To Establish a Department of Health: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Reorganization of the Committee on Government Operations, United States Senate, Eighty-second Congress, Second Session, on S. 1140, to Establish and to Consolidate Certain Hospital, Medical and Public [health] Functions of the Government in a Department of Health |
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Page 3 - The Surgeon General shall conduct in the Service, and encourage, cooperate with, and render assistance to other appropriate public authorities, scientific institutions, and scientists 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...
Page 19 - In enacting this legislation it is the intent of Congress to provide a comprehensive program for the future security of the United States; to provide for the establishment of integrated policies and procedures for the departments, agencies, and functions of the Government relating to the national security...
Page 72 - That there shall be at the seat of government an executive department to be known as the Department of Commerce and Labor, and a Secretary of Commerce and Labor, who shall be the head thereof...
Page 110 - Act which the transferee agency shall find to be in excess of the personnel necessary for the administration of the functions transferred to such agency shall be retransferred under existing law to other positions in the Government or separated from the service.
Page 105 - States, and be licensed to practice medicine, surgery, or osteopathy in one of the States or Territories of the United States or in the District of Columbia...
Page 127 - November 1, 1921, for the purpose of coordinating the hospital activities of the Medical Department of the Army, the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery of the Navy, the United States Public Health Service, the United States Veterans' Bureau, St. Elizabeths Hospital, and the Office of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. For approximately 3 years, the Board functioned under the supervision of a Chief Coordinator, who was appointed by and directly responsible to the President.
Page 135 - ... the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, the Rehabilitation Division of the Federal Board for Vocational Education, and the United States Public Health Service.
Page 128 - The director is further authorized, so far as he shall find that existing Government facilities permit, to furnish hospitalization and necessary traveling expenses to veterans of any war, military occupation, or military expedition since 1897, not dishonorably discharged without regard to the nature or origin of their disabilities...
Page 189 - It can not be too strongly emphasized that the present deplorable failure on the part of the Government to properly care for the disabled veterans is due in large part to an imperfect organization of governmental effort. There is no one in control of the whole situation. Independent agencies by mutual agreement now endeavor to coordinate their action, but in such efforts the joint action is too often modified by minor considerations, and there is always lacking that complete cooperation which is...
Page 31 - In 1949, the Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government (generally known as the Hoover Commission) went beyond its assigned jurisdiction in order to point out the necessity for increasing Federal judicial salaries.