ARTICLE  I Organization and Powers of Philippine Health Service SECTION  746 . Chief Officials of Philippine Health Service. —  The Philippine Health Service shall have one chief and one assistant chief, designated respectively as the Director of Health and the Assistant Director of Health. Each of these officers shall be  a physician of good repute and a graduate from a medical college of recognized standing. The Director of Health shall be a person possessed of special knowledge regarding hygiene and tropical medicine, and his term of service shall be four years and until  the qualification of a successor. Consistently with the provisions of this chapter, the Director of Health shall possess the powers conferred generally on Bureau chiefs. [1407-5; 2468-13.] SECTION  747 . Functions of Philippine Health Service. — The Philippine Health Service is charged with the protection of the health of the people of the Philippine Islands and the maintenance of sanitary conditions therein. Its general powers and duties shal l extend to and comprehend, among other things: ( a ) The conduct and management of Government hospitals and sanitaria. ( b ) The control and supervision of all hospitals for dangerous communicable diseases, the detection and detention of persons suffering from such diseases, and the making of provision for their isolation until they shall cease to be a source of infection. ( c ) The control over the sanitation of school-houses and school premises and over prisons, penal settlements, jails, and other places for the detention of arrested persons, convicts, or offenders of any sort. ( d ) The effectuation and maintenance of internal quarantine in times of epidemic or threatened spread of any dangerous communicable disease. ( e ) The sanitary disposal of the dead and the control over the sanitation of cemeteries. (f) The effectuation, at regular intervals or from time to time as conditions may require, of systematic inoculations of the people of the country by the use of virus, serums, or prophylactics. Copyright 2012 CD Technologies Asia, Inc. and Accesslaw, Inc. Philippine Law Encyclopedia 2011 228