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The Hospital Study Of The City Of Houston And Harris County, The Texas Medical Center, James A. Hamilton And Associates, Hospital Consultants, Minneapolis, Minnesota Jan 1946

The Hospital Study Of The City Of Houston And Harris County, The Texas Medical Center, James A. Hamilton And Associates, Hospital Consultants, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Texas Medical History E-Books

In 1941 the Texas Legislature appropriated $500,000 to the Board of Regents of the University of Texas to establish a cancer research hospital. The M. D. Anderson Foundation offered to match the appropriation with a grant of an equal sum and to provide a permanent site in Houston. In August, 1942 the Board of Regent of the University and the Trustees of the Foundation signed an agreement to embark on this project.

This institution was to be the first one in the medical center, which was incorporated in October, 1945. The Board of Trustees of the Texas Medical Center commissioned …