34 SETTLEMENT FOR ACCIDENTS TO AMERICAN SEAMEN
Provided Hospital Treatment

In event the ill or injured seaman is put ashore in a foreign port
and placed in a hospital, the cost of hospitalization is paid either by
the shipowner, or, if discharged by mutual consent, by the consul.
If the seaman is kept aboard the ship until it arrives in a port where
there is a United States marine hospital, he is given a “hospital
certificate” (a copy of the form is shown below) and placed in the
marine hospital, where he receives free treatment. In other ports
of the United States he is placed in public hospitals, where the cost
is charged to the ship and the seaman is usually transferred to a
United States marine hospital as soon as his condition will permit.
TRL
pp orm 1918

MASTER'S CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE OF SICK OR INJURED SEAMEN

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MEDICAL OFFICER IN CHARGE,
17. S. PoeLic HEALTH SERVICE.

I certify, on honor, that ._._.
and description appear below, has been employed on board in the care, preservation, or navigation,
or in the service on board of those so embloved. of the reese
of TT Home port, where permanent document issues) Oils Bogistey Nov-commmsmsesnicy
a vessel whose personnel is entitled to medical treatment by the U. S. Public Health Service. His
period of service on the above-named vessel was from the ...-e-e-eeeeee- BY Of eoemeemereeceeeacennens
$9.cptothe ce. day of coiieerecee, 10... I further certify that the person
nemed herein bas, in my presence, signed his name in the blank space provided below for that
purpose.*

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Signature of the person named above......... Se ————————
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Color of 6¥es--.ee-eoeoeeevemeeeeneeey color of hair ooo. distinguishing marks

Previous service

Total service on U. S. vessels .__............_.. years ............ .... months.
* The medioal officer, or attending physician, should compare the seenan's signature with that given in the certificate, a8 a means of indentification.
Norick.—This Sertificate is merely for information of Public Health Service officers at Marine Hospitals and
other relief stations of the Public Health Service, It does not authorize relief by any private agency.