American Public Health Association_ Association of State & Territorial Health Officers.. Bennett, Fay, executive secretary, National Sharecroppers Fund. Brumback, C. L., M.D., director, Palm Beach County Health Depart- ment; director, Palm Beach County Welfare Department; and director, Palm Beach County Home and Hospital__ Fike, Olonzo P., housing hygiene training consultant, Maryland State Friends Committee on National Legislation, regarding farm labor, Isenberg, Robert M., executive secretary, Department of Rural Jessup, Bruce, M.D., consultant in rural health, California State Jones, Boisfeuillet, Special Assistant to the Secretary for Health and Medical Affairs; accompanied by Dr. Donald Harting, Director, Center for Research on Child Health, Division of General Medical Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service; Dr. Aaron W. Christensen, Associate Chief for Community Health, Bureau of State Services, Public Health Service; and Helen Johnston, public health adviser, Migrant Health Unit, Division of Community Ryan, Hon. William Fitts, a Representative in Congress from the 20th 12 Appropriations and proposed supplementals, fiscal year 1962, sub- Average days worked and average annual earnings of migratory workers employed 25 days or more during the year, chart furnished Editorials entitled, "The Migrant Worker in North Carolina," by Major routes of migratory agricultural workers, map furnished by Peak employment of domestic migrant farmworkers, 1960, submitted Photographs, migrant housing, submitted by Miss Johnston. Projected budget for first fiscal year of proposed migrant health program, submitted by Mr. B. Jones.. Projected budget for first fiscal year of proposed National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, submitted by Mr. B. Jones. Total paid employment as of January 31, 1962, table submitted by Mr. Atwater, Dr. John B., letter dated March 17, 1961. Cohen, Éli E., executive secretary, National Child Labor Committee, telegram dated February 14, 1962. McGowan, Thomson C., chairman, New York State Citizens Com- mittee on Farm Labor, letter dated February 14, 1962__ Taylor, Margaret K., executive director, American Parents Com- 73-78 56 17 45 33 HEALTH CLINICS FOR MIGRATORY FARMWORKERS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1962 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SUBCOMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND SAFETY, Washington, D.C. The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:10 a.m., in room 1334, New House Office Building, Hon. Kenneth A. Roberts (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. The CHAIRMAN. The subcommittee will please be in order. The subcommittee has before it today S. 1130, a bill to provide Federal grants to communities to assist in the provision of health services and medical care to domestic agricultural migrant workers and to their families. This bill has been passed by the Senate and referred to this subcommittee for consideration. We have also before the committee several bills which deal with the same subject: H.R. 5285, by Mr. Zelenko; H.R. 5849, by Mr. Fulton; H.R. 6114, by Mr. Kowalski; H.R. 6480, by Mr. Farbstein; H.R. 7088, by Mr. Cohelan; and H.R. 8882, by Mr. Ryan. Copies of these bills and agency reports will be inserted at this point in the record. (The bills mentioned plus agency reports are as follows:) [S. 1130, 87th Cong., 1st sess.] AN ACT To amend title III of the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants for family clinics for domestic agricultural migratory workers, and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representative of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That title III of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C., chapter 6A, subchapter II) is amended by inserting at the end of part A thereof the following new section: "GRANTS FOR FAMILY HEALTH SERVICE CLINICS FOR DOMESTIC AGRICULTURAL MIGRATORY WORKERS "SEC. 310. (a) There are hereby authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1962, and for each fiscal year thereafter, such sums, not to exceed $3,000,000 for any year, as may be necessary to enable the Surgeon General (1) to make grants to public or other nonprofit agencies, institutions, and organizations for paying part of the cost of (i) establishing and operating family health service clinics for domestic agricultural migratory workers and their families, including training persons to provide services in the establishing and operation of such clinics, and (ii) special projects to improve health services for and the health conditions of domestic agricultural migratory workers and their families, including training persons to provide health services for or otherwise improve the health conditions of such migratory workers and their families, and (2) to encourage and cooperate in intrastate or interstate programs, for the purpose of improving health servies for or otherwise improving 1 the health conditions of domestic agricultural migratory workers and their families. "(b) The Surgeon General is authorized to appoint an expert advisory committee to advise him in connection with the administration of this section, including the development of program policies and the review of grant applications." Passed the Senate August 25, 1961. FELTON M. JOHNSTON, Secretary. [H.R. 5285, 87th Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL To amend title III of the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants for improving domestic agricultural migratory workers' health services and conditions Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That title III of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C., chapter 6A, subchapter II) is amended by inserting at the end of part A thereof the following new section: "GRANTS FOR IMPROVING DOMESTIC AGRICULTURAL MIGRATORY WORKERS' HEALTH SERVICES AND CONDITIONS "SEC. 310. (a) There are hereby authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1962, and for each fiscal year thereafter, such sums, not to exceed $3,000,000 for any year, as may be necessary