Indians (Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service)Conducts medical rehabilitation of tubercular and other handicapped Indians in Division of Indian Health tuberculosis hospitals and medical centers, or obtains services from non-Federal rehabilitation centers. Refers Indians to State-maintained rehabilitation agencies where appropriate. Compiles registers of handicapped Indians (42 U.S.C. 2001-2005f).

Veterans (Veterans' Administration)-Furnishes vocational rehabilitation to World War II and Korean conflict veterans with service-connected disabilities, including training, subsistence allowance during training, medical care, treatment, hospitalization, prosthesis necessary for rehabilitation, and interest-free loans up to $100 for those undertaking courses of vocational rehabilitation (38 U.S.C. 1501-1510).

EDUCATION

Education of the deaf (Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Gallaudet College)-Provides higher education for about 400 deaf students at Gallaudet College, the only institution of its kind in the United States. Operates a graduate department to train teachers of the deaf. Kendall School is maintained as a laboratory for about 70 deaf elementary and secondary children and as a college preparatory department for graduates of State residential schools. Gallaudet College is financed about two-thirds by the Federal Government (31 D.C. Code 1030 (f)).

Guidance (Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education)National Defense Education Act makes grants to States to assist gifted students by providing at the local school level for approximately 2,000 new positions in counseling and guidance, and to enable the State departments of education to sponsor special inservice training workshops for key persons in counseling and guidance (20 U.S.C. 481-491).

Indians (Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs)-Maintains nine special teachers in Indian hospitals and sanatoria to teach confined children, and four specialists to teach exceptional children at regular boarding schools. Provides special facilities including a speech and hearing therapist for Navajo Indians at Intermountain School, Utah. Pays tuition for handicapped Indian children attending State special schools in nine States. Provides foster home care near diagnostic testing and treatment centers for isolated children (25 U.S.C. 13, 271).

War orphans (Veterans Administration)-Provides 36 months of college for orphans, age 18-23, of veterans who died from service-connected disability. Pays them an allowance for special restorative training to overcome disability handicapping education (38 U.S.C. 1701-1762).

EMPLOYMENT PROMOTION

Employment offices (Department of Labor, Bureau of Employment Security)Provides funds for the States to administer a system of employment offices, whose services include employment counseling and placement services for handicapped persons (29 U.S.C. 49b, 49g, 49m).

Federal service (Department of Labor, President's Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped)-Promotes generally the employment of physically handicapped persons in the Federal Government, State government, and private industry. Develops and recommends to the appropriate State agencies, policies and procedures which will facilitate the placement in employment of handicapped individuals who have received vocational rehabilitation (29 U.Š.C. 38).

Observance (President)-Proclaims the first week in October as National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week (36 U. S. C. 155).

Small business (Small Business Administration)-Extends financial assistance to small businesses, encouraging the employment of handicapped people; advises the handicapped as to businesses in which their handicaps will not be a deterring factor (15 U.S.C. 631).

FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT

Alaska (Department of the Interior)-Grants Alaska 1 million acres from public lands of the United States for the purpose of establishing a mental health program including hospital facilities. Nonindigent patients may be served in hospitals set up

for Eskimos, Indians, and other natives of Alaska (48 U.S.C. 46-1 to 46-3, 49, 50b, 50c, 50f).

Books for the blind (Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, American Printing House for the Blind)-Makes appropriations to the American Printing House for the Blind, operating under a private board of trustees, to promote the wider distribution of books and other special instructional material for the blind (20 U.S.C. 101-105).

Captioned films (Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education)-Selects and acquires educational and cultural films, and captions and distributes them to the deaf through State schools for the deaf, and other nonprofit agencies (42 U.S.C. 2491-2494).

Design (General Services Administration, Public Buildings Service)-Designs all new Federal buildings with at least one entrance accessible to the handicapped. Modifies existing buildings with ramps and handrails, adjusted facilities in restrooms, drinking fountains, telephone recesses, all for convenience and comfort of the ambulatory handicapped (5 U.S.C. 630).

