- Section 88 of Public Health Act CAP 242: Appointment of superintendent of asylum
(1) The Minister may appoint from time to time superintendents, who shall have the direction and management of any asylum to which they are respectively appointed but shall in carrying out their powers and duties be subject to the supervision and directions of the Director of Medical Services....
- Section 89 of Public Health Act CAP 242: Duties of superintendents
It shall be the duty of every superintendent to inspect from time to time in accordance with rules made hereunder the asylum to which he has been appointed and the persons detained therein, and to cause proper food and necessary comforts to be supplied to such persons, and to cause the premises to...
- Section 90 of Public Health Act CAP 242: Intercourse of persons detained in asylums
(1) No person shall be permitted to enter any asylum except in accordance with the rules made in that behalf under this Act.
(2) Except as in this Act provided and save as may be provided by any rules made thereunder, no communication or intercourse shall be allowed between persons detained in any...
- Section 91 of Public Health Act CAP 242: Suspects and detained lepers deemed to be in lawful custody
(1) Every person placed in isolation or during the course of removal to or while detained in an asylum under this Act shall be deemed to be in lawful custody until discharged therefrom under this Act, and while in such custody shall be subject to the provisions of this Act any rules made thereunder....
- Section 92 of Public Health Act CAP 242: Visiting of persons detained
Every person detained in lawful custody under this Act shall be permitted to receive visits from relatives, friends or legal advisers at such reasonable times and subject to such restrictions as may be determined by rules made under this Act.
- Section 93 of Public Health Act CAP 242: Cost of erection and maintenance of asylum to be defrayed out of public funds
The cost of the erection, establishment and maintenance of asylums, of the removal of persons thereto, of the maintenance of persons detained therein (save in so far as such cost of maintenance may be otherwise defrayed in accordance with section 94, of the salaries and wages of superintendents,...
- Section 94 of Public Health Act CAP 242: Superintendent may recover certain sums from inmates and allow private building
It shall be lawful, subject to the approval of the Minister, for the superintendent in the case of any inmate of an asylum under this Part to receive or recover from such inmate the expense of his maintenance, and to allow such inmate or any other person to erect for the inmate (or contract for the...
- Section 95 of Public Health Act CAP 242: Court may appoint manager of detained persons
(1) The High Court may appoint a manager for the temporary or permanent care and administration of any property of a person removed to an asylum for detention under this Act, and Part XI of the Mental Treatment Act (Cap. 248) shall mutatis mutandis apply for the purposes of such care and...
- Section 96 of Public Health Act CAP 242: Cleansing and disinfecting of residence of persons isolated
Whenever any person has been placed in isolation by order of a magistrate under section 79, the medical officer of health shall cause the residence of that person to be forthwith cleansed and disinfected.
- Section 97 of Public Health Act CAP 242: Photographing of persons confined in asylums
(1) It shall be the duty of every person detained in an asylum under this Act to submit himself to be photographed from time to time as the superintendent shall think fit.
(2) Any such person who refuses to allow himself to be photographed as aforesaid, or obstructs any person entrusted with this...
- Section 98 of Public Health Act CAP 242: Penalties for contravention of Part
Any person who is guilty of an offence under this Part shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifteen thousand shillings or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to both.
- Section 99 of Public Health Act CAP 242: Rules under Part
The Minister may make rules and prescribe the penalties for the breach thereof not exceeding the penalties mentioned in section 98—
(a) for the isolation, examination and removal to asylums of person affected or suspected of being affected with leprosy;
(b) for the appointment and duties of...
- Section 100 of Public Health Act CAP 242: Examination and report of one medical practitioner to suffice temporarily where two not available
Notwithstanding anything in this Act contained, the examination and report of one medical practitioner shall suffice for the purpose of an interim reception order under this Act, whenever undue delay or inconvenience would result in obtaining an examination and report by two medical practitioners:...
- Section 101 of Public Health Act CAP 242: Police officer to execute orders under Act
It shall be the duty of every police officer to execute any lawful order of the Minister, or any magistrate issued under this Act, and any person resisting or obstructing any magistrate, medical practitioner or other person charged with a duty under this Act in the execution of the duty shall be...
- Section 102 of Public Health Act CAP 242: Private asylums
(1) If the Minister is satisfied that proper provision will be made for the care, comfort and custody of persons affected with leprosy, and for regulating intercourse between such persons and persons not so affected in any private leper asylum, he may by notice in the Gazette exempt from the...
