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[ Act No. 2725, December 18, 1917 ]
AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR TO ESTABLISH A SCHOOL OF NURSING IN THE SOUTHERN ISLANDS HOSPITAL DIVISION, AS A DEPENDENCY OF THE SCHOOL OF NURSING OF THE PHILIPPINE GENERAL HOSPITAL, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Legislature assembled and by the authority of the same:
SECTION 1. With a view to preparing the greatest number possible of nurses in the Philippine Islands for the hospital service and the improvement of public health conditions, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to establish and create in the Southern Islands Hospital Division a School of Nursing subject and subordinate to the School of Nursing of the Philippine General Hospital. The School of Nursing of the Southern Islands Hospital hereby established shall be under the executive control and supervision of the Director and the Superintendent of Nurses of the Philippine General Hospital, in the same manner as the School of Nursing of said General Hospital, and the provisions of existing law not incompatible herewith, applicable to the School of Nursing of the General Hospital, shall be applicable also to the School of Nursing of the Southern Islands Hospital, as a dependency of the School of Nursing of said Philippine General Hospital. The funds necessary for the purposes of this Act shall be appropriated in the appropriation acts.
SEC. 2. In order to facilitate the carrying out of the purposes of this Act, it is necessary and it is hereby provided, that the Southern Islands Hospital Division be transferred from the Philippine Health Service to the Philippine General Hospital, so that hereafter the said Southern Islands Hospital shall constitute a dependency of the Philippine General Hospital.
SEC. 3. All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.
SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect on January first, nineteen hundred and eighteen.
Approved, December 18, 1917.
SECTION 1. With a view to preparing the greatest number possible of nurses in the Philippine Islands for the hospital service and the improvement of public health conditions, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to establish and create in the Southern Islands Hospital Division a School of Nursing subject and subordinate to the School of Nursing of the Philippine General Hospital. The School of Nursing of the Southern Islands Hospital hereby established shall be under the executive control and supervision of the Director and the Superintendent of Nurses of the Philippine General Hospital, in the same manner as the School of Nursing of said General Hospital, and the provisions of existing law not incompatible herewith, applicable to the School of Nursing of the General Hospital, shall be applicable also to the School of Nursing of the Southern Islands Hospital, as a dependency of the School of Nursing of said Philippine General Hospital. The funds necessary for the purposes of this Act shall be appropriated in the appropriation acts.
SEC. 2. In order to facilitate the carrying out of the purposes of this Act, it is necessary and it is hereby provided, that the Southern Islands Hospital Division be transferred from the Philippine Health Service to the Philippine General Hospital, so that hereafter the said Southern Islands Hospital shall constitute a dependency of the Philippine General Hospital.
SEC. 3. All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.
SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect on January first, nineteen hundred and eighteen.
Approved, December 18, 1917.