58 THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 



employees and their families, and concessionaires and their 

 employees. There is no standardized plan with regard to the 

 supplying of this service; but in general it may be said that, 

 the park surgeons are themselves concessionaires, giving a stip- 

 ulated service in return for agreed-upon privileges. Thus, 

 in the Yellowstone and Grand Canyon an arrangement has 

 been made in cooperation with the U. S. Public Health Serv- 

 ice, which pays the surgeon a fixed salary as its local repre- 

 sentative. In addition the surgeon is allowed to practice in the 

 park and to charge for his services according to a scale of 

 prices fixed by the National Park Service. In the Yosemite, 

 a surgeon is employed on a contract which calls for the supply- 

 ing, by the surgeon, of medical services within certain pre- 

 scribed limits to employees, concessionaires, etc. In return 

 the surgeon is allowed to sell his services to tourists at a fixed 

 rate, and, in addition, is paid a lump sum by the Service, the 

 agreed amount being provided by deducting from the monthly 



