268 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 210-JULY 8, 1947 [61 STAT. school, children of personnel who have quarters for themselves and their families at isolated stations; as follows: Venereal diseases: To carry out the purposes of sections 314 (a) and s Stat. 9374 (a). 363 of the Act with respect to venereal diseases, including the operation 266. and maintenance of centers for the diagnosis, treatment, support, and Pod, p. 462. clothing of persons afflicted with venereal diseases; transportation and subsistence of such persons and their attendants to and from the place of treatment or allowance in lieu thereof; diagnosis and treatment (including emergency treatment for other illnesses) of such persons through contracts with physicians and hospitals and other appropriate 41 U.s .a. . institutions without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, as amended; fees for case finding and referral to such centers of voluntary patients; reasonable expenses of preparing remains or burial of deceased patients; recreational supplies and equipment; leasing of facilities and repair and alteration of leased facilities; the purchase of twenty-eight passenger motor vehicles, 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; $17,399,500, of which $516,500 shall be immediately available. Stat. M. ^ Tuberculosis: To carry out the purposes of section 314 (b) of the 42U. . . () Act, $8,000,000. Assistance to States, general: To carry out the purposes of sec- 8 tat3. 2694.e tion 314 (c) of the Act; to provide consultative services to States pursuant to section 311 of the Act; and to make field investigations 5Uf at.p6c.69.43 and demonstrations pursuant to section 301 of the Act, including 241. the purchase of forty-three passenger motor vehicles, $15,682,300: Provided, That of the amount available for carrying out the pur- Supra . poses of section 314 (c) of the Act, $3,000,000 shall be available solely for grants to States having approved plans for mental health activities. Communicable diseases: To carry out those provisions of sections 42 Utat.S 23, 311, 361, and 704 of the Act relating to the prevention and suppres- 2N. sion of communicable diseases, the interstate transmission and spread thereof, and the enforcement of any applicable quarantine laws including the purchase of thirty-five passenger motor vehicles; and hire, maintenance, and operation of aircraft; $7,500,000. Hospital and construction activities: For administrative expenses s U.Ats. 'i 21- incident to carrying out title VI of the Public Health Service Act, 21m.L as amended (Public Law 725, 79th Cong.), $865,000, including print- ing and binding; purchase of eight passenger motor vehicles; and travel, including attendance at meetings of organizations concerned with the purposes of this appropriation. There shall be allotted to the several States for the fiscal year 1948, as provided in such Act, a sum not exceeding $75,000,000, a part of the sum authorized to s60utstt. d- be appropriated for the fiscal year 1948 by part C of the Act. 42 U. C§ 291d-
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C. Act, the Federal share of the cost of such project, as provided by the Act, shall constitute a contractual obligation of the Federal Gov- ernment: Provided,That the aggregate contractual obligation during the fiscal year 1948 shall not exceed $75,000,000. Hospitals and medical care: For carrying out the purposes of sec- 8stat. 65 -n4. tions 321, 322, 324, 326, 331, 332, 502, and 710 of the Act, including 24»9, , 22 , i2 minor repairs to and maintenance of buildings; purchase of twenty- 22. four passenger motor vehicles, including four ambulances; transpor- tation to their homes in the continental United States of recovered
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