LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH UNITS

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

COMMITTEE ON

JUL.

11

INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

EIGHTY-SECOND CONGRESS
FIRST SESSION

ON

H. R. 274 and H. R. 913

BILLS TO AMEND THE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE ACT
TO AUTHORIZE ASSISTANCE TO STATES AND POLITICAL
SUBDIVISIONS IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTE-
NANCE OF LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH UNITS, PARTICU-
LARLY IN NATIONAL DEFENSE AREAS, AND
FOR OTHER PURPOSES

APRIL 10, 11, 12, 13, MAY 8, 9, AND 10, 1951

Printed for the use of the Committee on
Interstate and Foreign Commerce

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UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1951

Babcock, Dr. Joseph M., representing American Optometric Associa-

tion_..

151

Callaghan, Mrs. Eugene, chairman, Washington committee on legisla-

tion, National Congress of Parents and Teachers.

184

Dearing, Dr. W. P., Deputy Surgeon General, United States Public

Health Service

14, 111

Edelman, John W., Washington representative, Textile Workers

Union of America, CIO..

165

Emerson, Dr. Haven, New York, N. Y.

Getting, Dr. Vlado A., Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of

Public Health__

Hayes, Mrs. John E., president, National Congress of Parents and

Teachers..

53

Ewing, Hon. Oscar R., Administrator, Federal Security Agency 14, 29, 111

Fahy, Mrs. Jack B., executive director, American Parents Committee. 155

Freeman, Ruth B., member, board of directors, National Organization

for Public Health Nursing, Inc.-

30

99

Leavell, Dr. Hugh R., chairman, executive board, American Public

Health Association.

62,75

O'Connor, John J., Washington, D. C..........

Rademaker, Dr. Lee A., chairman, national advisory committee on

local health units, National Health Council_ _

147

179

Stoll, Mrs. Hester G., member, national committee on public social

policy, American Association of Social Workers

216

Voorhis, Jerry, executive secretary, Cooperative Health Federation of

America, and Cooperative League of the United States.

175

Additional information submitted for the record by-

Academy of Medicine of Cleveland, letter from Dr. Charles S. Higley,

president

142

American Dental Association, statement of Dr. Allen O. Gruebbel

American Home Economics Association, letter from Margaret Manger,

chairman, legislative committee. -

90

172

American Hospital Association, letter from John H. Hayes, chairman,

council on Government relations..

12

American Legion, letter from Miles D. Kennedy, director, transmitting

resolution.

American Library Association, statement of Mrs. Margie Malmberg--

American Medical Association, statement of Dr. Gunnar Gundersen_.

American Osteopathic Association, statement of Dr. Chester D.

Swope, chairman, department of public relations- -

American Parents Committee, officers and board of directors of ....

American Public Health Association:

Areas reporting full-time local health service, August 1950,

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Letter from Dr. Hugh R. Leavell estimating personnel required

to man local health departments..

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