3.

What was the Gabaldon Law? What was the De Guzman Law?

4. What percentage of the Government revenues are spent for education? What portion of the municipal real estate tax must be devoted to education?

5. What is the aim of the Government with reference to education? How many children are studying in the public schools?

6. Under what Bureau are the schools administered? What are the duties of division superintendents? Of supervising teachers?

7. When does the school year open and end?

8. Name the three general classes of teachers. What two other classes of teachers are there?

9. About how many teachers are there in the Philippines?

10. Why is the teaching profession important?

11. How does the Bureau of Education help its teachers to improve themselves?

12. What is the teachers' pension law?

13. What three courses are taught in the public schools of all provinces? How many grades are there in the primary schools? What subjects do you study in the intermediate course? Is there a secondary course in your municipality? If not, where is the nearest high school? Why do you expect to complete the secondary course? Where?

14. What kind of children are sent to the School for the Deaf and the Blind?

15. What is meant by the term "vocational schools"? Give examples of such schools.

16. Why does the Government maintain the Philippine Normal School? What trades can a boy learn at the Philippine School of Arts and Trades? What is taught at the Philippine School of Commerce? What can you tell about the Central Luzon Agricultural School and the life of the

students there? What are the students of the Philippine Nautical School trained to do?

17. Name six kinds of education. Why is each important? 18. Write a composition about agricultural education and its importance. Where are the larger schools of agriculture found?

19. Describe education among the non-Christian Filipinos. 20. What are local school boards? How is the school board organized? What are the duties of the school board?

21. Where is the University of the Philippines located? Name the chief colleges and schools in the University of the Philippines. Name the governing body of the University of the Philippines. How many students attend the University of the Philippines?

22. What are private schools? In what way does instruction in private schools differ from instruction in public schools? Who has supervision of private schools?

23. Show how schools are valuable to the community.

24. Are school children citizens? Name at least six things expected of you as a good citizen.

25. May one secure an education even though poor? What two great men mentioned in the text succeeded in getting an education in spite of poverty and many hardships?

CHAPTER IV

HEALTH

31. Importance.-A few years ago thousands of Filipinos died of smallpox. Now, however, as a result of widespread vaccination, few people have this disease. But even at the present time thousands of babies die each year who could be saved. Thousands of grown persons die of tuberculosis and other preventable and curable diseases. More than half of the deaths in the Islands are caused by diseases which sanitary science knows how to prevent.

If the rules of sanitation and hygiene were taught to every one, and if these rules were applied in every home, these diseases would largely disappear. The Government and the physicians try to help, but the problem is so big that it requires the coöperation of all the Government, the doctors, the nurses, the sanitary inspectors, and the citi

zens.

32. Philippine Health Service. No branch of the Government has more important duties than the Philippine Health Service. Its work is to protect the health of the people and provide and maintain sanitary conditions.

At the head of the Philippine Health Service is the Director of Health. The Council of Hygiene assists and advises him. The doctors of the service are organized

into a commissioned service having the following grades: (1) senior medical inspectors; (2) medical inspector; (3) senior surgeon; (4) surgeon.

The Islands are divided into health districts, each district usually consisting of one province. Each health district has a district health officer who exercises general supervision over the sanitary work of his district.

A province is organized into sanitary divisions. Each division consists of not more than four municipalities, and has a local health officer called the president of the sanitary division, a physician, if possible. The president has general supervision of the health and sanitary conditions of the municipalities of his division, and treats the poor who are sick at a dispensary in each municipality. Sanitary divisions are supported from a health fund made up of taxes set aside for this purpose by the municipalities and the province.

33. Hospitals and Dispensaries.-Hospitals are erected and maintained so that when a person is ill he may receive medical care. In each hospital there are one or more doctors and nurses.

There are a number of insular government hospitals in the Philippines, including several in Mindanao and Sulu, and there are a number of provincial hospitals. The Philippine Health Service has control of all government hospitals except the Philippine General Hospital and the Southern Islands Hospital at Cebu, which is a branch of the Philippine General Hospital. The San Lazaro Hospital in Manila is for lepers, the insane, and persons with dangerous communicable diseases. The

lepers are also cared for in the hospital at the Culion Leper Colony. Hospitals for the treatment of tuberculosis are found in Manila and Baguio. Then, there are Government hospitals in some provinces. It would be well if every province had a hospital.

Private hospitals, established and supported by churches or generous individuals, also exist.

About one thousand dispensaries are managed by the

THE PHILIPPINE GENERAL HOSPITAL, MANILA

Bureau of Health. At these places a sick person may secure medicine and simple treatment.

34. The Philippine General Hospital.-The Philippine General Hospital, located in Manila, is the largest hospital in the Philippines. It is well equipped for the treatment of patients. Poor patients are admitted to the hospital free, or if they do not care to stay in the hospital, receive treatment in the free dispensary.