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Title 24USC / Chapter I

 

Chapter 1 - Navy Hospitals, Army and Navy Hospital and Hospital Relief for Seamen and Others

 

Sec. 1 Word “seaman” defined

 

Sec. 2 Gifts in aid of marine hospitals

 

Sec. 3 Deduction from pay of seamen for Navy hospital fund

 

Sec. 4 Fines on seamen appropriated for Navy hospitals

 

Sec. 5 Forfeitures from desertion for naval hospital fund

 

Sec. 6 Pension paid to fund for benefit of naval hospital.

 

Sec. 6a Disposition of amounts deducted from pensions.

 

Sec. 7 Lease or sale of marine hospitals

 

Sec. 8 Coast Guard admitted to hospitals; relief for dependent members of family

 

Sec. 9 Officers and employees of Public Health Service entitled to hospital relief

 

Sec. 10 Officers and crews of vessels of former Bureau of Fisheries admitted to benefits of Public Health Service

 

Sec. 11 Care of foreign seamen

 

Sec. 11a Same; liability of foreign vessels for hospital charge

 

Sec. 12 Employees on canal boats in coasting trade excluded

 

Sec. 13 Admission of cases for study.

 

Sec. 14 Establishment of Navy hospitals.

 

Sec. 14a Annual appropriations for maintenance, operation, and improvement of naval hospitals.

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Sec. 15 Superintendence of Navy hospitals.

 

Sec. 16 Allowance of rations to Navy hospitals.

 

Sec. 16a Additional personnel for patients of Department of Veterans Affairs in naval hospitals.

 

Sec. 17 Government of Naval Asylum.

 

Sec. 18 Rules and regulations for Army and Navy Hospital.

 

Sec. 19 Tubercular hospital at Fort Bayard.

 

Sec. 20 Discipline of patients at Army and Navy Hospital.

 

Sec. 21 Limitation on cost of Army hospital buildings

 

Sec. 21a Naval Home; maintenance and operation

 

Sec. 21b Navy Pension Fund abolished; appropriations authorized for maintenance, operation and improvement of Naval Home

 

Sec. 22 Disposition of moneys of deceased inmates of Naval Home

 

Sec. 23 Disposition of pension of beneficiary in Naval Home

 

Sec. 24 Moneys derived from Naval Home turned into pension fund

 

Sec. 25 Employment of beneficiaries in service of Naval Home

 

Sec. 26 Additional hospital and sanatorium facilities for various groups authorized

 

Sec. 26a Beneficiaries of fund for relief of sick and disabled seamen

 

Sec. 27 Hospital properties transferred to Treasury Department for Public Health Service

 

Sec. 28 Hospital equipments, etc., transferred from Army

 

Sec. 29 Disposal of surplus material for Public Health Service

 

Sec. 29a Charges incurred in the disposal of surplus material

 

Sec. 30 Payments to donors of blood for persons undergoing treatment at Government expense

 

Sec. 31 Care of naval patients in other Government hospitals where naval hospital facilities are not available; members of Naval Reserve and Marine Corps Reserve included

 

Sec. 32 Hospitalization of dependents of naval and Marine Corp personnel

 

Sec. 33 Dependents defined

 

Sec. 34 Hospitalization of persons outside continental limits of United States; persons entitled; availability of other facilities; rate of charges; disposition of payments.

 

Sec. 35 Limitation of medical, surgical or hospital services.

 

Sec. 36 Application of sections 32-36 to dependents of personnel of Coast Guard

 

Sec. 37 Manufacture of products by patients at naval hospitals; ownership of products