Quality 1900-1960
F Food and Drug Act
F Nationals Cancer Act of 1937
F Public Health Service Act of 1944
F Transformation of hospitals into centers of medical
excellence (rather than almshouses) began after the
Civil War but waits for principal manifestation in the
early 1900’s (Star 1982a)
F Hill Burton Act of 1946 - grants for the construction of
Hospitals