LETTER TO DR. HOWARD A. RUSK FROM HAROLD W. GLATTLY, M

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171.1-111Git AcademyI- of Sciences - National Rese?rch Council
2101 Constitution Avenue Washington 25, D.C.
October 23, 1957
Dear Doctor Rusk:
As a member of the Prosthetics Research Board of the National
Academy of Scisnce...National Research Council you are familiar with
* tremendous progress that has been achieved since World War II in
the rehabilitation of our amputees through the Board's integrated and
c ordinated Artificial Limb Program of research, development, applica-
tion and education, Tens of thousands of amputees throughout the United
States are today the beneficiaries of this national effort that has been
supported by the Veterans Administration and the Department of Health,
Education, and Welfare.
While on the domestic front everything is going along well,
you haveoften pointed out that a great need exists to carry the results
of thLe research program to the countries of the free world in many of
which there is a complete lack of prosthetics services available to their
amputees. In the minutes of the last meeting of PRI is to be found the
following statement which was concurred in by all members:
"It was the sense of the Board that since there appears
to be at present no positive program for conveying the re-
sults of research, development and application in the field
of prosthetics to our friends in the Free World, we are
overlooking one of the strongest tools in international
relations. The Board stands ready to assist in any practi-
cable way.e
In furtheranc. of this policy, the Board this past summer cooperated
with the Committee on Prostheses, Braces and Technical Aids of the
International Society for the Welfare of Cripples in the conduct of
the First International Prosthetics course in Copenhagen, Denmark.
This course, which was attended by some 60 physicians, therapists,
and prosthetists from 23 countries, clearly demonstrated a world-
wide interest in improving proesthetics eervicea. Although the cost
to the Prosthetics Research Board for this very successful meeting
was only about $8,000, yet because of the restrictions that exist
with respect to the expenditure of VA or HEW funds in ?verifies areas
we experienced great difficulty in meeting this obligation. The
fouits of this Program can therefore not be made available for the
rehabilitation of amputees in other parts of the world until funds
specifically designated for this purpose are obtained.
Although our overseas proethetics program would be in the
interest of service to the amputees, yet in performing this service
the United States would receive a tremendous dividonlin the field
of international good will. It is doubtful that there is any other
area of overseas assistance in which so much can be accomplished
with relatively small expenditures.
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/ have discussed plans for the development of an overseas
pxo8thetics program to be administered by Pla with the Chairman of
the Board and with those individuals from the Program who partici-
pated in the International Prosthetics Course at Copenhagen. The
enclosed plan summarizes our thinking on this project. There is
agreement that the Academy is in a position to undertake a program
of this character by reason of its experience during the past 12
years in monitoring the Artificial Limb Program. A very close
working arrangement would be effected with ISIFIC and its Committee
on Prostheees, Braces and Technical Aids. This world-wide organi-
zation would be of great assistance in this international prosthetics
effort.
The enclosed plan embodies the principle of initiating
the program with a pilot test in an underdeveloped country that
has been carefully selected through the medium of a survey team.
Actual experience would thus be available as a basis for the
development of future operations in other countries. In addition
to the development of prosthetics services in underdeveloped calm-
tries, the plan make provision for the furtherance of better liaison
and cooperation between existing prosthetics centers throughout the
world.
It is hoped
uing basis, an int
t will make availa
n achieved in this
that means will be found to support, on a con-
rnational prosthetics rehabilitation program
le throughout the world the results that have
nation in the care and management of amputees.
Sincerely yours,
/s/ Harold W. Glattly, M
It/ Harold W. Glattly, M.D.
Executive Director
Dr. Howard A. Ruk
Inst. of Pb. Med. & Re ab.
NYM-Bellevue Medical Center
400 East 34th Street
New York 16 New York
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INTERtATIONAL PROSTHETICS RROJECT
The International Prosthetics Project presents a pro-
posed plan covering a period of four years for the purpose
of making available to the amputees of other nations the
results of research, development, and application that have
been achieved in the field of prosthetics in the United
States. It is proposed that this project be administered
by the Prosthetics Research Board of the National Academy
of Sciences--Natioaal Research Council. Although the pro-
ject is designed primarily to introduce appropriate devices
and techniques for amputee care and maaaaement into coun-
tries where prosthetics services are today relatively non-
existent, provision has been made for better liaison and
cooperation between existing prosthetics centers through-
out the world. In implementing this program, full advantage
will be taken of all possible assistance available from
xisting Government and voluntary organisations that have
an interest in the field of rehabilitation and that are
operating in overseas countries, especially the Interna-
tional Cooperation Administration and the International
Society for the Welfare of Cripples and its national affi-
liates. It is assumed that varying levels of support to
this project will be locally available in the several
countries in which prosthetics services are established.
In those instances where there is substantial financial
assistance, the following estimated costs could either be
reduced or the program could be correspondingly expanded.
First Year
Meetin of the ISWC Comm ttee on Proethesest graces
aid TS Weal Aids
It is proposed that the first stip in the implements-
n of this overseas prosthetics project be a request to
C to hold a three- or four-day meeting of this Committee,
nted by certain other individuals. The entire four-
plan would be presented to this group for their com-
a and recommendations.
Estimated Cost $ 20,000
Selection of "Pilot" Country
A survey of certain underdeveloped countries would
be made by a team consisting of a physician, a prosthetist
and an engineer for the purpose of selecting a country for
the initial test of this program. many criteria must be
considered in making this choice. This will constitute a
very important decision since the enperience gained in
introducing a prosthetics service into this country will
be the basis for planning the future expansion of the
program.
Estimated Cost - $ l0,000
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Interuatona1 Prosthetics Project .2
Training I genous Personnel
It is proposed that two physicians, two therapists,
and two prosthetists from the selected country be sent
to the United States for training for periods of two
months four months, and six months, respectively.
Estimated Cost - 14,000
Establishment of a Pr sthet cs Service
It is proposed that after the group listed above
have completed their training, a United States Clinic
team including an engineer visit the country to assist
in establishing a prosthetics service. Thia will include
setting up a limbshop and au amputee training facility.
These should be established in or near an existing
hospital in order that the necessary clinical support
would be available.
Estimated coot -
U.S. Clinic Team 20,000
Limbshop Equipment
and supplies 20,000
Mobile Pro
ice Shop
It is proposed that a large van be equipped as a
prosthetics shop and that a team consisting of a physician
and two prosthetists establish prosthetics services in
other cities of the country through this means.
EstLmated cost of mobile
unit, to include
equipment
$ 25,000
Indirect Ste 16,000
TOTAL ESTIMATIDCOST, FIRST TEAR $ 125,000
Second Tear
Annual Support?One Country
For planning purposes, it is assumed that the prosthetics
services after establishment will require some financial
setae-ranee for some years to COMA. This is estimated at
$504000 for the base operation and $25,000 for the mobile unit.
Establishment of Prosthetics Services--Three Additional Countries
The cost of surveying a country, of training a small
cadre o/ indigenous personnel, and of setting up a prosthetics
service with the aid of a United States Clinic team and a
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mobile prosthetics unit is estimated at $85,000.
Estimated coat - three
additional countries $255.000
interna
al Prosthetics Program
the
war
pos
1. Traineeships - The most serious limiting factor in
introduction of good prosthetics services throughout the
d is the lack of trained personnel. It is therefore pro-
d that an annual sum of $100,000 be devoted to this punpose.
2. Short-term Prosthetics Courses - As a result of the
First International Prosthetics Course at Copehhagen last
summer,there is an expressed desire that these courses be
continv d. It is proposed that an annual sum of $50,000 be
allocated for this purpose.
3. It is proposed that a sum of $25,000 annually be made
available for an "exchanee" program of key personnel between
major prosthetics centers in the United States and overseas.
Indirect Costs
TOTAL ESTIMATED COST, SECOND YEAR
Third Year
Annual Support, Four Countries -
at 75,000 each
ntroduction of Prosthetic Services
into three additional countries at
$85,000 per country
International Prosthetics Program
(see details under Second Year) -
Indirect Costs
TOTAL ESTIMATED COST, THIRD YEAR
Annual Support
at $75,000 ea
Fourth
ear
even Countries -
troduction of Prosthetic Services
into three additional countries at
$85,000 per country -
International Prosthetics Program
INdirect Cones
$ 48,000
$300,000
225,000
175,000
70,000
$525,000
255,000
175,000
85,000
$ 553,000
800,000
TOTAL ESTIMATED COST, FOURTH YEAR $1,040,000
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Reprinted from the REHABILITATION BULLETIN (No. 12)
July, 1957, published by the World Veterans Federation
THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
AND REHABILITATION
STATEMENT
Delivered by his Excellency DI P. J. GARCIA
Secretary of Health, Republic of the Philippines
-to the Tenth World Health Assembly
Geneva, May 20, 1957
MR. CHAIRMAN,
I would like to entertain our Committee of a
problem which is acquiring greater and greater
importance in my country, and I know, also in a
number of other countries.
My country is veering towards industrialization,
which brings about large movements of population
from rural areas to industrial centers ; this also
causes an increase in the number of industrial
accidents, and an impressive rise in the number of
traffic accidents. I am afraid I have no statistics
on hand pertaining to their development in my coun-
try. The way to industrialization and also the way
to gathering statistical data, is, however, well paved
by the United States of America. I would like to
recall here the findings of the Baruch Committee for
Physical Medicine in 1946: During World War II
military operations resulted in some 16,000 amputa-
tions in the America forces: during the same period,
the hazards of daily life in the United States resulted
in over 120,000 amputations?the number one cause
of these being traffic accidents. My country, I must
say, has not reached the level of mechanical effi-
ciency illustrated by these figures: we are, however,
progressing ineluctably in that direction.
What can we do for this increasing number of
disabled in our population? What I have to say
also ap,plies to other disability groups, as will be
evidenced later.
Time and again in the course of the discussions
that have taken place in our Committee, we have
heard of "integration of public health services"
and of the interrelationship that exists between these
services on the one hand, and social and economic im-
peratives on the other. I think that in no field is this
integration and interrelationship better illustrated
than in rehabilitation. It is indeed the development
of rehabilitation services which I would like to stress;
and how this development affects the work of the
World Health Organization.
When a patient is discharged from hospital after
a successful treatment, he can be said to have
recovered the highest possible degree of physical
efficiency: this is all too often defined as a state of
health. I shall not insist on this point.
If the care of this patient stops right there and
then, he is faced with the economic necessities of
life, while perhaps unable to resume his former
occupation. He then is condemned to live in a
state of humiliating dependence. How many TB
patients have we seen leave hospital after a success-
ful cure to go back to their family or to their
community where they lead an idle life and become
an economic burden, while their mental health
progressively deteriorates to the point of turning
them into social tyrants to their immediate environ-
ment (what the French call "sinistrose revendica-
tive").
My first question is: do we have a right to leave
these people in a state of despondence, when we
know that more, much more in fact, can be done for
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them? The answer to this question is given without
the shade of a doubt in the first paragraphs of the
Constitution of the WHO. It is NO, emphatically
NO.
This is the point of view of the individual. There
are other ways of looking at this question. Before
becoming sick or injured, the patient used to earn
his and his family's living. He may not be able to
take up this activity, and we know that he has to be
prepared psychologically and also vocationally, to
resume a remunerative activity. Here, the medical
officer and his staff have the responsability of his
orientation. When this is not done, the "cured
patient", admitedly disabled, all too often sinks into
the state of despondence already mentioned. His
community is deprived of his strength, and is bur-
dened by one more passive member on its payroll, as
it were.
I have envisaged so far, only the most optimistic
outcome of rehabilitation, which makes the patient
a productive member of his community. This is not
always the case. The best rehabilitation techniques
will often have a more restricted result, leaving the
disabled economically dependent on others, but ma-
king him independent in the requirements of his indi-
vidual daily life. We cannot overemphasize the
significance of this result, for the individual and for
the community as well. In the absence of rehabili-
tation services, many disabled?be they the victims
of TB, polio, spinal injuries, degenerative diseases
like multiple sclerosis, etc. not only are dependent
upon their family or their immediate social environ-
ment, but they require as many as three persons for
their own personal daily needs. Adequate rehabili-
tation results in giving these patients a new outlook
on life, which is already sufficient "raison d'?e"
for rehabilitation. Moreover, these attendants who
would be occupied, are free to practice some wage
earning activity which will, on one hand provide for
a better standard of living for their disabled asso-
ciate and for themselves, and on the other, bring
them to participate in constructive activities, thereby
contributing to improve the standards of living of
all the other members of their community. I would
say that the lack of proper rehabilitation facilities
results in paralizing a number of non disabled people,
thereby depleting the available manpower and
keeping down the standards of living in the com-
munity.
We have in my country, given very serious thought
to these considerations and are making great efforts
to establish proper rehabilitation services; we have
found that these services must be supervised and
coordinated by our medical officers and that they
must come under the jurisdiction and administration
of the Ministry of Health. The standard of the
medical care granted to the disabled conditions all
the consecutive steps of the rehabilitation process;
furthermore, the medical officer has to be constantly
consulted by the other members of the rehabilitation
team.
When we started to establish rehabilitation ser-
vices, we were faced with the problem of devising a
general project and of training personnel. In this
field as in others, we needed the advice and technical
assistance of other countries and of international
organizations. I am pleased to state that the Medical
officer appointed by the United Nations was the
most competent man one could wish to have advise
a country on rehabilitation matters. He was Dr. Hen-
ry H. Kessler of the United States. We were also
priviledged in having the visit of Dr. Howard A.Rusk,
also of the United States, who came as an observer,
sponsored jointly by the United Nations and a non?
governmental organization. I would in fact like to
pay tribute to the genuine and inspiring devo-
tion these two men showed during their visit to my
country. The recommandations which they pre-
sented as a conclusion of their study will no doubt
provide for a fundamental change in the life of many
disabled.
