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| 1887 || || A one-room laboratory is created as an experiment within the Marine Hospital Service (MHS), which is charged with preventing people with cholera, yellow fever, and other diseases from entering the United States.<ref name="Encyclopedia of Epidemiology"/><ref>{{cite web|title=History|url=https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/history|website=nih.gov|accessdate=20 March 2017}}</ref>  || [[Staten Island]], [[New York City]]<ref name="Encyclopedia of Epidemiology"/>
 
| 1887 || || A one-room laboratory is created as an experiment within the Marine Hospital Service (MHS), which is charged with preventing people with cholera, yellow fever, and other diseases from entering the United States.<ref name="Encyclopedia of Epidemiology"/><ref>{{cite web|title=History|url=https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/history|website=nih.gov|accessdate=20 March 2017}}</ref>  || [[Staten Island]], [[New York City]]<ref name="Encyclopedia of Epidemiology"/>
 
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| 1891 || || The laboratory is renamed Hygienic Laboratory and moves to Washington, D.C. ||  
 
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| 1901 || || The United States Congress authorizes a $35,000 budget for the laboratory.<ref name="Encyclopedia of Epidemiology"/> ||
 
| 1901 || || The United States Congress authorizes a $35,000 budget for the laboratory.<ref name="Encyclopedia of Epidemiology"/> ||

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Year/period Type of event Event Location
1887 A one-room laboratory is created as an experiment within the Marine Hospital Service (MHS), which is charged with preventing people with cholera, yellow fever, and other diseases from entering the United States.[1][2] Staten Island, New York City[1]
1891 The laboratory is renamed Hygienic Laboratory and moves to Washington, D.C.
1901 The United States Congress authorizes a $35,000 budget for the laboratory.[1]
1902 The laboratory formalizes its divisions. The Division of Pathology and Bacteriology is joined by the Divisions of Chemistry, Zoology and Pharmacology. In order to emphazise the importance of basic research, the professional staff is filled out with scientists with doctoral degrees rather than physicians.[1]
1906 Hygienic Laboratory workers identify the milk supply as the cause in spreading typhoid in Washington D.C.[1]
1930 The United States Congress renames the Hygienic Laboratory the National Institute (singular) of Health and authorizes the payout of fellowship money for basic research.[1]
1937 The National Cancer Institute is founded. From then on, the Congress would begin a several-decade process of opening new institutes at the National Institute of Health to deal with specific diseases.[1]
1960 The National Institutes of Health reaches ten components (institutes and centers).[1]
1966 The National Institute of Health budget surpasses one billion dolars.[1]
1970 The National Institutes of Health reaches fifteen institutes and centers.[1]
2006 The National Institutes of Health reaches twenty-seven institutes and centers.[1]
  1. 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 Encyclopedia of Epidemiology (Sarah Boslaugh ed.). Retrieved 20 March 2017. 
  2. "History". nih.gov. Retrieved 20 March 2017.