ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF MANILA. GENERAL ORDERS, No. 16. HEADQUARTERS PROVOST MARSHAL GENERAL, I. The following act of the United States Philippine Commission, empowering the Provost Marshal General to make and issue police and health regulations for the city of Manila, is published for the information and guidance of all concerned: [No. 62.] AN ACT authorizing the Provost Marshal General to establish police and health regulations in the nature of municipal ordinances for the city of Manila. By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. "The Provost Marshal General shall have power, subject to the approval of the Military Governor, to make and issue police and health regulations in the nature of municipal ordinances for the city of Manila, not in violation of existing orders of the Military Governor or legislation of the Commission, which he shall, after their issue, report to the Commission through the Military Governor. SEC. 2. Provision may be made in said regulations for the hearing and punishment of violations of said regulations in the inferior or superior provost courts of Manila, but the punishment for such violation shall not exceed one hundred pesos or three months' imprisonment, or both. SEC. 3. The Commission may suspend, amend or repeal said regulations. Enacted December 21, 1900." II. Any person or persons violating any provision of any police or health regulation in the nature of a municipal ordinance prepared and issued in pursuance of the provisions of Act No. 62 of the U. S. Philippine Commission, published in paragraph one of this order, or of any instructions issued in pursuance of such ordinance, shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine or imprisonment, or both, at the discretion of the provost courts of the city of Manila: provided, that said fine shall not exceed one hundred pesos, and said imprisonment shall not exceed three months. Approved: ARTHUR MACARTHUR, Major General, U. S. Army, Military Governor. III. The words “said city," "such city," "the city," and "city of Manila" whenever used in any police or health regulation, or in any instruction issued in pursuance of any such regulation, shall be held to mean and apply to the area or territory included within the limits described by General Orders, No. 14, Headquarters Provost Marshal General, Separate Brigade, Provost Guard, dated May 29, 1900, as follows: "Beginning at the Boca de Vitas, the line follows Maypajo Creek, until it reaches the line of the Lico road produced, thence along said line and road to Lico, thence to the junction of the two roads in front of the Chinese Hospital, thence along the road in front of said hospital to the north corner of the hospital wall, thence to Blockhouse No. 4, thence to Blockhouses Nos. 5, 6, and 7 to San Juan del Monte Creek at the Aqueduct Bridge, thence down said creek and up the Pasig River to the mouth of Concordia Creek, thence by Concordia and Tripa de Gallinas Creeks to a point opposite where the road from Cingalon to Pineda (Pasai) turns sharply to the right, thence by the road to Maitubig, and thence to the mouth of Malate Creek.” Approved: ARTHUR MACARTHUR, Major General, U. S. Army, Military Governor. IV. Pursuant to the provisions of Act No. 62 of the United States Philippine Commission, and with the approval of the Military Governor, the following Municipal Ordinance is hereby made and is issued for the information and guidance of all concerned: ORDINANCE No. 1. AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING INFECTIOUS OR CONTAGIOUS DISEASES. SECTION 1. The Board of Health of the city of Manila shall take cognizance of the interests of the public health of said city, and shall issue such instructions in pursuance of this ordinance as may be necessary or expedient for the promotion of Public Health, or to prevent the introduction or spread of infectious or contagious diseases. SEC. 2. The provisions of this ordinance shall apply to every ship, vessel, steamer, boat, or craft, lying or being in the river or other waters within the jurisdiction of said city, and to every house, tent, van, shack, hovel, out-house, barn, cabin or other place in said city. SEC. 3. Every physician attending or called in to visit or examine any case of infectious or contagious disease in said city, shall immediately cause such case to be properly isolated, and at once notify the Board of Health by telephone, specifying the disease, name and address of the person, and shall within twenty-four hours mail to the Board of Health the postal card of notification provided by said Board. Any subsequent case of the same disease occurring on the same premises, shall be reported in like manner. SEC. 4. The term "A case of infectious or contagious disease" for the purposes of this ordinance shall be held to include any person sick of, or affected, or attacked by any of the following named diseases: Cholera, small pox, chicken pox, plague, diphtheria (including membranous croup), ship or typhus, typhoid, spotted, relapsing, yellow, or scarlet fever, measles, glanders, leprosy, or anthrax, and shall further include any new disease of an infectious, contagious, or pestilential nature, and also any disease publicly declared by the Board of Health of said city to be dangerous to the public health. SEC. 5. Whenever any person in said city is suffering from any infectious or contagious disease, or suspected of suffering from any such disease, and no physician is in attendance or called in to visit or examine such person, it shall be the duty of the person in charge of such case to properly isolate the same, and to immediately notify the officer in charge of the nearest police station. SEC. 6. The term "person in charge of such case," as used in Section 5, shall be