Detention Houses and Reformatories as Protective Social Agencies in the Campaign of the United States Government Against Venereal Diseases

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Page 32 - An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military establishment of the United States", approved May 18, 1917, or any.
Page 223 - Treasury, (1) to study and investigate the cause, treatment, and prevention of venereal diseases; (2) to cooperate with State Boards or Departments of Health for the prevention and control of such diseases within the states; and (3) to control and prevent the spread of these diseases in interstate traffic...
Page 35 - Treasury as ex-officio members, and of the Surgeon General of the Army, the Surgeon General of the Navy, and the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service...
Page 9 - Sec. 2. That the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy are hereby authorized and directed to adopt measures for the purpose of assisting the various states in caring for civilian persons whose detention, isolation, quarantine, or commitment to institutions may be found necessary for the protection of the military and naval forces of the United States against venereal diseases.
Page 222 - Service, which officer, while thus serving, shall be an assistant surgeon general of the Public Health Service, subject to the provisions of law applicable to assistant surgeons general in charge of administrative divisions in the District of Columbia of the Bureau of the Public Health Service. There shall be in such division such assistants, clerks, investigators, and other employees as may be necessary for the performance of its duties and as may be provided for by Congress.
Page 223 - Navy to carry out the provisions of section 2 of this chapter: Provided, That the appropriation herein made shall not be deemed exclusive, but shall be in addition to other appropriations of a more general character which are applicable to the same or similar purposes.
Page 20 - Board are qualified for scientific research, for the purpose of discovering, in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed by the Interdepartmental Social Hygiene Board, more effective medical measures in the prevention and treatment of venereal diseases...
Page 17 - ... (3) to recommend to the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of War, and the Secretary of the Navy such general measures as will promote correlation and efficiency...
Page 13 - Carter Glass, Secretary of the Treasury. Newton D. Baker. Secretary of War. Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy. Lieut. Col. WF Snow, Medical Corps, US Army.
Page 222 - Marine Corps, and the Coast Guard shall be distributed in the several pay grades by the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Secretary of the Treasury, respectively.