PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 279-JUNE 29, 1949 foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, the Act relating to the licensing 52 Stat. 785. o f undertakers, the Uniform Narcotic Drug Act, and the Act relating D. C . Code §33-4013 to 33-25. to the sale of milk, cream, and ice cream; such expenses to include one physician at $6,145 per annum to be appointed without regard to civil-service laws; contract investigational service; services as author- 60Stat.810 . ized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); uniforms; rent; purchase of passenger motor vehicles; manufacture Automobile allow- of serum in indigent cases; and allowances for privately owned auto- mobiles used for the performance of official duties (not to exceed $264 per annum for each automobile for employees other than dairy-farm inspectors and 7 cents per mile but not more than $840 per annum Volunteerservices. for each automobile for dairy-farm inspectors); $2,100,593: Provided, That the Commissioners may, without creating any obligation for the payment of money on account thereof, accept such volunteer services as they may deem expedient in connection with the establishment and Specialservices. maintenance of the medical services herein provided for: Provided further, That not to exceed $400 may be expended for special services in detecting adulteration of drugs and foods, including candy and milk and other products and services subject to inspection by the Health Department. Operating expenses, Glenn Dale Tuberculosis Sanatorium: For expenses necessary for the Tuberculosis Sanatorium at Glenn Dale, Maryland, including compensation of consulting physicians and dentists at rates to be fixed by the Commissioners; classroom supplies; and repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds; $1,859,884, of which not to exceed $5,000 shall be for the compensation of con- valescent patients to be employed in essential work of the sanatorium and as an aid to their rehabilitation at rates and under conditions to be determined by the Commissioners; but nothing in this paragraph shall be construed as conferring employee status on patients whose services are so utilized. Capital outlay, Glenn Dale Tuberculosis Sanatorium: For the con- struction of apartment house numbered 2 for medical officers, $65,000; for furnishing and equipping apartment house numbered 1 for medical officers, $10,000; in all, $75,000. Operating expenses, Gallinger Municipal Hospital: For expenses necessary for Gallinger Municipal Hospital and the Tuberculosis Hospital at Fourteenth and Upshur Streets Northwest including one superintendent at $9,975 per annum plus $1,50)0 petr annumnfor a resi- dence; one delputy superintendent at $7,5,1 per alnnumI; not to exceed six full-time chief nle(ical officers at $7,581 per annullm each and two associate medlical officers at $5,905 per alnnlium each, to be appointed without reference to civil-service requirements; expenses of the train- ing school for nurses; and repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds; $4,040,000. Capital outlay, Gallinger Municipal Hospital: For continuing the construction of a combination pediatrics and crippled children's building, $905,651; for completing the construction of a laboratory building, including fixed equipment, $279,000; for furnishing and equipping the laboratory building, $49,440; for furnishing and equip- ping the combination pediatrics and crippled children building, $389,909; in all. $1,617,000. Medical charities: For care and treatment of indigent patients under contracts to be made by the Health Officer of the District of Columbia and approved by the Commissioners with institutions, as follows: Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital; Children's Hospital; Columbia Hospital and Lying-in Asylum; Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital; Episcopal Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital; Gar- field Memorial Hospital; George Washington University Hospital; 312 [63 STAT.
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