Propose Laws or Regulations. —  The council of hygiene shall have authority to conduct investigations into matters connected with hygiene and public health in the Philippine Islands, particular ly those concerning vital statistics, puericulture, nutrition, potable waters, sanitary condition of dwellings, removal and disposal of refuse, public works for drainage purposes, prevention of contagious and epidemic diseases, school hygiene, industrial a nd professional hygiene, marine and harbor health matters, exploitation or sale of foods, drugs, and medicines, operation of provincial health inspection, health districts and municipal health districts, and the practice of medicine and surgery in all thei r branches, of odontology, optometry, pharmacy, nursing, midwifery, and embalming, as well as the practice of veterinary medicine in its bearing upon the public health. The results of all such investigations and labors shall be submitted as advisory to the Di rector of Health. The council of hygiene may prepare drafts of measures for enactment into law upon subjects within the scope of the Philippine Health Service. Such measures shall be submitted, through the Director of Health, to the Secretary of the Interior, and if approve d by him shall be proposed to the Legislature. cSCTEH It shall also have authority to propose to the Director of Health regulations relative to the sanitation of houses, restaurants, barber shops, factories, mills, schools, prisons, dairies, markets, meat shops, bakeries, public water supplies, public bathhou ses, wells, cisterns, cemeteries, crematories, undertaking establishments, asylums, jails, barracks, barrooms, railroads, tramways, public vehicles and all public institutions and places of public resort, and in general any sanitary rules and regulations,  or ordinances, designed to protect the public health or to make the administration of the laws relating thereto more efficacious or more uniform. It may thus propose regulations for the conduct or management of sanatoria, colonies, insane asylums, orphanag es and invalid homes, and for any Government hospital except the Philippine General Hospital. [2468-3 ( a ), ( c ),  (f) .] SECTION  769 . General Consultative and Advisory Functions of Council. —  It shall be the duty of the council of hygiene, as a consultative and advisory body, to investigate and consider any matter relative to the public health or connected with the administr ation of the Philippine Health Service, or the discipline of its officers and employees, which may be placed before the council by the Director of Health; and its advice and assistance shall be at all times available to him. [2468-3 ( a ,  b ).] Copyright 2012 CD Technologies Asia, Inc. and Accesslaw, Inc. Philippine Law Encyclopedia 2011 235