§322-1 Removal, prevention. The department of health and its agents shall examine into all nuisances, foul or noxious odors, gases or vapors, water in which mosquito larvae exist, sources of filth, and all causes of sickness or disease, on shore, and in any vessel, which may be known to them or brought to their attention, which in their opinion are dangerous or injurious to health, and into any and all conditions created or existing which cause or tend to cause sickness or disease or to be dangerous or injurious to health, and shall cause the same to be abated, destroyed, removed, or prevented. [PC 1869, c 59, §9; am L 1911, c 111, §1; am L 1915, c 96, §1; RL 1925, §923; RL 1935,§1310; RL 1945, §2701; RL 1955, §47-1; am L Sp 1959 2d, c 1, §19; HRS §322-1]