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