THE WHITE PERIL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 87, 29 August 1912, Page 5

THE WHITE PERIL.

CONSUMPTIVE IMMIGRANTS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Christehurch, Last 'Night. Notwithstanding the medical inspection of arrivals in the Dominion, a woman suffering from consumption was permitted to land. Application was made for her admission to a consumptive sanatorium within four months of her arrival. The matter came before the North Canterbury Hospital and Charitable Aid Board to-day, when the Public Health committee reported. It appears that there is no effective restriction regarding persons landing in New Zealand. Recently a man with his wife and family arrived here, and now only four months after their arrival application has been made for the wife's admission to a sanatorium. She had been under treatment in a sanatorium in England, but was not cured. Her husband says that he cannot pay the board's fees if she is admitted. The committee has decided that in this case the fees must be paid if the patient is accepted as an inmate of the institution. It was decided that the attention of the Minister of Internal Affairs ■should be drawn to the matter.