Sec. CHAPTER C Leprosy Hospital and Laboratory This chapter includes the provisions for the establishment, maintenance, and regulation of the Leprosy Hospital Station and Laboratory at Molokai, Hawaii, principally the provisions of Act March 3, 1905, c. 1443, of a permanent nature. Sec. 9186. Regulations for administration, etc. 9187. Additional pay and allowances to officers detailed. 9188. Additional compensation to officers engaged in investigations. § 9183. (Act March 3, 1905, c. 1443, § 1.) Hospital station and laboratory for study of leprosy at Molokai, Hawaii; establish ment. When the Territorial government of Hawaii shall cede to the United States in perpetuity suitable tract of land one mile square, more or less, on the leper reservation at Molokai, Hawaii, there shall be established thereon a hospital station and laboratory of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service of the United States for the study of the methods of transmission, cause, and treatment of leprosy. (33 Stat. 1009.) This was the first section of an act entitled "An act to provide for the investigation of leprosy, with special reference to the care and treatment of lepers in Hawaii." Sections 3, 4, 6, and 7 of the act are set forth post, §§ 9184-9187. Section 2 of the act authorized the Secretary of the Treasury to cause the erection, upon the site mentioned in section 1 of suitable and necessary buildings for the purposes of the act, not to exceed the sum appropriated therefor; and section 5 appropriated $100,000 for the erection of necessary buildings and other equipment, and $50,000, or so much thereof as necessary, for maintenance and pay of all officers and employés during the fiscal year 1906. Both said sections are omitted, as temporary merely, and executed. Subsequent appropriations for the Leprosy Hospital are included in the appropriations for quarantine service in the annual sundry civil appropriation acts. The provision for the fiscal year 1914 was by Act June 23, 1913, c. 3, § 1, 38 Stat. 24. § 9184. (Act March 3, 1905, c. 1443, § 3.) Patients; admission and treatment. For the purposes of this Act the Surgeon-General, through his accredited agent, is authorized to receive at such station such patients afflicted with leprosy as may be committed to his care under legal authorization of the Territory of Hawaii, not to exceed forty in number to be under treatment at any time, said patients to remain under the jurisdiction of the said Surgeon-General, or his agent, until returned to the proper authorities of Hawaii. (33 Stat. 1009.) See notes to section 1 of this act, ante, § 9183. § 9185. (Act March 3, 1905, c. 1443, § 4.) Detail of medical officers, etc., and employés of Public Health Service. The Surgeon-General of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service of the United States is authorized to detail or appoint, for the purposes of these investigations and treatment, such medical officers, acting assistant surgeons, pharmacists, and employees as may be necessary for said purpose. (33 Stat. 1009.) See notes to section 1 of this act, ante, § 9183. § 9186. (Act March 3, 1905, c. 1443, § 6.) Regulations for administration, etc. The Surgeon-General of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service shall, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, make and adopt regulations for the administration and government of the hospital station and laboratory and for the management and treatment of all patients of such hospital. (33 Stat. 1010.) See notes to section 1 of this act, ante, § 9183. § 9187. (Act March 3, 1905, c. 1443, § 7.) Additional pay and allowances to officers detailed. When any commissioned or noncommissioned officer of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service is detailed for duty at the leprosarium herein provided for, he shall receive, in addition to the pay and allowances of his grade, one-half the pay, of said grade and such allowances as may be provided for by the SurgeonGeneral of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury. (33 Stat. 1010.) See notes to section 1 of this act, ante, § 9183. The provisions of this section apply to officers engaged in investigations of leprosy at Kalihi and other places in Hawaii, by a provision of Act March 4, 1911, c. 285, § 1, post, § 9188. § 9188. (Act March 4, 1911, c. 285, § 1.) Additional compensation to officers engaged in investigations. Maintenance of leprosy hospital, Hawaii: For maintenance of leprosy hospital, Hawaii, including pay of officers and employees: Provided, That the provisions of section seven of the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and five, as to compensation shall apply to said officers while engaged in investigations of leprosy at Kalihi and other places in Hawaii, thirty-three thousand dollars. (36 Stat. 1394.) This was a provision of the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year 1912, cited above. Act March 3, 1905, c. 1443, § 7, mentioned in this provision, is set forth ante, § 9187. (4197) Chap. TITLE LIX HOSPITALS, ASYLUMS, AND CEMETERIES 1. Hospital relief for seamen.. 