The Florence R. Sabin Papers
- Title:
- [Florence Sabin with Colorado governor Lee Knous as he signs the Sabin health bills into law]

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- Description:
- Sabin's committee drafted six bills: 1) a plan to reorganize the State Health Department; 2) a plan to allow adjoining counties with limited resources to receive federal, state, or local funds in order to organize district health services; 3) a plan to increase the per diem allowance for hospitalized indigent tuberculosis patients; 4) a plan to allow the State Health Department to receive federal funds for hospital construction under the Hill-Burton Act; 5) plan to set up a state tuberculosis hospital; 6) a plan for the strict control of brucellosis, a serious disease of cattle. The first four were passed in 1947.
- Number of Image Pages:
- 1 (274,174 Bytes)
- Date:
- 1947
- Creator:
- [Colorado State Medical Society]
- Source:
- Original Repository: Smith College. Sophia Smith Collection. Florence Rena Sabin Papers
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- Courtesy of Smith College.
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- Subject:
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- Medical Subject Headings (MeSH):
- Colorado
- Exhibit Category:
- Sabin's Third Career: Public Health in Colorado, 1939-1951
- Relation:
[Colorado governor Lee Knous handing Sabin the pen with which he signed the Sabin health bill] (1947)
- Box Number: 29
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- Folder Number: 8
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- Unique Identifier:
- RRBBBV
- Document Type:
- Photographic prints
- Format:
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- Physical Condition:
- Good
- Metadata Last Modified Date:
- 2005-09-23
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