QUARANTINE STATION
V WHY THE ISLANDS WERE x CLEARED.
"Wo may have to quarantine troop» ships at any time. Troops are coming back in large numbers—about 9000 men ill the coiirsc of the next two or three months—and if influenza should have broken out on any of the ships the troops will have to go into quarantine." This statement was made by Sir James Allen as a sufficiently strong reason for the immediate evacuation of the German internees and the V.D. cases from tho islands which nro used as quarantine stations in the chief ports of New Zealand.
"The islands .had to be cleared," (he Minister' continued. "It lias been suggested that we should wit the V.D. cases on some other island, out I do not know of any other island on which we could have put thorn. We had to bring them to the mainland, and Featherston is the only place w® have to which they can conveniently ho taken. Wo have accommodation there, and we can keep them under control sufficiently to preyent their totting out of the camp; It is reported to me that most of the men ai'o not now lxid eases, and that most of them are getting well. We hope to bo able to release most of them before very long."
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 70, 17 December 1918, Page 4
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217QUARANTINE STATION Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 70, 17 December 1918, Page 4
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