[ Act No. 2158, February 06, 1912 ]

AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A SANITARIUM AND BATHING ESTABLISHMENT AT BOLOC-BOLOC, MUNICIPALITY OF BARILI, PROVINCE OF CEBU, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Legislature,  that:SECTION 1. The construction of a sanitarium and bathing establishment at Boloc-Boloc, near the springs of the same name, situate iii the municipality of Barili, Province of Cebu, is hereby authorized and directed for the purpose of providing and maintaining an adequate service and to admit and provide accommodations for persons visiting the springs. Subject to the recommendations of the provincial board and to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, the Consulting Architect shall prepare the plans for the said bathing establishment and sanitarium, and the Director of Health, shall select an adequate site for the latter.SEC. 2. There shall  be at Boloc-Boloc. at the expense of the appropriations for the Bureau of Health, a resident physician, who shall be appointed by the Governor-General, with the advice and consent of the Philippine Commission, at a salary not exceeding Three thousand six hundred pesos per annum. The said physician shall, in accordance with the orders and directions of the Director of Health, have charge of the sanitarium and manage the bathing establishment, give advice, and if necessary, gratuitous attendance to the indigent sick. The said physician shall designate the duties of the employees authorized and see that they properly perform the same and shall have in his charge, besides the building of the sanitarium and bathing establishment, such personal property and other supplies and material as he may receive for use in the said buildings. He shall have in his charge the medicines sent him by the Director of Health and shall fill all prescriptions requested to be filled, for which services he shall collect a minimum charge of fifty centavos, and the proceeds from such services and all other funds that he may receive under this Act, shall be covered by him into the Insular Treasury. SEC. 3. The provincial board shall have power to make the necessary provision for the construction with the funds authorized by law, of a wagon road from the poblacion of the municipality of Barili to the site of the Boloc-Boloc Springs, trace new streets and extend such of the existing streets as it may see fit, and make any other improvements it may deem necessary within the zone reserved by the Governor-General for the purposes of this Act; and may, with the approval of the Governor-General, expropriate the property necessary therefor.Enacted, February 6, 1912.

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