giene 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; the sum of $300,000, which shall be paid to such universities, colleges, or other suitable institutions or organizations, as in the judgment of the Interdepartmental Social Hygiene Board are qualified for scientific research, for the purpose of discovering and developing more effective educational measures in the prevention of venereal diseases, and for the purpose of sociological and psychological research related thereto.

SEC. 7. That there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $300,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, to be apportioned as follows: The sum of $200,000 to defray the expenses of the establishment and maintenance of the Division of Venereal Diseases in the Bureau of the Public Health Service; and the sum of $100,000 to be used under the direction of the Interdepartmental Social Hygiene Board for any purpose for which any of the appropriations made by this chapter are available. SEC. 8. That the terms "State" and "States" as used in this chapter shall be held to include the District of Columbia. (Act July 9, 1918, ch. 143, 40 Stat. 886.)

* Hereafter the Secretary of the Treasury may detail medical officers of the Public Health Service to the Department of Agriculture for cooperative assistance in the administration of the food and drugs act, approved June 30, 1906, and amended August 23, 1912, and the compensation and expenses of the officers so detailed may be paid from the applicable appropriations made herein for enforcement of said act. (Department of Agriculture appropriation act Oct. 1, 1918, ch. 178, 40 Stat. 992.)

Joint resolution to aid in combating "Spanish influenza and other communicable diseases.

That to enable the Public Health Service to combat and suppress Spanish influenza" and other communicable diseases by aiding State and local boards of health, or otherwise, including pay and allowances of medical and sanitary personnel, medical and hospital supplies, printing, clerical services, and rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, transportation, freight, and such other expenses as may be necessary, there is appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $1,000,000, to be available until June 30, 1919.

SEC. 2. That the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Secretary of the Treasury are authorized and directed, respectively, to utilize jointly the personnel and facilities of the Medical Department of the Army, the Medical Department of the Navy, and the Public Health Service, so far as possible, in aiding to combat and suppress the said diseases. (Res. Oct. 1, 1918, ch. 179, 40 Stat. 1008.)

Joint resolution to establish a reserve of the Public Health Service.

That for the purpose of securing a reserve for duty in the Public Health Service in time of national emergency there shall be organized, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, under such rules and regulations as the President shall prescribe, a reserve of the Public Health Service. The President alone shall be authorized to appoint and commission as officers in the 107941-22

said reserve such citizens as, upon examination prescribed by the President, shall be found physically, mentally, and morally qualified to hold such commissions, and said commissions shall be in force for a period of five years, unless sooner terminated in the discretion of the President, but commission in said reserve shall not exempt the holder from military or naval service: Provided, That the officers commissioned under this act, none of whom shall have rank above that of assistant surgeon general, shall be distributed in the several grades in the same proportion as now obtains among the commissioned medical officers of the United States Public Health Service and shall at all times be subject to call to active duty by the Surgeon General and when on such active duty shall receive the same pay and allowances as are now provided by law and regulation for the commissioned medical officers in the said regular commissioned medical corps. (Res. Oct 27, 1918, ch. 196, 40 Stat. 1017.)

An act authorizing the construction of a building for the Public Health Service in the city of Washington, District of Columbia.

That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to contract for the construction of an additional building for laboratory purposes and research work and for enlarging and remodeling the present animal house connected with the Hygienic Laboratory, Public Health Service, Washington, District of Columbia, at a limit of cost of $250,000.

In carrying the foregoing authorization for additional buildings to the Hygiene Laboratory into effect, the Secretary of the Treasury may enter into contracts or purchase materials in the open market, or otherwise, and employ laborers and mechanics for executing the work as in his judgment may best meet the public exigencies, within the limits of the authorization herein made. (Act Oct. 30, 1918, ch. 198, 40 Stat. 1018.)

An act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to provide hospital and sanatorium facilities for discharged sick and disabled soldiers, sailors, and marines.

That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to provide immediate additional hospital and sanatorium facilities for the care and treatment of discharged sick and disabled soldiers, sailors, and marines, Army and Navy nurses (male and female), patients of the War Risk Insurance Bureau, and the following persons only: Merchant marine seamen, seamen on boats of the Mississippi River Commission, officers and enlisted men of the United States Coast Guard, officers and employees of the Public Health Service, certain keepers and assistant keepers of the United States Lighthouse Service, seamen of the Engineer Corps of the United States Army, officers and enlisted men of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, civilian employees entitled to treatment under the United States employees' compensation act, and employees on Army transports not officers or enlisted men of the Army, now entitled by law to treatment by the Public Health Service.

