THE ALIEN DANGER.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43107, 20 June 1907, Page 1

THE ALIEN DANGER.

One of the most serious aspects of the influx of aliens into London is the spread of the diseases they have intro- •• duced. These aliens are in the majority of cases constitutionally weak and quite without regard for the most ordinary laws of health and sanitation: t hey live at a very low standard, work shockingly long hours under conditfons that develop disease, and take not' the least care to prevent , the spread of infection. As a natural result. the London hospitals are besieged day after day by group® of sufferers from the crowded homes of the alien quarter. Mem, women, and children come to these institutions . n d a very large propertion are fou fo be suffering from trachoma. errible disease unknown in Great Britain until it was introduced by the, aliens. Trachoma is a-very painful ' disease, is highly contagious, and very often resuits fo blindness. It is steadily spreading in London, because English people who are brought into contact /with. the aliens contract it. “The sufferers leave the hospitals to go 'back to their crowded homes and workshops and to communicate the complaint to those who are brought into contact with them,” states a muter in the Daily Express. “Thousands of aliens who are subject to no inspection at all are allowed in, and if only an immigi'ant has the wit to describe himself as a refugee he is at. once allowed to enter, whatever the disease by which he is. afflicted. It is a lamentable fact that provision is not made at the ports for safeguarding the health of the native-born.” The Alien Immitratiorn Act was placed on the Statutebook of the Motherland in order that some check on -the influx of aliens might be e?f : >hed, but it has: never been adminisri'-ed with any vigour largely because the British people dislike the idea of refusing a refuge to the dotwn-troddeu citizens of*other countries. It is hard to understand why the statesmen of Great Britain do not recognise the necessity of facing ■the problem- eeneuslyv