Hospitals & Asylums
Chapter 1 Navy Hospitals, Army and Navy Hospital, and Hospital Relief for Seamen and Others
§26 Additional hospital and sanatorium facilities for various groups authorized
The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to provide immediate additional hospital and sanatorium facilities for the care and treatment of discharged sick and disabled soldiers, sailors, and marine, Army and Navy nurses (male and female), patients of the Veterans' Administration who were patients of the former War Risk Insurance Bureau and the following persons only: Merchant marine seamen, seamen on boats in the Mississippi River Commission, officers and enlisted men of the United States Coast Guard, officers and employees of the Public Health Service, certain keepers and assistant keepers of the United States Lighthouse Service, seamen of the Engineer Corps of the United States Army, officers and enlisted men of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, civilian employees entitled to treatment under sections 751-791, inclusive, and section 793 of Title 5, and employees on Army transports not officers or enlisted men of the Army, entitled by law on March 3, 1919, to treatment by the Public Health Service.
(Mar. 3, 1919, ch. 98, §1, 40 Stat. 1302; Aug. 9, 1921, ch. 57, §7, 42 Stat. 149; July 3, 1930, ch. 863, §1, 46 Stat. 1016; Repealed. July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XIII, §1313, 58 Stat. 714; For renumbering of act July 1, 1944, which repealed these sections, see note set out under sections 1, 2 of this title; See section 249, 251 and 253 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, and section 763c of Title 33, Navigation and Navigable Waters)