( g ) The dissemination of hygienic information among the people and especially the inculcation of knowledge as to the proper care of infants and the methods of preventing and combating dangerous communicable diseases. ( h ) The making, from time to time, of adequate inspections of all health organizations or offices, taking account of their equipment and facilities and the character of their work. ( i ) The making of investigations in the following matters and the collection of statistical data or other information relative thereto, to wit: the general vital statistics of the Philippine Islands; the causes, pathology, and means of preventing diseases, e specially those of an epidemic or communicable character; the sources of mortality in the Philippine Islands and the effects of localities, employments, conditions, habits, foods, beverages, and medicines on the health of the people; the conditions affec ting children and child life among all classes of people and the means of providing for their social, physical, and sanitary welfare and the preservation of their lives and health; and the chemical composition and medical properties of the minero-medicinal  waters of the Islands. [157-4; Comp., 728; 2468.] SECTION  748 . Scope of Internal Quarantine. —  "Internal quarantine", as used in subsection  (d)  of the preceding section, is restricted to human beings and such things as might convey infection. It includes all public-health quarantine except that maintained  under the port-quarantine regulations of the Philippine Health Service and that effected under authority of the United States. SECTION  749 . Quarantine Regulations for Coastwise Ports and Inland Places. —  Provision shall be made in the regulations of the Philippine Health Service for the effectuation and maintenance, as occasion therefor may arise, of port quarantine for the govern ance of vessels entering coastwise ports in the Philippine Islands. [1340-1.] SECTION  750 . Regulations for Prevention and Suppression of Dangerous Communicable Diseases. —  The regulations of the Philippine Health Service may, among other things, contain provisions prescribing the methods to be followed and the special means to be us ed for the prevention and suppression of dangerous communicable diseases generally, the abatement of nuisances 229 Copyright 2012 CD Technologies Asia, Inc. and Accesslaw, Inc. Philippine Law Encyclopedia 2011