Civilian employees in professional and scientific services-Military medi- Research laboratories and contracts.... Cooperation with Mexico in control and eradication of foot-and-mouth Investigation of health and safety conditions in coal mines. Analyses and reports; promotion of health and safety in coal mines. - Determinations by Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare_ STATUTORY AUTHORITY FOR MEDICAL AND OTHER HEALTHRELATED RESEARCH IN THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT The Basis for International Cooperation DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND I. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE 1. General powers and duties-Research and investigations 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 streams. In carrying out the foregoing the Surgeon General is authorized to (a) collect and make available through publications and other appropriate means, information as to, and the practical application of, such research and other activities; (b) make available research facilities of the Service to appropriate authorities, and to health officials and scientists engaged in special study; (c) establish and maintain research fellowships in the Service with such stipends and allowances, including traveling and subsistence expenses, as he may deem necessary to procure the assistance of the most brilliant and promising research fellows from the United States and abroad; (d) make grants-in-aid to universities, hospitals, laboratories, and other public or private institutions, and to individuals for such research projects as are recommended by the National Advisory Health Council, or, with respect to cancer, recommended by the National Advisory Cancer Council, or, with respect to mental health, recommended by the National Advisory Mental Health Council, or, with respect to heart diseases, recommended by the National Advisory Heart Council, or, with respect to dental diseases and conditions, recommended by the National Advisory Dental Research Council; and include in the grants for any such project grants of penicillin and other antibiotic compounds for use in such project; (e) secure from time to time and for such periods as he deems advisable, the assistance and advice of experts, scholars, and consultants from the United States or abroad; (f) for purposes of study, admit and treat at institutions, hospitals, and stations of the Service, persons not otherwise eligible for such treatment; (g) make available, to health officials, scientists, and apropriate public and other nonprofit institutions and organizations, technical advice and assistance on the application of statistical methods to experiments, studies, and surveys in health and medical fields; and (h) adopt, upon recommendation of the National Advisory Health Council, or, with respect to cancer, upon recommendation of the National Advisory Cancer Council, or, with respect to mental health, upon recommendation of the National Advisory Mental Health Council, or, with respect to heart diseases, upon recommendation of the National Advisory Heart Council, or, with respect to dental diseases and conditions, upon recommendations of the National Advisory Dental Research Council, such additional means as he deems necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes of this section. [July 1, 1944, c. 373, title III, § 301, 58 Stat. 691; July 3, 1946, c. 538, §7(a), (b), 60 Stat. 423; June 16, 1948, c. 481, § 4(e), (f), 62 Stat. 467; June 24, 1948, c. 621, § 4(e), (f), 62 Stat. 601; June 25, 1948, c. 654, § 1, 62 Stat. 1017; July 3, 1956, c. 510, § 4, 70 Stat. 490; U.S.C. Supp. 42: 241.] From time to time the Surgeon General shall issue information related to public health, in the form of publications or otherwise, for the use of the public, and shall publish weekly reports of health conditions in the United States and other countries and other pertinent health information for the use of persons and institutions engaged in work related to the functions of the Service. [July 1, 1944, c. 373, title III, § 315, 58 Stat. 695; U.S.C. 42: 247.] 2. Collection of vital statistics There shall be a collection of the statistics of the births and deaths in registration areas annually, the data for which shall be obtained. only from and restricted to such registration records of such States and municipalities as in the discretion of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare possess records affording satisfactory data in necessary detail, the compensation for the transcription of which shall not exceed 4 cents for each birth or death reported; or a minimum compensation of $25 may be allowed in the discretion of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, in States or cities registering less than five hundred deaths or five hundred births during the preceding year. [July 1, 1944, c. 373, title III, § 312a, as added Aug. 31, 1954, c. 1158, § 2, 68 Stat. 1025; U.S.C. Supp. 42: 244a.] To secure uniformity in the registration of mortality, morbidity, and vital statistics the Surgeon General shall prepare and distribute suitable and necessary forms for the collection and compilation of such statistics which shall be published as a part of the health reports published by the Surgeon General. [July 1, 1944, c. 373, title III, § 313, 58 Stat. 693; U.S.C. 42: 245.] |