Medical Phases of Social Security Administration
The Social Security Board in its report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1938, states that the Children's Bureau of the U. S. Department of Labor made grants of $3,728,930.58 from funds provided by the Social Security Act to state and territorial agencies for maternal and child health services and $2,694,676.33 for services for crippled children.Fifty-one plans were submitted by states and territories for maternal and child health services. More than half the funds in the fiscal year 1936-1937 were used to provide public health nurses; about 1,000 new ones have been placed in the field. Reports of state health officers for the calendar year 1937 showed that physicians made 1,405,807 health examinations of school children. Office and home visits by public health nurses included 880,691 for maternity nursing, 1,092,188 for infants, 945,616 for preschool children and 2,975,790 for school children. Reports