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-Preventive services under way include the greatly expanded Lead Poisoning
Control program which screened more than 65,000 children in the first
half of fiscal 1973, and detected and treated more than 1, 300 children in
danger of retardation or death. Federal commitment this fiscal year has
more than doubled over the previous year.
- -Special mental regardation community clinics supported by the Maternal and
Child Health Services of HEW served over 75,000 children and their families
last fiscal year, compared with 39,000 in 1969. MCHS also contributes to
prevention of retardation by providing rubella vaccinations for millions of
children, family planning for hundreds of thousands of women, and hospital
care for thousands of premature infants.
Enrollment of retarded children in Head Start programs, which may
compensate for their developmental lag, increased from about 5, 900 in
1969 to 28, 000 in 1973. Even greater increases may be anticipated under
the new requirement that 10% of all Head Start children must be handicapped.
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