Scope and Content: St 1869, c 420, which established the State Board of Health and Vital Statistics (commonly known as the State Board of Health), gave the department responsibility for the public water supplies of Massachusetts under the designation of sanitary investigations.  Successive public health agencies continued this responsibility, eventually known as the Drinking Water Program, by 1914 under the State Board of Health, and by 1919, under the Dept. of Public Health, through the Division of Sanitary Engineering and the Division of Water and Sewage Laboratories, and ultimately, 1969-1975, through the Division of Environmental Health. Effective July 1975 (per St 1974, c 806), the division was transferred to the new Dept. of Environmental Quality Engineering (later Dept. of Environmental Protection) under the Executive Office of Environmental Affairs.
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