Editors: JOHN P. HUBBARD, M.D..
THE President's Commission on Health Needs of the Nation, appointment of which was noted in this column last February, has included within its broad assignment specific consideration of the health needs of children. On June 18 a panel of persons with special interest and experience in maternal and child health met in Washington with representatives of the Commission. A summary of the deliberations and recommendations of the panel will be submitted and discussed with the Commission itself on July 9.
The Panel on Health of Mothers and Children was made up of the following persons: Harriet Bartlett, Professor of Social Economy, Simmons College, School of Social Work, Boston; Leona Baumgartner, M.D., Assistant Commissioner in Charge of Maternal and Child Health, Department of Health, City of New York; Edward Davens, M.D., Chief, Bureau of Preventive Medicine, Maryland State Department of Health; Nicholson J. Eastman, M.D., Professor of Obstetrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Martha M. Eliot, M.D., Chief, Children's Bureau; Mrs. John E. Hayes, Past President, National Congress of Parent Teachers Association; Albert E. Heustis, M.D., Michigan State Health Commissioner; John P. Hubbard, M.D., Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Mrs. Ethel Kirkland, State Midwife Consultant, Florida State Board of Health; Marion Murphy, Resident Lecturer in Public Health Nursing, University of Michigan School of Public Health; Mrs. Kate W. Smith, Social Worker, Turtle Mountain Indian Agency, Belcourt, N.D.; Mrs. I. H. Teilman, Chairman, Health Division, Fresno County Coordinating Council, Selma, Calif.; Myron E. Wegman, M.D., formerly Professor of Pediatrics, Louisiana State University School of Medicine, New Orleans, and now with regional office of World Health Organization, Washington, D.C.; Kent Zimmerman, M.D., Chief, Mental Health Services, California State Department of Health. Miss Elizabeth S. Magee, General Secretary of the National Consumers League and a member of the President's Commission, acted as Chairman.