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 57 STAT.] 78TH CONG.. 1sT SESS.-CHS. 297, 298-NOV. 8, 11 , 1943 "SEC. 506. Members of the Women's Reserve of the Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, or their dependents, shall be entitled to all allow- ances or benefits provided by law for male officers and enlisted men of such services with dependents: Provided, That the husbands of such members shall not be considered dependents and the children of such members shall not be considered dependents unless their father is dead or they are in fact dependent on their mother for their chief support. This section shall be effective from July 30,1942." SEC. 2. The Act entitled "An Act to provide for the appointment of female physicians and surgeons in the Medical Corps of the Army and Navy", approved April 16, 1943 (Public Law 38, Seventy-eighth Congress), is hereby amended by inserting before the period at the end thereof the following: " : Provided, That female physicians and sur- geons appointed in the Medical Corps of the Naval Reserve shall be restricted to the performance of shore duty within the continental United States only and shall not be assigned to duty on board vessels of the Navy or in combat aircraft". Approved November 8, 1943. [CHAPTER 298] AN ACT Relating to the organization and functions of the Public Health Service, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That hereafter the Public Health Service in the Federal Security Agency shall consist of the Office of the Surgeon General, the National Institute of Health, and two bureaus, to be known as the Bureau of Medical Services and the Bureau of State Services. The Surgeon General of the Public Health Service, under the supervision and direction of the Federal Security Administrator, is hereby authorized and directed to assign to the Office of the Surgeon General, to the National Institute of Health, and to the two bureaus, respectively, the several functions of the Pub- lic Health Service, and to establish within the Office of the Surgeon General, the National Institute of Health, and the two bureaus, re- spectively, such divisions, sections, and other units as may be required to perform their functions; and, under such supervision and direction, he may abolish existing divisions, sections, and other units, and, here- after, may establish, transfer, and consolidate divisions, sections, and other units and reassign their functions for the efficiency of the Service. SEC. 2. The Director of the National Institute of Health and the chiefs of each of the bureaus, established by section 1 of this Act, and the officer assigned as Chief Medical Officer of the United States Coast Guard, shall be commissioned medical officers detailed by the Surgeon General from the regular corps, and while so detailed shall be Assistant Surgeons General and shall have the same grade and shall receive the same pay and allowances as the Assistant to the Surgeon General. SEC. 3. When commissioned officers below the grade of medical director are detailed by the Surgeon General from the regular corps to serve as chiefs of divisions, not more than six of such officers at one time while so detailed shall have the temporary grade and receive temporarily the pay and allowances of a medical director; and there is authorized to be established in the Office of the Surgeon General a Dental Division and a. Sanitary Engineering Division; the chief of each such Dental and Sanitary Engineering Division shall be a commissioned dental officer and a commissioned sanitary engineer officer, respectively, of the regular corps detailed by the 587 Allowances or bene- fits. Dependents. Effective date. Female physicians and surgeons. Ante, p. 65. Restriction to shore duty within U. S. November 11, 1943 [S. 400] [Public Law 184] Public Health Serv. ice Act of 1943. Designation of bu- reau chiefs, etc., as Assistant Surgeons General. Officers detailed as division chiefs. Dental Division; Sanitary Engineering Division.

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