Moreover. safe and effective protection is now possible against measlesa dangerously underrated disease which strikes 4 million children annually. kills several hundred. and leads to such lifelong impairments as mental retardation and deafness in thousands more. The amendments under consideration would add measles to the list of immunizations for which the Public Health Service may furnish technical and financial aid to States and municipalities. and authorize the appropriation of sufficient funds to make a major impact on this disease. A second element of the Community Health Services Extension Amendments is the Migrant Health Act of 1962. also due to expire at the end of the current fiscal year. In its 3year history this act has led to the establishment of family health clinics and other services for domestic migrant farmworkers in 29 States and Puerto Ricoservices which are desperately needed and in desperately short supply. This is an impressive beginning. But many of these people. upon whom much of our agricultural production depends. have not yet been reached.
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