They live and work for varying periods of time in nearly onethird of the Nations counties. Under the program. grantsinaid are made to States. local communities. and nonprofit agencies. Institutions. and organizations for paying part of the costs of migrant medical. dental. hospital. and related health service care. My own State of Florida with its fruit and vegetable crops has particular need for the services of these migrant workers. and the migrant healthcare programs in Florida have been very sucessful and have been endorsed by the State of Florida Public Health Department. In Palm Beach County. Fla.. alone some 20.000 migrant agricultural workers harvest the crops annually on the farms in the county. These workers are Negroes. Puerto Ricans. West Indian natives. Mexican Americans. Cuban refugees. and eastern seaboard Caucasians. This program is concerned with migrant family health service clinics. medical and nursing care. and sanitation facilities in the camps and other areas where they live and work. In August 1967 I introduced H.R. 12756 to provide for a 3year extension of this most worthwhile program. and I am pleased that the committee has seen fit to authorize continuation for 2 years with $9 million authorized for 1969 and $12 million for 1970. Title III of H.R. 15758. known as the Alcoholic Rehabilitation Act of 1968 would amend the Community Mental Health Centers Act to authorize funds for the construction and staffing of new facilities and services for the prevention of alcoholism and the treatment and rehabilitation of alcoholics.
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