambulances, transportation, care, maintenance, and treatment of lepers, including 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 commitment of mentally incom- petent persons to hospitals for the care and treatment of the insane, and reasonable burial expenses (not exceeding $100 for any patient dying in hospital), $6,400,000: Provided, That the Immigration Serv- ice shall permit the Public Health Service 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, telephone, and similar supplies and services, to be covered into the proper Immigration Service appro- priations; and money collected by the Immigration Service on account of hospital expenses of persons detained in hospitals of the Public Health Service under the immigration laws and regulations shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: Pro- vided further, That no part of this sum shall be used for the quar- antine service, the prevention of epidemics, or scientific work of the character provided for under the appropriations which follow. Quarantine service: For maintenance and ordinary expenses, exclu- sive of pay of officers and employees, of United States quarantine stations, including the exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use in field work and not to exceed $9,500 for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $281,250. 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 prevent- ing and suppressing the spread of the same, and in such emergency in the execution of any quarantine laws which may be then in force, $280,000, including the purchase of newspapers and clippings from newspapers containing information relating to the prevalence of disease and the public health. 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 and exchange, not to exceed $1,000, and maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying automobiles, $36,500. Biologic products: To regulate the propagation and sale of viruses, serums, toxins, and analogous products, including arsphenamine, and for the preparation of curative and diagnostic biologic products, including personal services of Reserve commissioned officers and other personnel, $55,000. Division of Venereal Diseases: For the maintenance and expenses of the Division of Venereal Diseases, established by sections 3 and 4, chapter XV, of the Act approved July 9, 1918 (42 U. S . C . 24, 25), including personal and other services in the field and in the District of Columbia, $80,000, of which amount not to exceed $19,500 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Services in the Dis- trict, etc. General expenses. Vehicles. Lepers, insane, etc. Provisos. Use of hospitals at Ellis Island Immigra- tion Station. Designated receipts to be covered into Treasury. Uses forbidden. Quarantine service. Prevention of epi- demics. Interstate quaran- tine service. Biologic products. Regulating sale of viruses, etc. Division of Venereal Diseases, mainte- nance, etc. 40 Stat. 886. 42U.S.C.§24,25. 133

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