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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: August 15, 2013
Caption: Plaque in the front foyer on Building 1
Additional Description: This Institute is dedicated to the investigation of matters pertaining to the Public Health.

In the year 1887 a bacteriological laboratory was established in the Marine Hospital. New York City. Four years later the laboratory was transferred to Washington and quartered with administrative offices at New Jersey Avenue and B Street, Southeast. In 1901 the Congress appropriated $35,000 for a building for the Hygienic Laboratory which was erected as Twenty-fifth and E Streets, Northwest, on land acquired by transfer from the Navy Department. The establishment on that site was enlarged by on building authorized by Congress in 1918, and two buildings authorized in 1930. In the latter year, by act of Congress, the name was changed to The National Institute of Health.

In the year 1935,Mr. and Mrs. Luke I. Wilson of Bethesda, Maryland. donated a tract of land to the United States Government for the use of the National Institute of Health. In the following year funds were allocated for the construction of buildings on this site. Work was begun on the first three buildings of this group in 1938.
Submitted: August 16, 2013, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p250945
File Size: 2.023 Megabytes

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