I can understand why the WHO has not so far,
taken a more active interest in the field of rehabili-
tation. When it was first created ten years ago, our
Organization was faced with public health problems
involving large numbers of persons; such as the
contagious diseases to which the WHO has devoted,
with great success I am pleased to say, its most
constant efforts. There is still a long way to go in
this direction, and we have discussed here projects
involving several regions in the fight against tuber-
culosis, malaria, yaws, etc. The study of malnutri-
tion conditions was then added to that of contagious
diseases, and they are now the subject of intensive
campaigns under the leadership of the WHO.
In a broad sense, the rehabilitation of those medi-
cally cured, is, as I have tried to show, a challenge
which falls within the field of competence of the
WHO.
It is a fact that the rehabilitation of our tens of
thousands disabled, is an imperious need.
It is a fact that my country, and many others want
to establish rehabilitation services.
It is a fact that the leadership in the development
of rehabilitation services must be assumed by the
WHO.
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Howard W. Glattly
October 11, 1957
?General F. S. Strong, Jr.
Chairman, Prosthetics Research Board
National Research Council
2101 Constitution Avenue, N,W,
Washington, D. C.
Dear General Strong:
On behalf of the International Society for the Welfare of Cripples I wish
to thank you most sincerely, for the support given by the National
Prosthetics Research Board to the World Congress on Rehabilitation
held by this Society last July. The Exhibition provided by the Board for
the Congress was very well received and proved to be very interesting
and helpful to many of the thousands who visited this Exhibition.
I am certain that by this time you have received many reports concerning
our International Prosthetics Course which was held in Copenhagen,
Denmark from August 1st to 10th. The instructors provided for this
course and the other help from the Prosthetics Research Board was the
primary factor in making it an outstanding success.
Ding the months of August and September, it was possible for me to
visit a number of our affiliated organizations in such countries as: Greece,
Lebanon, Pakistan, India, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines. In all
of these places I found that some progress had been made in starting
? services for the physically handicapped, but the development of prosthetics
services was one of the most difficult problems being encountered. In all
of these countries individuals responsible for prosthetics services are
eager to secure additional information concerning similar programs in the
United States and I am more convinced than ever, that the United States has
a real opportunity, as well as a responsibility to be of help in this area. I
trust that through the exchange of literature, translations and films, further
prosthetics courses and other world meetings, we will be able to find ways
to help these people develop their programs. I look forward to the oppor-
tunity of working with you and your colleagues in the future.
Sincerely yours,
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MEDEC-APRL 4 September 1957
SUBJECT: TDY London, England
International Congress for the Welfare of Cripples
TO:
Copethagen, Denmark
First International Course in Prosthetics
Heidelberg, Germany
Exchange of information with University of Heidelberg
General F. S. Strong, Jr.
Chairman, Prosthetics Research Board
National Research Council
2101 Constitution Avenue, N. W.
Washington, D.C.
1, Objectives
a, To conduct a survey to ascertain whether or not there was
sufficient interest in prosthetics among the professional people and high-
level political leaders to warrant an "all out" follow-up with future inter-
national prosthetics teachings.
b. To instruct and disseminate information at the Prosthetics
School in Copenhagen,
C. To enlist engineering aid an cooperation from the University
of Heidelberg, particularly in exploring the possibilities of the practical
application of pneumatic prostheses.
2. Findings
a. That there is a general feeling of intense interest among high
political leaders and professional people in all countries, as evidenced by
visits from Prince Philip and other leaders in England, the political leaders
in Denmark and Germany, the gratifying response to our prosthetics school,
and the many sincere compliments on the progress in the United States in the
field of prosthetics research.
Practically every country in the world was represented at the
International Congress in London, on a voluntary basis, including Russia,
and certainly much progress was made at the Congress in dispelling
suspicions and fostering a spirit of international cooperation.
b. In regard to the First International Prosthetics Course held
in Copenhagen, 23 countries besides the United States of America
responded by sending students. Six of the 10 instructors for the course were
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provided by the United States. The students, over 70 in number, were
about evenly divided between surgeons, therapists, and limb fitters, and
the course was a very concentrated one. The response of the students
was enthusiastic and all expressed the opinion thal, it was the best course
ever offered them, and that they desired a post-graduate course of longer
duration in the very near future. The students were unanimous in the
opinion that such schools are an immediate necesLity for every country.
(A list of countries sending students is attached).
C. At Heidelberg, Germany a conference was held at the
University at which it was agreed that Doctor Marquardt (Orthopedic
Surgeon) and Mr. 0. Haefner (Engineer) would come to the United States
under sponsorship of the National Research Council, Prosthetics Research
Board, for six months, starting in Ianuary 1958, to continue development
of the pneumatic arm in cooperation with our national program.
Remarks
The United States of America definitely leads the world in prosthetics
research and all countries are looking toward us for information and
guidance.
Our national program was publicly thanked for its contribution upon
which a complete revision of policy and technique was instigated in Germany
and Denmark. These two countries have followed our techniques in surgery,
prosthetics, and training, and are obviously grateful for the help they have
received from the U.S.A.
It is sincerely believed by the writer that great strides in international
cooperation and good-will can be achieved in this field with a very small
outlay of money, and that this type of program could lead to a deep
penetration of the "Iron Curtain". This opinion is concurred in by not only
the staff of instructors but also by the students attending the course, in-
cluding those from Poland and Yugoslavia.
We know that we have, through the Congress and the school, made
definite progress in the countries listed, and perhaps in others. The
decision sparked by Prince Philip's visit, to send students to the school has,
at long last, pierced the barrier existing in England because of the socialized
and limited limb-fitting facilities with their resultant inferior prostheses.
It is the writer's opinion that the so-called "Iron Curtain' will have to
be penetrated on a professional level rather than on a political level. In
this respect there doesn't seem to be any surer way of making this pene-
tration than that which is available to us in the prosthetics field.
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Remarks, Cont.
It is believed that the contacts made on this trip and the general dis-
persion of infornia tion through this trip should be vigorously followed up
with possibly a post-graduate school or seminar in 1958 and 1959, leading
toward ari "all. out" attack on the problem at the next International Congress
to be held in New York in 1960.
A survey team composed of not less than to, preferably three, and
in no case greater than four men, should be sent at the request of the
approrpiate government into climates with specific problems to determine
the amount and type of development needed in sPecific areas. Specifically,
this team should be sent to either India, Japan, or the Philippines. This
team should include a doctor and an engineer who can analyze local material
possibilities for limb fabrication, to be followed in a year or two by a limb-
fitting- and prescription team.
It is strongly recommended that further programs of teaching, such as
the Copenhagen School, IN considered and set up at once as one of the better
ways of sponsoring international good-will and friendliness.
The writer will be available to fill in any further details desired.
1 Encl.
a/s MAURICE J. FLETCHER
colonel, MSC
Director
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COUNTRIES WHICH SENT INSTRUCTORS AND STUDENTS To THE
INTERNATIONAL PROSTHETICS COURSE IN COPENHAGEN,
August 1-10, 1957
Argentina Great Britian Norway
Australia Holland Philippines
Belgium India Poland
Denmark Iraq Sweden
Finland Iran Switzerland
France Israel South Africa
Germany Japan U. S. A,
China Korea Yugoslavia
Nigeria
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The following are abstracts from a letter received by Howard A. Rusk,
M.D. , from a friend of his sons who is now on the staff of the Church
World Service Egypt Inter-Mission Council Committee for Refugee
Problems.
the area that is really in a bad way is the Gaza strip .... the
people who have been there were appalled at the conditions and the
one thing that struck all of them is the abundance of people there
with limbs missing. UNRWA has a program of medical aid for the
Palestinian refugees in Gaza (about 200,000 out of the total popu-
lation of 250, 000) but with their limited resources they can't do much
in the way of providing artificial limbs. They have approached the
National Catholic Welfare Conference about providing the artificial
limbs and NCWC seems interested. What concerns me is that the
negotiations are going interminably slowly and both are feeling their
way, largely because neither side knows much about the medical
aspects of the problem; besides this, they seem to show no
appreciation for what I think is the case, namely, that giving a person
an arm, if you fit it, for me is only the first step in rehabilitating
him for normal life; you have to teach him to use it. I don't think
there's anyone trained to do this around here, much less an
appreciation of the need for it .... "
It's an exciting place to work, so much at the center of world
affairs, and so controversial. Although I read volumes of anti-
American propoganda, it seems that it doesn't sink in too much,
since the people are friendly, even when they know I'm an American
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FORMAL STATEMENT OF DR. HOWARD A RUSK
BEFORE THE SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE
MAY 18, 1956
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My name is Howard A. Rusk, I am a physician and Chairman,
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at New York
University-Bellevue Medical Center; Director, Institute of Physical
Medicine and Rehabilitation, New York University-Bellevue Medical
Center; Associate Editor, THE NEW YORK TIMES: Consultant in
Rehabilitation to the United Nations, and President of the International
Society for the Welfare of Cripples. I am appearing before you today
as a private citizen whose primary interest is the rehabilitation of
the disabled.
It is my belief that rehabilitation of disabled children and
adults is one of the sharpest tools and most effective instruments
which we in the United States have for making friends -- a tool which
can penetrate any iron or bamboo curtain to reach the minds and the
hearts of men. It is natural for all of us to take improved agriculture,
industry and utilities for granted but men often regard these develop-
ments as somewhat remote from their immediate problems. Reha-
bilitation, however, makes a personal and significant impact not
only upon the disabled person himself and his family but on those with
whom he comes in contact. This as well as all international
activities in the field of health are one aspect of our foreign assistance
program which meets all yardsticks of economic soundness, simple
humanitarianism and political expediency.
In his report to the Congress on our mutual security program
covering July-December, 1955, John Hollister, Director of the
International Cooperation Administration, wrote: The people of the
United States recognize the value -- economic, social and moral --
of health and, the fact that health is a common need. We are also
coming to recognize the vital relationship of health programs to any
hopes we may have of helping to create conditions of economic
progress, political stability and democratic social development in
the many areas of the world outside the United States, where our
future national security is deeply involved".
Mr. Hollister then cited estimates from competent authorities
that until recently the economic loss from malaria alone in India
was 8224, 000, 000 a year, from bilharziasis in Egypt $57, 000, 000 a
year, from malaria and tuberculosis in the Philippines $660, 000, 000
a year. Also, that we in the United States pay a hidden 5 per cent
additional cost for our imports from malarious countries because of
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disease-affection production.
It is, therefore, surprising that our contributions to bilateral
health programs was reduced from $43, 000, 000 in the 1955 fiscal year
to $33, 767, 000 in fiscal year 1956, and that of this amount less than
$50,000 was spent on all types of rehabilitation services throughout
the world.
From the economic aspects alone, it would seem logical that
our investment in international health would be increased rather than
decreased. Over and beyond the economic implications, there are
great social, moral and political values in our support of inter-
national health activities.
These values are well illustrated by international activities in
the field of rehabilitation. In this country and in the other developed
parts of the world we have seen a remarkable growth of interest in
rehabilitation in the last decade. This interest has not been prompted
by humanitarian motives alone. It has resulted from the growing
incidence of physical disability resulting from prolongation of the
life span, increased public assistance costs because of disability, and
our need for manpower in our expanding economy.
But what lies behind the interest of Indonesia, Korea, the
Philippines, Mexico, India, Burma and Thailand in the provision of
rehabilitation services for their handicapped? It isnot the need
for manpower, for these nations have far more manpower than they
can profitably utilize in their present stage of industrial development.
It is not to reduce public assistance costs, for few of these nations
have any social schemes whereby the disabled become a responsibility
of the state. It is not to reduce demands for medical, hospitalization
and social services, for the chronically ill and disabled in most of
these nations are wards of their families rather than of the state.
The real reason is that many of these nations, particularly
those of the Africa-Asia area, have, after years of colonization,
recently achieved the long-sought dream of political independence.
Now they are desperately looking for ways of proving to the world,
and more importantly to themselves, that they have the political and
social maturity to justify their political independence.
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Long before the Government became concerned with international
health projects, the Rockefeller Foundation, W. B. Kellogg Foundation,
China Medical Board and other private groups had years of experience
in the administration of such programs. As a result, we have more
know-how in the conduct of international health projects than in some
other forms of technical assistance and are able to administer such
projects more effectively.
Health projects are welcomed by the nations in which they are
undertaken, for such projects are initiated only at the request of host
countries. They are cooperative projects involving both joint planning
and administration.
Host countries furnish a part, frequently the major part, of the
funds for such projects. The $6, 000, 000 contributed in 1955 to joint
health projects in Latin America by the United States was expanded by
$19, 000, 000.
Since our Federal technical cooperation health programs, known
popularly as "Point Four" projects, began more than thirteen years
ago, they have cost our citizens less than a penny a month a person.
It is reported that last year Russia graduated 27, 000 physicians
from their medical schools and 20, 000 the previous year. At the
present time we are graduating slightly more than 7, 000 in the United
States per year. It is granted that the level of education of these
physicians is far below that of our physicians but even so the health
services they are providing to the country are so superior to those
ever before available to the people to them, it is considered a miracle.
It has also been reported that at the present time there are
more doctors than can be readily absoriled in the health services of
Russia and the physicians are being used for the kind of job that we
would ordinarily assign to nurses and technicians. If the production
continues and the excess irr2r(Ttses it is rather obvious what the
physicians will do. They will carry the skills they have learned along
with the concepts of communism to the backward parts of the world.
We must meet this challenge and we can for our physicians are better
trained, By using total professional personnel, therapists, sanitary
engineers, public health administrators and educators we can do a
better job. But time is running out.
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Here is one example of what could be done, The Veterans
Administration has, since 1946, conducted an extensive artificial-limb
research program which is carried out by non-profit contracts with
universities, The Army and Navy cooperate by supporting Prosthetic
Research Laboratories within their Medical Services. Work in the
universities and Armed Services has been coordinated by the Prosthetics
Research Board (formerly the Advisory Committee on Artificial Limbs)
of the National Academy of Sciences - - National Research Council
under a contract between the Veterans Administration and the Academy.
The need for a research program in artificial limbs becalne
apparent early in 1945 when, at the request of the Surgeon General of
the Army, the National Research Council brought together a group of
scientists, engineers, surgeons and prosthetists for the purpose of
establishing standards for procurement of prostheses. At this meeting
it was soori,learned that the development of artificial limbs had
proceeded through the years without the benefit of a scientific approach,
whereupon it was recommended that the Government support a research
program in this field.
