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vice, what, for want of a better term, is called social case work, and who can develop contacts with organizations and specialists in that field. The Indian Service has at present a supervising public health nurse. Much of her time is now given to administration, and more administration and supervision is needed, Another public health nursing specialist is needed so that one can give full time to planning and developmental work largely freed from administrative responsibility.

In the field of law, one lawyer with social vision and experience is needed to advise on legal matters, especially those relating to domestic relations and to criminal law and jurisdiction.

The five specialists in health might well be attached administratively to the office of the medical director. The other eleven would be attached administratively to the Division of Planning and Development.

These positions should be classified as senior professional (Grade 5) of the Professional and Scientific Service, as established by the Classification Act of 1923. The duties of incumbents will require them to perform advisory and research work based upon the established principles of a profession or science and requiring professional, scientific, or technical training equivalent to that represented by graduation from a college or university of recognized standing and many years of practical successful experience in the application of these principles. They will be required to serve as consulting specialists and independently to plan, organize, and conduct investigations in original research or developmental work in their special fields. They should be persons of established reputation and standing. Their salaries under the low scale of the present act would range from $5200 to $6000.

The appropriation for this division should be a lump sum, to be available for salaries and traveling expenses, including by all means attendance at meetings at government expense.

Adequate Statistics and Records. The Division of Planning and Development just described cannot function effectively without reasonably reliable and complete data, nor can the chief administrative officers of the Indian Office exercise proper control without them. The Bureau of the Budget and Congress and its committees need them as a basis for proper financing and control of the Indian Service. The survey staff therefore recommends the immediate