MENTAL HEALTH (SUPPLEMENTAL) HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES EIGHTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON S. 1576 AN ACT TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE IN COMBATING MENTAL 21-853 JULY 10 AND 11, 1963 Printed for the use of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1963 COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE OREN HARRIS, JOHN BELL WILLIAMS, Mississippi SAMUEL N. FRIEDEL, Maryland TORBERT H. MACDONALD, Massachusetts LEO W. O'BRIEN, New York JOHN E. MOSS, California JOHN D. DINGELL, Michigan PAUL G. ROGERS, Florida ROBERT W. HEMPHILL, South Carolina HORACE R. KORNEGAY, North Carolina GILLIS W. LONG, Louisiana LIONEL VAN DEERLIN, California JOHN B. BENNETT, Michigan J. ARTHUR YOUNGER, California W. E. WILLIAMSON, Clerk Professional Staff ANDREW STEVENSON KURT BORCHARDT GEORGE W. PERRY JAMES M. MENGER, Jr. SUBCOMMITTEE ON PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY GEORGE M. RHODES, Pennsylvania II PAUL F. SCHENCK, Ohio DONALD G. BROTZMAN, Colorado Dybwad, Dr. Gunnar, executive director, National Association for Ewalt, Dr. Jack R., president, American Psychiatric Association_ Friedenberg, Dr. Harold L. Richmond, Va. Jackson, Dr. George, State director of mental hygiene, Little Rock, Jones, Boisfeuillet, special assistant to the Secretary, Health and Lowell, Dr. Edgar L., administrator, John Tracy Clinic, Los Angeles, 76 18, 137 129 117 Silverman, Dr. S. Richard, director, Central Institute for the Deaf, Terry, Dr. Luther L., Surgeon General, Public Health Service _ _ 18, 137 85 190 104 Additional information submitted for the record by- Alabama Association for Mental Health, telegram from John K. 245 Association for the Advancement of Blind Children, telegram from 248 Additional information submitted for the record by-Continued California School for the Blind, telegram from Berthold Lowenfeld, Page 247 Council for Exceptional Children: Letter from Donald C. Pearce, president, South Carolina Federa- 234 Policy statement of 211 Section-by-section analysis of S. 1576 as passed by the Senate___ Statement of relationship of S. 1576 tổ other elements of the 183 29 36 Lee, John J., chairman, Department of Special Education and Voca- tional Rehabilitation, Wayne State University, telegram from....... Marshall, James E., telegram from_. Martin, Dr. Edwin W., coordinator, adult division, speech and hearing clinic, Department of Speech, University of Alabama, letter from__ Miller, June, educational director, Department of Hearing and Speech, University of Kansas Medical Center, letter from.... Minnesota Association for Retarded Children, Inc., letter from National Association of State Directors of Special Education, letter from Stella A. Edwards, chairman, legislative committee, trans- National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors, Parents of the Blind, Inc., telegram from Marie Portere, president___ Physicians Forum, Inc., statement of Dr. Johan W. Eliot. Reynolds, Hon. John W., Governor of Wisconsin, telegram from... Reynolds, Maynard C., professor, educational psychology, Depart- ment of Special Education, University of Minnesota College of Rolvaag, Hon. Karl F., Governor of Minnesota, telegram from. Sanders, Hon. Carl E., Governor of Georgia, letter from_--- U.S. Conference of Mayors, letter from John J. Gunther, executive MENTAL HEALTH (Supplemental) WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1963 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, AND SAFETY OF THE COMMITTEE ON The subcommittee met at 10 a.m., pursuant to call, in room 1334, Longworth Building, Hon. Kenneth A. Roberts (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Mr. ROBERTS. The subcommittee will please be in order. The Subcommittee on Public Health and Safety is holding hearings this morning on the bill, S. 1576, as amended, which entitled "Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act of 1963." S. 1576, as amended, represents, in large measure, a consolidation of the provisions of the two bills, H.R. 3688 and 3689, introduced by the chairman of our full committee, the distinguished gentleman from Arkansas, concerning which the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce has already held hearings, and, in addition, certain new matter. The subcommittee had earlier reported the bill favorably, with amendments, to the full committee. However, owing to certain questions, which in the opinion of the committee have not been sufficiently explored, the committee directed the subcommittee to hold hearings for the purpose of developing additional information. (S. 1576 referred to and the report of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare follow :) [S. 1576, 88th Cong., 1st sess.] AN ACT To provide assistance in combating mental retardation through grants for construction of research centers and grants for facilities for the mentally retarded and assistance in improving mental health through grants for construction and initial staffing of community mental health centers, and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act of 1963". 1 |