Title 24 — Hospitals and Asylums
Chapter 8 — Gorgas Hospital
§ 301. Ancon Hospital to be known as Gorgas Hospital
Statutory text
In recognition of his distinguished services to humanity and as a fitting perpetuation of the name and memory of Major General William Crawford Gorgas, the Government hospital within the Canal Zone, near the City of Panama, known prior to , as the Ancon Hospital, shall after such date be known and designated on the public records as the Gorgas Hospital.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 70–240 § 1 · 45 Stat. 365
Enacted · 24 U.S.C. § 301
(Mar. 24, 1928, ch. 240, § 1, 45 Stat. 365.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Mar. 24, 1928, ch. 240, § 1, 45 Stat. 365.)
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Editorial Notes
References in Text
For definition of Canal Zone, referred to in text, see section 3602(b) of Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse.
Credits
(Mar. 24, 1928, ch. 240, § 1, 45 Stat. 365.)