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S. No. 230 / 43 OG No. 7, 2561 (July, 1947)
[ REPUBLIC ACT NO. 124, June 14, 1947 ]
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE MEDICAL INSPECTION OF CHILDREN ENROLLED IN PRIVATE SCHOOLS, COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES IN THE PHILIPPINES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:
SECTION 1. Effective July first, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, it shall be the duty of the principal, director and/or president of a private school, college or university, with a total enrollment of three hundred or more to provide part or full time physician for the yearly medical inspection of the pupils and students enrolled therein, who shall render reports at the end of every quarter, to wit: end of September, December, March and June of each school year, of their school health activities to the Director of Health. Said physician shall be placed under the direct supervision of the Bureau of Health.
SEC. 2. It shall be incumbent on the Bureau of Health to formulate a school health medical inspection program to be observed by private schools, colleges and universities in the Philippines.
SEC. 3. Any principal, director or president of a private school, college or university who fails to comply with this or part of this Act, shall, upon conviction, pay a fine of not more than five hundred pesos.
SEC. 4. Any act or part thereof in conflict with the Provisions of this Act is hereby repealed.
SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Approved, June 14, 1947.
SECTION 1. Effective July first, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, it shall be the duty of the principal, director and/or president of a private school, college or university, with a total enrollment of three hundred or more to provide part or full time physician for the yearly medical inspection of the pupils and students enrolled therein, who shall render reports at the end of every quarter, to wit: end of September, December, March and June of each school year, of their school health activities to the Director of Health. Said physician shall be placed under the direct supervision of the Bureau of Health.
SEC. 2. It shall be incumbent on the Bureau of Health to formulate a school health medical inspection program to be observed by private schools, colleges and universities in the Philippines.
SEC. 3. Any principal, director or president of a private school, college or university who fails to comply with this or part of this Act, shall, upon conviction, pay a fine of not more than five hundred pesos.
SEC. 4. Any act or part thereof in conflict with the Provisions of this Act is hereby repealed.
SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Approved, June 14, 1947.