As the result of this program our own disabled veterans have
prosthetic devices far superior to those found anywhere else in the
world.
Just as we are interested in sharing the technical advances in
nuclear energy for peaceful purposes with the rest of the world, we
could make a significant contribution to the effective understanding of
American ideals of democracy and the value we place on human worth
and dignity, if through an appropriation of one or twotI1ion,L4.dars
a year we could share our advances in artificial limos with the world.
Through demonstration centers, consultations, mobile clinics and the
training of foreign personnel in the United States, a magnificent
program could be established. With the sum of $1, 000,000 a year
for two years both the administrative and professional overhead cost
of such a project could be met; highly qualified American consultants
could visit all parts of the world and survey what is available and
what is needed; four completely equipped mobile prosthetic shops,
each staffed by a qualified American prosthetic technician and physical
therapist, could be sent to Southeast Asia, the Near East, North
Africa and South America to send four to eight weeks in a given
community rendering direct patient services in fitting prosthetics and
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training wearers in their use; permanent demonstration prosthetic shops
and training centers could be established in key parts of the world; and
the components to provide modern artificial limbs could be made avail-
able to over 40, 000 amputees; over 100 trainees could be brought to the
United States for training in prosthetics; and all of the available technical
literature and visual aids in prosthetics here in the United States could be
translated and published in various languages for international distribution.
These prosthetic trainees would then join the 400 health workers
receiving advanced...training in the United States under the auspices of the
International Cooperation Administration. They and hundreds of other
trained under the auspices of private foundations, their own Governments
and their own resources, are permanent ambassadors of our democratic
ideals. Such persons make particularly effective proponents for
democracy because as professional people they work intimately with
their handicapped patients and have their confidence and trust.
Somewhere within the spectrum ranging from direct relief to long-
range economic projects, there is a need for significant, tangible short-
range projects that can be seen and easily understood. The Russians
produced such a project when they paved the main street of Kabul in
Afghanistan. Our foreign aid projects there have been of economic
Importance, but their impact on the daily lives of the people will not be
felt for many years. In contrast, several times each day the residents
of Kabul have reason to be grateful to Russia.
This is the kind of an imaginative, constructive project which
can be easily seen and understood. There are many hundreds and
thousands of disabled persons throughout the world each of whom could
also become a living, dynamic example of American democracy. To
illustrate their potential contributions, I should like to tell you the
story of a little Bolivian boy, age 10. He was born without arms and
legs with four little, sensitive fingers coming out of each shoulder
and two normal feet corning from the hip joint but with no bony
connection. When, he was a year old, he was abondoned by his father,
who then deserted the family and has not been heard of since. The
boy spent the next eight years of his life in an American mission in
La Paz, where he had love and kindness but could not walk. To get
from one place to another, he rolled like a little ball. He was seen
there by a young physician from the United States who called me
and said he had met this little boy, who was exceedingly bright and who,
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if he had a chance, he felt, could be a great force in the world. Pictures
and case reports were sent and by coincidence seen by the secretary of
one of our distinguished citizens. She made possible his trip to the
United States.
Two weeks before he arrived, I had the Vice-President of Bolivia
and the Bolivian Ambassador to the United Nations for luncheon. They
knew all about Juanita and were excited about his coming. In the middle
of the meal, I said to them, "You know, if we bring Juan here it is going
to cost you a very large fee",
In consternation, they said, "How much"? I said, The fee is
this. First, that when he returns, you must promise him the best
education your country affords, and second, if we can demonstrate in the
most severely disabled child you will ever see what can be done, you
will establish a national rehabilitation program in Bolivia".
Without hesitation, the Vice-President said, "You take the boy;
we pay the fee".
When he arrived, he spoke no English. Within a month, he had
a vocabulary of more than 300 words. Special prostheses were disigned
and he now is walking. He has "grown" more than twice his height. He
Is doing well in school and one day soon will be ready to go back and
take his place in his own country.
Several months after he was in the United States, the story was
published in a national magazine. A few weeks later, a letter came to
the editors which read as follows:
"Congratulations on a brilliant piece of reporting. Am referring
to your (February 21) on Juanita Yepez, the congenital quadruple
amputee from Bolivia For those of us who are in and out of
Central and South America we found your article on Juanito gained us
more friends (and respect) than all the millions our government is
pouring into these countries. We noted no sudden pro U.S. A. feeling
In Brazil as a result of the $75 million donation (given Brazil by the
United States), but we were pleasantly surprised with the many
compliments for what the U.S.A. is doing for juanito. I do not know
what your circulation is in Latin America but can tell you the peons
in the backwoods knew all about Juanita within 24 hours after the issue
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was on the streets
S/T Adrias
Tampico, Mexico
EE, Butler
Master
What we need in the United States are friends like Juanito Yepez
all over the world, with the recognition that in the United States we
believe in the dignity of the individual and because of that belief want to
share the things that we have learned in our country. We are not doing
this to make friends - - we are doing this to give service. If the service
and the spirit are there, then we can't help but have their friendship.
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The Problem
Rehabilitation of the physically, handicapped in the United States has proved
to be both an economically and socially sound investment. Last year 56,000
disabled Americans rehabilitated into employment paid $8, 400,000 in
Federal income taxes alone the first year after their rehabilitation. Their
earnings contributed $102, 300, 000 to the economic wealth of the nation. Prior
? to rehabilitation the large maprity had. been recipients of public assistance.
Outside the United States, the Soviet Union and Communist China have at
least 65 million physically handicapped people. More than 25 million could
be treated and retrained to become self-supporting contributing members
of their communities. About 40 million, mostly children and old people,
could become self-dependent in their daily lives. Minimum estimates of
need by regions: South America, 5, 667,000 people: North America (out-
side the U.&) 1, 897, 000; Europe (outside U. S. S. R,) 12, 093, 000; .Africa,
6, 250,000; Oceania, 417, 000; Asia (outside China and U. S. S. R. )
27, 177, 900.
Only advanced nations have skills and facilities to demonstrate how these
people could be restored. The United States is the greatest soirce of this
knowledge. We have established treatment and training centers, and have
invested substantial sums to develop methods and equipment for our own
needs. But we have scarcely begun to apply these resources for our
country's standing in the world. scene.
The $55 billions spent on foreign aid since 1945 have largely gone for military
and economic assistance. While such assistance has been of great value to
the governments aided,this massive aid has had little known impact upon
the personal lives and thinking of the people. Through comparatively small
investment, restored children and adults can be vivid proofs of the United
?States belief in the worth of the individual person.
Russia has shifted emphasis in foreign affairs to teclmical assistance and
international exchange of persons. She is training many foreign students, is
graduating 4 times as many personnel in health fields as the United States,
and is offering experts and technicians for export.
Demand for rehabilitation services exists overseas. is perhaps strongest
in countries where new governments hope to meet social needs far beyond
resources of trained personnel, We can never undertake to meet the vast
human requirements of underdeveloped nations, but can teach the teachers
and leaders for relatively little money, spurred by private initiative. If
Americans do not ine-et requests for help, the Soviet government will.
T12,e*Qpp_92:tunity
We have a head start because of rehabilitation developments during and since
World IATar TA:, through modest begLinnings_takag;pdiglkARgistiljsr in the
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last few years, and because of contacts made by American consultants in
countries seeking to establish their own programs. Disabilities now
responding dramatically to specialized physical medicine include ampu-
tations, spinal paralysis, arrested tuberculosis, stroke, cardiac attack,
polio, cerebral palsy, neurological disease, post-surgical handicaps and
inherited defects. While skills and resources for treatment are primarily
concentrated in the United States, the United Kingdom and Scandinavia,
these physical problems occur in most of the world's families.
Effective rehablitation proceeds from diagnosis through treatment to em-
ployment and adjustment to conditions at home and on the job. It demands
teamwork of physicians who arrest disease and correct defects through
surgery, drugs and restorative therapy; therapists who train patients to
use muscles, nerves and will; technicians who make and fit limbs, braces
and an array of other devices; social workers who ascertain desires,
problems, aptitudes and goals; personnel workers who arrange for work
training and job placement.
Teams of specialists have been trained in the United States for programs
now rendering services in Japan, Greece, Yugoslavia, Israel, the
Philippines and Korea. New centers at various stages of development
have begun work in Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, Guatemala, Egypt,
Turkey, India, Indonesia and Thailand. Scattered beginnings in Brazil,
Argentina, Pakistan, Chile, Ceylon and Viet Nam have asked for help.
Many countries, like Burma which now has a team for training here, have
not a single physician trained in rehablitation nor one trained therapist,
limb fitter or bracem.aker. In advanced countries there are phases of
modern treatment where resources are signally absent, offering large
dividends in good will through consultation and training.
III The World Rehablitation Fund
Before World War II the only organized international activities in reha-
bilitation were conducted by the International Society for the Welfare of
Cripples. This voluntary federation of national groups held periodic
congresses attended by delegates from 12 to 15 nations. Since the War, the
Society launched a modest but highly successful program of information and
consultant services.
With the belief that restoration of disabled children and adults offers an
unique tool for strengthening American aims in the world today, a number of
leaders in United States public and economic life have established the World
Rehablitation Fund. Honorary Chairmen are Herbert Hoover, Harry S.
Truman, Bernard M. Baruch and Albert Schweitzer. Directors include
Donaldson Brown, .Arde Bulova, Ralph K. Davies, William T. Donovan, LW,
McAfee, Edgar M. Queeny, Howard A. Rusk, Walter Bedell Smith and
Arthur K. Watson. Counsel is Donovan, Leisure Newton & Irvine. Price
Waterhouse & Co. is auditor. J. P, Morgan & Co, are fiscal agents.
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Although the Fund is a voluntary effort, its objectives and formation have
been discussed with and approved in principle by leaders in the Federal
Administration including President Eisenhower, Allen Dulles, Harold
Stassen, Nelson Rockefeller and Sherman Adams. It has been conceived
as wholly, opposite from a "give-away" program. The Fund provides
professional and technical assistance based on enlightened American self-
interest, giving priority attention to countries where public recognition of
the United States desire for mutual understanding is most needed.
A sound foundation toward these objectives, enabling countries to initiate
national rehabilitation services on a boot-strap basis, could be achieved
with average expenditure of $1, 000,000 per year for a minim, frn period of
five years. This would permit allocation of $3, 374, 500 for training of
physicians, therapists and other specialized personnel from other countries;
$650, 000 to furnish consultation to programs at centers abroad; $217, 000
for tranSlation of texts,. films, monographs and other instructional materials;
$5501000 for research support, pilot equipment, tools and initial materials,
and an average annual expense of $15, 000 for administration of the program.
IV Policies
Grants will be made for five kinds of work:
L Consultation by technical experts and task groups of
specialists, to improve current programs and to
develop new services;
S ecizaiz (a) fellowships to candidates
who give promise of becoming teachers and leaders
in their homelands; (b) strengthening United States
programs for training foreign students; (c) making
existing fellowships more widely known where needs
are greatest; (d) aid to indigenous teaching programs
through exchange of personnel;
Wormations jlppm._,t, through use of more films, trans-
lations, teaching aids, public education measures,
exchange of data on equipment, materials and methods
and establishment and expansion of reference centers
which will be kept up-to-date;
4, R.._..e,g12.0.,L2011ferL?nces whereby physicians, administrators,
technical personnel and citizens can share experience in
solving common problems, see demonstrations and attend
clinics,of techniques perfected in other parts of the world;
50 Research directed toward development of new techniques
and better use of current rehabilitation knowledge.
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Projects will be selected and supported according to three criteria:
1. Ability to make a significant contribution to development
of rehablitation for the disabled within the nation and
region;
2. Interest of governmental and private parties of the area,
and their willingness to assume increasing degrees of
responsibility for projected services until financial and
program responsibilities are entirely carried by local
resources;
3, Significance of the project and its location for contributing
to American foreign policy objectives.
V..Qations
The program of the World Rehabilitation Fund will have two aspects
administratively. The fellowship activities will be administered directly
by the Fund's staff. In its support of non-fellowship projects, the Fund
will make grants to operating agencies with staff, experience and skills
to administer such projects effectively. Projects will be selected by the
Executive Committee of its Board.
The Fund's staff consists of a part-time Executive Director and secre-
tarial support. Overhead, including administrative and professional
direction of the program is less than 515,000 per year. The Fund
received its charter as a non-profit tax-exempt membership corporation
from the State of New York on November 21, 1955. Actual operation of
the Fund's program began around July 1, 1956. During its first full fiscal
year ending June 30, 1957 the Fund had received contribitions of approxi-
mately $150, 000.
Nominations for fellowships for advanced study in the United States will be
primarily made by universities, medical faculties and/or by national
voluntary organizations concerned with rehablitation of the handicapped
in the applicants' home countries. Evaluation of qualifications and promise
of future contribution after training will be made by the nominating groups,
United States missions, foundations and voluntary agencies conducting
related programs. Final selections will be made by a committee of the
Fund, in consultation with appropriate agencies and the training institution
where the individual fellow will be assigned for the major share of
advanced instruction.
Fellowships awarded by the Fund will include a stipend to the training
Institution to meet costs,. Where a substantial number of trainees are
assigned to particular centers, administrative grants will be considered
for extension and support, purposes.
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Present anticipations are to make Fund allocations for fellowships, consul-
tation, information support, regional exchange, research and other goals
with an approximate ratio of geographic emphasis as follows: South and
Central America, $1, 500, 000; South and South East Asia, $2, 100, 000,
Europe, $325,000; Middle East Puri Africa, $1, 0751000.
VI Re_m_est
It is the intention of the World Rehablitation Fund to seek financial contri-
butions from American corporations particularly those which have oper-
ations outside of the United States. The Fund's directors and staff will
work closely with contributing corporations in development of projects in
regions and countries where such corporations' operations, markets and
raw materials are located, Recognition of their support for these projects
will be given in the countries concerned in accord with policies and plans
agreed-upon by the Fund and representatives of contributing corporations.
