Public Health Act
61. Notification to medical officers of health at ports
61. Notification to medical officers of health at ports
Upon the occurrence on any vessel of any case of or death from any notifiable infectious disease, or of such other disease as the Cabinet Secretary may prescribe, or of any sickness or mortality among rodents or other animals on any vessel or within the harbour area suspected to be due to any formidable epidemic disease, the port health officer shall forthwith inform the medical officer of health of the area in or adjoining which the port is situated of the occurrence and the measures taken or intended to be taken in connexion therewith.(L.N. 187/1956, Sch., L.N. 172/1960, Sch., L.N. 256/1963, 4th Sch., L.N. 41/1970, Sch.)Source: Kenya Law