In order to establish more effective health services for the city it is necessary and convenient to extend to the city such public health services as are provided to the county pursuant to contract by the Department of Public Health of the state under the provisions of Section 1157 of the Health and Safety Code of the state, and also such services and functions of the health officer of the county as relate to public health matters as are conferred upon health officers by state law and local ordinances within the city or the county.

    For the purpose of carrying out the objective of this section, the functions of the department of health of the city and of the boards, officers and employees comprising such department, are transferred to the appropriate function of the county. The provisions of the charter of the city providing for the functions of the city government so transferred to the county by the provisions of this section shall be deemed suspended only during such time as there shall be in existence a valid contract between the city and the county covering the extension of the health services mentioned in this section to the city by the county. (Prior code § 11-1)