Public Health Service Code: Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Seventy-eight Congress, Second Session on H.R. 3379, a Bill to Codify the Laws Relating to the Public Health Service, and for Other Purposes. March 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 14, 1944 ...

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Page 20 - Such investments may be made only in interest-bearing obligations of the United States or in obligations guaranteed as to both principal and interest by the United States.
Page 179 - The Public Health Service may study and investigate the diseases of man and conditions influencing the propagation and spread thereof, including sanitation and sewage and the pollution either directly or indirectly of the navigable streams and lakes of the United States...
Page 16 - ... whenever it shall be shown to the satisfaction of the president that by reason of the existence of cholera or other infectious or contagious diseases in a foreign country there is serious danger of the introduction of the same into the United States, and that notwithstanding the quarantine defense, this danger is so increased by the introduction of persons or property from such country that a suspension of the right to introduce the same is demanded in the interest of the public health, the president...
Page 18 - ... before their departure for any port in the United States, and in the course of the voyage ; and all such other rules and regulations as shall be observed in the inspection...
Page 1 - Service" means the Public Health Service; (c) The term "Surgeon General" means the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service; (d) The term "seamen" includes any person employed on board in the care, preservation, or navigation...
Page 15 - State or possession, any virus, therapeutic serum, toxin, antitoxin, or analogous product, or arsphenamine or its derivatives (or any other trivalent organic arsenic compound), applicable to the prevention, treatment, or cure of diseases or injuries of man...
Page 178 - In the conduct of. and promote the coordination of, research, investigations, experiments, demonstrations, and studies relating to the causes, diagnosis, treatment, control, and prevention of physical and mental diseases and Impairments of man, including water purification, sewage treatment, and pollution of lakes and streams.
Page 181 - Government of more than five tons' burden ; (4) Cadets at State maritime academies or on State training ships ; (5) Seamen on vessels of the Mississippi River Commission and, upon application of their commanding officers, officers and crews of vessels of the Fish and Wildlife Service ; (6) Enrollees in the United States Maritime Service on active duty and members of the Merchant Marine Cadet Corps...
Page 18 - ... health officer at such quarantine station, certifying that said rules and regulations have in all respects been observed and complied with, as well on his part as on the part of the said vessel and its master, in respect to the same and to its cargo, passengers, and crew...
Page 10 - State for projects under or parts of the plan affected by such failure) until he is satisfied that there will no longer be any such failure. Until he is so satisfied, the...

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