Elery Erigen Brown v. Anthony J. Celebrezze, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare

BOREMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the District Court upholding a final decision by the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare that claimant, Brown, was not entitled to a period of disability or to disability insurance benefits under sections 216(i) and 223 of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C.A. §§ 416 (i) and 423.

At the time of the administrative determination and the District Court’s affirmance thereof, “disability” was defined by sections 216(i) and 223 as an “inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable…