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 55 STAT.] 77TH CONG., IST SESS.-CH. 271-JULY 1, 1941 deem expedient in connection with the establishment and maintenance of the medical services herein provided for. Laboratories: For operation and maintenance of laboratories, P't,p. 83 . including personal services, books and periodicals, manufacture of serums for use in indigent cases, and other necessary expenses, $51,314. Inspections: For all expenses necessary for the enforcement of the Abatement of nui- sances, adulteration of Acts relating to the drainage of lots and abatement of nuisances in foods, etc. the District of Columbia; the Act relating to the adulteration of Pot'P .836. foods, drugs, and candy; the Act relating to the manufacture and sale of mattresses; the Act relating to the manufacture, sale, and trans- portation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors; and the Act relating to the sale of milk, cream, and ice cream; such expenses to include personal services, books and periodicals and travel, $129,691: Provided, That soervice not to exceed $200 may be expended for special services in detecting adulteration of drugs and foods, including candy and milk: Pro- vided further, That inspectors of dairy farms may receive an allow- vehicle anlowanee ance for furnishing privately owned motor vehicles in the performance spe of official duties at the rate of not to exceed $312 per annum for each inspector. For the purchase of a site for a health center in northwest Wash- Health enter. ington, $14,750. For beginning the construction of a building for a health center in northwest Washington, $120,000, and the Commissioners are author- ized to enter into contract or contracts for such building at a total cost not to exceed $250,000: Provided, That not to exceed $5,250 of P r lio the amount herein appropriated may be transferred to the credit of the appropriation account, "Municipal Architect's Office, construc- tion services", and be available for the preparation of plans and specifications for said building. For the following hospital and sanatoria: torpia. nd sa Tuberculosis sanatoria: For personal services, including $3,000 for Post, p.83. chief visiting consultant, and not to exceed $3,000 for compensation of consulting physicians at rates to be fixed by the Commissioners, $437,460. For provisions, fuel, forage, harness and vehicles and repairs to same, gas, water, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, medical books, schoolbooks, classroom supplies, books of reference, and peri- odicals not to exceed $500, maintenance of motortrucks, purchase and exchange of one motortruck, $800, and other necessary items, $224,000. For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, including roads and sidewalks, $6,500. Gallinger Municipal Hospital: For personal services, including not Post , 83& to exceed six full-time chief resident physicians at $5,600 per annum each and two associate medical officers at $3,200 per annum each to be appointed without reference to civil-service requirements, and including not to exceed $2,000 for temporary labor, $861,820, of which $26,760 shall be available for out-patient relief of the poor, including medical and surgical supplies, artificial limbs, and pay of physicians: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be Proro. available for the care of persons, except in emergency cases, where the person has been a resident of the District of Columbia for less than one year at the time of application for admission. For maintenance of the hospital; for maintenance of the quar- antine station, smallpox hospital, and public crematorium, including 517

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