Section 16
SEC. 16. Section seventy-three of the same Act is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 73. The City Health Officer—There shall be a City Health Officer who shall have charge of the City Health Department and shall receive a salary in accordance with the provisions of existing laws, one half of which shall be paid by the National Government. "He shall have the following powers and duties: "(a) He shall exercise general supervision over the health and sanitary conditions of the city, including the cleaning of crematories, cemeteries, stockyards, slaughterhouses, and markets. "(b) He shall execute and enforce all laws, ordinances and regulations relating to the public health. "(c) He shall recommend to the City Council the passage of such ordinance as he may deem necessary for the preservation of the public health. "(d) He shall cause to be prosecuted all violations of sanitary laws, ordinances, or regulations. "(e) He shall make sanitary inspections and may be aided therein by such members of the police force of the city or the national police as shall be designated as sanitary police by the chief of police or proper national police officer and such sanitary inspectors as may be authorized by law. "(f) He shall as ex-officio local civil registrar, keep a civil register for the city and shall record therein all births, marriages, deaths and other registrable certificates as provided in the Civil Registry Law; and shall receive the additional compensation to which ex-officio officials are entitled. "(g) He shall have control and supervision over puericulture centers and social services of the city. "(h) He shall perform such other duties, not repugnant to law or ordinance, with reference to the health and sanitation of the city as the Secretary of Health shall direct. In case of epidemic or when the inhabitants of the city are menaced by any infectious or contagious diseases, the Secretary of Health shall assume full control of the health and sanitation services of the city until such condition shall have ceased to exist. "There shall be assigned to the city health office of Dapitan two rural health physicians, two public health dentists, two rural health nurses, three public health midwives and two rural sanitation inspectors dispersed in strategically located barrios in the City of Dapitan whose salaries shall be paid out of national funds. All health personnel in the city shall be under the immediate control .and supervision of the City Health Officer. "There shall be allocated annually out of the savings of the Department of Health the amount of twenty-five thousand pesos for the maintenance and operation of the City Health Department, and shall be used for the following purposes: "(a) Payment of salaries, per diems and traveling expenses of health personnel not fully paid out of national funds. "(b) Purchase of medicines, medical supplies, vaccines, disinfectants, instruments, equipment and gasoline. "(c) Other incidental and operational expenses for carrying out the purpose of law relating to the preservation and maintenance of public health. "(d) If at the close of the fiscal year, there shall remain any balance in said fund, such balances shall accumulate from year to year for the purpose of establishing or repairing health centers, purchase of land or water transportation and carrying out other permanent sanitary improvements”