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All but a very small fraction of the expenses of the public health
program were met through appropriated funds. Local revenues provided by nominal fees collected for medical and dental services contributed insignificantly to total expenditures. Health services were
free until the fall of 1948 when DepHiComTerPacls set medicalfees
for the entire territory and directed the civil administrators to establish
dental fees for their districts." The following services remainedfree:
Inoculations and vaccinations
Pre-natal care and difficult delivering
Treatments for yaws, worms, amebiasis, tuberculosis, leprosy and other
contagious diseases
Examination of school children
Emergencyfirst aid
Tooth extractions and other dental work. essential to the maintenance
of general public health or required for humanitarian reasons
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