The Sheppard-Towner act provides for the current fiscal year (1922) $10,000 for each state accepting the provisions of the act, and an additional sum of $1,000,000. Of this additional amount, not more than $50,000 is to be used for federal administration, and the remainder is to be apportioned to the states and granted if matched dollar for dollar by state appropriations—$5,000 to each state, the remainder to be apportioned on the basis of population.
After the present fiscal year the authorized annual expenditure is $5,000 unmatched to each state and, to be matched dollar for dollar, an additional $5,000 plus a prorated amount of the remaining $710,000 of the additional $1,000,000, after a maximum of $50,000 has been deducted for federal administration.
The federal board was changed from a board advisory to the Children's Bureau to the Federal Board of Maternity and Infant Hygiene, composed of the chief of the