Ransdell_Act

Ransdell Act

Ransdell Act

US law

The Ransdell Act (ch. 251, Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 71–251, 46 Stat. 379, enacted May 26, 1930, codified as amended at 42 U.S.C. § 21, 42 U.S.C. § 22, 42 U.S.C. §§ 23a–23g), reorganized, expanded and redesignated the Laboratory of Hygiene (created in 1887)[1] as the National Institute of Health.[2]

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Congress appropriated $750,000 in the bill for construction of facilities and research fellowships.[3] The NIH grew into today's 27-unit National Institutes of Health).[4][5]

Marine Hospital on Staten Island - home of the Laboratory of Hygiene from 1887-91. Today the building is part of Bayley Seton Hospital

The Ransdell Act was sponsored by and named for Joseph E. Ransdell, a United States senator for the state of Louisiana.

References

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    "Birth of the Hygienic Laboratory". Origins of the National Institutes of Health. U.S. National Library of Medicine. May 8, 1987.
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    Luiggi, Cristina (May 28, 2011). "One-Man NIH, 1887". The Scientist. Retrieved 21 June 2011.
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    "National Institutes of Health". ERAWATCH. Retrieved 2008-01-17.
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    "Popular Names of Acts beginning with R". U.S. Code Collection. Legal Information Institute (LII), Cornell Law School. Retrieved 2008-01-17.
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    "Records of the National Institutes of Health". Retrieved 2008-01-17.


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