Ransdell Act
The Ransdell Act, reorganized, expanded and redesignated the Laboratory of Hygiene as the National Institute of Health.
Congress appropriated $750,000 in the bill for construction of facilities and research fellowships. The NIH grew into today's 27-unit National Institutes of Health).
The Ransdell Act was sponsored by and named for Joseph E. Ransdell, a United States Senator for the state of Louisiana.
