Section 1
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.