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this disease of misery and crippling can eventually be conquered.

The fiscal appropriation for the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases in '54 was only seven million dollars; it is now around 90 million (Jane, please check the figures).

And practically all of that goes for research.

Research and training. There were no trained people in the area at all. The Institute covers diseases of the thyroid, obesity and a variety of ulcers, and a variety of problems other than arthritis. Not all the money is spent on arthritis at all, but it's been an extremely useful and rather well run institute of the Public Health Service.

Mrs. Lasker, is there a problem of rehabilitation inconnection with people who have been crippled by rheumatism and arthritis?

Yes.

Does NIH go in for that?

Not, really, except through their vocational rehabilitation program run by Mary S , and not nearly enough is done by rehabilitation. As you know, Howard Rusk has been one of the great leaders in this area, and there are not enough centers other than his in New York.