Evening star., 1932-08-20

portant new buildings just
recently placed under con-
struction in the National Capital
are completed. They are the
large laboratory building and an
administrative structure being
erected on the grounds of the Ma
tional Institute of Health, over
looking the Lincoln Memorial
section.
The institute is the research center
of the United States Public Health
Service and in the administrative quar-
ters and the laboratories of the new
buildings physicians and scientists will
nave greatly enlarged facilities for
their work of delving into the mys-
teries of human ailments
The new building project was started
without any great fanfare of pub
licity and. though the site of the de-
velopment is located in the vicinity of
the Lincoln Memorial and is therefore
important from the standpoint of the
plan of the National Capital, the con-
struction work so far has attracted
little public attention. 1t is somewhat
eff the beaten tracks.
This addition, however, centers at
tention on the growing Importance of
the National Capital as a national CEN
ter OF medical and scientific knowledge
and study.
Nucleus of Future Group.
The new institute buildings will form
the nucleus for a future group of struc-
lures to be located at the southeast
corner of TWenty-fifth and E streets.
They are being erected in the same
tract with the two existing structures
Of the institute Development
These are adjacent to the buildings
of the Naval Hospital at Twenty-fourth
and E streets. This hospital develop
ment itself is destined for great ex-
pansion in the same area. The Public
Buildings Commission early this year
approved the present site of the Naval
Hospital, between Twenty-third and
Twenty-fourth streets south of E as
the area in which to develop the hos
1t was decided that the II acres of Gov
ernment land in that section would be
ample for gradual development for a
good many years. A number of build
ingS are planned to be connected in a
group formation.
Nor Is this all the medical or medical
science structures being erected or
planned for this area.
The new home of the United States
Public Health Service, the parent or
ganzation of the National Institute of
Health. now is being erected on the
site on the north side of Constitution
avenue between Nineteenth and Twen-
tieth streets. This large office build
ing. to house the administrative per-
sonnel of the Public Health Service,
now has reached an advanced stage
1t stands in the immediate vicinity of
the Lincoln Memorial
Another Structure Slated.
Construction Of still another struc-
ture devoted to the advancement of
one branch of the medical science field
OF knowledge is scheduled to be started
shortly in this section 1t Is the ma
tional headquarters of the American
Pharmaceutical Association, to be
erected in the square bounded by
Twenty-second, Twenty-third and c
streets and Constitution avenue. II
will not be a Government owned struc-
| ture. This building, monumental in
architectural style, will contain q
| library on pharmacy, research labora
| tory and the Office of the Journal OF
| the American Pharmaceutical Associa-
! ton
In addition to these developments ir
/ this area. relating to medical science
| there is the existing monumental Ma.
| tlonal Academy of Sciences at 210l
Constitution avenue, which already ha.
established a scientific dignity to the
area.
All these structures have been de-