1A. Navy hospitals, Naval Home, and Army and Navy hospitals. 2. The Soldiers' Home.... 3. The National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. 4. The Government Hospital for the Insane.. 5. The Columbia Institution for the Deaf. 6. National cemeteries..... Sec. 9189 9199 9213 9238 9292 9340 9362 Sec. CHAPTER ONE 9189. Power to receive gifts in aid of marine hospitals. 9190. Definition of word "seaman," in laws relating to marine hospitals. 9191. Persons employed on canal-boats in the coasting-trade excluded. 9192. Admission to marine hospitals and treatment of employés of Life-Saving Service. 9193. Admission of foreign seamen. Sec. 9194. Care of foreign seamen. 9196. Commissioned officers and em- 9197. Lease or sale of marine hospitals. 9198. Renting or leasing of marine hospitals. § 9189. (R. S. § 4801.) Power to receive gifts in aid of marine hospitals. The President is authorized to receive donations of real or personal property, in the name of the United States, for the erection or support of hospitals for sick and disabled seamen. Act July 16, 1798, c. 77, § 4, 1 Stat. 606. The Secretary of the Navy was authorized to procure sites for Navy hospitals, by R. S. § 4810, as amended by Act March 4, 1913, c 148, post, § 9203. (R. S. § 4802. Transferred to Title LVIII, Chapter A.) This section authorized the Secretary of the Treasury to appoint a supervising surgeon of the Marine-Hospital Service, and prescribed his duties, compensation, etc. It is placed, with subsequent provisions relating to said Service, designated the "Public Health Service," and to the Surgeon-General, ante, in Title LVIII, "The Public Health," c. A, "The Public Health Service," § 9130. (R. S. § 4803. Superseded.) This section provided for the deposit of moneys collected under provisions imposing a tax upon seamen for hospital purposes, with the depositaries of public moneys, to be placed to the credit of "the fund for the relief of 'sick and disabled seamen," and appropriated such fund for the expenses of the MarineHospital Service. It was superseded by the repeal, by the Shipping Act of June 26, 1884, c. 121, § 15, 23 Stat. 57, of R. S. §§ 4585-4587, and all other acts and parts of acts providing for the assessment and collection of a hospital tax on seamen, with the further provision that the expense of maintaining the MarineHospital Service should be borne by the United States out of the receipts for tonnage duties provided for by that act, and so much thereof as might be necessary was appropriated for that purpose. But so much of said section 15 of Act June 26, 1884, c. 121, as made a permanent appropriation of the receipts for duties on tonnage for the expenses of maintaining the Marine-Hospital Service was repealed by Act March 3, 1905, c. 1484, § 1, 33 Stat. 1217, and the Secretary of the Treasury was directed to submit to Congress annually, in the Book of Estimates, detailed estimates of maintaining the Service, by a further provision of said last-mentioned act, ante, § 6694. A permanent appropriation of the proceeds of leases and sales of marine hospital buildings, etc., for the marine hospital establishment, was made by R. S. § 3689, ante, § 6799 (24). The designation of the Marine-Hospital Service was changed to the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service by Act July 1, 1902, c. 1370, § 1, ante, § 9134 and was again changed to the Public Health Service by Act Aug. 14, 1912, c. 288, § 1, ante, § 9128. See notes to that section. Appropriations for expenses of the Public Health Service, including maintenance, etc., of marine hospitals, and medical examinations, care of seamen, and care and treatment of other persons entitled to relief, etc., are made in the annual sundry appropriation acts. The provisions for the fiscal year 1914 were by Act June 23, 1913, c. 3, § 1, 38 Stat. 23. § 9190. (Act March 3, 1875, c. 156, § 3.) Definition of word "seaman," in laws relating to marine hospitals. That term "seaman," wherever employed in legislation relating to the marine-hospital service, shall be held to include any person employed on board in the care, preservation, or navigation of any vessel, or in the service, on board, of those engaged in such care, preservation, or navigation. (18 Stat. 485.) This