Creation and Status

APPENDIX 4

LAWS

A. INDEX TO LAWS

Establishment of marine hospitals...
Organization of Marine Hospital Service.
Name changed to Public Health and Marine
Hospital Service.

.I Stat. L., 605 .16 Stat. L., 169

.32 Stat. L., 713

Service to remain under Treasury Department
until otherwise specifically provided by
law....

Name changed to Public Health Service...
Personnel

Positions established

Directors of marine hospitals...

33 Stat. L., 650 .37 Stat. L., 309

.1 Stat. L., 605

Director of marine hospital at New Orleans..2 Stat. L., 192
Supervising Surgeon, Marine Hospital Ser-

16 Stat. L., 169

.18 Stat. L., 377, 485

.32 Stat. L., 712

Surgeon General, Public Health Service....37 Stat. L., 309

Acting Surgeon General.

.32 Stat. L., 712

Assistant Surgeons General.

32 Stat. L., 712;

40 Stat. L., 886

Advisory Board for hygienic laboratory....32 Stat. L., 712

Chiefs of divisions of chemistry, zoology,

and pharmacology of the hygienic
laboratory

Director of hygienic laboratory.

Senior surgeons

32 Stat. L., 712

.32 Stat. L., 712

.37 Stat. L., 309

Commissioned officers in reserve corps..

40 Stat. L., 1017

.41 Stat. L., 174

1 Stat. L., 605

Assistant Surgeons General at large.

Method of appointment

Directors of marine hospitals....

Director of marine hospital at New Orleans. .2 Stat. L., 192
Supervising Surgeon of Marine Hospital

Service

16 Stat. L., 169

.25 Stat. L., 639 .32 Stat. L., 712

Advisory Board for hygienic laboratory....32 Stat. L., 712

Chiefs of divisions of chemistry, zoology,

and pharmacology of the
laboratory

Director of hygienic laboratory.
Commissioned officers in reserve

Qualifications of

Medical officers

Assistant Surgeons General.

40 Stat. L., 886

hygienic

.32 Stat. L., 712 32 Stat. L., 712

corps....40 Stat. L., 1017

Chiefs of divisions of chemistry, zoology,
and pharmacology in hygienic labor-
atory

.26 Stat. L., 31

.32 Stat. L., 712

.32 Stat. L., 712

Advisory Board for hygienic laboratory....32 Stat. L., 712

vice, as regards marine hospitals......16 Stat. L., 169
Supervising Surgeon General, Marine Hos-
pital Service, as regards maritime and
foreign quarantine

Supervising Surgeon General, Marine Hos-
pital Service, relieved of duties

re

lating to maritime and foreign quar

.20 Stat. L., 37

antine for a period of four years......21 Stat. L., 5 Supervising Surgeon General, Marine Hos

pital Service, to prepare regulations

to prevent spread of cholera, yellow

fever, smallpox or plague.... ........26 Stat. L., 31 Supervising Surgeon General, Marine Hos

pital Service, as regards interstate and
foreign quarantine

..27 Stat. L., 449

Surgeon General Public Health and Marine

Hospital Service

.32 Stat. L., 712

Advisory Board for hygienic laboratory....32 Stat. L., 712 Salaries and allowances

Supervising Surgeon of Marine Hospital

Service

Supervising Surgeon General, Marine Hospi-
tal Service

Surgeon General, Public Health and Marine
Hospital Service

.16 Stat. L., 169

18 Stat. L., 377, 485

.32 Stat. L., 712

Surgeon General, Public Health Service...37 Stat. L., 309;

Commissioned officers

Public 235, 67th Cong. .32 Stat. L., 712; Public 235, 67th Cong. Stat. L., 712

Advisory Board for hygenic laboratory....32
Chiefs of divisions of chemistry, zoölogy,

and pharmacology of the hygienic
laboratory

Director of hygenic laboratory..

