EMPIRE MIGRATION.
ONLY HEALTHY MEN WANTED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. London, Dec. 5. The Commonwealth Migration Department, replying to allegations as to unsatisfactory medical examinations, states that the system has been. drastically revised. It assumes that the criticism is largely directed against British ex-service men who migrated of their own accord or against migrants despatched before March last, when the department accepted tfie certificate of applicants’ family doctor. As the result of this system it was found that doctors sometimes issued certificates to men in unsound health, in the hope that the sea voyage and change of climate would effect a cure. In order to obivate the dispatch of unfit men the department in March insisted on the production of the certificate of an independent medical referee that the migrant was sound in constitution and capable of earning a living in the occupation he intends to follow.
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 December 1922, Page 6
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147EMPIRE MIGRATION. Taranaki Daily News, 7 December 1922, Page 6
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