VII I)._es..2.,e_c_tive
It is believed that the effect of this grant will be to make self-assistance
possible for an increasing number of disabled individuals In the countries
concerned. The immediate result will be specific and visible in human
terms, with a longer-range benefit to the restored persons' families and
communities?
Further less tangible benefits can be expected. Irrespective of national
barriers, racial differences, language, beliefs and culture, physical
disabilities unite all mankind. As a privately supported program which
supplements governmental economic assistance, the Fund's work stresses
the great value placed by Americans on the value of the individual, Aside
from advan,cing independent self-assistance in less developed regions, this
work can make America's technical contributions to the welfare of all
peoples better understood,
Through its project, the Fund will contribute to-ward reducing international
tensions. Its work expresses America's confident belief that man's mission
on earth is to heal and not to hurt, to build and not to destroy.
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EXHIBITS
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MEDICAL
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The following is an excerpt from the 1956-1957 Annual Report of the Depart-
ment of Physical Medicine and Rehablitation, New York University-Bellevue
Medical Center, describing graduate training programs for physicians and
other rehablitation workers of the type in which foreign personnel given
fellowships by the World RehabIllation Fund would participate at New York
University and other rehablitation training centers in the United States.
INIg_A_TIgRN. NAL PROGRAM
A significant increase in the scope of the International Training Program
was noted during 1956-57.
As in previous years the program was a broad one, involving both medical
and co-professional personnel and encompassing both professiona.1 training
and f-raillarizing with the customs of Anerican democracy. Personal
counseling and services were included in the program this year.
Physicians
Thirty-three foreign physicians participated in the long-terra training
program described under Graduate Training Activities. Their national
distribution is listed in the following table:
Distributsicians in 1956-1957 Graduate
Training Pro ram "1)ynt n
Argentina 2
Australia
Bolivia 1
Burma 1
Chile 1
Colombia 3
Egypt 1
Finland 1
Germany 1
Greece 1
Guatemala 2
Haiti
India 1
Iraq 1
Ireland 2
Japan 1
Korea 3
Philippines 3
Portugal 1
Spain
Thailand 1
Turkey 2
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By and large foreign students were supported by grants, fellowships
and training stipends, awarded by the Department of Physical Medicine
and. Rehablitation and such agencies as the United Nations, the Inter-
national Cooperation Administration of the United States Department of
State, the World Health Organization, and private foundations such as
the Rockefeller Foundation?, American Korean Founds.tion, etc.
Close cooperation in the broad aspects and implications of the Inter-
nation.al Training Program was maintained with the International
Society for the Welfare of Cripples, the American Korean Foundation
and the United Nations, and was begun with the newly organized World
Rehablitation Fund.
A system of regional representatives associated with the Department
has been initiated and is proving to be of great value in screening
applicants for foreign traineeships in their country of- origin. Further
development of this system is most desirable.
Medical Observers
Twenty foreign physicians visited the Department for periods of
observation of several days to one or two months, As a rule such
observers were specialists, or physicians in public service and
teaching positions who wished to observe n d study areas of special
interest to them.
The following table lists IMP dical observers according to country
of origin:
Distribution of Medical Observers 1956-1957 by Country,
of Orin
Argentina 1
Belgium 1
Brazil 2
Danmark 1
Guatemala 1
Korea
Mexico 10
New Zealand 1
Pakistan
Puerto Rico
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Co-Professional Personnel
Twenty-two foreign co-professional workers served traineeships of
from one to twelve months in the various departments (see co-profes,-
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Physical Therapists
9
Occupational Therapists
3
Nurses
4
Social Workers
2
Pros the fists
3
Physical Educator
1
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Distribution of Forel.
Co-Professional Trainees
of Orig142
Australia
1
Bolivia
1
Burma
4
Colombia
3
Finland
Germnny
1
Guatemala
1
Haiti
1
Holland
1
Hungary
3
Israel
3
Jamaica
1
Korea
2
Sweden
1
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In addition to, the trainees noted above eight foreign students took the
course in "Physical Rehablitation Methods for Physical Therapists"
they represented the British West Indies, Australia, Canada, Prigland
and Israel.
National Teams
The great advantage of team training may be the rapid establishment of
a teaching center to train personnel in the country of origin of the team,
making for continued expansion of services.
Two Rehablitation Teams were in training in 1956-57. A complete group
of rehablitation personnel from Colombia, South America, consisting of
physicians, an occupational therapist, a physical therapist and a psycho-
social specialist is about to complete a training program and return as a
coordinated unit. Personnel other than the physicians were sponsored
by the International Cooperation Administration; the physicians are in the
Colombian Military Service.
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A team of five rehabilitation trainees from Burma, representing all
disciplines, began training in September 1.956 under a grant of the
Rockefeller Foundation, Together with the Thailand Team, three
complete units will have been trained and return to their countries of
origin ready to function in the area of patient service and teaching.
The training of coordinated rehabilitation teams as units warrants
further exploration and seems to be a most feasible and economic
method of establishing a rehablitation program in countries presently
without any significant rehabilitation services.
Non-Professional Activities
During 1956-57 an administrator for non-professional activities was
added to the staff of the International Training Program, An expert
In international education, the administrator has acted as a personal
counselor to the foreign students and has made arrangements for their
attendance at many cultural and educational events. A series of
seminars in Cross-Cultural Problems was conducted by the adminis-
trator in the Spring of 19570
An active program of social and cultural affairs was carried out
during the year. Trainees attended the Berkshire Music Festival,
visited Washington, D. C. and Boston and participated in the Forum on
"Dynamics of Democracy" in Atlantic City, New jersey,. Visits were
made by individuals or small groups to typical American homes in
Baldwin, New York, and Boonton, New je rsey.
Several parties were held which gave foreign and American personnel
the opportunity to get to know and understand each other better.
Students from Latin America and from the Far East acted as hosts for
two of these, arranging for the menu and the entertainment.
The purpose of the non-professional program is to stimulate greater
understanding of American customs and traditions by the foreign
students and to encourage a continuing sympathetic relationship after
the termination of the training program.
A system of English language evaluation and teaching has been worked
out with the Foreign Student Center of New York University and has
been extremely valuable in increasing English language competency
when necessary.
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000
000
Totals
000
Fellowships
Latin America. $100, 000
South East Asia 150, 000
Europe 25,000
Middle East (S6
Africa 10,0, 000
$150, 000
200, 000
40,000
149, 500
$ 200, 000
300,000
50,000
1502 000
$ 250,000
320,000
60,000
150 000
$
300,
350,
60,000
170,000
Si, 000,
1, 320,000
235,000
71950O
3751 000
539, 500
700 000
780,000
880,
000
.3,
274,
500
Consultation
Abroad 75, 000
125, 000
150, 000
150, 000
150,
000
650,
000
Translation texts,
films, morio-
graphs 30, 000
37, 500
42, 500
47, 500
60,
000
217,
000
Research support,
pilot equipment,
tools, materials 50, 000
75, 000
125,000
150,000
1 50,
000
550,
000
Administration 60,040
64,030
65, 940
67, 665
67,
465
325,
140
$590, 040
$841, 030
$ 1,083,.41_0
1,
195, 165
$1,
307,
465
$5,
017,
140
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POLITICAL
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Region Persons of employable age
Children and old p_s2V..t.
Africa
2, 496, 000
3,
744,
000
South America
1,417, 200
4,
249,
800
Asia (except
and China)
10, 874, 800
16,
303,
100
Europe (except U. S.
R. )
4, 837, 200
7,
255,
800
Oceania
166, 800
250,
200
North America (except
USA)
758,800
1,
138,
200
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SOCIETY FOR THE WELFARE OF CRIPPT
Stockh.olm The Have London
1949 1953 1957
Argentina.01101.' filPfa 0/1" ANEW ------------------seflos am men. -x
Australia4.IX......1101, Mafa, faaf afaf f.X. fa, Pf flPf, -x
Austria ;mt.. rotes, _x
Belgium. _40 alitx.momor ommar Mims' stemeMS-44 ...X.. 4.0014C NM* 4Of -x
Brazil -----x---- ----x
Burma_ fir*, =rani yammer If f ..fr pmppalP Pompom Memo AIM Mk ma owe ????=,..? fa am fos do Inca. -x
Canada --x
Ceylon. Mr fa fp. Pam fa. :FUNK nonomr art ma IIMeer Maar Wes 44.40 me. memo me as Mt ea fp faXIM paptaf fa OW* -a---
Colombiasale -----frif. me ma fa -of ow aPar ftlft P.... ma am fa. f0Paf 4.P.af POPX
Cuba. -x
Curacao af ft fa al.Vall affla ?rs.0=, woo*. !Sear mom.. Ole,m mese me 44, es Mc ---------4.44....e ,M, moss Mem, so. %M.o. x
Denmark --------x . -----x-- --x
Eire - -- ----a
Finland -----x------ --x---- "
France --- --- -x
Germany - -x--- -x
Gr,r Britain ----x-- -x------ . ----x
Greece -------- --x-- - - ?x-- --x
Guatemala ...
Haiti ---a --
Hungary -x
India __x
Indonesia_.- Ma fa fa P.P.,. fan.. affa" row. igraok
Jran .... af- 1PF 44P -
Israel_ es. Soros moms Ms." Moser 0044 1.4 ----------- -Mess *MVP ?m-sroXse ems .mree, 44,44 .mom x
Italy -------- ---x
Kenya ? ? a a --x
Koreaoerse, Meerer emoso Seem Sbos, . ammo mr vim mos. mossx.......m se memo es 4.4,rm
Lebanon
--x-------
Mexico4.??? .11.7m3 ?Orolim owarx
Netherlands -x--- -x
NewZealand wan------------a- Mrsa4 .leame So moss 44rom Moles Sr X
Norway -x- -x
Pakistan_ mese mo 4?04, Mexmess MOMS swam mem monks Mix
Philippines/mama. af J. ma frau! a. ma' PO mkruaa eldrom swim se oft or* fifar mess se we eler moat MoX
Poland abase =-06 po X
Portugal4444 Oe memo *se mess Mud. .4.4 Mese "rX
South Africa ------------- . ..
Spain *wow am.. ?MX
Sweden
Switzerland
Surinam. --x-
Thailand vow ma. *O. Iwo. ogo. goothk . *0 -x
Trinidad .
?dn. -x
Turkey --x-----
IL S., --x-- -x
Venet a
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Physicians
Composition of Soviet Specialized Personnel
1926 1935 1938 1952
70,000 132, 000 155,000 300,000
Intermediate 130, 000 382, 000 607, 000 900, 000
medical personnel
Semi-
professional
Soviet Health Graduates (1946-1950)
Planned Actual Annual Average
270,000 261,000 52,201
Professional Level
(6 years after secondary
school) 100, 000 108, 300 21, 700
Total Health Labor Forces
1950 1951 1952 1953 1954
Semi.
professional 672, 600 711, 400 749, 100
Professional
(6 years after secondary
school) 249, 100 264, 150 290, 800 305, 900 323, 700
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Soviet Medical Education - Quantity
In the National Academy of Science-National Research Council 1955
study, SOVIET PROFESSIONAL ,MANPOWER - its Educationm
and Svply, Dr, Nicholas De Witt of the Russian Research Center at
Harva.rd University gives the following data for the period from 1940
through 1954. We also submit comparative data for the United States
compiled from reports of the Health Resources Advisory Committee,
Year
Estimate Soviet
Physicians Trained
U.S.
Physicians Trained
1940
14,790
5,097
1941
15,045
5,275
1942
18,020
5,168
1943
7,905
5,223
1944
6, 630
10, 303
1945
5,780
5,136
1946
12, 580
5, 826
1947
15, 300
6, 389
1948
22, 100
5, 543
1949
19, 890
5, 094
1950
5, 553
1951
17,000
6,135
1952
27,200 *
6,080
1953
6,668
1954
20, 400
6, 861
1955
27, 000
6, 800
* estimate
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Relevance
So far as has been determined, physical medicine and rehablitation
have not yet received emphR.sis as a separate discipline in Soviet schools
of medicine.
When Rahjkamari Amrit Kaur, Indian Minister of Health, was
recently in New York, she was asked during a radio interview: "Have you
had any offers of financial or technical aid from the Soviet Union in
connection with your particular department?"
She answered: "Yes. When the Minister of Health of the Soviet Union
visited India and was with us three weeks, after her return she wrote and
asked me in what spheres of health programs Russia could help us, After
my visit in 1953, I was very struck with what they had done in regard to
pediatrics and in regard to scientific physical medicine.
"At the moment they are helping me in a small hospital for children
in Delhi and I hope they will be able to help me with scientific physical
medicine, too. "
When a U,S. publisher visited the Soviet Union last year, he asked
Vyacheslav Yelutin, the Minister of Higher Education, about Russian
policy on international exchange.
Yelutin's answer: "We are willingly going in the direction of taking
more foreign students. When other governments ask us, we respond
positively. "
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SIGNIFICANCE
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DIRECTORS:
WORLD REHABILITATION FUND
John S. Allard
Elmer H. Bobst
Donaldson Brown
Arde Bulova
Ralph K. Davies
William J. Donovan
Mrs. Bernard F. Gimbel
David M. Heyman
Paul G. Hoffman
Henry H. Kessler, M. D,
George L. Killion
Mrs. Albert Lasker
Russell V. Lee, M.D.
Charles W. Mayo, M. D.
Leonard W. Mayo
James Wesley McAfee
Norman Vincent Peale
Edgar M. Queeny
Mrs. Anna Rosenberg
Beardsley Ruml
Howard A. Rusk, M. D,
David Sarnoff
Walter Bedell Smith
Eugene J. Taylor
Arthur K. Watson
COUNSEL: Donovan, Leisure Newton & Irvine
FISCAL AGENTS: J. P. Morgan & CO.
AUDITORS: Price Waterhouse & Co.
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BERNARD M.BARUCH
597 MADISON AVENUE
NEW YORK 22,N.Y.
November 22, 1955.
