Whenever any building, erection, excavation, premises, business pursuit, matter or thing, or the sewerage, drainage or ventilation thereof, in the city, in the opinion of the board, whether as a whole or in any particular, shall be in a condition or in effect dangerous to life or health, and whenever there shall be growing on any property any ragweed or other species of weed, plant or growth which is noxious or detrimental to the public health, or the seed, pollen or other emanation whereof, when carried through the air or otherwise dispersed, is noxious or detrimental to the public health, the board may take and file among its records what it shall regard as sufficient proof to authorize its declaration that the same, to the extent it may specify, is a public nuisance, or dangerous to life or health; and may thereupon enter the same in its records as a nuisance, and order the same to be removed, abated, suspended, altered, or otherwise improved or purified, as such order shall specify. The borough presidents and the commissioner of transportation are authorized to furnish the department with information in writing as to properties and locations where such noxious weeds and growths may be found.