Excerpt from Health Laws of the State of California: Including Law for the Registration of Vital Statistics in CaliforniaIt may establish and maintain places of quarantine or isolation.It shall have sanitary control of all public buildings or places owned, leased or controlled by the state, and no officer or person having charge of the erection of any public build ing owned or controlled by the state shall proceed with the construction thereof until the state board of health shall, in writing, have approved the plans and specifications therefor, in so far as the same may, in any way, affect the sanitation thereof.It shall cause special investigation of the sources of mor tality and the effects of localities, employments, conditions and circumstances on the public health, the preparation and sale of drugs and food and the adulteration thereof.They must perform such duties as are or may be required by law for the detection and prevention of the adulteration of articles used for food or drink, and for the punishment of persons guilty of violation of any law providing against such adulteration.It shall examine and have power to prevent the pollution of sources of public domestic water and ice supply.It shall have power to prepare or purchase and distribute at cost anti-toxins, vaccine and other approved serums and lymphs.It shall maintain a bureau of vital statistics under the super vision of its executive officer, where shall be collected and recorded oall births, marriages and deaths, burials and cre mations within the state. These statistics together with the number of cases of communicable diseases, and such further comparative statistics and information as may be deemed of value to scientists, the medical profession, the general public and aid in the maintenance of good health conditions may be published by the board in such manner and at such times as it may deem proper.It shall have power to prescribe and enforce regulations for the embalming, cremation, burial, disinterment and transportation of the dead.It shall have power to prescribe the form of certificates of birth and death, and of permits for burial, disinterment, cre mation and transportation of the dead, and provide measures for their observance.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.