Chapter VII: SANITATION.--In sanitation the progress attained by the

Philippines during the Filipinized government has also been rapid. The sanitary work is now controlled by a central bureau called the Philippine Health Service. With this centralization of activities health measures can be enforced more economically and more effectively than in previous years.

The municipalities are grouped into sanitary divisions, each of which is in charge of a competent official. With few exceptions the men in charge are qualified physicians. At the end of the year 1921, there were 307 sanitary divisions comprising 792 out of the 846 municipalities. In other words, nearly 94 per cent of the total number of municipalities in the Philippines form a part of these sanitary divisions.

Some of the important functions of the Philippine Health Service are as follows:

1. Control and supervision of all hospitals for dangerous communicable diseases, and the isolation of persons suffering from such diseases.

2. Control of sanitation of schoolhouses and premises, prisons and all other places for the detention of prisoners.

3. Establishment and maintenance of internal quarantine in times of epidemic and the systematic inoculation of the inhabitants with virus, sera, and prophylactics.

COMPARATIVE DEATH RATE SCALE FOR 1917

Countries Death rate per
1,000 inhabitants

Oriental:
Egypt. 40.50
China. 40.00
India. 35.00
Straits Settlement. 31.64
Ceylon. 27.00
Burma. 24.93
Philippines. 22.29
Anglo-Saxon:
United States. 14.70
England. 13.70
Canada. 12.70
South Australia. 11.73
Queensland. 11.00
New Zealand. 10.35
Latin:
Porto Rico. 28.50
Mexico. 23.39
Cuba. 19.70
Italy. 18.20
France. 17.70