(a) prescribing the functions, jurisdiction and duties of medical health officers, health officers, inspectors and public health nurses, in relation to public health matters;
(b) providing for courses of instruction and prescribing qualifications for medical health officers, health officers, inspectors and public health nurses;
(c) regulating the management, maintenance, functions, duties and jurisdiction of local boards of health and medical health officers;
(d) providing for the prevention or removal or both of all matters, things and conditions on public or private property which, in the opinion of the minister, constitute or are likely to constitute a menace to public health;
(e) respecting the approval of unserviced building lots in terms of lot size, square area, minimum area and respecting the conduct of tests for the accommodation of sewage disposal systems and prescribing the type and specification of sewage disposal systems adaptable to different building lots;
(f) providing for the entering and inspection of premises used for human occupation in a locality where the existing conditions are in the opinion of the minister insanitary;
(g) providing for the prevention of overcrowding of houses or buildings used for human occupation, hotel bedrooms, common lodging houses, and places of assembly, prescribing the maximum number of people that may be allowed in such a place, and the amount of air space to be allowed for each individual and providing for the prevention of insanitary conditions;
(h) providing for the inspection of hospitals, jails, orphanages, reformatories and all other buildings, both public and private;
(i) providing for the cleansing, purifying, ventilating and disinfecting of all buildings, both public and private and all public conveyances, by the owners and occupiers and persons having the care and ordering of them;
(j) regulating the construction, maintenance, cleansing and disinfection of all drains, sewage systems and sewers and systems of sewage disposal, water closets, cesspools, privies and all similar structures or installations;
(k) respecting the plumbing and drainage of buildings and premises and adopting with or without modifications relevant parts of the National Building Code of Canada;
(l) regulating the method of the carrying on of all noxious or offensive trades or businesses and providing for the summary ending of a condition which in the opinion of the minister may cause an injury to the public health;
(m) providing for the inspection, licensing, method of construction, furnishing, equipping and maintaining, cleansing and disinfecting of all starch factories, dye works or factories in which blood, offal, paraffin, tallow, soap, fertilizers or gas are used or worked up;
(n) providing for the interment and disinterment of the dead, the transportation of the dead, the conduct of funerals of dead bodies, including those dead from specific diseases;
(o) respecting the licensing, location, sanitary operation and maintenance of cemeteries and burial grounds;
(p) respecting the licensing, location, construction, lighting, ventilation, sanitary and waste disposal facilities, and the sanitary maintenance of embalming establishments;
(q) respecting the licensing, location, construction, lighting, ventilation and sanitary operation of burial vaults and crematoria and the equipment used in them;
(r) regulating the plumbing, heating, lighting, ventilation, sanitary equipment and condition of all colleges, schools, hotels, licensed or unlicensed, all lodging houses, boarding houses, stopping places, and every house or building or part of a building where lodgings are furnished, with or without meals, for money or other consideration, and providing for the periodical inspection of all those places by an officer of the department;
(s) prescribing the natural and artificial lighting, the heating, plumbing, ventilation and general hygienic and sanitary conditions of buildings or portions of buildings used or designed to be used for the purpose of conducting in them the business of a barber shop, restaurant, cafe, billiard or pool room, bowling alley, shooting gallery or used for another purpose of a public character, and providing for the licensing of all those premises prior to their use or continuance in use for such a purpose;
(t) prescribing the quality, sale, supply and distribution of vaccine matter, diphtheritic and other sera, streptomycin, penicillin and other antibiotic preparations of a like nature;
(u) prohibiting, limiting or regulating the use, storage and transportation of noxious materials, including pesticides, and fertilizers dangerous to the public health;
(v) providing for the testing of cattle for tuberculosis;
(w) preventing the pollution, defilement, discoloration or fouling of all lakes, rivers, streams, pools, springs and waters, so as to ensure their sanitary condition;
(x) providing for the regulation, licensing, inspection, supervision, location, construction, heating, lighting, ventilation, toilet, washing, bathing and laundering facilities, water supply, sewage disposal, garbage disposal, food preparation and service, pest and rodent control, closing and sanitary operation and maintenance of lumbering, woodcutting, mining, construction and other industrial or commercial camps;
(y) providing for the frequent and effectual cleansing of streets;
(z) providing for the supply of medical aid and hospital accommodation and medicine and other articles of a medical nature that may be considered necessary for mitigating epidemic, endemic, infectious or contagious diseases;
(aa) providing for house to house visiting for case-finding or nursing service;
(bb) providing for the detention of a public conveyance for the purpose of inspecting, cleansing, purifying or disinfecting it and for the detention, for the same purpose, of a person or thing travelling on it or contained in it, and providing that that person or thing or conveyance may be detained as long as necessary for those purposes;
(cc) providing for the periodical inspection of districts by health officers or inspectors and the removal and ending of insanitary conditions or nuisances disclosed by the inspection;
(dd) regulating the construction, location, licensing, equipping, maintenance, cleansing, disinfection, purifying, heating, lighting, ventilation, inspection, operation and use of swimming pools and bathing places;