Educational and recreational materials for the blind (U.S. Congress, Library of Congress) Contracts for publishing braille and sound recorded books and distributing them to regional libraries for loan, free of charge, to the blind (2 U.S.C. 135a, 135b).

Hospital construction (Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service)-Assists the States in surveying for need and in constructing of public and other nonprofit hospitals, diagnostic centers, treatment centers, hospitals for the chronically ill and impaired, rehabilitation facilities, and nursing homes; makes grants for conduct of research, experiments, and demonstrations relating to the effective development and utilization of hospital services, facilities, and resources, and to promote coordination of such programs. Grants to States are on matching basis (42 U.S.C. 291-291v).

Hospital loans (Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service) Makes loans (as opposed to grants-in-aid or outright grants) for the purpose of construction of hospitals (42 U.S.C. 291w-291z).

Invalid lift (Veterans' Administration)-Furnishes prosthetic equipment for disabled veterans requiring it, invalid lifts where medically indicated, and guide dogs, and any mechanical or electronic equipment to aid in coping with blindness, and pays travel expenses for orientation in their use (38 U.S.C. 613, 617).

Prosthetics (Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service)-Furnishes prosthetic and orthopedic devices to patients in all Public Health Service hospitals (42 U.S.C. 248).

Virgin Islands (Department of the Interior, Virgin Islands Corporation)-Constructs various projects, including hospitals, sanitation, school and educational facilities, and undertakes malaria control (48 U.S.C. 1409g, 1409h).

Workshops (Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Vocational Rehabilitation)-Reimburses States for funds paid to public and other nonprofit organizations for expanding, remodeling, and equipping facilities for therapy, training, or evaluation, and workshops for handicapped clients who are not ready to enter the competitive labor market (29 U.S.C. 34(a)(2)).

PROTECTION

Coast Guard (Department of the Treasury, Coast Guard)-Promotes and maintains safety and occupational health and prevents accidents affecting personnel of the Coast Guard, including purchase of protective clothing, equipment, and other materials (14 U.S.C. 477).

Navy (Department of Defense, Navy)-Makes appropriate expenditures to prevent accidents and promote the safety and occupational health of Navy personnel, civilian employees of the Navy, Coast Guard personnel when serving with the Navy, and Coast and Geodetic Survey personnel when serving with the Navy (10 U.S.C. 7205). IMPROVEMENT OF HEALTH

Child welfare (Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Social Security Administration, Children's Bureau)-Makes grants to the States to provide public

welfare services for the protection and care of homeless, dependent, and neglected children, and children in danger of becoming delinquent (42 U.S.C. 721).

Crippled children (Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Social Security Administration, Children's Bureau)-Provides grants on a varying scale of matching to State crippled children's agencies to extend and improve services, especially in rural areas, for locating crippled children, and providing medical, surgical, hospital, and posthospital care for children who are crippled or have conditions that may lead to crippling (42 U.S.C. 711 et seq.).

Grants to States (Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service)-Makes grants and offers services to States for (1) prevention, control, and treatment of venereal diseases; (2) prevention, control, and treatment of tuberculosis; (3) establishment and maintenance of public health services; (4) establishment and maintenance of community programs of heart disease control (42 U.S.C. 246).

Maternal and child health (Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Social Security Administration, Children's Bureau)-Makes grants on a varying scale of matching to State health departments to extend and improve services for promoting the health of mothers and children, especially in rural areas. Part of the funds (1959) are earmarked for special projects for the mentally retarded (42 U.S.C. 701 et seq.).

General (Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service)Serves the health requirements of the people of the United States through the (1) Office of Surgeon General, (2) National Institutes of Health, (3) Bureau of Medical Services, (4) Bureau of State Services, in the Public Health Service (42 U.S.C. 201-203). OTHER

Accused mental incompetents (Department of Justice)-Provides for the psychiatric examination and judicial procedure following arrest for a Federal offense to determine the accused's mental competency to stand trial. If the accused is found to be mentally incompetent then the court may commit such person to the custody of the Attorney General (Springfield, Mo., or St. Elizabeths Hospital) until mentally competent to stand trial or until the pending charges are disposed of (18 U.S.C. 4244-4246).

