The Board of Health shall, on the first Monday of May of each year or as soon thereafter as practicable, and more often if deemed expedient by the Board, make a thorough inspection of the sanitary conditions of all schoolhouses and premises, hotels, lodging houses, theaters, public halls, or other places where public gatherings of any kind are held, restaurants, bakeries, dairies, milk depots, grocery stores, meat markets, and slaughterhouses whose produce is sold in the city, and shall direct such improvements in the sanitary conditions of any premises as in the judgment of the Board of Health are necessary.
(‘69 Code, § 13-32)