UNITED STATES PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE 361 



for Summer, Port Stanton. 



functions of the others are exercised by the Collector of Customs at the 

 place. 



Persons entitled to the benefit of medical relief from the Public Health 

 Service are those employed on board in the care, preservation or navigation of 

 any registered or licensed vessel of the United States, or in the service on board 

 of any so engaged. 



Officers and crews of vessels in the service of the Mississippi River 

 Commission are included with those entitled to marine hospital relief. 

 This commission has to do with the engineering and inspection of the 

 Mississippi levees, and the removal of snags and obstructions to ship- 

 ping. Its concern is to maintain the navigability of the Mississippi 

 and its larger branches. 



The Revenue Cutter Service., the Army Engineering Corps, to- 

 gether with keepers and surfmen of the Life-Saving Service, are all 

 beneficiaries, as well as the men of the Light House Service, including 

 light ships. A provision not generally known is that foreign seamen 

 ma} r utilize the Marine Hospital accommodations, if written security 

 is given for the payment of the small fees fixed by the department, by 

 the master of the vessel or the consul of the nation under whose flag 

 the vessel sails. In the year ending June 30, 1911, a total of 52,209 

 patients were treated at the various relief stations of the service, of 

 whom 15,442 received hospital care. At the Fort Stanton Sanatorium, 

 322 consumptive patients were under treatment. 



A large number of physical examinations of seamen in the various 

 government services are necessary, as of candidates for entrance, for 

 promotion and for retirement. Such examinations are conducted by 



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