Photo of the Newly-Completed Batangas Provincial Hospital [1928 BPW Annual Report]

Apart from the construction of roads, bridges, administrative buildings, waterworks sytems and schools, among others, the American colonial government also invested in the improvement of the healthcare system in the country. This meant that construction of government-operated hospitals all around the Philippines. The task of construction fell on the Bureau of Public Works, which then reported the achievement in its annual report¹.

For example, in Batangas, the colonial government built a one-story building of reinforced concrete next to the Provincial Capitol Building which was to be the Batangas Provincial Hospital. The contractor for the building was Feliciano Nable of Manila. This hospital project was completed at a cost of was ₱83,776.10.

Below, a photograph of the newly-completed Batangas Provincial Hospital. It was officially opened in January of 1928.

¹ “Bureau of Public Works Annual Report,” published 1928 in Manila by the Bureau of Public Works.