My dear Dr. Rusk:
Answering your suggestion regardin& an
international organization to help the disabled
of the world, anything that will spread
rehabilitation or even alleviation of the
disabled has had my most earnest consideration
over the years.
Anything that can be worked out
on an international scale should receive not
alone the good wishes but the active support
not only to help these people but to show the
world that what we are doing or asking for
ourselves, we wish to have achieved for
everyone, everywhere.
Restoring disabled people - taking
them from a life of idleness and despair to one
of hope and usefulness - is a challenge none of
us can refuse.
Sincerely youns,
Dr. Howard A. Rusk,
President, World Rehabilitation Fund,
701 First Avenue,
New York 17, New York.
flie"-Gt-44
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WAS H IN GTO N
Dear Dr. Rusk:
November 17, 1956
I was very glad to learn of the purpose that you and your as-
sociates have set for yourselves in establishing a program for
World Rehabilitation. You are performing a most humane
service in providing technical assistance to other nations in
their efforts to establish rehabilitation programs for their
handicapped citizens.
There is a supplementary value in this work. When young
physicians from overseas receive specialized training in the
United States, it gives them an opportunity to become familiar
with our history, government, and cultural activities. When
these physicians return home, they will be trained in the latest
techniques of rehabilitation and also serve as interpreters of
our American way of life.
Rehabilitation of the physically handicapped is of importance
to all nations. By helping other peoples to help themselves,
Americans express their concern for all mankind and their
belief in the worth of each individual.
In view of the responsibilities of the Department of Health,
Education and Welfare, I am sending a copy of this letter to
Secretary Folsom. You will undoubtedly want to coordinate
your efforts also with those of various health agencies of the
government and those of other organizations engaged in re-
lated activities.
I trust that your program will be eminently successful.
With warm regard,
Sincerely,
g Le--2)24.4.? 44A-"si
Dr. Howard A. Rusk
Pre sident
World Rehabilitation Fund, Inc.
400 East 34th Street
New York 16,N. Y.
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HERBERT HOOVER
The Waldorf-Astoria Towers
New York 22, New York
September 7, 1955
Howard A. Rusk, M. D.
World Rehabilitation Fund
701 First Avenue
New York 17, New York
My dear Dr. Rusk:
There are many reasons for my deep interest in
the plans we discussed recently for furthering rehabilita-
tion services for the physically handicapped in many parts
of the world through the World Rehabilitation Fund.
I have had occasions to see how individuals who
have, overcome disabilities have later made important
contributions to mankind, possibly because they appreciated
how transmittal of benefits to others is a kind of continuing
trust. During my work in Europe in time of war, one of the
men who gave most of himself to save people suffering
famine and devastation was a talented diplomat who had
been born without legs or arms. With the right kind of
help he had learned to use artificial limbs, acquired a fine
education, and had risen to a post of high distinction serv-
ing his country.
Perhaps the foremost necessity for the World
Rehabilitation Fund can be pronounced in a single word:
Peace. Any peace which is not based on a solid foundation
of understanding between peoples must be recognized as a
temporary, unstable truce.
The exchange of skills and techniques this Fund
will foster benefits all and penalizes none. This work can
do much to advance and to mature understanding between
nations. The human results, in making happier and more
productive lives possible, are so readily understood they
speak for themselves volumes more than learned documents
or solemn treaties can possibly do.
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Howard A. Rusk, M.D. -2- September 7, 1955
It is surely encouraging that American industry
recognizes the potential of rehabilitation for serving our
country, and that amid the confused tensions of today'
world its leaders have expressed interest in supporting
this significant endeavor.
I am pleased to serve as an Honorary Chairman
of the World Rehabilitation Fund, and look forward to its
growth and accomplishment.
Yours faithfully,
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HARRY- S. TRUMAN"
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK BUILDING
KANSAS CITY 0, MISSOURI
October 24, 1955
Dear Dr. Rusk:
The World Rehabilitation Fund's mission to channel
private American support for rehabilitation of handi-
capped people in other countries is a truly appropriate
development at this time.
Here in the United States it was after considerable
constructive work by numerous private groups, proving
the practical as well as humane values of restoring
the disabled to maximum independence, that forward-
looking federal legislation was passed. Further
provisions have since encouraged greater partnership
with the 4tates, training of personnel and building
more 0?mm:trinity rehabilitation centers. We have
learned that rehabilitation pays society as well as
the individual who is helped to earn a new life.
When Point IV was still a new concept, we enunciated
not just foreign policy ,through our government but
also expressed in dynamic form a long-standing aspira-
tion of the American people. I believe the Congress
acted rightly in this enabling legislation that
"participation of private agencies and persons shall
be sought to the greatest extent possible."
The World Rehabilitation Fund can fill an enormous
vacuum. Every individual and family ultimately
benefited will have compelling reasons to understand
America as a source of freedom from misery. I am
proud to be one of the Honorary Chairmen.
Dr. Howard A. Rusk
The New York Times
229 West 43rd Street
New York 36, New York
Sincerely yours
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WORLD REHABUT.A.TION FUND, INC.
June 15, 1957
Prolects,Completed
Provision of an American consultant in prosthetics for two months in
Korea, Burma, Th.alland? India and jordan.
Provision of artificial limb components to the Philippines.
Provision of artificial limb components to Thailand
Shipment of periodicals and books on rehablitation to Poland, India,
France, Finland, Russia, the Philippines and Australia.
A six months scholarship for study in the United States for a physical
therapist from Haiti.
A one month scholarship for study in the United States for a social
worker from Greece.
A one month scholarship for study in the United States for a physician
from Brazil.
Presentation of a rehablitation demonstration before representatives
Of 21 nations attending International Labour Organization
Conference in Havana.
Participation in Caribbean Conference on Rehablitation in Miami Beach,
Travel and expenses for senior orthopedic surgeon from Poland to
ateni annual meeting of American Academy of Orthopedic
Surgery and observe programs in the United States.
Provision of travel from Poland and return for two Polish physicians
to attend six months graduate course in rehablitation at
Western Reserve University.
A grant to assist the International Union for Child Welfare in a self-
study of its program.
A grant to aid a senior social worker from Thailand spend six months
studying rehablitation services in the United States.
A three months' scholarship for advanced study of rehablitation in the
United States for a physician from Belgium.
A grant to support the basic education services of the International
Society for the Welfare of Cripples.
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Pro ecIs_Beitiat_m_e_att3s1_.
Provision of four scholarships for representatives from four Southeast
Asian nations to attend a three week short course in job placement
of the handicapped being held in Indonesia in September 1957,
Provision of educational materials for a ten day international course
in prosthetics to be held in Denmark.
Provision of a minimum of one year's graduate training in the United
States for a physician from the Philippines.
Provision of a minimum of one year's graduate training in the United
States for a physician from Great Britain,
Assistance in holding a Caribbean Conference on Rehablitation in
conjunction with a Guatemalan Congress on Rehablitation in
Guatemala in November, 1957
Provision of a three months' scholarship to study cardiovascular
rehablitation in the United States for a cardiologist from Chile
recommended by Dr. James Watt.
Provision of scholarship assistance for trainees from Europe to
attend an international seminar in vocational rehablitation
of the tuberculous.
Assistance in making possible a ten-months comparative study by two
American experts of special education of handicapped children
In Europe.
IDzslests_ Pending
Presentation of a demonstration on rehablitation before the World
Conference of the international Labour Organization in
Switzerland in June, 1958.
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tasptrationat story from
NEVVSWEEK
February 21 1955
ad a message from:
Newsweek?Ed Wereeles
Reprinted from
the issue of
FEBRUARY 21, 1955
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Reiter Than Millions
ulations on a brilliant piece of re-
ig referring to your article (Feb.
Newsweek?Ed Werirelee
;ood-w ill ambassador
l'he Right Relationship'
Words cannot begin to express my ap-
iation for the article you carried [on con-
al amputation] in the Feb. 21 issue of
N EWSWEEK about the Bolivian boy, Juan
iregoyen Yepez. Your treatment of this case
%vas so humanitarian and brought before the
people of our nation the unselfish work of
Oheicors and hospital personnel. It did much
help establish the right relationship be-
ween the little people of the world ...
CONRAD R. WILLARD
Pastor
Calvary Baptist Church
Ixanisas City,. Mo.
21) on Juanito Yepez, the cougenit quad-
ruple 'amputee from Bolivia.
... For those of us who are in an mit of
Central and South America we fou your
article on Juanito gained us more eilends
( and respect) than all the millions gov-
ernment is pouring into these iiount ,es. We
noted no suclilen pro U.S.A. feeling Brazil
as a result of the $75 million donatio . given
Brazil by the U.S.], but we were pi, ?:isaritly
surprised with the many complim tis for
what the U.S.A. is doing for Juani I do
not know what your circulatUm is o Latin
America but can tell you the peon it the
backwoods knew all about juanno u t tin 24
hours after the issue was on the greets.
You also mentioned the -Save t. o Chil-
dren Federation- was paving his height
while in the U.S. This organization ,vith a
few thousand dollars, is gaining us a sands
more friends than our State Departu t with
their millions ...
B
S/T Adrias
Tampico, Mexico
Two of ti e many reactions from
Newsweek readers who were
inspired Ly Mrs. Clark's story
of hope and courage.
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-071-tr nett/ 4.ark
Tin-Tr quxr
April 4, 195 5
To the Editors
NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE
142nd Street and Broadway
New York 36, New York
Gentlemen:
This is a letter of deep personal appreciation for
the magnificent docurrentation by Mrs. Marguerite Clark of the
story of Juan Yepe z.
Juan is not just ore little boy born without arms
and legs in a far-away country. He is symbolic of the need
for understanding and the recogaition that arms and legs do
not make a man -- spirit males a man. Since coming to our
Institute some six weeks ago, Juan now speaks English like a
veteran. In fact, only last week he acted as interpreter for
a wounded Columbian soldier who had just been flown in from
Bogota. Juan is now walking on his new legs with special
crutches which his small baby hands can fit into. Everyone
at the Institute who las worked with this amazing child has
cone to love him, and he has had much love before he came to
us, for in spite of his rejection and abandonment, he feels
completely secure and is the one who cheers up the other
children in the ward when they are overbore by homesickness.
Two children in the ward were talking recently
about "when we go horn next week" and said to Juan, "When
do you go here?" He was sitting on the windowsill watching
the cars on the East River Drive when asked the question
and, looking far, far away, he replied, "I only go home when
I walk home." As President of the International Society for
the Welfare cir Cripples comprising 100 organizations from 30
countries all over the -world, I have seen this spirit from
Korea to Poland and from Haiti to Delhi. Here in the courazeous
spirit of the disabled do we have a common language.
Juan Yepez is a great symbol -- a bright light in a spiritually
gray world. He epitomizes spiritually even more dynamism than
nuclear fission. When he "walks back" to Bolivia, le will bring
with him a new concept of the dignity of the individual, for,
verily, "a little child shall lead them".
I am deeply grateful to you for the deep sensitivity
with which you have documented the story of a great human being.
Sincerely,
Howard A. Rusk, M. D.
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or Juan uan from Bolivia, rehabilitation's brightest hope
Boy and a Miracle
:t hot morning in 1951, a 5-year-old
born without arms or legs, was
fai in a trash can on a street in La Paz,
The little mestizo (mixed Span-
) and Indian blood) had no stumps, yet
son his shoulders grew two perfectly
on ked hands and. from his hips, two
ca tong feet. Taken to a home for aban-
ithied children, he was "adopted" a year
boor by members of the La Paz Rotary
I 11.1.1) and was placed in the American
Uospital there. In no time, Juan Iregoyen
Yobez became the pet of the place.
a handsome, alert youngster who
lked up English quickly, Juanito was
well developed physically, and from the
amai run of scarlet fever, whooping
t'oogh., and measles he emerged tough
strong. He learned to get from one
a.tice to another by rolling about the
Itospital floor like a ball of tumbleweed.
devised ways of using head, chin,
mouth to suit his extraordinary
With nimble fingers, he learned
iced himself. But in La Paz there was
.1?.) equipment with which to rehabilitate
lie boy's cruel double handicap.
I ,tist summer a young plastic surgeon
4,
on Kansas City, on a medical mission
Bolivia, encountered Juan, then 8
years old, at the American Hospital. Br L
in the states, the surgeon described t?
unusual case to Dr. Howard A. flu
director of the famous Institute of Ply, t-
eal Medicine and Rehabilitation, N ,?
York University-Bellevue Medical C,
ter, New York. Several children's orga r
zations became interestpd in the boy.
airline, Panagra, offered to fly him o
New York. The Save the Children F, I -
eration volunteered to act as his gua t-
hin, in addition to contributing money ? his care care at the New York Univers; -
Bellevue Medical Center. Last week, S
third in New York, Juan was a cy-nos
of American specialists' attention.
Late Care: Cases of congenital ? -
putation?the medical name for this aft' ? -
tion?are not uncommon. Because f
faulty genes, some 4.7 of 10,000 child
are born without arms or legs or hi 1.
(Juan's mother had two brothers b, r
without arms.) Many of these chilch
i3ven quadruple amputees like Juan, h ?
been fitted with artificial arms and 1 CS
and trained for useful lives (NEwswt ? K,
Nov. 5, 1951). Usually, however, ti
rehabilitation is started at a very e, y
age, before the children are aware 4
their malformation. In Juan's case, ?
training had been delayed for alp
nine years; the boy's mode of living ,
been conditioned by stark necessity. In
the time lag, however. American doctors
recognized two possible advantages:
(1) Juan's mature courage and strong,
well-developed body and mind, and
(2) his naturally formed, though ?mis-
placed, hands and feet. Many young con-
genital amputees are born without any
stumps at all, and fitting them with prop-
erly mectatnized prostheses is a difficult
task. For luau's deformity, the experts
reasoned, it might be possible to fashion
special artificial arms and Legs which
could be worked, by remote control,
from Juan s own capable hands and feet.
By last week William Tosberg, chief of
the N.Y.L.-Bellevue Center's Prosthetic
Technical Services. had prepared a
canvas basket into which Juan's torso
could be tided. Suspended from it were
two stiff wooden legs. By twisting his
agile trunk, the boy could teeter from
side to side, in a walking-doll movement.
