DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR AND HEALTH, EDUCATION,
AND WELFARE APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1968

SUBCOMMITTEE ON DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR AND HEALTH,
EDUCATION, AND WELFARE AND RELATED AGENCIES

DANIEL J. FLOOD, Pennsylvania, Chairman

WILLIAM H. NATCHER, Kentucky

NEAL SMITH, Iowa

W. R. HULL, JE., Missouri

BOB CASEY, Texas

MELVIN R. LAIRD, Wisconsin
ROBERT H. MICHEL, Illinois
GARNER E. SHRIVER, Kansas

ROBERT M. MOYER, Staff Assistant to the Subcommittee

PART 4

PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE

(Except the National Institutes of Health and the
National Institute of Mental Health)

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Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1967

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
GEORGE H. MAHON, Texas, Chairman

KENNETH SPRANKLE, Clerk and Staff Director PAUL M. WILSON, Assistant Clerk and Staff Director

DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR AND HEALTH, EDUCATION,
AND WELFARE APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1968

MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1967.

PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE

WITNESSES

DR. WILLIAM H. STEWART, SURGEON GENERAL

DR. LEONARD D. FENNINGER, DIRECTOR, BUREAU OF HEALTH
MANPOWER

DR. RICHARD A. PRINDLE, DIRECTOR, BUREAU OF DISEASE PRE-
VENTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL

DR. CARRUTH J. WAGNER, DIRECTOR, BUREAU OF HEALTH
SERVICES

DR. JAMES A. SHANNON, DIRECTOR, NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF
HEALTH

DR. STANLEY F. YOLLES, DIRECTOR, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF
MENTAL HEALTH

JOHN H. KELSO, EXECUTIVE OFFICER

G. R. CLAGUE, ACTING CHIEF FINANCE OFFICER

JAMES B. CARDWELL, DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY, BUDGET

Mr. FLOOD. The committee will come to order.

We are very pleased and very fortunate indeed to have with us this morning the Surgeon General and other top officials of the Public Health Service. Of course, first on the agenda will be the general statement by our old friend, Dr. William H. Stewart, the Surgeon General.

General, we have your biographical sketch, which we will insert at this point.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF PRINCIPAL WITNESS

William H. Stewart, M.D., was named Surgeon General of the Public Health Service by President Lyndon B. Johnson on September 24, 1965. Six days later, the U.S. Senate confirmed his appointment as 10th Surgeon General in the 167year history of the Service.

Born in Minneapolis, Minn., on May 19, 1921, he attended the University of
Minnesota and Louisiana State University, and received his medical degree from
Louisiana State University School of Medicine in 1945. His internship at
Philadelphia General Hospital was followed by 2 years' duty with the U.S. Army
Medical Corps. Upon completion of his residency in pediatrics at Charity Hos-
pital, New Orleans, he was in private practice in Alexandria, La., until he entered
the Public Health Service in 1951. He was certified by the American Board of
Pediatrics in 1953.

His first 2 years as a Public Health Service career officer were spent in Thomasville, Ga., where he headed the epidemiological unit of the Communicable Disease Center. He came to PHS headquarters in 1953 to serve the next 4 years with the National Heart Institute and the heart control program of the Bureau of State Services. The next 8 years, he spent in a staff capacity, first to the Surgeon General and, later, to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare.

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