Studies upon leprosy. V. A report upon the treatment of six cases of leprosy with nasteine (Deycke) / by Walter R. Brinckerhoff and James T. Wayson. VI. Leprosy in the United States of America in 1909 / by Walter R. Brinckerhoff.
- Brinckerhoff, Walter Remson, 1874-1911.
- Date:
- 1909
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Studies upon leprosy. V. A report upon the treatment of six cases of leprosy with nasteine (Deycke) / by Walter R. Brinckerhoff and James T. Wayson. VI. Leprosy in the United States of America in 1909 / by Walter R. Brinckerhoff. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![[No. 1711.] AN ACT Providing for the apprehension, detention, segregation, and treatment of lepers in the Philippine Islands. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission that: Section 1. The director of health and his authorized agents are hereby empowered to cause to be apprehended and detained, isolated, segregated, or confined all leprous persons in the Philippine Islands, and upon application of the director of health it shall be the duty of every insular, provincial, or municipal official having police powers to cause to be arrested and delivered to the director of health, or his agents, any person alleged or believed to be a leper, and it shall be the duty of such officers to assist in the conveyance of any person so arrested to such place as the director of health or his agents may require, in order that such person may be subject to medical inspection, and such other procedure as may be necessary to establish a diagnosis, and thereafter to assist in removing such person to a place for detention, treatment, isolation, or segregation, if so required by the director of health or his agents: Provided, That all protests and petitions shall be given careful consideration, and if the diagnosis is questioned, no person shall be permanently removed to Culion leper colony, or other place of segregation or detention, until the diagnosis of leprosy has been con- firmed by bacteriological methods. Whenever the detention, treatment, isolation, or segregation of leprous persons shall involve the security of property or money belonging to or held by said leprous persons, the provincial treasurer, or such person as he may designate, shall act as guardian pending the appointment of a guardian by the court of first instance having jurisdiction in the province in which such person resides. Sec. 2. Whoever shall knowingly detain or harbor on premises subject to his con- trol, or shall in any manner conceal or secrete, or assist in concealing or secreting, any person afflicted with leprosy, with the intent that such person be not discovered or delivered to the director of health or his agents, or who shall support or assist in sup- porting any leper living in concealment, shall upon conviction be punished as herein- after provided. Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of every police officer or other peace officer having reason to believe that any person within his district is afflicted with leprosy to report the fact forthwith to the district health officer of the district in which the case occurs. Any police officer or other peace officer who shall willfully fail to comply with the pro- visions of this section shall upon conviction be punished as hereinafter provided. Sec. 4. The director of health is authorized to cause to be established hospitals and detention camps at such places as may be necessary, and where such hospitals and detention camps are established he may order the treatment of leprous patients in the incipient stage in order to attempt a cure, and he may discharge such patients as he shall deem cured or free from leprosy, and send to a place of segregation and isolation all such patients as shall be considered by him incurable or capable of spreading the disease of leprosy. The director of health may permit any duly qualified and repu- table physician to engage in the treatment of lepers or any person supposed to have](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22426796_0049.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