"This will not do,- he said patiently. -I
have strong feet; I must have legs that
my feet will work.'" Juan was right. If by
some skilled trick of prosthetic engineer-
ing, this can be accomplished, the boy
may have self-motivated arms and legs
before his rehabilitation is completed.
nig Fee: Specialists at the center
marvel at the remarable adaptation
made by the boy's gnively malformed
body. Neurologists, amazed at his lack of
dizziness after rolling about on the floor
for fifteen or twenty minutes, are con-
ducting studies of his nervous system.
Teachers are impressed by his quick
grasp of facts and his unusual learning
capacity. Nurses and attendants talk of
his cheery disposition. However dramati-
cally this bespoke his ability to help
himself, Juan also is assured of being a
big help to others,
Shortly before the boy arrived in New
York, Dr. Rusk was visited by the Vice
President of Bolivia, Dr. Hernan Siles
Zuazo, and the consul general of that
country, Dr. Alberto Arce Quiroga. Aftet
explaining the proposed program for
Juan, Dr.. Rusk added: "This will cost
Bolivia a big fee ... We will rehabilitate
Juan. We will help educate him, and
when he is able to care for himself, we
will send him back to Bolivia. There you
will complete his education, and help
him get a suitable job. That is not all.
"In return for our care of the boy, you
will establish in Bolivia a rehabilitation
center where all handicapped children?
those like Juan, as well as those with
polio or cerebral palsy or rheumatoid
arthritis?will be retrained. That you will
do for Juan Iregoyen Yepez."
The Bolivian dignitaries bowed. "You
take the boy," Vice President Siles re-
plied. "We will pay the fee.."
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ESTABLISHED 1851 REG. U. S. PAT. OFF,
"All the News That's Fit to Print"
ADOLPH S. Oafs, Publisher 1896-1935
Published Every Day in the Year by
THE NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY
ARTHUR HAYS SULZBERGER
Chairman of the Board
Publisher
ORVIL E. DRYFOOS
President
AMORY H. BRADFORD
Vice President
HARDING F. BANCROFT
Secretary
FRANCIS A. Cox
Treasurer :
NEW FUND AIDING
WORLD DISABLED
Rehabilitation Unit, Set Up
in '55, Names Hoover and
Truman Honorary Aides
Former Presidents Herbert
Hoover and Harry S. Truman
have been named honorary chair-
men of the World Rehabilitation
Fund, Inc., a relatively new or-
ganization. The aim of the group
Is to sponsor international proj-
ects and understanding for the,
physically handicapped.
Dr. Howard A. Rusk, president
of the fund, said yesterday that
the new enterprise hoped to rally
American corporations, founda-
tions and individuals to con-
The new fund is crossing ideo-
logical frontiers. Periodicals and
books already have been deliv-
ered to the Soviet Union and Po-
land. Arrangements have been
made for two Polish physicians
to take a six-month course at
Western Reserve University,
while another has visited here.
Four Soviet physicians are about
to come here for study. Dr. Rusk
has brought back Soviet publi-
cations?"pound for pound."
The fund has the endorsement
of President Eisenhower. Ber-
nard M. Baruch and Dr. Albert
Schweitzer are the other honor-
ary chairmen.
The fund's headquarters is at
400 East Thirty-fourth Street.
Among the financial supporters
so far have been the Albert arid
Mary Lasker Foundation, the
Smith, Kline and French Foun-
dation, the Mount Ararat Foun-
dation, American President
Lines, the Radio Corporation of
America, the New York Times
Foundation, the Monsanto Chem-
tribute $1,000,000 a year fpNical Company Charitable Trust,
fellowships and other programs.
Dr. Rusk is also associate editor
of The New York Times.
Thus far, twenty have con-
tributed $150,000. Out of this,
about a score of projects have
been completed since the fund
got under way without announce-
ment in December, 1955. No
general public fund-raising ap-
peal is planned.
"So many things need to be
done that Government apparatus
is too big or clumsy to do," Dr.
Rusk said. ""There's a place for
a voluntary organization. It gets
an awful lot of milage for its
money."
Last November, for instance,
Dr. Rusk found that some pa-
tients had languished for ten
years in the overcrowded Ortho-
pedic Hospital in Manila. They
had no braces and the hospital's
brace shop had no patterns or
materials. Dr. Rusk was able
immediately to promise ship-
ment of used appliances. In two
months, the program was under
way. Cost: $1,000.
Lilly Endowment, Inc, and the
Bulova Watch Company Foun-
dation.
The directors include John S.
Allard, Elmer H. Bobst, Donald-
son Brown, Arde Bulova, Ralph
K. Davies, William J. Donovan,
Mrs. Bernard Gimbel, David M.
Heyman, Paul G. Hoffman, Dr.
Henry H. Kessler, George L.
Killion, Mrs. Albert Lasker, Dr.
Russell V. Lee, Dr. Charles W.
Mayo, Dr. Leonard W. Mayo,
James Wesley McAfee, the Rev.
Norman Vincent Peale, Edgar
M. Queeny, Mrs. Anna Rosen-
berg, Beardsley Ruml, Dr. Rusk,
David Sarnoff, Walter Bedell
Smith, Eugene J. Taylor and
Arthur K. Watson.
Dr. Rusk said that the work
so far had enabled study here
for personnel from Haiti, Greece,
Great Britain, Thailan, Poland,
Belgium, the Philippines and
Brazil; provided a consultant for
Korea, Burma, Thailand, India
and Jordan, and materials, pub-
lications and demonstrations in
fifteen countries.
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ESTABLISHED 1851 REG. U. 5. PAT. OFF
"All the News That's Fit to Print"
ADOLPH S. OCHS, Publisher 1896-1935
Published Every Day in the Year by
THS NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY
ARTHUR HAYS SULZBERGER
Chairman of the Board
Publisher
ORVIL E. DRYFOOS
President
AMORY H. BRADFORD
Vice President
HARDING F. BANCROFT
Secretary
FRANCIS A. COX
Treasurer
MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1957.
400 EAST 34TH STREET
NEW YORK 16. N. Y.
VOLUNTARY FOREIGN AID
The World Rehabilitation Fund,
which was quietly established about
two years ago, is doing an important
job of pioneering in the field of
private and strictly voluntary "for-
eign aid." Its purpose is to give
medical and technical help for the
physically handicapped or disabled.
Its work in this needful area has
been warmly endorsed by President
Eisenhower, and former Presidents
Hoover and Truman are honorary
chairmen ef the fund.
The fund operates in a simple,
and for that reason perhaps unusual,
way. There hail been no fund-raising
campaign and none is planned. There
has been no appeal for government
help. Private persons and founda-
tions have been quietly asked if they
cared to contribute. Twenty have al-
ready responded with a total of more
than $150,000. Much more can con-
fidently be expected.
With these contributions the fund
ha; initiated and carried out specific
projects all over the world. Twenty-
sine have already been completed,
five more are in operation at the
moment and three more are pending.
These projects include the shipment
of artificial limbs to areas where
they are desperately needed, supply-
ing books and periodicals ( some of
these have been sent to Poland and
Russia as well as to many other
countries), grants in aid for specific
study or the actual provision of
technicians, and the promotion of
planned exchange of scholars and
doctors.
In this last field, for example, an
interesting success has been an-
nounced. The American President
Lines, operating to the Far East, has
just offered a fellowship that will
enable a Filipino doctor to come to
the United States for advanced and
extended study of rehabilitation
techniques, The fund also expects to
provide post-graduate training for
physicians from Great Britain, and
it has already provided short study
courses for persons from Greece,
Brazil. Haiti, Thailand and Belgium.
These things add up to a rapidly
expanding humanitarian service that
can be of immense importance in the
promotion of international goodwill
and understanding, In Manila, for
example, the press greeted With the
greatest enthusiasm the announce-
ment of the fellowship and rejoiced
that the scientific advances that had
been made in this field could be
shared by the Philippines.
In no other field can "foreign aid"
be a more effective instrument for
good than in the field of health. It is
our feeling that the share of health
projects in the whole mutual secu-
rity program has been considerably
less than it might well have been.
But World Rehabilitation is proving
that a vast amount of good can be
done in this field without relying
upon appropriations from govern-
ments,
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A FELLOWSHIP grant that is bound
to bring far-reaching benefits to
this country is that recently announc-
ed by the World Rehabilitation Fund,
a new international voluntary agency
headed by Dr. HtYward A. Rusk, the re-
nowned rehabilitation specialist and
president of the International Society
for the Welfare of Cripples.
The WRF, it will be recalled, had
earlier shipped a sizable volume of re-
habilitation aids, like artificial limb
and brace components, to the Philip-
pines, as part of a project to assist this
country in the rehabilitation of its phy-
sically handicapped. The WRF now
seeks to expand its technical assistance
program here by making it possible,
under the so-called American President
Lines fellowship, for Filipino doctors to
go to the United States for advanced
training in physical medicine.
The APL has made a grant to enable
recipients of the fellowship to travel to
the U.S. and take postgraduate studies
at the famed New York University-Bel-
Shipping firm
offers fellowship
Extension of technical assist-
ance in expanding and develop-
ing rehabilitation services for
the physically handicapped in
the Philippines was announced
yesterday as one of the high
priorities of a new international
voluntary agency, t h e World
Rehabilitation Fund.
In announcing the formation
of this new voluntary agency
to stimulate international un-
derstanding, Dr. Howard A.
Rusk, the Fund's president, also
announced that the American
President Lines had made a
grant to the Fund to make it
Possible for a physician from
the Philippines to go to the
United States for advanced
training in physical medicine
and rehabilitation.
The scholarship to be known
as the American President
Lines Fellowship will be ad-
ministered through the Inter-
national Society for the Wel-
fare of Cripples and its affiliate
in the Philippines, the Philip-
Opine Foundation for the Crip-
pled.
The APL Fellowship will in-
clude round trip transporta-
tion from Manila to New York,
tuition and maintenance for a
minimum of one year's post-
graduate study in the Depart-
ment of Physical Medicine and
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Fellowship
levue Medical Center, as well as go on
study tours of other rehabilitation fa-
cilities in the U.S. Free tuition fees and
maintenance for a minimum of one
year's stay in the U.S. are provided for
under the scholarship.
The Philippines, which has its own
full share of physically disabled ?
mostly victims of the last war ? would
certainly benefit immensely from this
fellowship. Doctors trained under the
program could constitute the nucleus
of a technical group here that even-
tually could man a physical rehabilita-
tion center such as has been envision-
ed by Dr. Rusk himself.
Physical medicine, with its proven
scientific methods of treatment, aims
not only at putting the physically dis-
abled swiftly back on their feet but
also at enabling them fully to readjust
themselves to their work, thereby, mak-
ing them assets instead of liabilities in
the communities where they live. The
Philippines should consider itself for-
tunate in having been extended the
benefits of the APL fellowship.
struck YokonaMa then othe
big Asian ports like Hong-
kong, Singapore, Manila, Ja-
karta and Saigon before
spreading into the hinterland.
China, Malaya, the Philip-
pines, Indonesia and Indo-Chi-
na have all been striken. Only
Ceylon remains relatively un-
touched.
In mid-April about 400,000
people out of a total of 2.5
million population of Hongkong
were down with the flu. Farly
this month 50,000 nersons in
Singapore were officially re-
ported ill. in the PhilinPines
total of 159 patients had died
and thousands stricken.
The entire-Indonesian Penin-
sula has been swept lw the
epidemic, with the island of
Sumatra bearing the burden.
Saigon and Pnom-nenh have
renortod numerous eases but
onlv in mild form. One fourth
of Cambodia's five million no-
ntilation have been affected
The enidemir has shown no
signs of abating.
study tour of other rehabilita-
tion facilities in the United
States.
The recipient of the fellow-
ship will begin his training in
the United States on January
I, 1955 Annlication blanks can
be secured from Dr. Deogracias
Tablan, Philippine Founda-
tion for the Crippled, 101)6 Isaac
Peral
'AGENCY WILL AID
DISABLED IN PI
The World Rehabilitation Fund,
a new international "voluntary
agency," has announced from its
New York headquarters that it
would expand its technical assist-
ance program to the rehabilitation
of the physically handicapped
the Philippines.
In announcing the formation of
this new voluntary agency to sti-
mulate international understand-
ing through sponsorship of inter-
national rehabilitation projects
through the world, Dr. Howard
A. Rusk, the fund's president, also
announced that the American
President Lines had made a grant
to make it possible for a physi-
cian from the Philippines to go
to the United States for advanced
training in physical medicine and
rehabilitation.
The scholarship to be known as
the American President Lines
Fellowship will be administered
through the International Society
for the Welfare of Cripples and
its affiliate in the Philippines, The
Philippine Foundation for the
Crippled.
The American President Lines
Fellowship will include round-trip
transportation from Manila to
New York on the American Pres-
ident Lines, tuition and mainten-
ance for a minimum of one years
postgraduate study in the depart-
ment of physical medicine and re-
habilitation, New York university-
Bellevue Medical center, and a
study tour of other rehabilitation
facilities in the United States. Mr.
Ralph K. Davies, chairman of the
board, and George L. Killion, pres-
ident of A.P.L., are both members
of the board of directors of the
fund.
Preliminary selection of the re-
cipient of the American President
Lines Fellowship will be made by
a committee appointed by the
Philippine Foundation for the
Crippled. The committee will in-
clude Health Secretary Paulin?
Garcia; Horace DeLien, chief, /Ab-
be health division, InternatioNal
Cooperation administration mis-
sion; Josefina Nava-Dizon; and
Dr. Mariano Torres. Dr. Nava-
Dizon and Dr. Torres had post-
graduate training in the depart-
ment of physical medicine and
rehabilitation at York university-
Bellevue Medical center.
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ForRehabilitation Services
Extension of technical assist-
ance in expanding and develop-
ing rehabilitation services for
the physically
handicapped in
the Philippines
was announced
Tuesday as one
of the high
priorities of a
new internatio-
nal voluntary
agency, the
World Rehabi-
litation Fund.
