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while medicine is one of the oldest learned professions in the 
country. 
From the foregoing facts the following propositions are sub- 
mitted : 
1. An amendment to Act 2801, in the sense of authorizing the 
installation of pay sections at the provincial hospitals for the 
benefit of the well-to-do classes. 
2. The enactment of a law authorizing the appropriation of 
1,600,000 pesos for carrying out the plans for building eight 
provincial hospitals with their corresponding maternity services. 
3. The immediate organization of maternity service to pa- 
tients at their homes in such towns as may have a sufficient 
number of physicians and nurses to carry on the work. 
4. The appointment of a committee to study and propose such 
measures as will make the medical profession more attractive to 
our young men. 
