Sanitation Code

Question 1

Radioactive patients should be instructed to use the same toilet bowl at all times and to flush it at least ____ times after its use

Answer 1

3

Question 2

Undertaking

Answer 2

The care, transport and disposal of the body of a deceased person by any means other than embalming

Undertaker

Question 3

A burial ground shall be

Answer 3

At least 25 meters distant from any dwelling house

50 meters from any source of water supply

Question 4

Graves where remains are buried shall be at least ________ deep and filled will and firmly

Answer 4

1.5 meters

Question 5

disinterment shorter than 3 or 5 years in special cases can be done subject to the approval of

Answer 5

regional director concerned or his duly authorized representative

Question 6

categories of funeral establishment

Answer 6

Category I
with chapels and embalming facilities
offers funeral services

Category II
with chapels
with funeral service
no embalming facilities

Category III
only funeral services

Question 7

remarks on embalming and dressing rooms

Answer 7

1. constructed of concrete or semi-concrete with suppricient space to accommodate 5 bodies at one time
2. adequate ventilation and lighting
3. table of single marble slab or other equally impervious material
4. rubber gloves

Question 8

____________ may perform embalming without license and registration certificates as exigencies require

Answer 8

government and private physicians

Question 9

Autopsies shall be perofrmed in the ff cases

Answer 9

1. whenever requried by special laws
2. upon orders of a competent court, a mayor, and a provincial/city fiscal
3. upon written request of police authorities
4. Whenever the solicitor general, provincial/city fiscal as authorized by existing laws, shall deem it necessary to disinter and take possession of remains for examination to determine cause of death
5. whenever the nearest kin shall request in writing the authorities concerned to ascertain the cause of deathh

Question 10

SC sec 95.d.2
autopsy can be performed when the permission is granted or no objection is raised to such autopsy within ________ after death

Answer 10

48 hours

Question 11

Responsibility of the Regional Director

Answer 11

Act on applications for the establishment of BURIAL GROUNDS

Close any burial ground which is a MENACE to public health

Question 12

Responsibilites of the Local Heealth Authority

Answer 12

1. administer city or municipal CEMETERIES
2. issue PERMITS to inter, disinter, or trnafer remains
3. apply prescribed measures when cause of death is due to a DANGEROUS communicable disease
4. Keep RECORDS of death occurring within his area of jurisdiction
5. Authorize the delivery of unclaimed remains to medical schools and SCIENTIFIC institutions

Question 13

Responsibility of Local Government

Answer 13

1. Reserve appropriate TRACT OF LAND under their jurisdiction, for CEMETERIES subject to approval of REGIONAL DIRECTORS concerned
2. Utilize judiciously grants, gifts, bequests of property or financial donations for the establishment or improvement of cemeteries
3. Close cemeteries under their jurisdiction subject to approval of the Regional Director

Question 14

penelty of embalmer or undertaker for violation of any provision

Answer 14

not more than Php 1,000 for each violation

each day or any part thereof during which any prohibited business or practice is continued shall be deemed a SEPARATE VIOLATION and subject to the same penalty prescribed

Question 15

any person who violates the sanitation code shall be guilty of

Answer 15

MISDEMEANOR and upon conviction shall be punished by

• imprisonment of not exceeding 6 months
• or by a fine not exceeding Php 1,000
• or both

Question 16

sanitation code is what law number

Answer 16

PD No 856
Dec 1975

“…shall take effect immediately”