---
kind: "section"
citation: "24 U.S.C. § 15"
title: "24"
title_heading: "Hospitals and Asylums"
number: "15"
heading: "Superintendence of Navy hospitals"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/24/15"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Navy Hospitals, Army and Navy Hospital, and Hospital Relief for Seamen and Others"
---

# §15. Superintendence of Navy hospitals


The Secretary of the Navy shall have the general charge and superintendence of Navy hospitals.


## Source credit

(R.S. § 4807.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

R.S. § 4807 derived from acts Feb. 26, 1811, ch. 26, § 1, 2 Stat. 650; July 10, 1832, ch. 194, § 5, 4 Stat. 573.