Code on Sanitation of the Philippines (Presidential Decree No. 856)

This set of vocabulary flashcards covers key definitions and regulatory terms from the Code on Sanitation of the Philippines (Presidential Decree No. 856), spanning food safety, water supply, sewage, industrial hygiene, and disposal of the dead.

Code

Refers to the Code on Sanitation of the Philippines.

Department

The Department of Health.

Secretary

The Secretary of Health.

Regional Director

An official who heads a Regional Health Office.

Local Health Authority

An official or employee responsible for the application of a prescribed health measure in a local political subdivision.

Health Officer

Provincial, City or Municipal Health Officer.

Engineer

A Sanitary Engineer.

Initial examination (Water)

Physical, chemical, and bacteriological examinations of water from newly constructed systems or sources required before operation and public use, including checks for radioactive contamination.

Periodic examination (Water)

Bacteriological examination of existing sources conducted at intervals no longer than six months, with general systematic chemical examinations conducted every $12$ months.

Food establishment

An establishment where food or drinks are manufactured, processed, stored, sold or served.

Health Certificate

A document issued by the local health authority to an employee only after the required physical and medical examinations and immunizations are performed.

Storage temperature for perishable foods

All perishable and potentially hazardous foods shall be stored at $45^\text{o}F$ ($7^\text{o}C$) or below.

Hot food service temperature

Cooked food intended to be served hot shall be kept at a temperature not lower than $140^\text{o}F$ ($60^\text{o}C$).

Vermin

A group of insects or small animals such as flies, mosquitoes, cockroaches, fleas, lice, bedbugs, mice, and rats which are vectors of diseases.

Public laundry

A laundry established and operated for commercial purposes, open to the public, and not to an exclusive clientele.

School

An institution of learning which may be public, private or parochial.

Special School

A school which utilizes cadavers, plants, animals, bacterial and viral cultures for studies and research.

Maximum concentration (Atmospheric)

The amount of atmospheric contaminant which can be tolerated by man for continuous daily exposure with no impairment of health or well-being.

Massage

A method wherein the superficial soft parts of the body are rubbed or stroked or kneaded for remedial or aesthetic or hygienic purposes.

Massage Clinic

An establishment where massage is administered to customers.

Masseur

A trained person duly licensed by the Secretary or his authorized representative to perform massage and to supervise massage clinic attendants.

Hotel

A building where transient guests are received and are supplied with and charged for meals, lodging and other services.

Motel

A roadside hotel for motorists, usually consisting of private cabins.

Boarding House

A building where selected persons for fixed periods of time are supplied with, and charged for sleeping accommodations and meals.

Lodging House

A building where persons are supplied with and charged for sleeping accommodations only.

Tenement House

A building or portion thereof leased or sold to four or more families living independently but sharing common halls, stairways, and toilets.

Apartment House

A building containing a number of separate residential suites.

Condominium

A building with multi-unit residential suites under joint ownership of occupants, each provided with complete sanitary facilities.

Public sewerage system

A system serving twenty-five ($25$) persons or more.

Septic tank

A water tight receptacle which receives the discharge of a plumbing system and is designed to accomplish the partial removal and digestion of suspended solid matter.

House sewer

The pipe line conveying sewage from the house or building to the septic tank or to any point of discharge.

Privy

A structure not connected to a sewerage system used for the reception, disposition and storage of feces or other excreta from the human body.

Refuse

An inclusive term for all solid waste products consisting of garbage, rubbish, ashes, night soil, manure, dead animals, street sweepings and industrial wastes.

Nuisance

Anything that injures health, endangers life, offends the senses or produces discomforts to the community.

Offensive trades or occupations

Activities such as soap boiling, guts cleaning, skin curing, and any manufacturing process using poisonous substances like lead, arsenic, or mercury.

Burial grounds

Cemetery, memorial park or any place duly authorized by law for permanent disposal of the dead.

Embalming

Preparing, disinfecting, and preserving a dead body for its final disposal.

Undertaker

A person who practices undertaking, which involves the care, transport and disposal of the body of a deceased person by means other than embalming.

Disinterment

The removal or exhumation of remains from places of interment.

Category I Funeral Establishment

Establishments with chapels and embalming facilities and offering funeral services.

Category II Funeral Establishment

Establishments with chapels and offering funeral services but without embalming facilities.

Category III Funeral Establishment

Establishments offering only funeral services from the house of the deceased to the burial place.