Mandatory Notification of Communicable Diseases
- Requires immediate notification to the nearest health station upon knowledge of any reportable communicable disease.
- Notification can be made by telephone, messenger, or written notice.
- Responsible parties include physicians, hospital/institution heads, householders, tenants, occupants, directors/managers of colleges, convents, boarding schools, and factories.
- Notice must specify the disease, and the name and address of the affected person.
Definition of a Case of Reportable or Communicable Disease
- Defines "a case of reportable or communicable disease" as any person affected by listed dangerous diseases which include:
- Actinomycosis, acute anterior poliomyelitis, anthrax, Asiatic cholera, beriberi, cerebrospinal meningitis, diphtheria, dysentery (amoebic and bacillary), encephalitis lethargica, filariasis, food poisoning, glanders, influenza, leprosy, malaria, measles, mumps, ophthalmia necrotorum, plague, pneumonia (lobar, lobular, or bronchial), rabies, relapsing fever, scarlet fever, septic sore throat, tetanus, trachoma, tuberculosis, typhoid and paratyphoid fever, typhus fever, variola (smallpox), varioloid, varicella, Vincent's angina, whooping cough, and yellow fever.
- Includes any other diseases declared by the Director of Health as communicable and dangerous to public health.
Penalties for Violation
- Violators of any provision of the Act are subject to a fine not exceeding one hundred pesos.
Effectivity
- The Act takes effect immediately upon approval.