health officers and other sanitary officers and employees assigned to a health district as hereinabove provided shall be subject to the supervision and control of the proper district  health officer of the district to which the assignment is made, if such officer be there on duty. [1487-2; Comp., 763.] SECTION  793 . Local Health Officer Designated to Serve Temporarily as District Health Officer. —  During the temporary absence or disability of a district health officer or during a temporary vacancy caused by his death, the Director of Health may designate  any local health officer temporarily to serve as acting district health officer. The person so designated shall, during the time he serves in such capacity, receive the salary of the health officer of the district in question, provided the same be not by l aw payable to the district health officer who is substituted, or his estate if he be dead. When a local health officer is so receiving the salary of a district health officer, he shall receive no salary in other official capacity. [1487-9.] SECTION  794 . Supervisory and General Powers of District Health Officer. —  The district health officer, within his district, shall exercise general supervision and control over the health and sanitary work, and shall exercise general supervision and control  over the municipal boards of health, or other health organizations, and over the local health officers within his district. He shall have the power to institute all proceedings necessary to abate nuisances, and he may cause to be prosecuted all violations  of sanitary laws and ordinances and the lawful regulations applicable to the district; and he shall have the power to remove the cause of any special disease or mortality. [1487-11.] When it comes to the attention of a district health officer that any municipal ordinance relating to sanitation in any municipality of his district is being disregarded and the enforcement thereof neglected, he shall direct the attention of the municipal p resident to the matter and the latter shall thereupon take such action as may be necessary to secure the proper enforcement of such ordinance and shall otherwise collaborate with the health authorities in securing the effectual administration of the health  laws and regulations. [1487-18.] The district health officer may appoint provincial sanitary inspectors or other provincial sanitary employees when the provincial board or boards of the 242 Copyright 2012 CD Technologies Asia, Inc. and Accesslaw, Inc. Philippine Law Encyclopedia 2011