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    Date: 2020-01-14 11:26:27.778748

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Health, Sanitation, Mortuary, Body Disposal, Cemetery, and alike, ordinances/laws and/or documents..

Requested from DOH by F. Rosario at 11:26 AM on Jan 14, 2020.
Purpose: Graduate Studies Thesis
Date of Coverage: 01/01/1898 - 01/10/1946
Tracking no: #DOH-351265902209

Rosario 11:26 AM, Jan 14, 2020 

I would like to ask your good office if I could have a copy of Health, Sanitation, Mortuary, Body Disposal, Cemetery, and alike, ordinances/laws and/or documents during/ related to the Spanish, American, and/or Japanese occupation of Baguio City or Manila City.

This would be a great help to me. Hoping for your most favorable response. Thank you.

Receiving Officer 08:20 AM, Jan 15, 2020 

Jan 15, 2020

Dear Fatima Jenesis Rosario,

Thank you for your request dated Jan 14, 2020 11:26:27 AM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch, for Health, Sanitation, Mortuary, Body Disposal, Cemetery, and alike, ordinances/laws and/or documents...

We received your request on Jan 14, 2020 11:26:27 AM and will respond on or before Feb 04, 2020 11:26:27 AM, in accordance with the Executive Order's implementing rules and regulations.

Should you have any questions regarding your request, kindly contact me using the reply function on the eFOI portal at https://www.foi.gov.ph/requests/aglzfmVmb2ktcGhyHQsSB0NvbnRlbnQiEERPSC0zNTEyNjU5MDIyMDkM, for request with ticket number #DOH-351265902209.

Thank you.

Respectfully,

FOI Receiving Officer

09:51 AM, Jan 15, 2020 

January 15, 2020

Dear Fatima Jenesis Rosario,

Thank you for your request dated Jan 14, 2020 under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch, for Health, Sanitation, Mortuary, Body Disposal, Cemetery, and alike, ordinances/laws and/or documents..

In order for us to work further on your request, we need more information from you regarding your query. Kindly specify the information that you need on your requests for copy of Health laws. Which health program and issuances are you referring? 

For ordinances and issuance on cemeteries, this is handled by the Local Government Unit. And for your request on documents during/ related to the Spanish, American, and/or Japanese occupation of Baguio City or Manila City, we suggest you coordinate with the National Archives of the Philippines (NAP) at http://nationalarchives.gov.ph/ for this request. 

You may use the reply function on the eFOI portal at https://www.foi.gov.ph/requests/aglzfmVmb2ktcGhyHQsSB0NvbnRlbnQiEERPSC0zNTEyNjU5MDIyMDkM, for request with ticket number #DOH-351265902209, to respond.

During the period of us awaiting your reply, your request will be put on hold. If we do not receive a reply on or before Mar 09, 2020 03:04:14 AM, your request will be closed.

We hope to hear from you at the soonest possible time.

Thank you.

Respectfully,
FOI Officer

Rosario 04:25 PM, Jan 15, 2020 

Hello,

I'm pertaining po to health and sanitation laws/programs po, kahit during American period nalang po. Kung may kopya po tayo jan sa DOH.

Health and sanitation laws/programs po, example po sa sanitation;

Segregation po ng taong namatay sa nakakahawang sakit.


January 20, 2020

Dear Fatima Jenesis Rosario,

Greetings!

Thank you for your request dated January 14, 2020 under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch.

Your request

You asked for Health, Sanitation, Mortuary, Body Disposal, Cemetery, and alike, ordinances/laws and/or documents..

Response to your request

While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance this Office does not have [some of]* the information you have requested. We do not have issuances on health and sanitation laws during the American period. Available health issuances are posted at the DOH Administrative Issuances billboard website at https://dmas.doh.gov.ph:8083/Search

Kindly coordinate with the National Archives of the Philippines (NAP) at http://nationalarchives.gov.ph/ for records during the Spanish and American period. 

For further assistance you may review the FAQ section of the eFOI site: https://www.foi.gov.ph/help.

Your right to request a review

If you are unhappy with this response to your FOI request, you may ask us to carry out an internal review of the response by writing to Undersecretary Lilibeth C. David, Chair of Data Governance Oversight Committee/ DOH Central Appeals and Review Committee, at foi@doh.gov.ph. Your review request should explain why you are dissatisfied with this response, and should be made within 15 calendar days from the date when you received this letter. We will complete the review and tell you the result within 30 calendar days from the date when we receive your review request.

If you are not satisfied with the result of the review, you then have the right to appeal to the Office of the President under Administrative Order No. 22 (s. 2011).

Thank you.

Respectfully,
FOI Officer

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