SEC. 2. There are hereby permanently transferred to the Treasury Department for the use of the Public Health Service for hospital or sanatoria or other uses the following properties, with their present equipment, including sites and leases, or so much thereof as may be required by the Public Health Service, including mechanical equipment in connection therewith, and approaches thereto, with authority to lease or purchase sites not owned by the Government, as follows: Hospitals, with such other buildings and land as may be required,

at Camp Cody (New Mexico), Camp Hancock (Georgia), Camp Joseph E. Johnston (Florida), Camp Beauregard (Louisiana), Camp Logan (Texas), Camp Fremont (California), and nitrate plant, Perryville (Maryland), and such hospitals, with other necessary buildings, hereafter vacated by the War Department, as may be required and found suitable for the needs of the Public Health Service for hospital or sanatoria purposes. And for the purpose of such remodeling of or additions to the above-named plants as may be required to adapt them to the needs and uses of the Public Health Service, the sum of $750,000 is hereby authorized.

SEC. 3. The Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to transfer without charge to the Secretary of the Treasury for the use of the Public Health Service such hospital furniture and equipment, including hospital and medical supplies, motor trucks, and other motor-driven vehicles, in good condition, not required by the War Department, as may be required by the Public Health Service for its hospitals, and the President is authorized to direct the transfer to the Treasury Department of the use of such lands or parts of lands, buildings, fixtures, appliances, furnishings, or furniture under the control of any other department of the Government not required for the purposes of such department and suitable for the uses of the Public Health Service.

SEC. 4. So much of the Battle Mountain Sanatorium at Hot Springs, S. Dak., the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, with its present equipment, as is not required for the purposes for which these facilities were provided, is hereby made available for the use of the Public Health Service for a period of five years from the approval of this act, unless sooner released by the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service.

SEC. 5. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to contract with any existing hospital or sanatorium, by lease or otherwise, for immediate use, in whole or in part, of their present facilities, so as to provide bed capacity and facilities for not exceeding 1,000 patients, and for such purposes the sum of $300,000 is hereby authorized.

SEC. 6. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized, if in his judgment the same will be for the best interests of the Government from the standpoint of cost, location, and of the emergency needs of the Public Health Service, to purchase the site, buildings, and hospital facilities and appurtenances, at Corpus Christi, Tex., known as General Hospital Numbered 15, and for such purpose the sum of $150,000 is hereby authorized.

The sum of $1,500,000 is hereby authorized to be held as an emergency fund for the purchase of land and buildings suitable for hospital and sanatoria purposes, which the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to select and locate, and to make additions and improvements suitable to adapt them to the uses of the United States Public Health Service, if in his judgment the emergency requires it.

SEC. 7. By the construction of new hospitals and sanatoria, to include the necessary buildings with their appropriate mechanical and other equipment and approach work, including roads leading thereto, for the accommodation of patients, officers, nurses, attendants, storage, laundries, vehicles, and live stock on sites now owned by the Government, or on new sites to be acquired by purchase or otherwise, at the places hereinafter named: Provided, That if the Secretary of the Treasury shall make a finding that any hospital project hereinafter specifically authorized is not to the best interest of the Government from the standpoint of cost, location, and of the emergency needs of the Public Health Service, he is hereby authorized to reject such project or projects and to locate, construct, or acquire hospitals at such other locations as would best subserve

the interest of the Government and the emergency needs of the Public Health Service within the limits of cost of such authorization.

(a) At Cook County, Ill., by taking over the land and executing the contract for the construction thereon of hospital buildings specified therein of a certain proposd contract executed by the Shank Co., August 31, 1918, and in accordance with such contract and the plans and specifications, identified in connection therewith August 31, 1918, by the signature and initials of Brig. Gen. R. C. Marshall, jr., Construction Division, Quartermaster Department, United States Army, by Lieut. Col. C. C. Wright, and the Shank Co., by George H. Shank, president, at the cost stated therein, namely, $2,500,000, with such changes in said plans and specifications as may be required by the Secretary of the Treasury to adapt said specified buildings to the needs and purposes of the Public Health Service, at a total limit of cost not to exceed $3,000,000.

