HUMANE TREATMENT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1670, 9 February 1906, Page 2

HUMANE TREATMENT.

(Per Press Association.y Wellington, last night. Regarding the case of the young man Shenton, a consumptive immigrant, now in a private hospital at Cbrißtcburcb, the Minister for Public Health (Sir Joseph Ward) eays that the patient having been admitted into tho colony, and not being in a fit condition for removal, it would be inhuman to insist on his removal. Indeed, under the circumstances such a thing was never contemplated. Investigations which had been made showed that it was a case in which the law had been complied with up to the time of admission to tho colony, though the whole matter was still the subject of consideration, in the direction of ensuring that developed cases of consumption where unfortunate people, suffering from this disease, and likely to be thrown upon the colony, should not be admitted unless the law was strictly complied with. The Government was very anxious to. krep out disease. In the case, however, of a resident of the colony leaving cane-*' shores and developing the germs of the disease abroad and returning to his relatives here, who would look after the patient, who did not thus become a burden on the State, they would have to act aa rational beings and be guided by circumstances. Their chief duty was to seo that the disease was not spread by fresh arrivals. The Public Health Department had an important responsibility, and would be careful in not committing an injustice yet at the same time it had to see ,the colony was protected.