---
kind: "unit"
title: "24"
title_heading: "Hospitals and Asylums"
key: "ch1"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 1"
heading: "Navy Hospitals, Army and Navy Hospital, and Hospital Relief for Seamen and Others"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/24/ch1"
sections_count: 26
---

# Chapter 1 — Navy Hospitals, Army and Navy Hospital, and Hospital Relief for Seamen and Others

Title 24 — Hospitals and Asylums

## Sections

- [§2. Repealed.](/usc/24/2.md)
- [§3...5. Repealed.](/usc/24/3...5.md)
- [§6. Pension paid to fund for benefit of naval hospital](/usc/24/6.md)
- [§6a. Disposition of amounts deducted from pensions](/usc/24/6a.md)
- [§7...12. Repealed.](/usc/24/7...12.md)
- [§13. Admission of cases for study](/usc/24/13.md)
- [§14. Establishment of Navy hospitals](/usc/24/14.md)
- [§14a. Annual appropriations for maintenance, operation, and improvement of naval hospitals](/usc/24/14a.md)
- [§15. Superintendence of Navy hospitals](/usc/24/15.md)
- [§16. Allowance of rations to Navy hospitals](/usc/24/16.md)
- [§16a. Additional personnel for patients of Department of Veterans Affairs in naval hospitals](/usc/24/16a.md)
- [§17. Government of Naval Asylum](/usc/24/17.md)
- [§18. Rules and regulations for Army and Navy Hospital](/usc/24/18.md)
- [§19. Tubercular hospital at Fort Bayard](/usc/24/19.md)
- [§20. Discipline of patients at Army and Navy Hospital](/usc/24/20.md)
- [§21. Repealed.](/usc/24/21.md)
- [§21a...25. Repealed.](/usc/24/21a...25.md)
- [§26...28. Repealed.](/usc/24/26...28.md)
- [§29a. Repealed.](/usc/24/29a.md)
- [§30. Payments to donors of blood for persons undergoing treatment at Government expense](/usc/24/30.md)
- [§31. Repealed.](/usc/24/31.md)
- [§33. Repealed.](/usc/24/33.md)
- [§34. Hospitalization of persons outside continental limits of United States; persons entitled; availability of other facilities; rate of charges; disposition of payments](/usc/24/34.md)
- [§35. Limitation of medical, surgical or hospital services](/usc/24/35.md)
- [§36. Repealed.](/usc/24/36.md)
- [§37. Manufacture of products by patients at naval hospitals; ownership of products](/usc/24/37.md)