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 59 STAT.] 79TH CONG. , S1TSESS.-CH. 263 -JULY 3, 1945 materials, equipment, and blank forms, for which stocks may be maintained to meet, in whole or in part, requirements of the Public Health Service and requisitions of other Government offices, and (2) such other services as the Surgeon General, with the approval of the Administrator of the Federal Security Agency, determines may be performed more advantageously as central services; said fund to be reimbursed from applicable appropriations or funds available when services are performed or stock furnished on the basis of rates which shall include estimated or actual charges for personal services, mate- rials, equipment (including maintenance, repairs, and depreciation), and other expenses. Salaries and miscellaneous expenses: For the divisions and offices of the office of the Surgeon General and for miscellaneous and con- tingent expenses of the Public Health Service not appropriated for elsewhere, including the supervision of sanitary engineering and den- tal operations of the Public Health Service; maintenance and opera- tion of the water and sanitary investigations station at Cincinnati, Ohio; collecting and compiling mortality, morbidity, and vital sta- tistics; preparing information, articles, and publications related to public health; conducting studies and demonstrations in public health methods; nominal compensation of collaborating epidemiologists and others; purchase of two passenger automobiles; and allowances for living quarters, including fuel, heat, and light, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (5 U. S . C . 118 (a)); $1,178,000. Post-war planning: To enable the Surgeon General, either inde- pendently or in cooperation with public and private agencies, includ- ing individuals, to plan post-war health and health facilities con- struction programs, $317,000. SAINT ELIZABETHS HOSPITAL Salaries and expenses: For support, clothing, and treatment in Saint Elizabeths Hospital of persons who have become insane since their entry into the armed forces of the United States, insane bene- ficiaries of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, insane beneficiaries of the United States Employees' Compensation Commission, and all other insane persons whose admission to the hospital is authorized by law, including reimbursement to employees for the cost of repair or replace- ment (where the damage exceeds $2 and does not exceed $100) of per- sonal belongings damaged or destroyed by patients while employees were in line of duty; travel expenses; printing and binding; and not exceeding $3,000 for maintenance, repair, and operation of motor- propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and not to exceed $185,000 for repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, and not to exceed $15,000 for furnishing and laundering of such wearing apparel as may be prescribed for employees in the performance of their official duties, $2,861,000, including cooperation with organizations or individuals in scientific research into the nature, causes, prevention, and treatment of mental illness, and including maintenance and operation of necessary facilities for feeding employees and others (at not less than cost), and the proceeds therefrom shall reimburse the appropriation for the insti- tution; and not exceeding $1,500 of this sum may be expended in the removal of patients to their friends; for expenses of attendance at meetings of a technical nature, pertaining to hospital administration and medical advancement, when authorized by the Federal Security Administrator; not exceeding $1,500 for the purchase of such books, periodicals, and newspapers as may be required for the purposes of the hospital and for the medical library, and not exceeding $1,500 for the actual and necessary expenses incurred in the apprehension and 371 Station at Cincin- nati, Ohio. 46 Stat. 818.

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