Title:

Florence Sabin with Colorado governor Lee Knous as he signs the Sabin health bills into law

Creator:

Colorado State Medical Society

Date:

1947

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.

Original Repository:

Smith College. Sophia Smith Collection. Florence Rena Sabin Papers

Location:

Box: 29. Folder: 8

Rights:

Courtesy of Smith College.

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Genre:

Photographic prints

Subject:

Colorado

Format:

Still Image

Extent:

1 pages

Relation:

Colorado governor Lee Knous handing Sabin the pen with which he signed the Sabin health bill, 1947

Legacy Source Citation:

Original Repository. Smith College. Sophia Smith Collection. Florence Rena Sabin Papers. 11303

Legacy ID:

RRBBBV

NLM ID:

101584641X17

Profiles Collection:

The Florence R. Sabin Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584641X17

Story Section:

Sabin's Third Career: Public Health in Colorado, 1939-1951