DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR AND HEALTH, EDUCATION, SUBCOMMITTEE ON DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR AND HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND JOHN E. FOGARTY, Rhode Island, Chairman FRED MARSHALL, Minnesota WINFIELD K. DENTON, Indiana JOHN TABER, New York MELVIN R. LAIRD, Wisconsin ROBERT M. MOYER, Staff Assistant to Subcommittee DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE (Public Health Service) Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR AND HEALTH, EDUCATION, HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE EIGHTY-FIFTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION SUBCOMMITTEE ON DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR AND HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND JOHN E. FOGARTY, Rhode Island, Chairman FRED MARSHALL, Minnesota WINFIELD K. DENTON, Indiana JOHN TABER, New York MELVIN R. LAIRD, Wisconsin COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS CLARENCE CANNON, Missouri, Chairman GEORGE H. MAHON, Texas ALFRED D. SIEMINSKI, New Jersey JOE L. EVINS, Tennessee JOHN F. SHELLEY, California EDWARD P. BOLAND, Massachusetts DON MAGNUSON, Washington WILLIAM H. NATCHER, Kentucky DANIEL J. FLOOD, Pennsylvania WINFIELD K. DENTON, Indiana HUGH Q. ALEXANDER, North Carolina ALFRED E. SANTANGELO, New York JOHN TABER, New York RICHARD B. WIGGLESWORTH, Massachusetts H. CARL ANDERSEN, Minnesota FREDERIC R. COUDERT, JR., New York EARL WILSON, Indiana BENJAMIN F. JAMES, Pennsylvania GERALD R. FORD, JR., Michigan EDWARD T. MILLER, Maryland CHARLES W. VURSELL, Illinois HAROLD C. OSTERTAG, New York FRANK T. BOW, Ohio HAMER H. BUDGE, Idaho CHARLES RAPER JONAS, North Carolina MELVIN R. LAIRD, Wisconsin II KENNETH SPRANKLE, Clerk and Staff Director DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR AND HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1959 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1958. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE WITNESSES DR. LEROY E. BURNEY, SURGEON GENERAL DR. JOHN D. PORTERFIELD, DEPUTY SURGEON GENERAL DR. DAVID E. PRICE, CHIEF, BUREAU OF STATE SERVICES DR. JOHN W. CRONIN, CHIEF, BUREAU OF MEDICAL SERVICES DR. JAMES A. SHANNON, DIRECTOR, NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH ROY L. HARLOW, CHIEF FINANCE OFFICER JAMES F. KELLY, DEPARTMENTAL BUDGET OFFICER Mr. FOGARTY. The committee will come to order. We have before us the Public Health Service. Dr. Burney, do you have a statement for the committee? Mr. FOGARTY. You may proceed. GENERAL STATEMENT Dr. BURNEY. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, I appreciate the opportunity of appearing before you as you consider the budget requests of the Public Health Service for the fiscal year 1959. First, I should like to introduce Dr. John D. Porterfield, who succeeded Dr. Palmer Dearing as Deputy Surgeon General. Dr. Porterfield is a career officer of wide experience and demonstrated ability. Dr. Dearing is now assigned as Assistant Director for Health with the Office of Defense Mobilization. Dr. David E. Price, the new Chief of our Bureau of State Services, is also with me; as are Dr. James A. Shannon, Director of the Na tional Institutes of Health; Dr. John W. Cronin, Chief of the Bureau of Medical Services; and Mr. Roy Harlow, our Chief Finance Officer. As the hearings progress, you will meet other of our program officials, some of whom are appearing before you for the first time. Our basic responsibility, as the principal Federal health agency, is to protect and promote the health of the people of the United States. We carry out this responsibility through providing nationwide leadership in health, and through direct operations and grants in research, training, health facilities, and disease control. Your interest and support of our activities have enabled us to make progress in each of these areas and to meet new health problems as they have arisen. (1) |