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 65 STAT.1

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PUBLIC LAW 106—AUG, 3. 1951

and crippled children, cancer control, public health engineering, nursing, psychiatry, ambulances, laboratories, and out-patient relief of the poor, including medical and surgical supplies, artificial limbs and appliances, eyeglasses, and fees to physicians under contracts to be made by the Director of Public Health and approved by the Commissioners; such expenses to include contract investigational service; services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a); uniforms; rent; manufacture of serum in indigent cases; and allowances for privately owned automobiles used for the performance of official duties by dairy-farm inspectors at the rate of 7 cents per mile but not more than $840 per annum for each automobile; $2,681,500: Provided, That, hereafter, 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 maintenance of medical services in the Health Department: Provided further, That amounts to be determined by the Commissioners may be expended for special services in detecting adulteration of drugs and foods, including candy and milk and other products and services subject to inspection by the Health Department. Operating expenses, Glenn Dale Tuberculosis Sanatorium: For expenses necessary, including compensation of consulting physicians and dentists at rates to be fixed by the Commissioners; 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; classroom supplies; and repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds; $2,286,000: Provided, That, hereafter, 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 operation of this institution. Capital outlay, Glenn Dale Tuberculosis Hospital: For an addition to existing pump house for new high tension electrical system, including equipment, $58,000. Operating expenses, Gallinger Municipal Hospital and the Tuberculosis Hospital: For expenses necessary including expenses of the training school for nurses and repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $4,950,000: Provided, That, hereafter, 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 operation of these hospitals. Capital outlay, Gallinger Municipal Hospital: For paving, drainage, and correction of odors around Surgical and Medical Buildings, and for an additional amount for elevators in the surgical building and the storeroom, $197,200, to remain available until expended. The unobligated balance of the appropriation of $382,909 for furnishing and equipping the combination pediatrics and crippled children's building at Gallinger Hospital, contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1950, shall remain available until June 30, 1952. Medical charities: For care and treatment of indigent patients under contracts to be made by the Director of Public Health of the District of Columbia and approved by the Commissioners with institutions, as follows: Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital; Children's Hospital; Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital; Episcopal Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital; Garfield Memorial Hospital; George Washington University Hospital; Georgetown University Hospital; Providence Hospital; and Washington Home for Incurables;

60 Stat. 810. Automobile allowances. Volunteer services.

Special services.

63 Stat. 312.

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