§§ 23a–23g), reorganized, expanded and redesignated the Laboratory of Hygiene (created in 1887)[1] as the National Institute of Health.

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

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