public health service

public health service For necessary expenses in carrying out the Public Health Service Act, as amended (42 U. S. C., ch, 6A) (hereinafter referred to as the Act), and other Acts, including expenses for active commissioned officers in the Reserve Corps and for not to exceed one thousand five hundred commissioned officers in the Regular Corps, as follows: Assistance to States, general: To carry out the purposes, not otherwise specifically provided for, of section 314 (c) of the Act; to provide consultative services to States pursuant to section 311 of the Act; to make field investigations and demonstrations pursuant to section 301 of the Act; to provide for collecting and compiling mortality, morbidity, and vital statistics; and not to exceed $1,000 for entertainment of officials of other countries when specifically authorized by the Surgeon General; $13,660,000. Venereal diseases: To carry out the purposes of sections 314 (a) and 363 of the Act with respect to venereal diseases including the operation and maintenance of centers for the diagnosis and treatment of persons afflicted with venereal diseases; and for grants of money, services, supplies, equipment, and use of facilities to States, as defined in the Act, and with the approval of the respective State health authorities, to counties, health districts, and other political subdivisions of the States, for the foregoing purposes, in such amounts and upon such terms and conditions as the Surgeon General may determine; $3,500,000. Tuberculosis: To carry out the purposes of section 314 (b) of the Act, $6,000,000, of which not less than $4,500,000 shall be available only for grants to States, to be matched by an equal amount of State and local funds expended for the same purpose, for direct expenses of prevention and case-finding projects including salaries, fees, and travel of personnel directly engaged in prevention and case-finding and the necessary equipment and supplies used directly in prevention and case-finding operations, but excluding the purchase of care in hospitals and sanatoria. Communicable diseases: To carry out, except as otherwise provided for, those provisions of sections 301, 311, and 361 of the Act relating to the prevention and suppression of communicable and preventable diseases, and the interstate transmission and spread thereof, including the purchase, erection, and maintenance of portable buildings; and hire, maintenance, and operation of aircraft; $5,250,000. Sanitary engineering activities: For expenses, not otherwise provided, necessary to carry out those provisions of sections 301, 311, 314 (c), and 361 of the Act relating to sanitation and other aspects 69 Stat. 405 of environmental health, including enforcement of applicable quarantine laws and interstate quarantine regulations, and for carrying out the purposes of the Water Pollution Control Act (33 U. S. C. 466–466 (j)); $3,500,000. Buildings and facilities, Cincinnati, Ohio: For purchase and installation of additional equipment and supplies for the building and facilities at the Robert A. Taft Sanitary Engineering Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, $415,000, to remain available until expended. Disease and sanitation investigations and control. Territory of Alaska: To enable the Surgeon General to conduct, in the Service, and to cooperate with and assist the Territory of Alaska in the conduct of, activities necessary in the investigation, prevention, treatment, and control of diseases, and the establishment and maintenance of health and sanitation services pursuant to and for the purposes specified in sections 301, 311, 314 (without regard to the provisions of subsections (d), (f), (h), and (j) and the limitations set forth in subsection (c) of such section), 361 and 363 of the Act, including the hire, operation, and maintenance of aircraft, and the purchase, erection, and maintenance of portable buildings, $1,125,000. Surveys and planning for hospital construction: The funds appropriated under this head in The Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1955, shall not remain available for expenditure after June 30, 1957. Grants for hospital construction: For payments under parts C and G, title VI, of the Act, as amended, to remain available until expended, $111,000,000, of which $90,000,000 shall be for payments for hospitals and related facilities pursuant to part C, the remainder to be for payments for facilities pursuant to part G, us follows: $6,500,000 for diagnostic or treatment centers, $6,500,000 for hospitals for the chronically ill and impaired, $4,000,000 for rehabilitation facilities, and $4,000,000 for nursing homes: Provided, That allotments under such parts C and G to the several States for the current fiscal year shall be made on the basis of amounts equal to the limitations specified herein: Provided further, That the Surgeon General may allocate from the above sums not to exceed $1,200,000 for the purposes authorized in section 636 of the Act. Salaries and expenses, hospital construction services: For salaries and expenses incident to carrying out title VI of the Act, as amended, $1,250,000. Hospitals and medical cure: For carrying out the functions of the Public Health Service under the Act of August 8, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 150), and under sections 321, 322, 324, 326, 331, 332, 341, 343, 344, 502, 504, and 710 of the Public Health Service Act, Private Law 419 of the Eighty-third Congress, us amended, and Executive Order 9079 of February 26, 1942, including purchase and exchange of farm products and livestock; conducting research on technical nursing standards and furnishing consultative nursing services; purchase of not to exceed one ambulance, for replacement only; and purchase of firearms and ammunition; $34,326,000, of which $1,000,000 shall be exclusively available for payments to the Territory of Hawaii for care and treatment of persons afflicted with leprosy: Provided, That when the Public Health Service establishes or operates a health service program for any department or agency, payment for the estimated cost shall be made in advance for deposit to the credit of this appropriation. Foreign quarantine service: For carrying out the purposes of sections 361 to 369 of the Act, relating to preventing the introduction of communicable diseases from foreign countries, the medical examination of aliens in accordance with