to enable the Surgeon General (1) to make grants to public or other nonprofit agencies, institutions, and organizations for paying part of the cost of special projects to improve health services for and the health conditions of domestic agricultural migratory workers and their families, including training persons to provide health services for or otherwise improve the health conditions of such migratory workers and their families, and (2) to conduct studies, investigations, and demonstrations, to train Federal or other personnel for providing such services or otherwise improving such conditions, and to encourage and cooperate in intrastate or interstate programs, for the purpose of improving health services for or otherwise improving the health conditions of domestic agricultural migratory workers and their families. "(b) The Surgeon General is authorized to appoint an expert advisory committee to advise him in connection with the administration of this section, including the development of program policies and the review of grant applications." [H.R. 5849, 87th Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL To amend title III of the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants for improving domestic agricultural migratory workers' health services and conditions Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That title III of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C., chapter 6A, subchapter II), is amended by inserting at the end of part A thereof the following new section: "GRANTS FOR IMPROVING DOMESTIC AGRICULTURAL MIGRATORY WORKERS' HEALTH SERVICES AND CONDITIONS "SEC. 310. (a) There are hereby authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1962, and for each fiscal year thereafter, such sums, not to exceed $3,000,000 for any year, as may be necessary to enable the Surgeon General (1) to make grants to public or other nonprofit agencies, institutions, and organizations for paying part of the cost of special projects to improve health services for and the health conditions of domestic agricultural migratory workers and their families, including training persons to provide health services for or otherwise improve the health conditions of such migatory workers and their train Federal or other personnel for providing such services or otherwise improving such conditions, and to encourage and cooperate in intrastate or interstate programs, for the purpose of improving health services for or otherwise improving the health conditions of domestic agricultural migratory workers and their families. "(b) The Surgeon General is authorized to appoint an expert advisory committee to advise him in connection with the administration of this section, including the development of program policies and the review of grant applications." [H.R. 6114, 87th Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL To amend title III of the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants for improving domestic agricultural migratory workers' health services and conditions Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That title III of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C., chapter 6A, subchapter II) is amended by inserting at the end of part A thereof the following new section: "GRANTS FOR IMPROVING DOMESTIC AGRICULTURAL MIGRATORY WORKERS' HEALTH SERVICES AND CONDITIONS "SEC. 310. (a) There are herby authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1962, and for each fiscal year thereafter, such sums, not to exceed $3,000,000 for any year, as may be necessary to enable the Surgeon General (1) to make grants to public or other nonprofit agencies, institutions, and organizations for paying part of the cost of special projects to improve health services for and the health conditions of domestic agricultural migratory workers and their families, including training persons to provide health services for or otherwise improve the health conditions of such migratory workers and their families, and (2) to conduct studies, investigations, and demonstrations, to train Federal or other personnel for providing such services or otherwise improving such conditions, and to encourage and cooperate in intrastate or interstate programs for the purpose of improving health services for or otherwise improving the health conditions of domestic agricultural migratory workers and their families. "(b) The Surgeon General is authorized to appoint an expert advisory committee to advise him in connection with the administration of this section, including the development of program policies and the review of grant applications." [H.R. 6480, 87th Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL To amend title III of the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants for improving domestic agricultural migratory workers' health services and conditions Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That title III of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C., chapter 6A, subchapter II) is amended by inserting at the end of part A thereof the following new section : "GRANTS FOR IMPROVING DOMESTIC AGRICULTURAL MIGRATORY WORKERS' HEALTH SERVICES AND CONDITIONS "SEC. 310. (a) There are hereby authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1962, and for each fiscal year thereafter, such sums, not to exceed $3,000,000 for any year, as may be necessary to enable the Surgeon General (1) to make grants to public or other nonprofit agencies, institutions, and organizations for paying part of the cost of special projects to improve health services for and the health conditions of domestic agricultural migratory workers and their families, including training persons to provide health services for or otherwise improve the health conditions of such migratory workers and their families, and (2) to conduct studies, investigations, and demonstrations, to train Federal or other personnel for providing such services or otherwise improving such conditions, and to encourage and cooperate in intratstate or interstate programs, for the purpose of improving health services for or otherwise improv |