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Forty percent of the total budgeted costs of grant-assisted migrant health projects have been met from other than Public Health Service grant sources.

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Counties with the greatest number of migrants have the highes percentage of coverage by grant-assisted project services (March 31 1964).

Counties with 3,000 or more migrants at pea

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Without grant-assisted

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Covered by grant-assisted project services

Without grant-assisted project services

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Public agencies have taken leadership in migrant health project development. Voluntary groups have filled the gap when others were not ready. They have also helped to interest other agencies in applying.

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Regardless of formal sponsorship, most projects have broad community support. The following groups and interests are among those involved:

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The majority of project grants are for less than $20,000.

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Most projects provide a combination of family clinic, nursing, health education, and sanitation services. The following indicates the types of services offered separately or in combination with others by projects receiving grant assistance:

Family health service clinics at one or more locations in the project area, usually scheduled at night.

Nursing services in the migrant labor camps, in family clinics, and in day-care centers and summer schools for migrant children.

Sanitation services including camp inspections, work with camp owners and occupants to get improvements made in

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