(b) In carrying the foregoing authorization into effect, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to execute the contract with the Shank Co. hereinbefore specified, with such verbal changes as are made necessary by a change in the contracting officers, and to assume all obligations in said contract contained, and to purchase materials and labor in the open market, or otherwise, and to employ laborers and mechanics for the construction of such buildings and their equipment as in his judgment shall best meet the public exigencies, within the limits of cost herein authorized.

(c) At Dawson Springs, Ky., on land to be acquired by gift, the necessary buildings for a sanatorium having a capacity of not less than 500 beds. The sum of $1,500,000 is hereby authorized for the construction of such sanatorium. (d) The sum of $900,000 is hereby authorized for the construction, including site, of a hospital plant complete at Norfolk, Va.

(e) The sum of $550,000 is hereby authorized for the construction, on land owned by the Government, on a site to be selected by the Secretary of the Treasury with the approval of the President, of a hospital plant complete in the District of Columbia or vicinity.

(f) The sum of $190.000 is hereby authorized for additional hospital accommodations, including such minor alteration in and remodeling of existing and authorized buildings as may be necessary to economically adapt them to the additional accommodations herein authorized for the marine hospital at Stapleton, Staten Island, N. Y., the sum appropriated for additions to the said hospital by the act approved March 28, 1918, is authorized to be expended in full without the construction of psychiatric units.

SEC. 8. In carrying the foregoing authorization into effect, all new construction work herein authorized shall, as far as feasible, be of fire-resisting character, and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to enter into contracts for the construction, equipment, etc., of such buildings on Government owned lands, or lands acquired for such purpose, to purchase materials and labor in the open market, or otherwise, and to employ laborers and mechanics for the construction of such buildings and their equipment as in his judgment shall best meet the public exigencies, within the limits of cost herein authorized.

SEC. 9. For the purpose of carrying the foregoing authorization into effect, there is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately available and remain available until expended, the sum of $8,840,000, and for furniture and equipment not otherwise provided for, the sum of $210.000; in all, $9,050,000.

SEC. 10. And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to employ, for service within or without the District of Columbia.

without regard to civil-service laws, rules, and regulations, and to pay from the sums hereby authorized and appropriated for construction purposes, at customary rates of compensation, such additional technical and clerical services as may be necessary, exclusively to aid in the preparation of the drawings and specifications for the above-named objects and supervision of the execution thereof, for traveling expenses, and printing incident thereto, at a total limit of cost for such additional technical and clerical services and traveling expenses, and so forth, of not exceeding $210,000 of the above-named limit of cost. All of the above-mentioned work shall be under the direction and supervision of the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury.

SEC. 11. There is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for necessary personnel, including regular and reserve commissioned officers of the Public Health Service and clerical help in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and maintenance, hospital supplies and equipment, leases, fuel, lights, and water, and freight, transportation, and travel, and reasonable burial expenses (not exceeding $100 for any patient dying in hospital), $785,333 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919. (Act Mar. 3, 1919, ch. 98, 40 Stat. 1302.)

The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to acquire and complete immediately the hospital at Broadview, Cook County, Ill., authorized and appropriated for by an act entitled "An act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to provide hospital and sanatorium facilities for discharged sick and disabled soldiers, sailors, and marines," approved March 3, 1919 (public act Numbered 326, 65th Congress).

The last paragraph of section 6 of the "Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to provide hospital and sanatorium facilities for discharged sick and disabled soldiers, sailors, and marines," approved March 3, 1919, is hereby amended to read as follows: The sum of $1,500,000 is hereby authorized to be held as an emergency fund for the purchase of land and the erection thereon of buildings or for the purchase of land and buildings, and the remodeling thereof, suitable for hospital and sanatoria purposes, which the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to select and locate for the uses of the United States Public Health Service, if in his judgment the emergency requires it. (Deficiency appropriation act July 11, 1919, ch. 6, 41 Stat. 45.)

The heads of the several executive departments and other Government establishments are authorized and directed to submit to Congress not later than the first Monday in December, 1919, a statement showing for the fiscal year 1919 the activities of their respective departments or establishments pertaining to the public health, and the amounts expended on account of each of the said activities. (Sundry civil appropriation act July 19, 1919, ch. 24, 41 Stat. 176.)

* That so much of an act entitled “An act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes" (Public Numbered 5, 66th Congress), as reads as follows: "The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to acquire and complete immediately the hospital at Broadview, Cook County, Ill., authorized and appropriated for by an act entitled 'An act to authorize the