Chapter 1370. To increase the efficiency and change the name of the United States Marine-Hospital Service
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CHAP. 1370.— An Act To increase the efficiency and change the name of the United States Marine-Hospital Service. July 1, 1902. [[Public, No. 236](/us/pl/57/236).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service.Marine-Hospital Service changed to.Vol. 25, p. 639.Change of officers’ titles. That the United States Marine-Hospital Service shall hereafter be known and designated as the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service of the United States, and the Supervising Surgeon-General and the officers now or hereafter commissioned under the Act of January fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, entitled “An Act to regulate appointments in the Marine-Hospital Service of the United States,” and Acts amendatory thereof, shall hereafter he known as the Surgeon-General, surgeons, passed assistant surgeons, and assistant surgeons of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service of the United States.
Nothing in this Act contained shall be held or construed to discharge any of the officers above named, or any of the acting assistant surgeons, pharmacists, and other employees of the Marine-Hospital Service, or to deprive any officer of his commission or the benefits derived by longevity of service. All duties, transferred.The care of sick and disabled seamen and all other duties now required by law to be performed by the Marine-Hospital Service shall, hereafter be performed by the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, and all funds and appropriations now provided by law for use by the Marine-Hospital Service and all properties and rights pertaining to said service shall be available for use for like purposes and in like manner, under the Treasury Department, by the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service.
Sec. 2. Salaries. That the salary of the Surgeon-General of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service shall be five thousand dollars per annum, and the salaries and allowances of the commissioned medical officers of said service shall be the same as now provided by regulations of the Marine-Hospital Service. Sec. 3. Assistant surgeons-general. That commissioned medical officers, when detailed by the Surgeon-General for duty in the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Bureau at Washington.
District of Columbia, in charge of the administrative divisions thereof, namely, marine hospitals and relief, domestic quarantine, foreign and insular quarantine, personnel and accounts, 713sanitary reports and statistics, and scientific research, shall, while thus serving, be assistant surgeons-general of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, but their pay and allowances shall be the same asPay and allowances. now provided by regulations of the Marine-Hospital Service for officers in charge of said divisions; and the senior officer thus servingAssistant.[R.
S. sec. 178, p. 28](/us/rs/s178/p28). shall be the assistant within the meaning of section one hundred and seventy-eight, Revised Statutes of the United States: *Provided, however,**Provisos.*Rank. That no such officer shall be detailed in charge of said divisions who is below the rank of passed assistant surgeon. Sec. 4. That the President is authorized, in his discretion, to utilizeUse of Service in time of war. the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service in times of threatened or actual war to such extent and in such manner as shall in his judgment promote the public interest without, however, in any wise impairing the efficiency of the service for the purposes for winch the same was created and is maintained.
Sec. 5. That there shall be an advisory board for the hygienicHygienic laboratory.Advisory board created.Vol. 31, p. 1137. laboratory provided by the Act of Congress approved March third, nineteen hundred and one, for consultation with the Surgeon-General of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service relative to the investigations to be inaugurated, and the methods of conducting the same, in said laboratory. Said board shall consist of three competent experts,Members. to be detailed from the Army, the Navy, and the Bureau of Animal Industry by the Surgeon-General of the Army, the Surgeon-General of the Navy, and the Secretary of Agriculture, respectively, which experts, with the director of the said laboratory, shall be ex officio members of the board, and serve without additional compensation.
Five other members of said board shall be appointed by the Surgeon-GeneralCivilian members. of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall be skilled in laboratory work in its relation to the public health, and not in the regular employment of the Government. The said five members shallPer diem compensation. each receive compensation of ten dollars per diem while serving in conference, as aforesaid, together with allowance for actual and necessaryTraveling expenses. traveling expenses and hotel expenses while in conference.
Said conference is not to exceed ten days in any one fiscal year. The term of service of the five members of said hoard, not in the, regular employment of the Government, first appointed shall be so arranged that one of said members shall retire each year, the subsequent appointments to be for a period of five years. Appointments to fill vacanciesVacancies. occurring in a manner other than as above provided shall be made for the unexpired term of the member whose place has become vacant.
Sec. 6. That there shall be appointed by the Surgeon-General, withChiefs of divisions. the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, whenever, in the opinion of the Surgeon-General, commissioned medical officers of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service are not available for this duty by detail, competent persons to take charge of the divisions, respectively, of chemistry, zoology, and pharmacology of the hygienic laboratory, who shall each receive such pay as shall be fixed by thePay.
Surgeon-General, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury. The director of the said laboratory shall be an officer detailed from theDirector of laboratory. corps of commissioned medical officers of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, as now provided by regulations for said detail from the Marine-Hospital Service, and while thus serving shall have the pay and emoluments of a surgeon: *Provided,* That all commissioned*Proviso.*Eligibility. officers of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service not below the grade of passed assistant surgeon shall be eligible to assignment to duty in charge of the said divisions of the hygienic laboratory, and while serving in such capacity shall be entitled to the pay and emoluments of their rank.
Sec. 7. That when, in the opinion of the Surgeon-General of theSpecial conferences with State, etc., boards of health. Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service of the United States, the 714interests of the public health would be promoted by a conference of said service with State or Territorial boards of health, quarantine authorities, or State health officers, the District of Columbia included, Delegates.he may invite as many of said health and quarantine authorities as he deems necessary or proper to send delegates, not more than one from each State or Territory and District of Columbia, to said conference: *Provisos.*Annual conference.*Provided,* That an annual conference of the health authorities of all the States and Territories and the District, of Columbia shall be called, each of said States.
Territories, and the District of Columbia to be Call for conferences.entitled to one delegate: *And, provided further.* That it shall be the duty of the said Surgeon-General to call a conference upon the application of not less than five State or Territorial boards of health, quarantine authorities, or State health officers, each of said States and Territories joining in such request to be represented by one delegate. Sec. 8. Uniform registration of mortality, etc., statistics- That to secure uniformity in the registration of mortality, morbidity, and vital statistics it shall be the duty of the Surgeon-General of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, after the Collection, etc., of statistics.annual conference required by section seven to be called, to prepare and distribute suitable and necessary forms for the collection and compilationPublication. of such statistics, and said statistics, when transmitted to the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Bureau on said forms, shall be compiled and published by the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service as a part of the health reports published by said service.
Sec. 9. President to prescribe regulations, etc. That the President, shall from time to time prescribe rides for the conduct of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service. He Report.shall also prescribe regulations respecting its internal administration and discipline, and the uniforms of its officers and employees. It shall be the duty of the Surgeon-General to transmit annually to the Secretary of the Treasury, for transmission by said Secretary to Congress, a full and complete report of the transactions of said service, including a detailed statement of receipts and disbursements.
Approved, July 1, 1902.