section 325 of the Act, and the care and treatment of quarantine detainees pursuant to section 322 (e) of the Act in private or other public hospitals when facilities of the 69 Stat. 406 Public Health Service are not available, including insurance of official motor vehicles in foreign countries when required by law of such countries; purchase of not to exceed thirteen passenger motor vehicles for replacement only; $3,000,000. Indian health activities: For expenses necessary to enable the Surgeon General to carry out the purposes of the Act of August 5, 1954 (Public Law 568), including services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S. C. 55a) (including not to exceed $10,000 for such services at rates not to exceed $100 per diem for individuals, when authorized by the Surgeon General); purchase of not to exceed seventy-two passenger motor vehicles, of which forty-seven shall be for replacement only; hire of passenger motor vehicles and aircraft; purchase of reprints: payment for telephone service in private residences in the field, when authorized under regulations approved by the Secretary; and the purposes set forth in sections 321 and 509 of the Public Health Service Act; $33,840,000: Provided, That the Surgeon General is authorized to transfer from this appropriation to other appropriations of the Public Health Service such amounts as he may determine are required in such appropriations for Indian health activities. Construction of Indian health facilities: For construction, major repair, improvement, and equipment of health and related auxiliary facilities, including quarters for personnel; preparation of plans, specifications, and drawings; acquisition of sites; purchase and erection of portable buildings; and purchase of trailers; $5,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That such expenditures may be made through the Department of the Interior. National Institutes of Health, operating expenses: For the activities of the National Institutes of Health, not otherwise provided for, including research fellowships and grants for research projects pursuant to section 301 of the Act; not to exceed $1,000 for entertainment of visiting scientists when specifically approved by the Surgeon General; erection of temporary structures; and grants of therapeutic and chemical substances for demonstrations and research; $5,899,000: Provided, That the Surgeon General is authorized to advance to this appropriation from other appropriations to the Public Health Service such amounts as are determined to be necessary for the foregoing purposes and for activities performed on a centralized basis: provided further, That the Surgeon General is authorized to operate facilities at the National Institutes of Health for the sale of meals to employees and others at rates determined by him to be sufficient to recover the cost of such operation and the proceeds thereof shall be credited to this appropriation: Provided further, That the Surgeon General is authorized, upon recommendation of the National Advisory Health Council, to donate or release to a university, hospital, or other nonprofit organization any right, title, claim, or interest of the United States with respect to research and related equipment and other tangible property under the jurisdiction of the Service and acquired by such institutions prior to December 1946 pursuant to its contract with the United States through the Office of Scientific Research and Development. National Cancer Institute: To enable the Surgeon General, upon the recommendations of the National Advisory Cancer Council, to make grants-in-aid for research and training projects relating to cancer; to cooperate with State health agencies, and other public and private nonprofit institutions, in the prevention, control, and eradication of cancer by providing consultative services, demonstrations, and grants-in-aid; and to contract for supplies and services by negotiation, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, in connection 69 Stat. 407 with the chemotherapy program; and to otherwise carry out the provisions of title IV, part A, of the Act; $24,828,000. Mental health activities: For expenses necessary for carrying out the provisions of sections 301, 302, 303, 311, 312, and 314 (c) of the Act with respect to mental diseases, and including erection or temporary structures, $17,751,000. National Heart Institute: For expenses necessary to carry out the purposes of the National Heart Act, $18,778,000. Dental health activities: For expenses not otherwise provided for, necessary to enable the Surgeon General to carry out the purposes or the Act with respect to dental diseases and conditions, $2,136,000. Arthritis and metabolic disease activities: For expenses necessary to carry out the purposes of the Act relating to arthritis, rheumatism, and metabolic diseases, $10,740,000. Microbiology activities: For expenses necessary to carry out the purposes of the Act relating to microbiology, including the regulation and preparation of biologic products, $7,580,000. Neurology and blindness activities: For expenses necessary to carry out the purposes of the Act relating to neurology and blindness, $9,861,000. Gorgas Memorial Laboratory: For payment to the Gorgas Memorial Institute for maintenance and operation of the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory, $147,000. Retired pay of commissioned officers: For retired pay of Commissioned officers, as authorized by law, and payments under the Uniformed Services Contingency Option Act of 1953, $1,225,000. Salaries and excuses: For the divisions and offices of the Office of the Surgeon General and for miscellaneous expenses of the Public Health Service not appropriated for elsewhere, including preparing information, articles, and publications related to public health; and conducting studies and demonstrations in public health methods; $2,762,0(10: Provided, That there may be transferred from any appropriation to the Public Health Service in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriation Act, 1955, to any other such appropriation such amounts as the Surgeon General may determine for the cost of activities relating to poliomyelitis during the fiscal year 1955: Provided further, That subsection (g) of section 208 of the Public Health Service Act (42 IT. S. C. 210 (g)) is amended by striking out the word “thirty” and inserting in lieu thereof the word “sixty”.