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[ Act No. 2376, February 28, 1914 ]
AN ACT APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF SIX THOUSAND PESOS FOR THE MANUFACTURE AND DISTRIBUTION OF TIQUITIQUI EXTRACT IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Legislature, that:
SECTION 1. The sum of six thousand pesos, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated for the manufacture of the liquid extract of bran (tiquitiqui) and its distribution in the Philippine Islands, as hereinafter provided, as a means of introducing and extending its use and establishing its therapeutic properties for combating infantile beriberi.
SEC. 2. The Bureau of Science, with the aid of the Board of Directors of the Philippine National League for the Protection of Early Infancy, which shall recommend the method of preparation, shall direct the manufacture of said extract of bran.
SEC. 3. The Philippine National League for the Protection of Early Infancy shall take charge of the gratuitous distribution of said remedy to such persons as may in its judgment need the same and have not the means of acquiring it, and shall present a written report to the Philippine Legislature, through the Secretary of Public Instruction, at the beginning of each regular session and so long as there shall be on hand any extract of bran made with the funds appropriated by this Act, specifying the number of persons treated with said remedy, with their intervention, setting forth the quantity of said remedy consumed by each person, and containing statistical data regarding the scientific results obtained.
SEC. 4. In case there is no extract of bran to be had in the market, the Bureau of Science is hereby also authorized to sell such at the cost of production, plus the proportional expense of preparing and dispatching the same to any other persons requiring it by reason of a medical prescription.
SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, February 28, 1914.
SECTION 1. The sum of six thousand pesos, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated for the manufacture of the liquid extract of bran (tiquitiqui) and its distribution in the Philippine Islands, as hereinafter provided, as a means of introducing and extending its use and establishing its therapeutic properties for combating infantile beriberi.
SEC. 2. The Bureau of Science, with the aid of the Board of Directors of the Philippine National League for the Protection of Early Infancy, which shall recommend the method of preparation, shall direct the manufacture of said extract of bran.
SEC. 3. The Philippine National League for the Protection of Early Infancy shall take charge of the gratuitous distribution of said remedy to such persons as may in its judgment need the same and have not the means of acquiring it, and shall present a written report to the Philippine Legislature, through the Secretary of Public Instruction, at the beginning of each regular session and so long as there shall be on hand any extract of bran made with the funds appropriated by this Act, specifying the number of persons treated with said remedy, with their intervention, setting forth the quantity of said remedy consumed by each person, and containing statistical data regarding the scientific results obtained.
SEC. 4. In case there is no extract of bran to be had in the market, the Bureau of Science is hereby also authorized to sell such at the cost of production, plus the proportional expense of preparing and dispatching the same to any other persons requiring it by reason of a medical prescription.
SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, February 28, 1914.