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BILL FOR A PATHO-BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY. 
A PROPOSED BILL FOR A PATHO-BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY. 
TO BE PRESENTED TO CONGRESS FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT 
OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH—CONTAGIOUS, INFECTIOUS AND 
MALARIAL DISEASES TO BE ESPECIALLY STUDIED—FOR THE 
PROTECTION OF THE HEALTH OF THE PEOPLE AND OF 
THE LIVE STOCK INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE—A MEASURE 
WHICH OUGHT TO RECEIVE SUPPORT. 
A bill for the establishment of a national patho-biologieal labor- • 
atory, for study and investigation into the causes of contagious 
and infectious diseases which threaten and endanger the health 
of the people and the live stock interests of the country. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives 
of the United States of America , in Congress assembled : 
That for the purpose of the better protection of the health 
of the people of the United States from the ravages of conta¬ 
gious, infectious and malarial diseases, and for the preservation 
and protection of the great live stock interests of the country 
from the decimating devastations of pestiferous diseases of a sim¬ 
ilar nature, and for the more complete elucidation of the relation 
existing between many diseases of our domestic animals, and the 
life and health of human beings whose business calls them into 
intimate relations with them, and of the welfare of the public as 
consumers of animal food or animal products, there shall be es¬ 
tablished at Washington, in the District of Columbia, and the 
United States of America, a laboratory for the purpose of making 
a continuous and scientific study into the causes and nature of the 
classes of disease herein mentioned, and of all subjects connected 
therewith, bearing either upon the public health or animal econo¬ 
mies of the country, and that said laboratory be known as the 
patho-biologieal laboratory of the United States of America. 
It is further enacted that the general supervision and control 
of said patho-biologieal laboratory shall be in the hands of the 
Surgeon-General of the marine hospital and quarantine service of 
the government of the United States; that the said Surgeon-Gen¬ 
eral shall, at the completion of the buildings and grounds herein 
provided for, appoint two distinct and independent directors, 
who shall be the head of two distinct and independent departments 
