Public Health Service Code

List of 1944 appropriations for the Public Health Service.
Letter from C. Willard Camalier, for the American Dental Association_
Letter from R. P. Fischelis, for the American Pharmaceutical Associa-
tion___.

Letter from Hon. Raymond E. Baldwin, Governor, State of Connecticut_

Letter from Stanley H. Osborn, Commissioner, Department of Health,

State of Connecticut__

Letter from I. C. Riggin, president, Association of State and Terri-

torial Health Officers___

Extract from the Journal of the American Osteopathic Association,

Communication of February 25, 1944, from the Commandant of Coast

Guard to the Judge Advocate General of the Navy_

176

Letter from the Secretary of Labor upon provisions of the bill H. R.

3379.

180

Letter from Ensign Hale Boggs, United States Naval Reserve.

Letter from Commander Norman L. Queen_-_-

183

Letter from Central Labor Union and Metal Trades Council, Panama

Canal Zone_-_

184

Letter from Hon. A. L. Miller, Member of Congress--

185

Article by J. W. Holloway, Jr., bureau of legal medicine and legis-

lation, American Medical Association----

185

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PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE CODE

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1944

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON

INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE,

Washington, D. C.

The subcommittee met at 10 a. m., in the committee's hearing room,

New House Office Building, Hon. Alfred L. Bulwinkle presiding.

Mr. BULWINKLE. The committee will come to order. This subcom-

mittee of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce has met

today to consider H. R. 3379, a bill to codify the laws relating to the

Public Health Service, and for other purposes.

(The bill referred to is as follows:)

[H. R. 3379, 78th Cong., 1st sess.]

A BILL To codify the laws relating to the Public Health Service, and for other purposes

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States

of America in Congress assembled,

TITLE I-SHORT TITLE AND DEFINITIONS

SHORT TITLE

SECTION 1. Titles I to V, inclusive, of this Act may be cited as the "Public

Health Service Code."

DEFINITIONS

SEC. 2. When used in this Act-

(a) The term "Service" means the Public Health Service;

(b) The term "Surgeon General" means the Surgeon General of the Public

Health Service;

(c) The term "Administrator" means the Federal Security Administrator;

(d) The term "regulations," except when otherwise specified, means rules and

regulations made by the Surgeon General with the approval of the Administrator;

(e) The term "executive department" means any executive department, agency,

or independent establishment of the United States or any corporation wholly

owned by the United States;

(f) The term "State" means a State or the District of Columbia, Hawaii,

Alaska, Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands, except that as used in section 361 (d)
such term means a State, the District of Columbia, or Alaska;

(g) The term "possession" shall include, among other possessions, Puerto

Rico and the Virgin Islands;

(h) The term "seamen" includes any person employed on board primarily in

the care, preservation, or navigation of any vessel, or in the service, on board, of
those engaged in such care, preservation, or navigation;

(i) The term "vessel" includes every description of watercraft or other arti-
ficial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on
water, exclusive of aircraft and amphibious contrivances;

(j) The term "habit-forming narcotic drug" or "narcotic" means opium and
coca leaves and the several alkaloids derived therefrom, the best known of these
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