Destitute seamen (Department of State, Foreign Service and Consular Service)Authorizes the payment of subsistence by consuls and assistant consuls to destitute seamen incapacitated from service by injury or illness in their respective overseas consular districts when all other authorized remedies cannot be proffered such seamen (46 U.S.C. 683).

GENERAL

RESEARCH

Arthritis, rheumatism, and metabolic diseases (Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service)-Operates the National Institute on Arthritis, Rheumatism, and Metabolic Diseases, for the purpose of conducting researches, investigations, experiments, and demonstrations relating to the causes, prevention, and methods of disagnosis and treatment of arthritis, rheumatism, and other diseases; assists, fosters, and promotes coordination of all researches in these fields and provides training therefor (42 U.S.C. 289-289c).

Authority of Surgeon General (Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service)-Conducts in the Service and encourages, cooperates with, and assists outside the Service, research, investigations, experiments, demonstrations, studies relating to causes, diagnosis, treatment, control, and prevention of heart diseases, cancer diseases, and all other physical diseases, and mental diseases; establishes and maintains research fellowships, grants-in-aid to universities, hospitals, laboratories, and other public or private institutions for research projects as recommended by the National Advisory Health Council, National Advisory Mental Health Council, National Advisory Heart Council, and National Advisory Cancer Council; secures advice and assistance from experts and consultants therefor; admits and treats at institutions, hospitals, and clinics patients not otherwise eligible for treatment therein; makes available technical advice to all public health officials and scientists (42 U.S.C. 241).

Cancer (Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health)-Operates the National Cancer Institute which assists,

and fosters research, investigations, experiments, and studies relating to the cause, prevention, and methods of diagnosis and treatment of cancer; promotes the coordination of researches conducted by the Institute and similar researches conducted by other agencies, organizations, and individuals; provides training and instruction in technical matters relating to diagnosis and treatment of cancer; provides fellowships in the Institute for research; procures, uses, and lends radium in treatment of cancer; makes grants-in-aid for cancer projects upon recommendation of National Cancer Advisory Council to universities, hospitals, laboratories, or other public or private institutions (42 U.S.C. 281-284).

Heart disease (Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health)-Operates the National Heart Institute which conducts, assists, and fosters research, investigations, experiments, and studies relating to the cause, prevention, and methods of diagnosis and treatment of heart diseases; promotes the coordination of researches conducted by the Institute and similar researches conducted by other agencies, organizations, and individuals; makes grants-inaid to universities, hospitals, laboratories, and other private or public institutions for heart research; establishes fellowships and traineeships in the Institute and elsewhere for training and instruction and treatment of heart diseases (42 U.S.C. 287-287c).

Mental health (Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health)-Operates the National Institute of Mental Health including buildings, equipment, personnel, and laboratory buildings and facilities for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the Mental Health Act. Provides training and instruction and establishes and maintains traineeships for the conduct and support of research relating to mental diseases. Makes grants to States, local agencies, laboratories, or individuals for investigation, experiments, demonstrations, studies, and research projects for developing improved methods of diagnosing mental illness and of the care, treatment, and rehabilitation of the mentally ill (42 U.S.C. 232, 242a).

Military medicine (Department of Defense)-Employs 120 civilians in the Department of Defense, and 25 in the National Security Agency, to carry out research and development relating to the national defense, military medicine, and other activities (10 U.S.C. 1581).

Neurological diseases and blindness (Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health)-Operates the National Institute on Neurological Diseases and Blindness for the purpose of conducting researches, investigations, experiments, and demonstrations relating to the causes, prevention, and methods of diagnosis and treatment of multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, polio, blindness, and other diseases; assists, fosters, and promotes coordination of all researches in these fields, and provides training for them (42 U.S.C. 289-289c).

