ABSTRACT
The Imperial authorities which have to do with public health are the Imperial Board of Health and the Imperial Council of Health. In all the larger States the municipal authorities are required to form committees for the purpose of co-operating in the administration of the public health laws. The inspection of foods and drinks is the duty of the sanitary police, but the local authorities co-operate in various ways. Berlin has a municipal laboratory intended to serve both for the analysis of foods and of materials used for industrial purposes, and for chemical and bacteriological investigations generally. The influence of an efficient system of sewerage is shown in the case of Berlin by a marked decrease of typhoid fever. In most States the communes are empowered by law to levy contributions on account of sewerage works upon the adjacent owners of the streets drained.