section was part of an act entitled “An act to promote economy and efficiency in the Marine-Hospital Service." Section 1 of the act provided that the Secretary of the Treasury should cause to be prepared a schedule of the average number of men required to navigate vessels, and that hospital dues should be collected from the master or owner according to such schedule. Section 2 of the act provided for the keeping of a seaman's time book by certain vessels, and for the imposition, collection, and appropriation of a penalty for the failure to do so. Both sections were repealed by Act June 26, 1884, c. 121, § 15, 23 Stat. 57, which further provided that receipts for duties on tonnage should be appropriated for the expenses of maintaining the Marine-Hospital Service, but that portion of the section was repealed by Act March 3, 1905, c. 1484, § 1, 33 Stat. 1217. Section 4 of this act, authorizing the renting or leasing of marine hospital buildings, is set forth post, § 9198. Section 5 of this act, providing for admission of insane patients of the Marine-Hospital Service to the Government Hospital for the Insane, is set forth post, 9302. Section 6 of this act, providing that sick and disabled seamen of foreign vessels may be cared for by the Marine-Hospital Service, is set forth post, § 9194. Section 7 of this act provided that the compensation of the SupervisingSurgeon should be paid out of the marine hospital fund, and fixed his salary at $4,000 a year. A similar provision was made by Act March 3, 1875, c. 130, § 1, ante, § 9131. Said provisions of both acts as to the payment and amount of such salary were superseded by subsequent provisions relating thereto, particularly by Act Aug. 14, 1912, c. 288, § 2, ante, § 9129, making the amount thereof $6,000. See notes to said Act March 3, 1875, c. 130, 1, ante, § 9131. The privilege of admission to and temporary treatment in the marine hospitals was extended to the keepers and crews of life-saving stations, by Act Aug. 4, 1894, c. 213, post, § 9192. The admission to marine hospitals and the care by the Service of sick and disabled seamen of foreign vessels were authorized by R. S. § 4805, post, § 9193, and section 6 of this act, post, § 9194. The admission to the marine hospitals, for study, of persons with infectious, etc., diseases, was authorized by a provision of Act May 1, 1913, c. 3, § 1, post, 9195. Commissioned officers and certain employés of the Service were to be entitled to hospital relief when taken sick or injured in line of duty, by a further provision of Act May 1, 1913, c. 3, § 1, post, § 9196. § 9191. (R. S. § 4804.) Persons employed on canal-boats in the coasting-trade excluded. No person employed in or connected with the navigation, management, or use of canal-boats engaged in the coasting-trade shall by reason thereof be entitled to any benefit or relief from the marine-hospital fund. Res. Feb. 10, 1871, No. 27, § 1, 16 Stat. 595. § 9192. (Act Aug. 4, 1894, c. 213.) Admission to marine hospitals and treatment of employés of Life-Saving Service. The privilege of admission to and temporary treatment in the marine hospitals under the control of the Government of the United States be, and is hereby, extended to the keepers and crews of the Life-Saving Service under the same rules and regulations as those governing sailors and seamen, and for the purposes of this Act members of the Life-Saving Service shall be received in said hospitals and treated therein, and at the dispensaries thereof, as are seamen of American registered vessels; but this Act shall not be so construed as to compel the establishment of hospitals or dispensaries for the benefit of said keepers and crews, nor as establishing a home for the same when permanently disabled. (28 Stat. 229.) This was an act entitled "An act extending the benefits of the marine hospitals to the keepers and crews of life-saving stations." § 9193. (R. S. § 4805.) Admission of foreign seamen. Sick foreign seamen may be admitted to the marine hospitals within the United States, if it can with convenience be done, on the application of the master of any foreign vessel to which any such seaman may belong. Each seaman so admitted shall be subject to a charge of seventy-five cents per day for each day he may remain in the hospital, which shall be paid by the master of such foreign vessel to the collector of the collection-district in which such hospital is situated. And the collector shall not grant a clearance to any foreign vessel until the money so due from her master shall be paid. The officer in charge of each hospital is hereby directed, under penalty of fifty dollars, to make out the accounts against each foreign seaman |