The development of family planning services by state and local health departments in the United States.

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The number of states in which some local health departments are giving family planing services has risen from 15 to 32 between 1963 and 1965, while the number of local health departments giving such services has risen from 591 to 843. The majority of these departments are in the 7 southern states that have given family planning services since the late 1930''s, but there is rapid spread of services in the states adjacent to these original states. Starting in California, there is another expanding area of services in the far west. Family planning services are being established in some of the large northern industrial cities to fill the deficit that Planned Parenthood affiliates have been unable to meet fully with purely private resources. This rapid expansion has been encouraged by changes in federal policy from tolerance to active encouragement, and by the availability of additional federal funds for complete maternal and infant care programs.

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