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HEARINGS

BEFORE A

SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE

COMMITTEE ON

INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

EIGHTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

H.R. 3688

A BILL TO PROVIDE FOR ASSISTANCE IN THE CONSTRUC-
TION AND INITIAL OPERATION OF COMMUNITY MENTAL
HEALTH CENTERS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
H.R. 3689

A BILL TO ASSIST STATES IN COMBATING MENTAL RETAR-
DATION THROUGH CONSTRUCTION OF RESEARCH CENTERS
AND FACILITIES FOR THE MENTALLY RETARDED

H.R. 2567

A BILL TO AMEND THE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE ACT IN
ORDER TO PROVIDE A BROADENED PROGRAM IN THE
FIELD OF MENTAL HEALTH AND ILLNESS OF GRANTS FOR
PREVENTION, RESEARCH, TRAINING, SALARIES, FACILI-
TIES SURVEY, AND CONSTRUCTION OF FACILITIES FOR
TREATMENT OF THE MENTALLY ILL AND MENTALLY
RETARDED

MARCH 26, 27, AND 28, 1963

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COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE

OREN HARRIS, Arkansas, Chairman

JOHN BELL WILLIAMS, Mississippi
KENNETH A. ROBERTS, Alabama
HARLEY O. STAGGERS, West Virginia
WALTER ROGERS, Texas

SAMUEL N. FRIEDEL, Maryland
TORBERT H. MACDONALD, Massachusetts
GEORGE M. RHODES, Pennsylvania
JOHN JARMAN, Oklahoma

LEO W. O'BRIEN, New York

JOHN E. MOSS, California

JOHN D. DINGELL, Michigan

PAUL G. ROGERS, Florida

ROBERT W. HEMPHILL, South Carolina
DAN ROSTENKOWSKI, Illinois
JAMES C. HEALEY, New York

HORACE R. KORNEGAY, North Carolina
W. R. HULL, JR., Missouri

GILLIS W. LONG, Louisiana

LIONEL VAN DEERLIN, California

JOHN B. BENNETT, Michigan
WILLIAM L. SPRINGER, Illinois
PAUL F. SCHENCK, Ohio

J. ARTHUR YOUNGER, California
MILTON W. GLENN, New Jersey
SAMUEL L. DEVINE, Ohio
ANCHER NELSEN, Minnesota
HASTINGS KEITH, Massachusetts
WILLARD S. CURTIN, Pennsylvania
ABNER W. SIBAL, Connecticut
GLENN CUNNINGHAM, Nebraska
JAMES T. BROYHILL, North Carolina
DONALD G. BROTZMAN, Colorado

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Ewalt, Dr. Jack R., director, Joint Commission on Mental Illness
and Health; Bullard professor of psychiatry, Harvard University;
superintendent, Massachusetts Mental Health Center....
Farbstein, Hon. Leonard, a Representative in Congress from the
State of New York..

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Fitzpatrick, Vincent J., chairman, governmental affairs committee. -

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Jones, Edward F., press secretary to Governor Clement of Tennessee_

Lieberman, Dr. Daniel, chief deputy director, California State De-
partment of Mental Hygiene__

235

Pratt, Dr. Henry N., director of the Society of the New York Hospital,
American Hospital Association _ _

192

Ray, David B., Jr., superintendent, Arkansas Children's Colony,
Conway, Ark.

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Taylor, Mrs. Margaret K., executive director of the American Parents
Committee, Inc., Washington, D.C..

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American Public Health Association, by Hyman M. Forstenzer,
chairman, mental health section_

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Birkeland, Gene, independent research analyst_

436

Dimond, C. Leigh, chairman, Council of New York State Organiza-
tions for Mentally Ill Children___

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Additional material submitted to the subcommittee-

"A Discussion of Physical and Perceptual Environment in Visual Train-
ing of Mentally Retarded Children," by Harold L. Friedenberg,
O.D_

AMA statement of principal on mental health..

Alabama House of Representatives, resolution of, submitted by Senator
A. C. Shelton along with six others..

Data on Florida and south Florida State mental hospitals, submitted

by Congressman Pepper...---

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Excerpts from the President's special message to the Congress of
February 5, 1963, on mental illness and mental retardation re-
search centers and mental retardation facilities_
Federal percentages for mental health and mentally retarded con-
struction grants, State by State..

108

136

Federal, State, and local government expenditures for the care of
the mentally ill, fiscal year ending June 30, 1962.

Mental health manpower.-

78

"Mental Retardation," a reprint from Health, Education, and
Welfare Indicators, June 1962, HEW.

121

Obligations for mental retardation by category and agency for
fiscal years 1955, 1963, and 1964.

54

Projects for the mentally retarded, approved under the Hill-
Burton program as of December 31, 1962, table.

Staffing pattern of a community mental health center.

90

Summary of H.R. 3688.

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Summary of H.R. 3689.

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