Mental Illness and Mental Retardation
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To the Congress of the United States: It is my intention to send shortly to the Congress a message pertaining to this Nation's most urgent needs in the area of health improvement. But two health problems—because they are of such critical size and tragic impact, and because their susceptibility to public action is so much greater than the attention they have received-are deserving of a wholly new national approach and a separate message to the Congress, These twin problems are mental illness and mental retardation. From the earliest days of the Public Health Service to the latest research of the National Institutes of Health, the Federal Government has recognized its responsibilities to assist, stimulate, and channel public energies in attacking health problems. Infectious epidemics are now largely under control, Most of the major diseases of the body are beginning to give ground in man's increasing struggle to find their cause and cure. "But the public understanding, treatment, and prevention of mental disabilities have not made comparable progress since the earliest days of modern history. Yet mental illness and mental retardation are among our most critical health problems. They occur more frequently, affect more people, require more prolonged treatment, cause more suffering by
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