Section 1.
Section s one thousand fifty-eight, one thousand fifty-nine, one
thousand sixty, one thousand sixty-one, one thousand sixty-two, one
thousand sixty-three, one thousand sixty-four, one thousand sixty-five,
one thousand sixty-six, one thousand sixty-seven, one thousand
sixty-eight, one thousand sixty-nine, one thousand seventy and one
thousand seventy-one, of article fifteen of Act Numbered Twenty-seven
hundred and eleven, are hereby amended to read as follows:
"Art. XV. — Control of Leprosy
"Section 1058. Segregation or isolation of persons
with leprosy. — The Director of Health or his authorized representative
is empowered to cause all persons with leprosy or suspects in the
Philippines to be subjected to the medical inspection and diagnostic
procedure necessary to determine the presence or absence of leprosy. If
it be found that the suspected person is positive bacteriologically for
mycobacterium leprae, the Director of Health or his authorized
representative shall turn him over to the Director of Hospitals or his
authorized representative for isolation and segregation; and if it be
found that the suspected person does not have leprosy, the Director of
Health or his authorized representative shall assist in his conveyance
to the place at which he was taken, at government expense, unless other
satisfactory arrangements are made.
"Section 1059. Verification of diagnosis. — If the
diagnosis is questioned, no person shall be removed to place of
segregation until the diagnosis of leprosy had been verified positive
bacteriologically.
"Section 1060. Security of property of persons with
leprosy. — When the treatment, isolation, or segregation, of persons
with leprosy shall involve the security of property and money belonging
to or held by said persons, the provincial treasurer or city treasurer
as the case may be or such person as he may designate shall act as
guardian pending the appointment of a lawful guardian in the province
where such person resides.
"Section 1061. Duty to report cases of leprosy. — It
shall be the duty of every police officer or other peace officer or any
other person having reason to believe that any person is afflicted with
leprosy to report the fact forthwith to the district health officer or
any health authority of the district in which the case is found.
"Section 1062. Harboring of persons with leprosy. —
No person shall knowingly conceal or harbor in premises under his
control, or shall in any manner conceal or assist in concealing any
person afflicted with leprosy, with the intent that such person be not
discovered or delivered to the Director of Health or his authorized
representative or shall support or assist in supporting any person with
leprosy living in concealment.
"Section 1063. Establishment of hospitals and
Sanitaria — Medical treatment. — The Director of Hospitals is
authorized to establish for persons with leprosy hospitals and
sanitaria and other suitable institutions at such places as may be
necessary, and where such hospitals and sanitaria and other suitable
institutions are established he shall order the treatment of the
patients and with the concurrence of the Director of Health or his
authorized representative he may discharge such patients deemed cured
or free from leprosy.
The Director of Hospitals may permit any legally and technically
qualified physician to engage in the treatment of persons with leprosy
or any person supposed to have leprosy in any place under conditions
and regulations prescribed by the Director of Hospitals with the
concurrence of the Director of Health and the approval of the Secretary
of Health.
"Section 1064. General regimen of patients. — The
Director of Hospitals or his authorized representative may require from
patients such amount of labor as may be considered reasonable, and the
said Director may further make and publish such rules and regulations
as he may deem advisable for the amelioration of the condition of
persons with leprosy.
"Section 1065. Control over living with persons with
leprosy. — Voluntary helpers or friends while living with segregated or
isolated persons with leprosy shall be under the control of the
Director of Hospitals and may thereafter be subjected to observation
for a period to be prescribed by him.
"Section 1066. Jurisdiction of Department Head over
Culion reservation. — The Department Head shall have administrative
control, to be exercised through the Director of Hospitals, over the
Culion reservation and he shall have authority to make, promulgate, and
enforce in and for said reservation, and in or upon the waters thereof,
such rules and regulations, consistent with law, as may be necessary
for the efficient control, protection, and management of the Culion
Sanitarium.
"Section 1067. Justice of the peace for Culion
reservation. — The Justice of the Peace for Culion reservation shall be
appointed in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution and
Republic Act Numbered Two hundred and ninety-six and shall receive an
annual compensation of two thousand four hundred pesos: Provided,
however, That he is not a person suffering from leprosy.
"Section 1068. Control of shipping and travel in
Culion reservation. — It shall be unlawful for any owner, master or
other person in charge of any vessel, boat, or other craft to land
passengers, discharge cargo, or receive passengers or cargo, or permit
the same to be done at any place in or within the jurisdiction of
Culion reservation until a permit in writing has been obtained from the
Director of Hospitals or the chief of the Culion Sanitarium; and it
shall be unlawful for any person to land on or visit within said
jurisdiction without permission from said Director or chief.
"Section 1069. Articles for transportation to member
confined in Sanitaria. — The family of any person with leprosy confined
in any sanitarium may deliver to the chief of provincial hospital or
his authorized representative, once in three months, packages or
parcels containing food, clothing, tobacco, letters, pictures and
generally all sorts of documents or papers, and nothing else, to be
sent, at the expense of the Bureau of Hospitals, to the members of said
family in the sanitarium for his personal use, provided the total gross
weight of each such shipment to a person with leprosy shall not exceed
forty kilograms; but other articles or a greater quantity can be sent
upon payment of the expense of transportation by the sender.
"Family of any person with leprosy," as herein used, shall include the
parents, spouse, brothers, sisters, sons, and daughters of any person
with leprosy confined as aforesaid; and it shall be the duty of the
chief of the provincial hospital or any authorized representative of
the Director of Hospitals to ascertain and assure himself of such
relationship in every instance before dispatching the articles.
"Section 1070. How received and dispatched. — The
articles above mentioned shall be received at the provincial capital or
other place in the province most convenient for shipment; and it shall
be the duty of the chief of the provincial hospital or authorized
representative of the Director of Hospitals by means of notices in
English, Spanish, and the local dialect, posted at the door of every
municipal building in the province, to give information as to the date
or dates when such articles will be received at the place or places
indicated in such notices. Such dates shall be fixed with a view to the
making of proper connection with the inter-island steamers or other
means of transportation. Receipts shall be given for all articles
delivered for the purpose aforesaid, and such articles shall be shipped
without delay to any sanitarium by the most practicable transportation
route.
"Section 1071. Supply stores for Sanitaria. — The
Director of Hospitals may maintain a general store for the purpose of
furnishing merchandise required by the residents of any sanitarium, and
for the purchase of supplies, and the reimbursement of services which
such residents may, under authority of the Department Head, supply or
render such sanitarium.
"The supply-store fund shall be reimbursable, the receipts from the
business of the supply store being available for the payment of the
expenses incident to the conduct of the same, without reappropriation."
Sec. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval.
Approved: June 18, 1952
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