Science (National Science Foundation)-Institutes, supports, develops, and encourages the pursuit of a national policy for promotion of basic research and education in the sciences including mathematics, physics, medicine, biology, engineering, and other sciences; makes contracts or other arrangements (including grants, loans, and other forms of assistance) for the conduct of such basic scientific research and to appraise the impact of research upon industrial development and upon the general welfare; awards scholarships and graduate fellowships in pursuit of the above (42 U.S.C. 1861, 1862).

Special education (Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education) Enters into contracts or jointly financed cooperative arrangements with universities and colleges and State educational agencies for the conduct of research. surveys and demonstrations in the field of education upon the advice and recommendation of educational research specialists who are competent to evaluate the proposals as to the soundness of their design, the possibility of securing productive results, the adequacy of resources to conduct the proposed research, surveys, or demonstrations, and their relationship to other similar educational research already completed or in process. Such research contracts include studies of mental retardation, development of students' special abilities, and educational problems of orthopedically handicapped, emotionally disturbed, speech and hearing defective and blind children (20 U.S.C. 331-337).

SPECIFIC

Civil defense (Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization)-Conducts research designed to minimize effects of enemy attacks upon the United States (50 U.S.C. 2252, 2253).

Clothing (Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Institute of Home Economics) Conducts projects on clothing design for handicapped women, specificially those using braces, crutches, and wheelchairs. Designs functional housing projects to discover energy-saving and efficient arrangements of kitchens suitable for handicapped people (7 U.S.C. 361a, 361b).

Deaf (Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Gallaudet College)Employs two researchers for Central Index of Research on the Deaf, which abstracts all known research activity in the field, and with outside grants conducts research projects such as an occupational survey of the deaf. Linguistic study section investigates problems of teaching English and language and is engaged in a structural analysis of manual language (31 D.C. Code 1032).

Narcotics (Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service)-Conducts studies and investigations of the use and misuse of narcotic drugs, and other functions as are necessary to supply the normal and emergency medicinal and scientific requirements of the United States (42 U.S.C. 242).

Physical medicine (Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health)—Evaluates new techniques and equipment in physical medicine and rehabilitation, demonstrating those proved successful to the medical profession (42 U.S.C. 241).

Physical medicine (Veterans Administration, Department of Medicine and Surgery) Conducts research on physical medicine and other medical and surgical problems (38 U.S.C. 4101).

Prosthesis (Veterans' Administration)-Conducts research in the field of prosthesis, prosthetic appliances, orthopedic appliances, and sensory devices; makes studies of rehabilitation of disabled persons and cooperates with public and private research agencies (38 U.S.C. 216, 217).

Prosthetics (Veterans' Administration, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Artificial Limb Program 2)-Plans and coordinates basic biomechanical and medical research, design and development of working models, evaluation and testing of production models, introduction of devices and techniques through the limb industry, supervision of prosthetic courses, and development of teaching aids for all limbless from the child congenital to the geriatric (36 U.S.C. 253).

Radiation (Atomic Energy Commission)-Contracts for studies on the genetic, physiological, and therapeutic effects of radiation, as well as basic investigations of body function through tracer elements and of restorative technique (42 U.S.C. 2014, 2051, 2073, 2111, 2134).

Radiation (Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service)-Makes grants to and assists States in the development of programs to protect the health of the population against radiological hazards through research and dissemination of technical data (42 U.S.C. 241, 246 (c)).

Rehabilitation (Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health)-Supports projects submitted by universities and associations for surveys of the rehabilitation process and for a wide variety of studies of rehabilitation techniques for all types of handicapped (42 U.S.C. 241(d)).

Railroad accidents (Railroad Retirement Board)-Conducts research projects, investigations, and studies with respect to the cause, care, and prevention of, and benefits for, accidents and disabilities (45 U.S.C. 362).

Welfare (Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Social Security Administration)-Makes grants to States and public and other nonprofit organizations in part payment of the cost of cooperative research or demonstration projects such as those relating to prevention and reduction of dependency, or which will aid in effecting co

Agency: Artificial Limb Program, a government-supported project under the direction of the nongovernmental Prosthetics Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council.