HEARINGS A BILL TO PROVIDE FOR THE GENERAL WELFARE BY ENABLING THE SEVERAL STATES TO MAKE MORE ADEQUATE PROVISION FOR PUBLIC HEALTH, PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF DISEASE MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH SERVICES, CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF NEEDED HOSPITALS AND HEALTH CENTERS, CARE OF THE SICK, DISABILITY INSURANCE, APRIL 27, AND MAY 4, 5, 11, AND 12, 1939 CONTENTS DATE OF HEARING AND STATEMENT OF WITNESSES Wagner, Hon. Robert F., United States Senator from New York____ Roche, Josephine, Interdepartmental Committee to Coordinate Health Wolman, Abel, president, American Public Health Association____ Hoehler, Fred K., director of American Public Welfare Association__ Eliot, Dr. Martha M., Assistant Chief of the Children's Bureau, De- Pressman, Lee, representing the Congress of Industrial Organizations_ Palmer, Dr. C. L., representing the Medical Society of the State of Wright, Dr. Louis T., chairman of the board of directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People--- Dowd, Miss Mollie, representing the National Women's Trade Union Grulee, Dr. Clifford G., secretary of the American Academy of Davis, Dr. M. Edwards, associate professor of obstetrics, University Bowles, Dr. George W., president of the National Medical Association_ Emerson, Dr. Kendall, managing director of the National Tuberculosis Page 275 279 285 230 295 Moore, W. D., president of the American Cast Iron Pipe Co., Birming- 306 McCord, Dr. C. P., director of the bureau of industrial hygiene of the 310 ALPHABETICAL LIST OF WITNESSES Ahart, Mrs. H. W., president of the Associated Women of the American Baker, Jacob, president of the United Federal Workers of America.. 91 231 290 151 Bowles, Dr. George W., president of the National Medical Association. 285 279 Dowd, Miss Mollie, representing the National Women's Trade Union 243 Dunbar, Mrs. Saidie Orr, president of the General Federation of Women's 100 Eliot, Dr. Martha M., Assistant Chief of the Children's Bureau, Depart- 147 Emerson, Dr. Kendall, managing director of the National Tuberculosis 295 Falasz, John M., representing the director of labor of the State of 262 Greenburg, Dr. Leonard, executive director, division of industrial hygiene, McGorkey, Mary Luciel, chairman, health committee, New York State In- O'Neal, Edward A., president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, 91 Osgood, Dr. Robert B., member of the Committee of Physicians for the 194 Palmer, Dr. C. L., representing the Medical Society of the State of Penn- 213 Patton, James G., president of the Farmers' Union of Colorado and mem- 106 Peters, Dr. John J., secretary of the Committee of Physicians for the Im- 191 Pressman, Lee, representing the Congress of Industrial Organizations___ 205 117 Seegal, Dr. David, director of the research division for chronic diseases, 196 Sewell, Mrs. Charles W., administrative director of the Associated 98 Page Smith, Dr. Richard M., chairman of the Committee of Physicians for the 180 Vesecky, John, president of the National Farmers Union_. 104 109 237 Woll, Matthew, chairman of the committee on social security of the 224 Wolman, Abel, president of the American Public Health Association____ 130 LIST OF STATEMENTS, TABLES, ETC., SUBMITTED S. 1620, Seventy-sixth Congress, first session___ President of the United States, message from, on health security-. Wolman, Abel: Report filed for the American Public Health Association_ Outline of the organization and activities of the American Medical Wright, Dr. Louis T., chairman of the board of directors, National Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Colored People. Submitted editorial Resolution of the New York State Allied Printing Trades Council____ Resolution of the Medical Society of the State of New York------ Bowles, Dr. George W.: Submitted report of the committee on medical |