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and small boats, all requiring constant care 

 and attention. This division, also, must 

 see to the expenditure of appropriations 

 for new stations, involving purchase of 

 lands, construction of piers and buildings, 

 said construction being generally under the 

 supervising architect of the treasury on 

 plans approved by the bureau and the de- 

 partment; but occasionally the bureau at- 

 tends to this construction itself. To this 

 division are also referred all matters relat- 

 ing to the quarantine regulations and their 

 interpretation. Matters relating to inter- 

 state quarantine and suppression of epi- 

 demic diseases are also handled in this 

 division. Quarantine upon the Mexican 

 and Canadian borders is also conducted 

 through this division. 



DIVISION OF FOREIGN AND INSULAE QUARAN- 

 TINE AND IMMIGRATION. 



To this division is assigned the manage- 

 ment of the national quarantine stations 

 in Hawaii, Porto Eico and the Philippine 

 Islands, the supervision of officers detailed 

 for duty in the offices of the United States 

 consuls in foreign ports, who sign the bills 

 of health with the consuls. At present 

 there are three officers in Japan, Yoko- 

 hama, Kobe and Nagaski; two in China, 

 Shanghai and Hong Kong; one in Naples, 

 Italy; ten in Cuba, three in Havana, one 

 each at Cienfuegos, Santiago, Nuevitas and 

 Matanzas, and several at sub-ports ; four in 

 Mexico, two in Vera Cruz, one at Progreso, 

 and one at Tampieo ; six in the fruit ports 

 of Central America, namely, Boeas del 

 Toro, Colombia; Port Limon, Costa Rica; 

 Bluefields, Nicaragua; Ceiba and Puerto 

 Cortez, Honduras; Livingston, Guatemala; 

 and Belize, British Honduras. 



To this division are also referred all 

 matters relating to the medical inspection 

 of immigrants, a most important function 

 of the service, reqiiiring the detail of a 

 large number of officers. 



DIVISION OF SANITARY REPORTS AND 

 STATISTICS. 



This division is charged with the prepar- 

 ation of the public health reports, pub- 

 lished weekly by the bureau. All matters 

 of a statistical nature are referred to it. 



It may be of interest to state that some 

 question has arisen as to whether the work 

 of this division which is authorized both 

 by the law of 1893 and the law of 1902, 

 may not duplicate the work of the Census 

 Bureau, but I am pleased to state that, 

 after conference with the Chief Statistician 

 of the Census Bureau and others connected 

 therewith, it has been found that there 

 need be no duplication or interference by 

 one bureau with the other ; on the contrary, 

 each will be helpful to the other. The 

 Census Bureau, in addition to the decen- 

 nial census, will publish an annual census 

 of mortality and births, but the weekly 

 and monthly reports will be published as 

 heretofore by this bureau, and morbidity 

 reports, which are so much desired and 

 which will require special organization to 

 procure, will be undertaken by the Public 

 Health and Marine-Hospital Service. 



DIVISION OF PERSONNEL AND ACCOUNTS. 



To this division are referred all matters 

 relating to the personnel of the service, 

 examinations for admission to the corps 

 of commissioned officers; examinations for 

 promotion, appointments and resignations, 

 appointment of boards for the physical ex- 

 amination of officers of the Revenue-Cut- 

 ter Service. This division has also charge 

 of the bookkeeping of the service. 



DIVISION OF SCIENTIFIC RESEiVRCH. 



This division might be better called the 

 Division of Scientific Research and Sanita- 

 tion. To it are referred all matters re- 

 lating to the hygienic laboratory. It 

 should be understood that this laboratory, 

 or the staff thereof, is not a part of the 

 bureau proper, though at present located in 



