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MOP, Bk 3, v.4, 191

[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 284, June 22, 1940 ]

ORDERING THE HOSPITALIZATION OF ACCUSED PERSONS NEEDING SUCH HOSPITALIZATION IN THE BILIBID PRISON HOSPITAL



In order to prevent any possible congestion in the Philippine General Hospital and to avoid the disturbance of the peace and quiet that should prevail in the said premises by the presence of police officers, I, Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines, do hereby order that hereafter every person charged with an offense or facing investigation for an offense allegedly or presumptively committed by him, and who needs medical care and attention in a hospital, shall, instead of being conducted to the Philippine General Hospital, be sent direct to the Bilibid Prison Hospital for treatment and hospitalization therein.

Done at the City of Manila, this 22nd day of June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the fifth.

(Sgd.) MANUEL L. QUEZON
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) JORGE B. VARGAS
Secretary to the President
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