HEALTH OF IMMIGRANTS

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1568, 11 October 1912, Page 4

HEALTH OF IMMIGRANTS

MEDICAL INSPECTION. (Ey Telegraph—Prcsß Association.) Auckland, October 10. • The admission to the Auckland Hospital) during the past week or so»of two female! recently arrived from England, who ar« .suffering from cancer beyond all hope, of, recoverv, was reported to the Hospital l Hoard 'at n meeting in committee to-day by the senior resident medical officer. One* of them had previously been operated on, in London. The second was a widow,, aged M, who landed from the Rnnhino afr ■Wellington, and came on directly to Auckland, where a few hours after.arrival she was admitted to the hospital. Sho| had two voung children who were beingi eared for temporarily by the owner of the house to which they had gone to livo on " The chairman: I don't know how they. -onto pass the examining doctors. Dr. Ynlintine (Inspector-General of Hospitals): There r/e no doctors to paw. Mr Mackay: Such eases aro continually! occurring. Only tho other day a oonsumpj! live man was shipped back to Vancouver, I think strong representations should b« made tn the Government by the Inspector. General. Dr Vnlintinc: I have made them re. peateillv, and now the Government are going to augment the present, system by-, having medical inspection carried out aH the ports of departure. J The chairman: Tt would not lie so bad! if the people who fall on our hands in? this wav were ablo to pay. J Dr. Valintine assured the hoard thai* the Government was definitely dealing) with the matter of more efficient mcdicaf inspection of immigrants.