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Sect. 13. It shall be the duty of the Secretary to keep a record of the proceedings of the Board, and an accurate account of their receipts and expenditures, and to perform such other services as usually pertain to the office; and to preserve and transmit to his successor in office, all records, written and printed documents, papers and books, belonging to the office or to the Board.

Sect. 14. It shall be the duty of the Medical Health Officer to ascertain the existence and prevalence of sickness and diseases of different kinds, and particularly of zymotic, or epidemic, endemic and contagious diseases; to observe their prevalence and mortality in each year, and each season of the year, as compared with other years and seasons; in each district of the town, as compared with other districts or with other places; and in each class of persons, as compared with other classes; and to endeavor to ascertain any atmospheric, local, or personal causes of the temporary increase or decrease of disease and mortality. He shall point out local nuisances or personal causes likely to produce disease, or otherwise to injure the health of the inhabitants; suggest remedies; perform such other services, of a like nature, as the Board may require; and make reports on all these matters to the said Board.

Sect. 15. It shall be the duty of the Surveyor to prepare, under the direction and for the use of the Board, and for public inspection, a map of the town, or any section of the town, on which shall be marked, as far as practicable, the location, level, and grade, of roads, streets, lanes, and courts; plans for drainage and sewerage; the natural and artificial mill and other ponds; and any localities in which unfavorable sanitary influences are known to exist; and perform such other services of a similar nature, as may be required by the Board; and he shall report to the said Board on all these matters.

Sect. 16. The said Local Boards of Health are authorized to make, and whenever in their judgment the public health and safety or the public good will be promoted thereby, they shall make rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the State, for either or any of the following purposes:

1. For ascertaining the cause or causes of the death of every person who dies in the town.

2. For ascertaining, from time to time, the prevailing diseases of the town; and their atmospheric, local, and personal causes.

3. For ascertaining the prevalence and amount of sickness, among persons of different classes and occupations, and among scholars attending the public schools.

4. For preventing or mitigating diseases, especially zymotic, or epidemic, endemic, and contagious diseases.

5. For affording medical relief to persons afflicted or threatened with disease, and especially with epidemic, endemic or contagious diseases.

6. For the periodical or special vaccination of the inhabitants.

7. For removing, destroying, and preventing nuisances, dangerous to the public health.

8. For restraining and removing persons and articles, infected with the small-pox or other contagious disease.

9. For the establishment, location, and management of hospitals, for the accommodation of persons sick with contagious or malignant diseases.

10. For the construction and management of sinks, ash-pits, privies, cesspools, drains, and common sewers; and for the removal of house-dirt, offal, night-soil, street-dirt, and other filth.

11. For cleansing and purifying any vessel, building, lot, or other place; or any article in a condition endangering the public health.

12. For the location, and for preventing the location, of pigsties, slaughter-houses, chemical works, and any trade or employment, offensive to the inhabitants or dangerous to the public health.

13. For the warming and ventilation of schoolhouses and other public buildings; and for preventing the sanitary evils which arise from over-crowded boarding or lodging-houses, and from cellar dwellings.

14. For preventing the sale of any article of food or drink, unwholesome or dangerous to the public health.

15. For preventing or mitigating the sanitary evils, arising from the sale of intoxicating liquors; and from haunts of dissipation.

16. For preventing the sale of adulterated medicines, drugs and liquors, dangerous to the public health.

17. For the sanitary management of cemeteries, and other burial-places; and for the interment of the dead.

18. For the public registration of births, marriages and deaths in the town, required by the laws of the State.

19. For executing any sanitary order of the General Board of Health relating to the town or its inhabitants.

Sect. 17. The Board of Health of any seaport town may establish the quarantine to be performed by any vessel arriving within the harbor of the town; and may make such quarantine regulations, relating to any vessel, and to the passengers or articles on board of the same, as they shall judge necessary for the health and safety of the inhabitants; -- or two or more towns may, at their joint expense, and for the common benefit, make and establish such regulations. And any Board of Health may examine, under oath, the master or any seaman or person on board any vessel, suspected of coming from a sickly port, or of having sickness on board during the voyage, or of having goods or articles on board which may occasion sickness. And all expenses incurred on account of any person, vessel, or goods, under any quarantine regulations, shall be paid by such person, or the owner of such vessel or goods, respectively.