held to mean: 1st, the head of the family in which such case belongs; 2d, in his or her absence or disability, or in event that he or she be the person sick, the nearest relative or relatives of such case present on the premises; 3d, in the absence of such relatives, any person in or about the premises. SEC. 7. It shall be the duty of the Board of Health to strictly quarantine any building, locality, steamer, vessel or other craft within the jurisdiction of said city, which, in the opinion of said Board, is infected by any contagious or pestilential dis ease, and to immediately display or cause to be displayed one or more suitable flags or warnings, or both, in some conspicuous position or positions upon, at or near the infected building, locality, steamer, vessel or other craft, so that the same can be distinctly seen. During the period of quarantine it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to enter or leave said infected building, locality, steamer, vessel or other craft, or to take any article therefrom, or to remove, destroy, deface or conceal any flag or warning thereon, without the written authority of said Board. SEC. 8. It shall be the duty of every person in said city to be successfully vaccinated at intervals of one year. Every person in said city exposed to the infection of small pox (including varioloid), shall at once be vaccinated successfully or vaccinated a sufficient number of times, at intervals of two weeks, to render it evident that successful vaccination is impossible. The Board of Health of said city shall, through its vaccinators, inspect all persons and see that the provisions of this section have been complied with, and shall, when necessary, vaccinate or re-vaccinate any person, unless such person shall present a certificate from a registered physician, specifying that the provisions of this ordinance have been complied with. SEC. 9. No person shall molest, hinder, or in any way prevent the Board of Health, or any of its representatives or employees from performing any duty imposed on it or them by the provisions of this ordinance, or any instructions issued in pursuance thereof. By command of Brigadier General Davis, Provost Marshal General: CHARLES T. MENOHER, 1st Lieut., 6th U. S. Artillery, Acting Adjutant General. GENERAL ORDERS, No. 20. HEADQUARTERS PROVOST MARSHAL GENERAL, (SEPARATE BRIGADE, PROVOST GUARD, Manila, P. I., May 2, 1901. Pursuant to the provisions of Act No. 62, of the United States Philippine Commission, and with the approval of the Military Governor the following Municipal Ordinances are hereby made, and are issued for the information and guidance of all concerned: ORDINANCE No. 2. REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS. Every physician, midwife or other person who shall attend, assist or advise at the birth of any child within said city, shall report such birth on a prescribed form to the Office of the Board of Health of said city within six days thereafter. ORDINANCE No. 3. REGISTRATION AND DISPOSAL OF THE DEAD. SECTION 1. Whenever any person shall die in the City of Manila, a certificate of death shall be furnished by the physician in attendance on such deceased person. If death occurs when there is no medical attendance, it shall be the duty of the Municipal Physician of the District in which such person shall have died, or of the City Coroner or any member of the Board of Health, whenever the case shall come under his official notice, to furnish said certificate of death. SEC. 2. Every certificate of death shall be written in ink on the form prescribed by the Board of Health of said city, and shall be forwarded to the office of the Board of Health within twenty-four hours after such death, to be entered in a register provided for that purpose, except in case of death from cholera, small-pox, chicken-pox, plague, diphtheria (including membranous croup), ship or typhus, typhoid, spotted, relapsing, or scarlet fever, measles, glanders, leprosy or anthrax, in which event notification of such death shall immediately be telephoned to the Office of the Board of Health, and the required certificate of death shall be sent within twelve hours thereafter. SEC. 3. No person in the City of Manila shall knowingly make, sign, or deliver any certificate of death herein provided for, not in accordance with the facts. SEC. 4. Whenever it shall come to the knowledge of any person or persons that any human being has died from cause unknown, or under suspicious circumstances, it shall be the duty of such person or persons to immediately notify the officer in charge of the nearest police station. SEC. 5. The Board of Health of said city shall issue burial permits upon presentation of properly prepared certificates of death. No permit to bury, inter, or remove for interment or burial elsewhere, or cremate any human body, shall be granted or issued by the Board of Health until the certificate of death hereinbefore required shall have been registered at the Office of the Board of Health. SEC. 6. No sexton, superintendent or other person having charge of a cemetery, burying ground or crematory, shall assist in, or assent to, or allow any interment, disinterment or cremation to be made until a permit from the Board of Health authorizing the same has been presented. SEC. 7. Any permit for burial, interment, disinterment or cremation shall be null and void after a period of 48 hours has elapsed from the time of issue of said permit. SEC. 8. No dead body, or part of the dead body, of any human being shall be carried or conveyed from, into or through the City of Manila by any person, or by means of any boat, vessel, car, hearse, litter or other means of conveyance, or by any public or private vehicle, without a permit therefor issued by the Board of Health of said city. |