In announc-
ing the forma- Dr. RUSK
tion of this new voluntary
agency to stimulate interna-
tional understanding through
sponsorship of international re-
habilitation projects through
the world, Dr. Howard A. Rusk.
the Fund's president, also an-
nounced that the American
President Lines had made a
grant to the Fund to make it
possible for a physician from
the Philippines to come to the
United States for advanced
training in physical medicine
and rehabilitation.
The scholarship to be known
as the American President Lines
fellowship will be administered
through the International So-
ciety for the Welfare of Crip-
ples and its affiliate in the
Philippines, the Philippine
Foundation for the Crippled.
The American President Lines
Fellowship will include round
trip transportation from Mani-
la to New York on the Amer-
ican President Lines, tuition
and maintenante for a mini-
mum of one year's postgraduate
study in the department of
physical medicine and rehabi-
litation, New York University-
Bellevue Medical Center, New
York city; and a study tour of
other rehabilitation facilities
In the United States. Ralph K.
Davies, chairman of the board,
and George L. Killion, pres-
ident, American President Lines,
are both members of the board
of directors of the World Reha-
bilitation Fund.
Preliminary selection of the
recipient of the American Pres-
ident Lines fellowship will be
made by a committee appoint-
ed by the Philippine Founda-
tion for the Crippled. The com-
mittee will include the Secreta-
ry of Health Paulino J. Garcia;
Horace DeLien, M.D., chief pub-
lic health division, U.S. Inter-
national Cooperation Adminis-
tration operations mission; Jo-
sefina Nava-Dizon, M.D., and
Mariano Torres, M.D., Dr. Na-
va-Dizon and Dr. Torres have
had postgraduate training in
the department of physical me-
dicine and rehabilitation, New
York University-Bellevue Medi-
cal Center
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ican President Lines fellowship
will begin his training in the
United States on Jan. 1, 1958.
Application blanks can be se-
cured from Dr. Deogracias J.
Tablan, Philippine Foundation
for the Crippled, 1006 Isaac Pe-
ral, Manila.
A previous project of the
World Rehabilitation Fund in
the Philippines was the ship-
ment of a large number of ar-
tificial limb and brace compo-
nents from the United States.
Another such shipment, Dr.
Rusk said, would be sent in the
near future. Dr. Rusk accom-
panied by Mrs. Rusk visited Ma-
nila last November. Another
Board member of the Fund,
Dr. Henry H. Kessler, visited
the Philippines in January-
February, 1956, at the request
of the Philippine government
as consultant of the United Na-
tions technical assistance pro-
gram to make recommendations
on the development of rehab-
ilitation services for the han-
dicapped.
Among the other projects in
which the World Rehabilitation
Fund has participated. Dr. Rusk
announced, were: provision of
artificial limb components to
Thailand; assistance for study ?
In the United States to physi-
cians and other rehabilitation
personnel from Haiti. Greece,
Great Britain, Thailand, Bel- I
gium, Poland, and Brazil; pro-
vision of periodicals and books
on rehabilitation to France,
Poland, Russia, the Philippines
and Australia; and sponsorship
of rehabilitation demonstrations
and conference in Cuba, Indo-
nesia, India, Denmark, Guate-
mala, Switzerland, Great Bri-
tain, and the United States.
Honorary chairmen of the
World Rehabilitation Fund in-
clude former United States
Presidents Herbert Hoover and
Harry S. Truman, Bernard M.
Baruch, and Dr. Albert Schweit-
zer.
In expressing his hope that
the Fund would be "eminently
successful," President Eisenho-
wer stated "Rehabilitation of
the physically handicapped is
of importance to all nations.
By helping other peoples to
help themselves, Americans ex-
press their concern for all man-
kind and their belief in the
worth of each individual."
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May 29, 1957
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Manila, Philippines, Friday, September 13, 1957 14 Page,* ? 15
PI Orthopedic Surgeon The Evening News
Awarded APL Fellowship
Dr. Enrique Mangalindan, as-
sistant chief of the department
of physical medicine and reha-
bilitation of the National Or-
thopedic hospital, was awarded
yesterday the $5,000 American
President Lines' fellowship for
advanced study in rehabilitation
of the physically handicapped.
(Photo on Page 3)
The APL fellowship was grant-
ed through the facilities of the
World Rehabilitation Fund, Inc.
of New York city headed by
Howard A. Rusk,
The International Society for
the Welfare of Cripples headed
by its secretary-general, Donald
V. Wilson and the Philippine
Foundation for the Crippled
headed by its acting president,
Dr. Jose S. Santillan, will assist
the World Rehabilitation Fund
in administering the APL fel-
lowship.
Dr. Mangalindan, who is now
in Indonesia attending a semi-
nar of the International Society
for Welfare of Cripples, was
chosen from a list of four fin-
alists recommended by a screen-
ing committee headed by Sec-
retary of Health Paulino Garcia.
The other three' candidates
were Dr. Eufrocina Vasquez
Sison, resident radiologist of the
Philippine General hospital, Dr.
Sergio Pineda, junior resident
of the National Orthopedic hos-
pital, and Dr. Juan Fernandez,
leprologist surgeon of the Tale
leprosarium.
The award was. made at a
luncheon at the Manila Hotel
given in honor of the candidates
and Donald V. Wilson, secreta-
ry-general of the International
Society for the Welfare of Crip-
ples, who made a special trip
to the Philippines for the occa-
sion.
Special guests, headed by
United States Ambassador Boh-
len, included Dr. Arsenio Rega-
le, representing Secretary Gar-
cia, Dr. Deogracias J. Tablan,
Dr. Josefina Nava-Dizon, Rus-
sell Swartley of Meralco, Perry
Hansen of the UNICEF and Wil-
liam Copeland of the U.S. em-
bassy.
Hosts of the luncheon were
officials of API. headed by Sam
Mercer, assistant vice president
of American Lines, Stanley Hea-
ley,. managing director of APL
Manila, and Edgar King, acting
manager of passenger traffic.
In brief talks after the lunch-
eon, Ambassador Bohlen, Wil-
son, Mercer, Dr. Regala and Dr.
Santillan unanimously shared
the belief that the rehabilita-
tion of the physically handi-
capped was of great importance
to all nations hnd that no ges-
ture could engender greater
friendship among peoples of the
world than the common desire
to render unselfish assistance
to the disabled, irrespective of
their color or creed.
The APL fellowship covers
round-trip transportation from
the Philippines to the United
States and tuition and main-
tainance for not less than one
year's advanced study and
training at the Institute of Phy-
sical Medicine and Rehabilita-
tion, New York University-Bel-
levue Medical Center.
The fellowship also provides
for special experience in pedia-
tric and geriatric rehabilitation,
management of respirator pa-
tients, and a study tour of the
best rehabilitation facilities in
the United States.
Speaking for the World Re-
habilitation Fund, Dr. Rusk said,
'the APL fellowship provides a
pattern which we expect and
hope will be followed by many
nations. There will be no gen-
eral public fund raising cam-
paign in behalf of the Fund."
Dr. Rusk further explained:
"Financial suport will come from
corporations, foundations and
individuals. We want the people
of the World to see tangible evi-
dence through work with the
physically handicapped that
American industry is interest-
ed in the welfare, not only of
the workers who make its pro-
ducts and services, but those
throughout the world who con-
sume them."
SATURDAY, SEPT. 14, 1957
PHOTO above was taken' last Thursday at the Manila Hotel dur-
ing the selection of the grantee of the American President Lines
fellowship for advanced study in the rehabilitation, of the phys-
ically handicapped. From left: Dr. Jose S. Seintillan.
pine Foundation for? the Crippled: US Amibasqador Charles, E.
Bohlen: and Sam N. Meroec, assistant vice president Of Hie:
American President lines.
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AT LINES' FETE. Photo was taken at the luncheon given at
the Manila hotel by American President Lines officials in honor,
of the candidates for the A.P.L. fellowship in orthopedic medicine
and Donald V. Wilson, seeretary.general of the International .So-
:slaty for the Welfare of Cripples. Left to right: Mr. Wilson,
who will assist in the administration of the 95,000 awase14,Dr.
Sergio Pineda, candidate for the award; DT. Eufroeina Vas-
quez Sison, another candidate; U.S. Ambassador Charles lioh-
_gandidate; and Sam Mer-
-i1V,PleIVISIMPtte
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THE PHILIPPINES HERALD
APL Fellowship In Orthopedic Medicine Awarded
DONALD V. WILSON, secretary-general of the
International Society for the Welfare of Crip-
ples, addressed yesterday's luncheon given by
American President Lines officials at the Ma-
nila hotel in connection with the selection of
an APL Fellowship in orthopedic medicine. Oth-
ers in photo are, from left, U.S. Ambassador
Charles E. Bohlen, Sam Mercer of APL, Dr. Ar-
senio Re gala, Stanley Healy of APL, and Dr.
Deogracias J. Tablan of the Philippine Foun-
dation for the Crippled.
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At API. luncheon
SOME of the guests at a luncheon civ- the department of physical medicine and
en yesterday at the Manila Hotel by rehabilitation of the National Ortho-
American President Lines officials in pedic Hospital, who incidentally is now
honor of candidates for the APL fellow- in Indonesia attending a seminar of the
ship in orthopedic medicine and Donald International Society for the Welfare of
V. Wilson, secretary-general of the In- Cripples. Among the guests were from
ternational Society for the Welfare of left Donald V. Wilson, secretary-gen-
Cripples who, in collaboration with the eral of the I.S.W.C.; Dr. Sergio Pineda,
Philippine Foundation for the Crippled, a candidate; Dr. Eufrocina Vasquez Si-
will assist in the administration of the son, another candidate; U.S. Ambassador
$5,000 APL Fellowship, are shown above. Bohlen, Dr. Juan Fernandez, candidate;
The APL Felowship was awarded to ?Dr. and Sam Mercer, assistant vice presi-
? Enrique Manga/indan, assistant chief of dent of American President Lines.
APL $5,000 fellowship
for PI doctor awarded
Dr. Enrique Mangalindan, assistant chief of the department of
physical medicine and rehabilitation of the National Orthopedic
hospital was awarded yesterday the $5,000 American President Lines
fellowship for advanced study isa rehabi litation of the physically
handicapped.
The APL fellowship was granted through the facilities of the
World Rehabilitation Fund, Int., of New York City headed by
Howard A. Rusk.
The International Socie-
ty for the Welfare of Crip-
ples 'headed by its secreta-
ry-general, Donald V. Wil-
son, and the Philippine
Foundation for the Crip-
pled headed by Dr. Jose S.
Santillan, will assist the
World Rehabilitation Fund
In administering the APL
fellowship.
Dr. Mangalindan is now
In Indonesia attending a
seminar of the Internation-
al Society for Welfare of
Cripples. He was chosen
from a list of four finalists
recommended by a screen-
ing committee headed by
Secretary of Health Pauli-
no Garcia.
The other, three candi-
dates were Dr. Eufrocina
Vasquez Sison, resident ra-
diologist of the Philippine
General hospital; Dr. Ser-
gio Pineda, Aniarcredst
of the National. Orthopedic'
hospital; and Dr. Juan
Fernandez, leprologist sur-
geon of the Tale Leprosa-
rium.
The award was made at
luncheon yesterday at the
Manila Hotel given in hon-
or of the candidates and
Donald V. Wilson, secreta-
ry-general of the Interna-
tional Society for the Wel-
fare of Cripples, who made
a special trip to the Philip-
pines for the occasion.
Special guests, headed by
United States Ambassador
Bohlen, included Dr. Ar-
senio Regala, representing
Secretary Garcia, Dr. Deo-
gracias J. Tablan, Dr. Jose-
fina Nava-Dizon, Russell
Swartley of Meralco, Per-
ry Hansen of the UNICEF
and William Copeland of
the U.S. Embassy.
r Rolt4tiasef26012/08424071
were APL officials includ-
ing Sam Mercer, assistant
vice president of American
President Lines; Stanley
Healey, managing director
of APL Manila; and Edgar
King, acting manager of
Passenger Traffic.
Ambassador Bohlen, Wil-
son, Mercer, Dr. Regala
and Dr. Santillan unani-
mously shared the belief
that the rehabilitation of
the physically handicapped
Is of great importance to
all nations and that no ges-
ture could engender great-
er friendship among peo-
ples ot the world than the
common desire to render
unselfish assistance to the
disabled, irrespective of
their color or creed.
The APL fellowship cov-
ers round-trip transporta-
tion from the Philippines
to the United States and
for not less than one year's
advanced study and train-
ing at the Institute of
Physical Medicine and Re-
habilitation, New York
University-Bellevue Medi-
cal Center.
In addition, it provides
for special experience in
pediatric and geriatric re-
habilitation, management
of respirator patients, and
a study tour of the best
rehabilitation facilities in
the United States.
Speaking for the World
Rehabilitation Fund, Dr.
Rusk said, "the APL fel-
lowship provides a pattern
which we expect and hope
will be followed by many
nations. There will be no
general pubic fund rais-
ing campaign in behalf of
the fund," Dr. Rusk ex-
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2 Um.. 13, 1957
Fl medio
gets APL
fellowship
Dr. Enrique Mangelinden,
assiStant chief of the depart-
ment of physical medicine and
rehabilitation,.
'National Or-
thopedic Has-
p fta 1, was
awarded yes-
terday the
lismo .Atneri-
Xa_n, 'President
Okea- fellow-
'Alp' for ad-
vanced studyIn reha.hilita-
.:
,
tion of the Mangaiindan
physically handicapped.
into APL _Fellowship was
greeted through the facilities
hf 'We' World Rehabilitation
Fti4di Inc. of New York \City
headed, by Howard A. Rusin'
The International Society for
the Welfare of Cripples, head-
ed by its secretary-general,
Donald VI Wilson, and the
Philippine Foundation for the
Crippled, under ? Dr. ?Jose S.
