Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Legislature  assembled and by the authority  of the same:

SECTION 1. Provision is  hereby made for the holding in Manila of a National Congress for the consideration of the tuberculosis  problem  in  its  medical, social,  and  economic aspects,  during the period from September twentieth to twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, or at any time thereafter during the present year, as the Executive Committee hereinafter created may determine.

SEC. 2. The  Congress shall be held under the auspices of the Philippine  Islands Antituberculosis Society, which latter so shall organize  an  Executive Committee composed of the President  of the Antituberculosis Society, who shall be its chairman, the  Director of Health, the Public Welfare Commissioner, the  Director of the Bureau of Science, the deans of the colleges  of medicine of the Universities of the Philippines and Santo Tomas,  and the presidents  of the Colegio Medico-Farmaceutico  de Filipinas, the  Philippine  Islands Medical  Association,  and the  Manila Medical Society, or their representatives.   This  Executive  Committee may designate the officers of the Congress.

SEC. 3. The  Congress shall deliberate upon (a.)  the prevalence, extension, morbidity, and mortality of tuberculosis in the Philippine Islands;  (b)  the economic importance of the  ravages  caused by the disease;  (c)  the direct and indirect general  and local causes of the  same; (d)  the influence of sex, occupation,  social status,  economic condition, way of living,  vices, and  other peculiarities of the Filipinos upon the high  morbidity  and mortality of tuberculosis; (e) a comprehensive plan of adequate  precautions, measures, resources, and  procedures for an extensive campaign against the  disease, tending to bring  about its decrease and gradual extirpation.

SEC. 4.  The  following may participate in the Congress as members thereof:  All physicians duly qualified to practice in the Philippine Islands, licensed nurses, representatives of charitable organizations, and, in general, all persons interested in the tuberculosis problem.  To this end and in order to make  the Congress a success, the Director  of Health shall request each  district health officer to present to the Congress,  either personally or through a representative, a report on the  tuberculosis situation, the extension of the disease, its direct  and indirect causes, and adequate remedies, so far as  their respective districts are concerned.

The members of the Congress shall  also include a representative for each province, to be designated by the provincial board concerned  or  the  body acting in  its stead, "who shall be a practising physician and a resident of the province he represents.

SEC. 5. The  presence in Manila of the district health officers or their  representatives in compliance with the pro- visions of the  next preceding section shall be considered official for all legal purposes,  and said officers  shall be entitled  to their actual traveling expenses from their  respective stations to the City of Manila and vice versa.

SEC. 6. It shall be the duty of the  Executive Committee organized under section two of this Act, within sixty days liter  the adjournment of  the  Congress,  to  report  to  the Philippine Legislature  all resolutions  adopted by said Congress, with the proper recommendations.

SEC. 7. The sum of twenty thousand pesos is hereby  appropriated, out of any funds  in the  Insular Treasury  not otherwise appropriated, for disbursement by the Executive Committee created by  this  Act,  which shall have authority to approve' traveling expenses  and fix per  diems for  the members of the Congress.   It shall likewise be incumbent upon  said committee  to determine  which  of  the  private citizens  shall be entitled to the  traveling  expenses and  per diems herein provided for.

SEC. 8. This  Act shall take effect on  its approval.

Approved,  March 6, 1924.