INSURING THE SUCCESSFUL OPERATION OF MALARIA ERADICATION CAMPAIGNS IN THE PHILIPPINES.

WHEREAS, there were pending before Congress prior to the
promulgation of Proclamation No. 1081, dated September 21, 1972, certain
measures vital to the health and economic conditions of the people;

WHEREAS, one of these measures is a bill entitled “An Act
Insuring the Successful Operation of Malaria Eradication Campaigns in the
Philippines”; and

WHEREAS, this measure will greatly help in reducing to the
minimum the incidence of malaria, if not totally eradicate it, thereby removing
one of the deterrents to our economic endeavors;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the
Philippines by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution as
Commander-in-Chief of all the Armed Forces of the Philippines, and pursuant to
Proclamation No. 1081, dated September 21, 1972, and General Order No. 1, dated
September 22, 1972, as amended, and in order to overcome serious setbacks in
malaria eradication campaigns on account of the refusal of houseowners to
cooperate in this campaign, do hereby decree that H.B. No. 15077, entitled “An
Act Insuring the Successful Operation of Malaria Eradication Campaigns in the
Philippines,” as herein incorporated, is hereby adopted and approved, and made
part of the law of the land.

SECTION 1. To insure a successful campaign for the
eradication of malaria in the Philippines in order to promote the general health
and welfare of the people as a whole and to alleviate specifically the injurious
effects of malaria on agricultural productivity, rural development, industrial
endeavor and community development, anti-malaria workers of the Malaria
Eradication Service of the Department of Health are hereby authorized:

(a) To enter private premises, dwellings and yards without being guilty of
trespass thereof, in order to spray the houses or to canvass for malaria cases,
take blood films, give treatment and other anti-malaria activities necessary to
eradicate malaria;

(b) To gather data from other agencies for consolidation of records on the
incidence of malaria and to conduct investigations, studies, research and
demonstrations with the view of discovering a solution to the problems
incidental to the purposes of this Decree.

SEC. 2. Government and private hospitals, clinics and other
health agencies are required to report to the Malaria Eradication Service in the
Department of Health any incidence that may come to their knowledge.

SEC. 3. Anti-malaria workers shall sec to it that the
insecticide residue on spray surfaces, being essential to the success of the
anti-malaria program, shall not be willfully removed but must be allowed to stay
on the wall until the termination of the spraying campaign.

SEC. 4. Any person who refuses or obstructs an anti-malaria
worker from the performance of the duties provided in this Decree or refuses,
without just cause, to allow said worker free entry to his premises during a
malaria control campaign shall be fined not less than three hundred pesos nor
more than five hundred pesos, or by imprisonment for not less than one month but
not more than three months, or both, depending upon the discretion of the
court.

SEC. 5. The Director of the Malaria Eradication Service,
with the approval of the Secretary of the Department of Health, is hereby
authorized to issue rules and regulations for the proper implementation of the
other provisions of this Decree.

SEC. 6. All acts, parts of Acts and executive orders
inconsistent with the provisions of this Decree are hereby repealed.

SEC. 7. This Decree shall take effect immediately.

Done in the City of Manila, this 27th day of November, in the year of Our
Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-two.

			(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS President Republic of the Philippines
	By the President:
	(Sgd.) ALEJANDRO MELCHOR
		Secretary Executive