The Department of Health and Social Services may:
(1) Promote a careful study of conditions regarding tuberculosis throughout the State;
(2) Educate public opinion as to the causes and prevention of tuberculosis;
(3) Arouse general interest in securing adequate provision for the proper care of tuberculosis patients in their homes and by means of sanatoria; and
(4) Send such tuberculosis patients as require treatment to Emily P. Bissell Hospital for such treatment.