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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 209-JUNE 30, 1945 Automobile allow- motor vehicles; manufacture of serum in indigent cases; and allow- ances . ances for privately owned automobiles used for the performance of official duties (not to exceed $264 per annum for each automobile for employees other than dairy-farm inspectors and not to exceed $312 per annum for each automobile for dairy-farm inspectors); olunter services. $1,340,000: Provided,That the Commissioners may, without creating any obligation for the payment of money on account thereof, accept such volunteer services as they may deem expedient in connection with the establishment and maintenance of the medical services herein pecial services provided for: Provided further, That not to exceed $200 may be expended for special services in detecting adulteration of drugs and foods, including candy and milk. Glenn Dale Tuberculosis Sanatorium: For all expenses necessary for the Tuberculosis Sanatorium at Glenn Dale, Maryland, including personal services; compensation of consulting physicians at rates to be fixed by the Commissioners, and not to exceed $3,000 for tem- porary per diem services; rental, purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of busses; school books, books of reference, and periodicals; printing and binding; classroom supplies; and repairs and improve- ments to buildings and grounds; $1,080,000, of which not to exceed $5,000 shall be for the 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. Pos,. 643. Operating expenses, Gallinger Municipal Hospital: Fcr all expenses necessary for Gallinger Municipal Hospital and the Tuberculosis Hospital at Fourteenth and Upshur Streets Northwest including per- Post,p. 411 . sonal services; one superintendent at $8,000 per annum; one deputy superintendent at $6,000 per annum; not to exceed five full-time chief medical officers at $6,000 per annum each and two associate medical officers at $4,600 per annum each, to be appointed without reference to civil-service requirements; not to exceed $20,000 for temporary per diem services; reference books and periodicals; musical instru- ments and music; expenses of commencement exercises, entertain- ments, and the training school for nurses; printing and binding; expenses incident to furnishing proper containers for the reception, burial, and identification of the ashes of all human bodies of indigent persons that are cremated at the public crematorium and remain unclaimed after twelve months from the date of such cremation; and repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds; $1,788,000: Pro- Residents of D.C. vided, That hereafter no District of Columbia appropriations shall be 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: Provided Strndiceto pne o 3 , further, That no part of any appropriation for Gallinger Municipal Hospital or the Health Department shall be used for furnishing, other than at rates prescribed by the Commissioners, clinical services, drugs, pharmaceutical preparations, or X-ray service, to persons who are not indigent, except in emergency cases or where the Commis- sioners determine it to be necessary in the public interest. Not to exceed $180,000 of the appropriations of $2,203,500 for operat- ing expenses, Gallinger Hospital, contained in the District of Colum- 5 Stat. m . bia Appropriation Act, 1945, and the First Deficiency Appropriation ASC' P. 83. Act, 1945, is continued available until June 30, 1946. Pf P. 6.3. Capital outlay, Gallinger Municipal Hospital: For the construction of a new pediatrics building, $620,000; a laboratory building, $190,000; a superintendent's residence, $15,000; and an incinerator, $15,000; in all, $840,000. [59 STAT.

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