Section 3
SEC. 3. The Congress shall deliberate upon (a.) the prevalence, extension, morbidity, and mortality of tuberculosis in the Philippine Islands; (b) the economic importance of the ravages caused by the disease; (c) the direct and indirect general and local causes of the same; (d) the influence of sex, occupation, social status, economic condition, way of living, vices, and other peculiarities of the Filipinos upon the high morbidity and mortality of tuberculosis; (e) a comprehensive plan of adequate precautions, measures, resources, and procedures for an extensive campaign against the disease, tending to bring about its decrease and gradual extirpation.