A majority of the Board shall constitute a quorum and shall enact rules and regulations to safeguard the health of the people of the city and shall provide fines and punishments for the violations thereof. The Board is authorized and directed to make all necessary rules and regulations relating to matters of sanitation, including the removal of dead animals, and sanitary conditions of the streets and alleys, and vacant grounds and of private and public stock yards and all other buildings and places where filth, nuisances or offensive matter is kept or is liable to and does accumulate. It shall suppress and prevent the occurrence of nuisances and enforce all laws of the state and ordinances of the city relating to the matters of sanitation of the city. It shall keep a record of all matters transacted at its meetings and all actions taken by it, which records shall be filed with the City Clerk and be part of the public records of the city.