President's Health Recommendations and Related Measures

COMMITTEE ON

LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE

UNITED STATES SENATE

EIGHTY-THIRD CONGRESS
SECOND SESSION

THE PRESIDENT'S HEALTH RECOMMENDATIONS AND
RELATED MATTERS

PART 2

MARCH 30, APRIL 5, 6, 7, AND 8, 1954

Printed for the use of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare

CONTENTS

Text of

Page

S. 2759

329

Report of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare..
Report of the Postmaster General

336

596

S. 3039..

532

Report of the Bureau of the Budget on S. 3039_
Report of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
on S. 3039 and S. 2759_

534

533

Report of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare on
S. 2570
Statement of-

Barnes, Kenneth, director of rehabilitation therapy, Maryland State
Department of Mental Hygiene; accompanied by Mrs. Henrietta
B. DeWitt, director of Psychiatric Social Services of the State
Department of Mental Hygiene for the State of Maryland.
Brooks, Dr. Glidden L., medical diretor, United Cerebral Palsy
Associations, Inc...

526

512

553

Prepared statement..

553

Cline, E. C., State supervisor of vocational rehabilitation, State of
Illinois.

Cummings, Francis J., executive secretary of the Delaware Commission for the Blind and chairman of the legislative committee of the American Association of Workers for the Blind.

592

500

512, 514

DeWitt, Mrs. Henrietta B., director of psychiatric social work, Mary-
land State Department of Mental Hygiene.
Engh, Dr. O. Anderson, Anderson Rehabilitation Center, Arlington,
Va..

Fuller, Dr. Edgar, executive secretary, National Council of State
Chief School Officers..

Gabell, Mrs. Marcine, executive secretary, American Association of
Psychiatric Social Workers..

Hobby, Hon. Oveta Culp, Secretary of Health, Education, and Wel-
fare: Accompanied by Hon. Nelson A. Rockefeller, Under Secre-
tary of Health, Education, and Welfare; Hon. Roswell B. Perkins,
Assistant Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and
Welfare; Hon. Arthur Kimball, Acting Deputy Director of the
Office of Vocational Rehabilitation; Donald Dabelstein and Joseph
Hunt, Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, Department of Health,
Education, and Welfare..

Mason, Walter J., member of the national legislative committee of the American Federation of Labor; accompanied by Dr. O. Anderson Engh..

543

Potter, Hon. Charles E., a United States Senator from the State of
Michigan

529

Power, Ray F., executive officer and director, West Virginia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation....

453

Prepared statement....

453

Read, Harry, executive assistant of the Congress of Industrial Organi

Prepared statement.

zations..

Reedy, Corbett, State supervisor of National Rehabilitation in Virginia and past president, National Rehabilitation Association.....

573

574

588

Statement of-Continued

Salmon, Peter, executive director of the Industrial Home for the
Blind, Brooklyn, N. Y., appearing in behalf of M. Robert Barnett,
executive director of the American Foundation for the Blind.....

Shepherd, Mrs. Vivian, executive director, Kansas City Rehabilitation

Institute

Prepared statement..

Shover, Miss Jayne, associate director, National Society for Crippled

Children and Adults-

Prepared statement

467

Strachan, Paul A., president, American Federation of the Physically

Handicapped..

468

Swope, Dr. Chester D., chairman, Department of Public Relations,

American Osteopathic Association

ten Broek, Dr. Jacobus, president, National Federation of the Blind;

accompanied by A. L. Archibald, executive director, National

Federation of the Blind.

Thompson, R. C., State director, Maryland division of vocational

rehabilitation, States Vocational Rehabilitation Council...

Walker, Hulen C., vice president, American Association of Workers

for the Blind

Warburton, Hon. Herbert B., a Repsesentative in Congress at large
from the State of Delaware.

Whitten, E. B., executive director, National Rehabilitation Associa-

tion.

373, 380

Prepared statement....

Proposed amendments___

Wise, Dr. Charles S., professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation,

the George Washington University School of Medicine...

Prepared statement..........

Additional information:

Approved schools of occupational therapy -

Approved schools of physical therapy --

Letter from-

Birdsall, G. H., Assistant Administrator for Legislation, Veterans'

Administration, to chairman, April 20, 1954, and enclosures...

Gay, Mrs. Lenore Y., Administrator, State of Rhode Island and

Providence Plantations, Department of Social Welfare, Bureau

for the Blind, Providence, R. I., to Hon. Theodore Francis
Green, March 31, 1954.

Gourley, Lawrence L., legal counsel, American Osteopathic

Association, to chairman, April 8, 1954, transmitting statement

of Dr. Chester D. Swope, chairman, department of public

relations, American Osteopathic Association..

Gulledge, Z. L., executive secretary, Senate Interim Committee
on the Education and Rehabilitation of the Physically Handi-
capped Children and Adults, California Legislature, to chair-
man, March 23, 1954

Perkins, James E., managing director, National Tuberculosis

Association, to chairman, April 6, 1954.

Whitten, E. B., executive director, National Rehabilitation

Association to chairman, April 7, 1954

Memorandum re vending-stand program for the blind and proposed
amendments contained in H. R. 6657 of the National Federation
of the Blind.

Telegram from-

Anderson, Jesse T., State Superintendent of Education, Colum-

bia, S. C., to Dr. Edgar Fuller, executive secretary, National

Council of Chief State School Officers, April 2, 1954.

Bailey, Thomas D., Tallahassee, Fla., to Dr. Edgar Fuller,
executive secretary, National Council of Chief State School
Officers, April 2, 1954.

Chamberlin, Clayton, Honolulu, T. H., to Dr. Edgar Fuller,

executive secretary, National Council of State School Officers,