A DANGEROUS PRACTICE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 192, 9 May 1919, Page 6

A DANGEROUS PRACTICE

WOEKMEN FEOM MOTUIHI MIXING WITH THE PUBLIC. By TelesraDli-Presa ABaooiation. Auckland, May S. Iho Public Works .Department had a difficulty in getting carpenters and labourers for work at Motuihi until a guarantee was given of compensation in case of sickness or death, should any of tho men contract influenza while on the island.

There are still four of the Makura's passengers in hospital on Motuihi. It wns brought to the notice of the Carpenters' Union yesterday that men employed on the islaud, in close proximity to the hospital, returned to their homes in town for thu week-end, and that on Monday a number of workmen left the island and returned to town in consequence of bad conditions, poor accommodation, and insufficient food. The' executive of the Carpenters' Union contend that it is contrary to nil quarantine regulations for mon employed about a quarantine station, while infectious patients are there, to return to town and mix with the public, with a possibility of carrying disease .amongst tho population. Mr. T. Bloodworth, secretary of the union, has been instructed to bring tho matter under tho notice of the District Health Officer. Mr. Bloodworth, speaking on the subject this morning, said the union had got a giiaranteo for its own men in case of sickness, and it desired that the public should bo protected against those- men carrying disease to tho eity again.