An Act to Provide Medical Attendance on Civil Officers and Employees at Isolated Points when Life is in Jeopardy
Act No. 1124, enacted on April 27, 1904, provides for medical attendance for civil officers and employees of the Insular or provincial governments who fall ill in remote locations where hospital care is unavailable. The Civil Governor may order a medical officer to attend to the ill individual and arrange for their transportation to a hospital if necessary. The traveling expenses of the attending physician or nurse will be covered by the respective government bureau or provincial treasury, but not the patient's travel costs. The Act emphasizes the urgency of its passage for public welfare and takes effect immediately.
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- What is An Act to Provide Medical Attendance on Civil Officers and Employees at Isolated Points when Life is in Jeopardy about?
- Act No. 1124, enacted on April 27, 1904, provides for medical attendance for civil officers and employees of the Insular or provincial governments who fall ill in remote locations where hospital care is unavailable. The Civil Governor may order a medical officer to attend to the ill individual and arrange for their transportation to a hospital if necessary. The traveling expenses of the attending physician or nurse will be covered by the respective government bureau or provincial treasury, but not the patient's travel costs. The Act emphasizes the urgency of its passage for public welfare and takes effect immediately.
- What type of law is Act No. 1124?
- An Act to Provide Medical Attendance on Civil Officers and Employees at Isolated Points when Life is in Jeopardy (Act No. 1124) is a Philippine Statutes enacted by the Congress of the Philippines.
- When was An Act to Provide Medical Attendance on Civil Officers and Employees at Isolated Points when Life is in Jeopardy enacted?
- An Act to Provide Medical Attendance on Civil Officers and Employees at Isolated Points when Life is in Jeopardy (Act No. 1124) was enacted on Apr 27, 1904.
- What is the citation for An Act to Provide Medical Attendance on Civil Officers and Employees at Isolated Points when Life is in Jeopardy?
- An Act to Provide Medical Attendance on Civil Officers and Employees at Isolated Points when Life is in Jeopardy, Act No. 1124, Apr 27, 1904 (Philippines)
Law Information
- Reference Number
- Act No. 1124
- Date Enacted
- Category
- Statutes
- Subcategory
- Acts
- Jurisdiction
- Philippines
- Enacting Body
- Congress of the Philippines
Full Law Text
April 27, 1904
ACT NO. 1124
AN ACT TO PROVIDE MEDICAL ATTENDANCE ON CIVIL OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES AT ISOLATED POINTS WHEN LIFE IS IN JEOPARDY
SECTION 1. In any case where an officer or employee of the Insular Government or of a provincial government is ill at a point remote from a hospital under the control of the Insular or of a provincial government, and it appears to the satisfaction of the Civil Governor that medical attendance on such officer or employee is necessary to preserve his life, the Civil Governor may order any medical officer in the employ of the Insular or of a provincial government to attend such ill person and, if necessary, conduct him to the nearest hospital for treatment. In case the attending physician and surgeon of a hospital under the control of the Insular or of a provincial government is so ordered to give such medical attendance he may, if he shall deem it more advisable, designate in his stead for such duty a competent nurse in the employ of the Government. The actual and necessary traveling expenses of such physician or nurse shall be a proper charge against the contingent appropriations of the Bureau or hospital in which he is employed, and, if the patient is an employee of a provincial government, such traveling expenses may be made a proper charge against the provincial treasury. In no case shall this Act he construed to cover the traveling expenses or subsistence of such ill employee to or from a hospital, such expenses being a personal charge to be borne by him. This Act may be construed retroactively to cover such cases of traveling expenses as herein provided for as may be specifically approved by the Civil Governor. cHECAS
SECTION 2. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
ENACTED, April 27, 1904.
Cite This Law
An Act to Provide Medical Attendance on Civil Officers and Employees at Isolated Points when Life is in Jeopardy, Act No. 1124, Apr 27, 1904 (Philippines)
An Act to Provide Medical Attendance on Civil Officers and Employees at Isolated Points when Life is in Jeopardy, Act No. 1124 (Phil. 1904)
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