MEDICAL INSPECTION.
ITS EFFECT ON IMMIGRATION. Bγ Telegraph-Press Associatjon-Cofjyricht "Times"—Sydney '-Sun" Special Cables, London, February 11. It is expected that the new system of medical inspection of emigrants will be in full operation by the end of March in regard to every toiva where there is a passenger agent. Officials repudiate the suggestion that tlie scheme will seriously reduce eim* gration to Australia. They say that Canada and ether Dominions are earnestly and sympathetically hatching the development of the scheme. They regard the fact that one hundred British emigrants to the United States arc refused admission monthly as being 'unfit is a. sufficient warning and a full justification for careful medical examination here. They declare that passenger agents arc not generally protesting, though the shipping companies Arc not pleased, especially with the idea of compulsory examination of , first-class passengers. • 'A'prominent agent {jssdrts tlmfc traneAtlantic shipping ' eonipSitt'eS are laughing and'clapping their hands oyer the. pros|>ect of the diversion of inteiid'pdi irrmigi-'ants for Australia to'Cah'ada aiu! United States.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1983, 13 February 1914, Page 7
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