Five states were without any public or private men- tal health services outside of state hos- pital care. The foremost authorities in the country testified that the total num- ber of all the psychiatrists, clinical psy- chologists, psychiatric social workers, and psychiatric nurses in the country amount- ed to only about 12,000 individuals, or considerably less than the minimum num- ber needed in any one of the four disci- plines ; that training facilities were ade- quate to train only a small fraction of the needed personnel; and that the skills and scientific knowledge required to attack