.32 Stat. L., 712 .32 Stat. L., 712; 37 Stat. L., 915

Commissioned and noncommissioned officers
on duty at leprosarium in Hawaii or in-
vestigating leprosy in Hawaii.. .33

36

Surgeon General, Assistant Surgeons Gen-
eral, senior surgeons, surgeons, passed
assistant surgeons, and assistant sur-
geons

.....

.37

Officers detailed to home for lepers in con-
tinental United States....
Commissioned officers in the reserve
corps

Officers to be credited with service in Army,
Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and
and Coast and Geodetic Survey in com-
puting longevity pay

Transportation to be furnished to wife and

.39 Stat. L., 872

.40 Stat. L., 1017

.41 Stat. L., 507,

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dependent children of officers........41 Stat. L., 601 Temporary increase for assistant surgeons

general, senior surgeons, passed assistant

.41 Stat. L., 601

surgeons, and assistant surgeons......41 Stat. L., 601 Commission to report on readjustment of pay and allowances of commissioned officers Money not to be used for payment of commutation of quarters, subsistence and laundry or quarters, heat and light and longevity to any employee other than the commissioned medical officers provided for by statute......

Miscellaneous provisions

.41 Stat. L., 1374

Promotion of assistant surgeons and passed

assistant surgeons..

Leave of absence to medical officers.

Status of officers serving with Coast Guard,

.25 Stat. L., 639

.29 Stat. L., 554

Army, or Navy in time of war..... .40 Stat. L., 242

.32 Stat. L., 712

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President to prescribe rules regarding con-
duct of service, internal administration,
discipline, and uniforms.
President may utilize service in time of
actual or threatened warfare..... .32 Stat. L., 712
President may transfer specified hospitals to

Veterans' Bureau

. Public 47, 67th Cong.

Transfer of certain activities to Veterans'

Public 47, 67th Cong.

Bureau...
Source of funds and limitation on expenditure
Hospital fund from tax on seamen to be
expended in district where col-
lected

President authorized to receive donations

for hospitals

I Stat. L., 605

..I Stat. L., 605

Hospitals fund from tax on seamen may
be expended in state next adjoining
that in which collected... ......I Stat. L., 729
Tax on officers, seamen, and marines

of navy....

Hospital fund made a general fund to

.I Stat. L., 729

be expended where needed..... .2 Stat. L., 192 Hospital tax on seamen of vessels

navigating Mississippi River......2 Stat. L., 192 Hospital tax on seamen increased. .16 Stat. L., 169 Tax on seamen not to apply to persons

.23 Stat. L., 57

employed on canal boats... ...16 Stat. L., 595 Tax on seamen repealed and tax on tonnage provided Permanent appropriation of receipts from tonnage taxes repealed; service to be maintained by annual appropriations Appropriations for Bureau of War Risk Insurance not to be used to reimburse government owned hospitals or hospitals under contract

.33 Stat. L., 1217

with Public Health Service... ..41 Stat. L., 173 Appropriations not to be expended for

advertising for any purposes other

than to procure bids...

.41 Stat. L., 508

Medical relief for officers, seamen, and
marines of the navy..

Hospital at New Orleans authorized..
Foreign seamen to be admitted to hospitals

.40 Stat. L., 644

I Stat. L., 605 16 Stat. L., 169

I Stat. L., 729 2 Stat. L., 192

at rate of seventy-five cents a day...... 2 Stat. L., 192
Foreign seamen to be admitted to hospitals
at rate prescribed by the Secretary
of the Treasury..

Separate naval hospitals established.
Definition of term vessel..

Medical relief not to be given to persons

employed on canal boats..

Definition of term seamen..

18 Stat. L., 485

2 Stat. L., 650 .16 Stat. L., 169

.16 Stat. L., 595

Insane patients to be admitted to Govern-
ment hospital for the Insane at rate of
of $4.50 a week...

Insane patients in St. Elizabeth's Hospital
(Government Hospital for the Insane)
to be paid for at actual cost of main-
tenance.....

.18 Stat. L., 485

.18 Stat. L., 485

.40 Stat. L.,

644

.28 Stat. L., 229 .33 Stat. L., 1009

diseases

.36 Stat. L., 1394

Commissioned officers, pharmacists

and