HEALTH OF IMMIGRANTS!
“ASTOUNDING AND APPALLING” DEPARTMENTAL REPORT From Our Own Correspondent HAMILTON, Today. “Astounding and were the words used by Mr. W. Hill (Rotorua) at the meeting of the Waikato Hospital Board today when referring to a statement contained in a confidential report from the Health Department received at the last board meeting. Mr. Hill said that the report disclosed that a large proportion of immigrants during the past year were suffering from a grave social disease or were mentally defective. This was a state of affairs which they as a hospital board shpuld not regard complacently. On the motion of Mr. Hill, it was decided to send a remit to the next conference of the New Zealand hospital boards. Calling attention to the unsatisfactory conditions disclosed in the returns, and stressing the necessity tor more stringent supervision of the physical and financial condition of immigrants.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 866, 9 January 1930, Page 1
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