The council of hygiene may aid in the preparation of estimates for appropriations for the Philippine Health Service and may prepare literature on matters of health and sanitation, to be disseminated for the instruction of the public. 

[2468-3 ( b , h ).] 

SECTION 770 . Management of Charitable Institutions and Distribution of Charitable Funds. — The council of hygiene shall have authority, with the approval of the Director of Health, to direct the management of orphanages and invalid homes of the Government and, subject to the like approval, to distribute such charity funds as may be lawfully under control of the Director of Health in such dispensaries or health establishments as may, in its judgment, be qualified to render service beneficial to the public. 

[2468-3 ( e ).] 

SECTION 771 . Authority to Require Information. — For the effectual exercise of the powers conferred upon it, the council of hygiene may in its discretion require information concerning any matter related with the public health from the various branches, Bu reaus, and Offices of the Insular, provincial, and municipal governments, from professionals or persons in charge of work related with the health service, and from the owners, managers, lessees, and occupants of public places. 

[2468-3 ( b ).] 

## ARTICLE III 

## Commissioned Service 

S ECTION 772 . Commissioned Service. — All officers of the Philippine Health Service whose duties are such as to require professional skill in medical science, except the Director and Assistant Director of Health, shall constitute a branch of the Philippine Health Service to be known as the commissioned service, and they shall be therein commissioned according to grade by the Governor-General. EHASaD 

There shall be four grades in the commissioned service, to wit: (1) senior medical inspector, (2) medical inspector, (3) senior surgeon, (4) surgeon. 

The appointment of a member of the commissioned service as Director or Assistant Director of Health shall not affect his status as a commissioned officer nor deprive him, upon return to duty in said service, of any increase of future 

