Revised regulations for the government of the United States Marine-Hospital Service : approved May 20, 1889.
- Marine Hospital Service
- Date:
- 1889
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Revised regulations for the government of the United States Marine-Hospital Service : approved May 20, 1889. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![140. The persons entitled to the benefits of the Marine- List of persons entitled to relief. Hospital Service are those employed on board in the care, preservation, or navigation of any vessel of the United Department cir- b . ’ . , , . oular No. 23, Feb. States, or in the service on board, of those engaged in27,1882. such care, preservation, or navigation, excepting persons emplo)md in or connected with the navigation, manage- ment, or use of canal-boats engaged in the coasting trade. 150. Seamen taken from wrecked vessels under the wrecked soa- United States flag, if sick or disabled, are entitled to benefits of the Marine-Hospital Service, and will be fur- nished care and treatment without reference to the length of time for which they have been employed. 151. Destitute American seamen returned to the United seameu sent by States from foreign ports by United States consular offi-ontftie^ cers, if sick or disabled at the time of their arrival in a port of the United States, shall be entitled to the benefits of the Marine-Hospital Service. 152- A sick or disabled seaman, in order to obtain the soamon must benefits of the Marine-Hospital vService, must apply to a for medical officer of that Service, or, in the absence of such officer, then to the proper customs officer acting as the agent of the Marine-Hospital Service, or to the acting assistant surgeon, if such an officer be in charge of the station, and must furnish satisfactory evidence that he is entitled to relief under the Regulations. 153. Masters’ certificates and discharge-papers from Evidence to bo United States shipping commissioners, properly madepucant‘^ out and signed, showing that the applicant has been em- Form wh. ployed on a document vessel or vessels of the United States for at least sixty days immediately preceding his application for relief, shall, in general, be held to consti- tute the “satisfactory evidence’’ required. 154. The certificate of the owner or accredited commer- Certificates from cial agent of a vessel as to the facts of the employment of LevTdenc’'e.''‘''‘'' any seaman on said vessel may be accepted as evidence in lieu of the master’s certificate in cases where the latter is not procurable. 155- Masters of vessels of the United vStates shall, on Master enjoined demand, furnish any seaman who has been employed on eatc“ ?eT‘''' such vessel a certificate (Form 1914) of the length of time [43]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28716097_0049.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