(ee) prescribing the powers of health officers or inspectors to prohibit or suspend the operation and use of swimming pools and bathing places in respect of which the regulations have been contravened;
(ff) licensing, regulating and controlling diagnostic and public health laboratories;
(gg) prescribing qualifications for persons operating or engaged in diagnostic or public health laboratories;
(hh) providing for safety standards in the various uses of radioactive materials and of radioactive equipment;
(ii) providing for the inspection, licensing, location, supervision, regulation, construction, lighting, heating, ventilation, water supply, sewage disposal, garbage disposal, plumbing, food preparation and service, insect and rodent control, recreational safety, stable sanitation, closing and sanitary operation of health and summer resorts, recreational areas, camps and campsites and the water supply, sewage disposal, garbage disposal, safety and sanitary operation of beaches used for swimming and other recreational purposes;
(jj) with respect to ambulances generally
(i) governing the qualifications of persons owning, operating, controlling or attending an ambulance in actual operation,
(ii) providing for the sanitary operation of ambulances,
(iii) respecting the medical equipment, first aid kits, splints and other equipment and supplies to be carried in ambulances and prohibiting the operation of ambulances that are not equipped as required by the regulations, and
(iv) prescribing the number and qualifications of persons required to operate an ambulance on emergency or other services;
(kk) with respect to the provincial ambulance program or other programs to support ambulance services, prescribing the persons who may or may not be registered in the programs or admitted to them and authorizing the removal of persons from registration or admittance to programs in the circumstances that may be prescribed;
(ll) governing the inspection, licensing, location, construction, lighting, heating, ventilation, water supply, sewage disposal, garbage disposal, plumbing, food preparation and service, insect and rodent control, occupancy, closing and sanitary operation of nursing homes, maternity homes, convalescent homes, private hospitals, homes for children, homes for aged and infirm persons and homes for physically and mentally handicapped persons;
(mm) respecting the inspection, licensing, location, construction, lighting, ventilation, heating, closing, toilet and washing facilities, plumbing, water supply, sewage disposal, garbage disposal, equipment, pest and rodent control and the sanitary operation of commercial laundries, laundromats and drycleaning establishments;
(nn) respecting the inspection, licensing, location, construction, heating, lighting and ventilation, water supply, sewage disposal, garbage disposal, closing, safety and sanitary operation and maintenance of hairdressing establishments, including barbers' shops and beauty salons;
(oo) regulating the operation of places where forms of therapy, baths and massage treatments are given and providing for their inspection, supervision and control towards the end that they shall be kept in a sanitary condition and operated in a manner consistent with the safety of the health of the public;
(pp) providing for the medical inspection of school children;
(qq) providing for instruction in public health and the conduct of public health activities in schools and requiring principals and teachers of schools to report to the officer of the department that may be designated in the regulations on a matter relating to public health;
(rr) providing for the location, construction, closing, cleanliness, lighting, heating and ventilation, water supply, sewage disposal, pest and rodent control and garbage disposal of schools and all other matters affecting the health or safety of pupils;
(ss) regulating in respect of and for the purpose of securing health in industrial and commercial establishments
(i) the supplying of drinking water,
(ii) the preparation, service, sale and consumption of food on the premises,
(iii) lighting,
(iv) the distance to be left between those establishments and dwelling houses,
(v) the arrangements and details of the construction of rooms,
(vi) cubic space to be provided in relation to the number of persons employed,
(vii) aeration and ventilation,
(viii) cleanliness and cleansing,
(ix) the removal and manner of disposal of dust, gas, vapour and waste produced in the course of work,
(x) the system of drainage, including sinks, lavatories, urinals, privies and closets and the method of disposing of waste liquids,
(xi) the temperature of the premises,
(xii) other conditions that may arise, whether of the kinds referred to in subparagraphs (i) to (xi) or not,
(xiii) the control and use of noxious chemicals or materials in industry or other processes,
(xiv) the enforcement, where considered necessary by the deputy minister or other person in the department that the deputy minister may designate, of routine medical or laboratory examination of workers in occupations in which exposure to dust, fumes, gas or noxious chemicals may occur,
(xv) the reporting in writing by medical practitioners to the deputy minister or other persons in the department that the deputy minister may designate of all cases or suspected cases of industrial disease,
(xvi) the inspection of industrial or commercial establishments, workshops, factories, mines or other places of employment for the purpose of investigating potential or apparent health hazards and advising on and enforcing the means of their prevention, and
(xvii) the appointment where necessary of medical health officers, health officers or inspectors to carry out the duties referred to in subparagraph (xvi);
(tt) providing for the medical supervision of persons employed in a factory, mine, workshop or industrial establishment, and prohibiting, limiting and controlling the use of noxious materials or process on the premises, where the deputy minister is of the opinion that there may be risk of injury by accident or disease to the health of persons employed there;
(uu) prescribing fees to be charged and collected for services, inspections and duties carried out under this Act and the regulations; and
(vv) generally, to give effect to the purpose of this Act.