SIXTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 87. 1925. 775 portation and travel, maintenance and operation of motor trucks and passenger motor vehicles, transportation, care, maintenance, and treatment of lepers, court costs, and other expenses incident to proceedings heretofore or hereafter taken for commitment of mentally incompetent persons to hospitals for the care and treatment of the insane, and reasonable burial expenses (not exceeding Swim , tm my $100 for any patient dying in hospital), $5,211,285, of which not to met. D exceed $257,778 may be expended for personal services in the District ,.,0,,,08 of Columbia: Provided, That the Immigration Service shall permit Use ¢>fEl1is Island the Public Health Service to use the hospitals at Ellis Island Im- h°°°i°°'°' migration Station for the care of Public Health Service patients free of expense for physical upkeep, but with a charge of actual ° cost of fue , light, water, telephone, and similar supplies and services, to be covered into the roper Immigration Service appropria- R°,,,,,,,, ,0 be mw tions; and moneys collected hy the Immigration Service on account ¤*¤<ii¤¤>¢¤¤ '1‘¤¤¤¤w· of hospital expenses of persons detained u11der the immi ation laws and regulations at Ellis Island Immigration Station sirall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: Provided further, That no part of this sum shall be used for the quarantine serv- Us f°"’m°°"‘ ice, the prevention of epidemics, or scientific work of the character provided for imder the appropriations which follow. D. , { . All sums received by the Public Health Service during the fiscal `°p°°° ° ’°°°‘°t°` year 1926, except allotments and reimbursements on account of patients of the United States Veterans’ Bureau, shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. _ Quarantine service: For maintenance and ordinary expenses, Q“°”““”° s°"‘°°· exclusive of pay of officers and employees, of United States quarantine stations, $470,000. _ _ _ Pmvmm 0, ep, Prevention of ep1dem1cs: To enable the Pres1dent, in case only of counts. threatened or actual epidemic of cholera, typhus fever, yellow fever, smallpox, bubonic plague, Chinese plague or black death, trachoma influenza, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, or infantile paralysis, to aid State and local boards or otherwise, in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same, and in such emergency in the execution of any quarantine laws which may be then in force, $328,772, including the purchase of newspapers and clippings from newspapers contamin information relating to the prevalence of disease and the publicghealth. Fm I N Field investigations: For investigations of diseases of man and '“"'"“ °°" conditions influencing the prolpagation and sfread thereof, including sanitation and sewa e, and the pollution o navigable streams an lakes of the United gtates, includirizg personal service, $282,054. In uu Interstate quarantine service: or cooperation with State and ,,,,v;°,,°”_”°°°°°°°”" municipal health authorities in the prevention of the spread of contagious and infectious diseases in interstate trafiic, $22,530, Bmlmimm _ Rural sanitation: For special studies of,_and demonstration work ' in, rural sanitation, including personal services, and including not to _ exceed $5,000 for the purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation Pmm of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, 75,000: Provzded, subgmim rmi am- That no part of this appropriation shall be available for demonstra- ‘“"““°“· tion work in rural sanitation in any community unless the State, county, or municipality inpwhich the community is located agrees to pay one-half the ex enses of such demonstration work. _ Bmlmc pmdwm Blologic products: 'lpo regulate the propagation and sale of viruses, _Regulz;§;nz me ot Séfums, toxins, and analogous pl‘0duotS, including arsphenamuie, °""s°°’ ' and for the preparation of curative and diagnostic b1olog1c products, including personal services of reserve commissioned officers and other personnel, $45,000.
