The amounts recommended for the Public Health Service total $11.099.949. which is an increase of $759.844 over the present appropriations and $131.570 over the Budget estimates. In the office of the Surgeon General an increase of $10.660 is shown consisting of $2.340 to cover reallocation by the Personlel Classification Board of 11 positions. $3.500 to provide for promotions within the grade to 47 employees in accordance with the general policy. $1.620 for an additional clerk in the division of personnel and accounts. and $3.200 to transfer from the field force to the departmental force a nautical engineer in the division of foreign quarantine. An increase of $76.528 in the appropriation for pay and allowances of commissioned medical officers provides $19.683 for automatic promotions. longevity increasds. and increases in rental allowances in accordance with existing law. and $56.844 covers the employment of 18 new counissioned officers at an average of $3.158 each for pay and allowances to be distributed: 1 for narcotic farms work. 3 to the Coast Guard. and 14 for the employient in Canada and Mexico to extend to those countries. in accordance with the request of the State Department. the foreign examination of immigrants. Nine of such positions are provided for Canadian cities and five for Mexico. An increase of $30.000 is also provided in the fund for pay of acting assistant surgeons (noncommissioned medical officers) to cover the pay of 21 additional officers at points where additional employment is needed because of increase in work of the service. .
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