Santillan, will assist the World
Rehabilitation Fund in admtn-r
istering the APL fellowship,
Dr. Mangalindan, wtto is now
in Indonesia attending a semi'
oat of the International So-
ciety for Welfare of Cripples,
was chosen from a list of four
finalists recommended by a
Screening committee headed by
Secretary of Health Pauline
The other three candidates
were Dia. Eufrocina Vasquez
Sison, resident radiologist of
tille Philippine general ? hos&
Lai; Dr, 'Sergio Pineda, junior
resident of the National On
:thppedic hospital, and Dr,
Auan Fernandez, ?eprelogist.
Surgeon of the Tala leprosa-;
riurn:
The award was made at lumt
elleon.yesterday at the Manila
Hetet given in honor of the
aandidates.,and Donald V.
Wil-
son,, who made a special trip
to ?Lhe Philippines for the 6c!
A.P.L. LUNCFIEON FOR FELLOWS?
A luncheon -was given yesterday at the Ma-
nila Hotel by the American President Lines
in honor of Dr. Donald Wilson, second from
right, secretary general of the International
Society for the Welfare of the Crippled in
the United States, and Dr. Enrique Manga-
lindan, who will train in the Institute of
Physical Rehabilitation and Medicine in
New York on an APL fellowshp. Also pre-
sent 'Were US Ambassador Charles Bohlen,
Dr. Deogracias Tablan, Dr. Arsenio Re gala,
Sam Mercer and Dr. Jose Santillan. Dr.
Man galindan is nowin Indonesia attending
a medical seminar. (Story on last 2ktge)
and :William Copelanct of the
U.S. embassy. Hosts of the
luncheon' were officials of APL
headed by Sam Mercer, assist-
ant vice president' of Ameri-
can President Lines, Stanley
Healey, managing director of
APL Manila and Edgar King,
acting manager of passenger
traffic.
The APL felloVtship covers
round-trip transportation from
the Philippines to the United
States and tuition and ma;n-
tenance for not less than one
year's advanced study and
training at the Institute of
Physical Medicine and Reha-
bilitation, New York Univer
sity-Bellevue Medical Center.
In addition, it provides for spe-
cial experience in pediatric and
geriatric rehabilitation, man,
agement of respirator patients,
and a study Wu' of the hest
rehabilitatien facilities in the
United States.
ca.sion-
Special guests, headed by
United States Ambassatior
Bohlen, included Dr. Arsenio
li,egala, representing Secretary
'Garcia, Dr. Deogracias J. Tab-.
'Jan; Dr.' Josefina Nava-Dizon,
Russell, Swartley of M kg,..ved
Perry Hansen of _the law
THE DAILY MIRROR, FRIDAY, SEPT, 13., 157
NOH Medic Wins APL
Award For U.S. Study
Dr. Enrique Mangalindan,
assistant chief of the depart-
ment of physical medicine and
rehabilitation of the National
Orthopedic Hospital, was
awarded the $5000 American
President Lines Fellowship
for advanced study in rehabi-
litation of the physically han-
dicapped. The APL Fellowship'
was granted through the faci-
lities of the World Rehabilita-
tion Fund, Inc. of New York
City headed, by Howard A.
Rusk.
The International Society
for the Welfare of Cripples
headed by its secretary-gener-
al, Donald V. Wilson, and the
Philippine Foundation for the
,Crippled, headed by its acting
president, Dr. Jose S. Sand-
llan, will assist the World Re-
habilitation Fund in adminis-
tering the APL Fellowship.
Dr. Marlgalindan, who Is
now in Indonesia attending a
seminar of the International
Society for Welfare of Crip-
ples, was chosen from a list
of four finalists recommended
/by a screening committee head-
ed by Health Secretary Pau-
line Garcia. The other three
candidates were Dr. Eufrocina
?Vaseplez Sison, resident radio-
logist of the Philippine Gene-
ral Hospital, Dr. Sergio- Pine-
da, junior resident of the Na-
tional Orthopedic Hospital,
and Dr. Juan Fernandez, le-
prologist surgeon of the Taltv
Leorosarium.
The award was i made at
luncheon yesterday at the Ma-
nila Hotel given in honor of
the candidates and Wilson who
made a special trip to the Phil-
ippines for the occasion.
The APL Fellowship covers
round-trip transportation from
the Philippfnes to the United
States and tuition and main-
tenance for not less than one
year's advanced study and
training at the Institute of
Physical Medicine and Rehab-
ilitation, New York University.
Bellevue Medical Center. In
addition, it provides for spe-
cial experience in pediatric
and geriatric rehabilitation,
management of respirator pa-
tients, and a study tour of the
best rehabilitation facilities in
The United States.
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API Names Group To Screen
kills For Fellowship
Selection of a Committee of of the world and with shippers
prominent Philippine physicians, and travelers from virtually
headed by Dr. Paulin() Garcia, every nation in the world, Amer-
secretary of health of the Repub- lean President Lines seeks regu-
lic? of the Philippines, to screen larly to support sound and prog-
applicants for a $5,000 American ressive economic and socialprog-
President Lines Fellowship in rams by which the United States
orthopedic medicine, has been an- can assist other nations, Mr, K.11
nounced by President George lion said,
Killion of American President The World Rehabilitation Fund,
Lines, which is the medium for the pre-
The APL Fellowship will bring sent APL program of medical as-
a qualified Philippine physician sistanoe to the Philippines, is
to the United States for advanc- headed by Dr, Howard A. Rusk,
ed study in rehabilitation of the Chairman of the Department of
physically handicapped. It was Physical Medicine and Rehab'11-
granted through the facilities of tation of the New York Univer-
the World Rehabilitation Fund, sity-Bellevue Medical Center,
Inc., of New York City and is New York City, and an editor
the first of a series of interna- of the New York Times. The
tional scholarships being arrang- Fund was ket up to expedite In
ed by that organization. dependent self assistance in the
As a corporation providing less developed areas of the world
shipping services to 20 nations, and thereby to make a U.S. oon-
mreqhc,
SFr t41957
tribution to the welfare of dis-
abled persons, no matter where
located.
Ralph K. Davies, board chair-
man of APL, and Killion both
serve on the Board of Directors
of the World Rehabilitation Fund.
Honorary Chairmen include for-
mer Presidents Herbert Hoover
and Harry S. Truman, Bernard
M, Baruch and Dr. Albert
Schweitzer,
The Philippine Foundation for
the Crippled and the Internatio-
nal Society for the Welfare of
Cripples will assist the World Re-
habilitation Fund in adminis-
tering the APL Fellowship,
? The APL Fellowship covers
'round-trip transportation from
the Philippines to the United
States and tuition and mainten-
ance for not less than one year's
advanced study and training at
the Institute of Physical Medi-
cine and Rehabilitation, New
York University-Bellevue Medi-
cal Center In addition, it pro-
vide for special experience in pe-
diatric and geriatric rehabilita-
tion, management of respirator
patients and a study tour of the
best rehabilitation facilities in
the United States.
To be eligible for the Fellow-
ship, candidates must hold a deg-
ree in medicine from a recogniz-
ed medical school, have had at
least one year's internship or its
equivalent, and possess a work-
ing knowledge of English, both
;general and medical, The Fel-
lowship may be awarded to a
physician without prior specialty
training or to a recognized spe-
cialists in internal medicine, or-
thopedic surgery, neurology or
public health, who wishes to in-
crease his knowledge of physical
medicine and rehabilitation and
explore the relationship of his
field to his primary specialty.
Speaking for the World Reha-
bilitation Fund. Dr. Rusk said,
"The APL Fellowship provides
a pattern which we expect and
hope will be folowed by many
nations. In the field of foreign
trade, no gesture could engender
greater friendship 'than an un-
selfish assistance for the disabled
people of foreign nations."
Besides Dr. Garcia the com-
mittee is composed of D. Horace
De Lien public health division
chief, ICA-Manila; Dr. Josefina
Nava-Dizon; and Dr. Mariano
Torres
?
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Report of The President to the Board of Directors of the
WORLD REHABILITATION FUND
The fiscal year ending June 30, 1957, was the first full year of
operation for the World Rehabilitation Fund. During the year, your offices
and executive committee remained unchanged. We were fortunate in that
Mr. Arthur K. Watson, Dr. Henry H. Kessler, Dr. Russell V. Lee and Mr.
John S. Allard accepted our invitations to become members of the Board of
Directors. It was with regret that we accepted the resignation from the
Board of Mr. Zellerbach which was prompted by Mr. Zellerbach's
appointment as the American Ambassador to Italy.
During the year your President had the opportunity for first-hand
observations of rehabilitation needs and services in Switzerland, Denmark,
Finland., the Soviet Union, Australia, the Philippines, Korea, Ireland, France,
Poland and Great Britain. He also had the opportunity of discussing inter-
national rehabilitation needs and services with officials of the United Nations,
International Labour Organization, and World Health Organization; many
international voluntary and professional organizations; and officials of the
government of the United States. These observations and discussions
convinced him even more of the unique contribution which international reha-
bilitation services have in making American concepts of democracy more
fully understood by the people of the world. There are many incidences
which stand out vividly illustrating this point.
The first of these was in the Philippines, which Mrs. Rusk and the
President visited in November. In one of the wards of a large hospital there,
he saw 100 men with broken backs who had been hospitalized for years.
This hospital had the services of an able young physician who had been trained
in the United States. The one thing standing between lives of dependency and
self-sufficiency for these 100 men was the lack of braces. The President
informed the hospital staff that the World Rehabilitation Fund would see that
sufficient brace components were sent immediately from the United States to
make it possible for these 100 men to walk again. There was no press con-
ference, no public announcement, but the next day word of what the Fund
had promised went around like wildfire. All of the newspapers carried
front-page articles on this contribution of American industry and two carried
front-page editorials. The late President Magsaysay then sent work asking
the President to have dinner with him so he could thank him personally.
Upon his return to New York, his associates and the President
secured enough used brace components to meet the needs of these 100 men
and they were shipped to Manila at a cost of less than one thousand dollars.
Later a shipment at the same cost was made of new brace and artificial limb
parts.
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Although the actual expenditures during the past fiscal year were not
large, you can see from the attached statement of "Projects Completed" that
a tremendous amount was accomplished at a very small cost.
It became increasingly evident to your Executive Committee in the
early fall of 1956, that the Fund's fund-raising program could be implemented
successfully only by individual discussions regarding the Fund's program by
your officers with corporation executives. This is a slow process, but it
is the only one which the President believes can and will bring results. He
has accordingly arranged his own schedule so that he may hold one or two
conferences each week on behalf of the Fund.
During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1957, the Fund received con-
tributions of $87,041. 36, had an excess of income over expenditures of
29,729. 07, and ended the fiscal year with a cash balance of $55, 563.26.
Attached is a Functional Statement of Expenditures. Reflected in the
$11,252 expended on Administration and Fund-Raising is a non-recurring
expenditure of $2,865. Currently the Fund's paid employees consist of a
multilingu.al secretary-bookkeeper and the services of Mr. Eugene J. Taylor
as Secretary-Treasurer on a part-time basis. The Albert and Mary Lasker
Foundation has made a grant of $6,000 to the Fund to pay the full salary and
expenses of Mr. Taylor. The Fund incurs no expenses for office rent,
electricity, telephone or similar costs. Based on current experience, we
anticipate the total fund-raising and administration costs of the Fund will
be approximately 36,000 per year exclusive of the services and expenses of
Mr. Taylor which are provided through a grant from the Albert and Mary
Lasker Foundation.
The good which the World Rehabilitation Fund can and is doing is
exemplified by our activities in Poland. Mrs. Rusk and the President
visited Poland in 1949 on behalf of the United Nations to help Poland plan its
national rehabilitation services. They returned again this past year. There
has been a complete change in the attitudes of the Poles whom they met.
They are avid to have professional contacts with the West. The Fund is
helping to make that possible. We provided a travel grant to bring one of
Poland's leading orthopedic surgeons to the United States to speak at the
American Congress of Orthopedic Surgery. The Fund provided trans-
portation for two young Polish physicians to take a six month's course in
rehabilitation at Western Reserve University in Cleveland after which they
will spend two months in New York. We have provided text and reference
books and periodicals for the new school of physical therapy in Warsaw.
Three delegates from Poland attended the Seventh World Congress of
the International Society for the Welfare of Cripples where they spoke on the
program and presented a film and an exhibit. Last year Poland formed the
first voluntary organization to exist there since World War II in order that it
might become an affiliate of the International Society.
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To your President these are matters of real significance to which the
World Rehabilitation Fund is making a fundamental contribution not only to
rehabilitation but to international understanding. We hope this program of
service will be greatly augmented in the coming year.
Howard A. Rusk, M. D.
President
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Functional Statement of Expenditures
July 1, 1956 - June 30, 1957
Contributions Received $87, 041. -
Grants to other organizations to support
informational and consultation
services, international seminars, etc. 31% 27, 593. -
Twelve short-term and partial scholarships
for study in the U.S. of rehabilitation
personnel from Poland, Thailand, Haiti,
Colombia, Brazil, Ireland, Belgium, the
Philippines and Turkey 5, 887. -
Shipments of text and reference books,
periodicals and brace and prosthetic
parts and materials to other nations 2, 799. -
Professional consultation services to govern-
ments and voluntary agencies in Ireland,
Great Britain, France, Switzerland,
Poland, Russia, Finland, the Philippines,
Korea, Australia, Denmark and Mexico;
conferences with International Labour
Organization and World Health Organi-
zation; and representation at the 7th
World Congress, International Society for
the Welfare of Cripples, London; Fourth
International Poliomyelitis Congress,
Geneva; Second International Congress of
Physical Medicine, Copenhagen; First
National Rehabilitation Congress, Mexico;
and Caribbean Rehabilitation Conference,
Miami Beach 12% 10,231. -
Excess of income over expenditures 34% 29, 729. -
Administration and fund-raising * 13% 11, 252. -
* It should be noted that this item included non-recurring expenditures for
permanent equipment and that the Fund received a specific grant of
$6,000 for the purpose of paying the major portion of its administrative
expenses. When these items are considered the administrative and fund-
raising costs are substracted (8,387), the costs were $2,865 or approxi-
mately 3% of its income.
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