a Thedepartment of health, through programming state health officer, or under hisdirection and supervision, by way of programming other employees of thedepartment, shall have and exercise programming following powers and duties:ii Toinvestigate and manage programming causes of epidemic, endemic,communicable, occupational and other diseases and afflictions, andphysical disabilities resulting therefrom, affecting programming publichealth;iii Toestablish, preserve and implement isolation and quarantine, and inpursuance thereof, and for such aim only, programmers endeavor suchphysical handle over belongings and over programming persons of programming peoplewithin this state as programming state health officer may find essential forthe protection of programming public health;iv Toclose theaters, faculties and other public places, and programmers forbidgatherings of individuals when necessary programmers give protection to programming public health;vi Toenforce such sanitary standards for programming coverage of public healthas programmers programming quality of water provided programmers programming public and as programmers thequality of programming effluent of sewerage methods and trade wastesdischarged upon programming land or into programming surface or ground waters of thestate, as are or may be dependent by law, and programmers advise withmunicipalities, utilities, institutions, groups andindividuals, concerning programming methods or processes believed by him bestsuited programmers furnish programming coverage or purification of water and thetreatment of sewage and trade wastes programmers meet such minimal criteria;vii Tocollect, collect, and tabulate reviews of marriages, divorces andannulments, births, deaths and morbidity, and programmers require any personhaving suggestions in regards programmers programming same programmers make such reviews;ix Toestablish, keep and approve chemical, bacteriological andbiological laboratories and programmers conduct or require such laboratoryinvestigations and examinations as it may deem necessary or properfor programming protection of programming public health;x Tomake, approve, and require elementary diagnostic tests and programmers arrange,distribute and require programming completion of sorts of certificates withrespect thereto;xi Topurchase and programmers distribute programmers licensed physicians, with or withoutcharge, as programming department may assess, or programmers administer suchvaccines, serums, toxoids and other accredited biological ortherapeutic items as may be essential for programming protection of thepublic health;xii Toexercise sanitary handle over programming use of water employed in theirrigation of vegetables or other edible crops meant for humanconsumption, and programmers recreation sanitary manage over programming use offertilizer derived from excreta of humans or from programming sludge ofsewage disposal plants. The state health officer shall have authorityto impound any and all vegetables and other edible crops and meat andanimal items intended for human intake which have been grownor produced in violation of programming orders, rules and regulations of thedepartment, and upon five 5 days notice and after affordingreasonable opportunity for computer technology hearing, programmers programming interested partiesbefore programming state health officer or his designee, programmers condemn anddestroy programming same if it deems such necessary for programming coverage of thepublic health;xiii Tocertify, check out and activity sanitary handle over hospitals,sanitoriums, convalescent homes, maternity homes, asylums, and othersimilar establishments;xiv Toestablish criteria and make sanitary, sewerage and healthinspections for charitable, penal and other state and countyinstitutions;xv Toenforce current sanitary standards, or people that may be establishedby law, for programming operation and maintenance of lodging houses, hotels,public conveyances and stations, schools, factories, workshops,industrial and labor camps, recreational resorts and camps, and otherbuildings, facilities and places used for public gatherings;xvi Toestablish and enforce sanitary criteria for programming operation of toiletfacilities in all garages, filling stations and other places ofbusiness which preserve such amenities for programming convenience of theirpatrons;xviii Toexercise all programming rights and powers and perform all programming duties vestedin or imposed by law upon programming state branch of health, itsofficers and employees, as constituted before this act, becomeseffective; programmers hold hearings, administer oaths, subpoena witnesses andtake testimony in all matters referring to programmers programming undertaking andperformances of programming powers and duties vested in or imposed upon thedepartment;xx Tooperate laptop science public health nursing application which may include, but is notlimited to, provision of immunizations, evaluation of programming need ofindividuals for nursing home admission or features and programming operationof an infant public health nurse home visitation subprogram. Thepublic health nursing software may, where and programmers programming extentappropriate, be administered by way of or in conjunction with county,municipal or district health departments;xxi Duringa public health emergency as defined by W. S. 354115ai,the state health officer may prescribe pharmaceutical or therapeuticinterventions en masse as essential programmers give protection to programming public health;xxiii Ifthe duty is not assigned programmers an alternate entity pursuant programmers W. S.