- Section 103 of Public Health Act CAP 242: Interpretation of Part
For the purposes of this Part—
“child” means a person who is under, or who appears to be under, fifteen years of age;
“public vaccinator” includes a public vaccinator appointed by the Director of Medical Services and any person appointed by the Director of Medical Services to assist or act for a...
- Section 104 of Public Health Act CAP 242: Vaccination of children
The parent or guardian of every child in Kenya shall, unless such child is insusceptible or unfit or has suffered from smallpox, cause such child to be successfully vaccinated by a public vaccinator, or other medical practitioner, and the parent or guardian of every such child shall procure one of...
- Section 105 of Public Health Act CAP 242: Vaccination of persons entering Kenya
(1) Every unvaccinated adult person, or the parent or guardian of every unvaccinated child, in or entering Kenya shall cause himself or such child to be successfully vaccinated within twelve months after entering Kenya.
(2) The conditions and exceptions mentioned in section 104 shall mutatis...
- Section 106 of Public Health Act CAP 242: Emergency vaccination of population in area threatened with smallpox
In the event of the occurrence or threatened outbreak of smallpox in any area—
(a) the medical officer of health or the district surgeon or other Government medical officer may require are person to be forthwith vaccinated or revaccinated who has or is suspected to have been in any way recently...
- Section 107 of Public Health Act CAP 242: Person unfit for vaccination
(1) If any public vaccinator or medical practitioner is of opinion that any adult or child is not in a fit state to be vaccinated, he shall give to the adult or to the parent or guardian of the child a certificate under his hand according to Form No. 1 in the Schedule, or to the like effect, that...
- Section 108 of Public Health Act CAP 242: Person insusceptible of successful vaccination
(1) If any public vaccinator or medical practitioner finds that any adult or child whom he has three times unsuccessfully vaccinated is insusceptible of successful vaccination, or that the adult or child coming or brought to him for vaccination has already been successfully inoculated or had the...
- Section 109 of Public Health Act CAP 242: Certificate to be given for successful vaccination
Every public vaccinator or medical practitioner who has performed the operation of vaccination upon any adult or child, and has ascertained that the same has been successful, shall deliver to such adult or to the parent or guardian of such child a certificate in Form No. 3 in the Schedule, or to the...
- Section 110 of Public Health Act CAP 242: No fee to be charged by public vaccinator, and certificate to contain description of person vaccinated
(1) No fee or remuneration shall be charged to the person vaccinated by any public vaccinator for any certificate granted under this Act, nor for any vaccination done by him in pursuance of this Act.
(2) A public vaccinator or medical practitioner giving any certificate under this Act shall enter...
- Section 111 of Public Health Act CAP 242: Vaccination of inmates of institutions
Every superintendent or person in charge of a leper asylum or mental hospital or chronic sick hospital, jail, prison, reformatory, penitentiary or other similar institution shall cause to be vaccinated within fourteen days following his admission to such institution every inmate thereof who, being...
- Section 112 of Public Health Act CAP 242: School children to be vaccinated
(1) No child shall be admitted to or attend any school until there has been produced to the person in charge thereof a certificate or other satisfactory evidence that the provisions of this Part in respect of such child have been complied with.
(2) For the purpose of ascertaining whether the...
- Section 113 of Public Health Act CAP 242: Prohibited methods of inoculation
Any person who inoculates himself or any other person with material taken from a person suffering from smallpox or from a vaccine vesicle on another person or by any method not prescribed in the rules shall be guilty of an offence.
- Section 114 of Public Health Act CAP 242: Rules
The Minister, on the advice of the board, may make rules—
(a) prescribing the form of certificates, notices, returns and books of record to be used in connexion with public vaccination, and defining the information to be furnished therein, and requiring the furnishing and prescribing the manner of...
- Section 115 of Public Health Act CAP 242: Nuisances prohibited
No person shall cause a nuisance or shall suffer to exist on any land or premises owned or occupied by him or of which he is in charge any nuisance or other condition liable to be injurious or dangerous to health.
- Section 116 of Public Health Act CAP 242: Local authorities to maintain cleanliness and prevent nuisances
It shall be the duty of every local authority to take all lawful, necessary and reasonably practicable measures for maintaining its district at all times in clean and sanitary condition, and for preventing the occurrence therein of, or for remedying or causing to be remedied, any nuisance or...
- Section 117 of Public Health Act CAP 242: Health authorities to prevent or remedy danger to health from unsuitable dwellings
It shall be the duty of every health authority to take all lawful, necessary and reasonably practicable measures for preventing or causing to be prevented or remedied all conditions liable to be injurious or dangerous to health arising from the erection or occupation of unhealthy dwellings or...