Chap. 247,—An ACT to provide dispensary facilities for the rural districts by
promoting the tuberculosis educational division of the State board of heal
and appropriating moneys therefor. [H B 354]

Approved March 15, 1922.

Whereas, there is a shortage of doctors in many rural sections;
and

Whereas, it is increasingly difficult for persons in such districts
to secure adequate examinations owing to this shortage; and

Whereas, to reduce further the tuberculosis death rate in the
State, it is essential to find the cases of this infectious disease;
therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That a
clinic unit of doctors and nurses shall be added to the existing
organization for the tuberculosis education and that there is hereby
appropriated to the State board of health out of any money in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the year ending February
twenty-eight, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, the sum of fifteen
thousand dollars, and for the year ending February twenty-ninth,
nineteen hundred and twenty-four, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars,
the said sums to be used by the State board of health for the organi-
zation of such clinical unit, and the printing of placards, pamphlets
and other regular publications.