Chief health officer.
Section 16
SEC. 16. Chief health officer.—There shall be detailed to the department a chief health officer who shall be under the general supervision of the Director of Health and his duties and powers shall include those prescribed for district health officers under Act Fourteen hundred eighty-seven, and the laws amendatory thereof: Provided, however, That the powers and duties of the Director of Health in the Department of Mindanao and Sulu shall be vested temporarily in the chief health officer subject to the control of the department governor until such time as the Governor-General by executive order may authorize the Director of Health to exercise such powers and duties in the Department of Mindanao and Sulu or any part or parts thereof. The general provisions of law concerning public health, now in force in the provinces organized under Act Numbered Eighty-three and in the municipalities organized under Act Numbered Eighty-two shall apply to the Department of Mindanao and Sulu, except as otherwise herein provided.