( u ) To prohibit the burial of the dead within the centers of population of the municipality and provide for their burial in such proper place and in such manner as the council may determine, subject to the provisions of the general law regulating burial gr ounds and cemeteries and governing funerals and the disposal of the dead. 

( v ) To establish or authorize the establishment of slaughterhouses and markets, and inspect and regulate the use of the same; to provide for and regulate the keeping, preparation, and sale of meat, fruits, poultry, milk, fish, vegetables, and all other pro visions or articles of food offered for sale. 

( w ) To enforce the regulations of the Philippine Health Service, and by ordinance to provide fines and penalties for violations of such regulations; to adopt such other measures to prevent the introduction and spread of disease as may, from time to time, be deemed desirable or necessary. 

( x ) To declare, prevent, and abate nuisances. 

(y) To provide for the recording of births, marriages, and deaths. 

( z ) To establish, maintain, and regulate a police force and prescribe the powers and duties of its members. 

( aa ) To establish, maintain, and regulate a city prison. 

( bb ) To prohibit and provide for the punishment of cruelty to animals. 

( cc ) To suppress gambling houses, houses of ill fame and other disorderly houses; to prohibit the printing, sale, or exhibition of immoral pictures, books, or publications of any description. 

( dd ) To prevent and suppress riots, affrays, disturbances, and disorderly assemblies; to punish and prevent intoxication, fighting, quarreling, and all disorderly conduct; to make and enforce all necessary police ordinances, with the view to the confinemen t and reformation of vagrants, disorderly persons, mendicants, and prostitutes, and persons convicted of violating any city ordinance. 

[1963-8; 2305-1; 2468-1.] 

( ee ) To establish, regulate, and maintain city departments and prescribe 

