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SECTION 4.-QUARANTINE AND PORT SANITARY WORK. Details concerning the port health inspection of overseas ships are contained in the next table. Port Health Inspection of Overseas Vessels during the Year ended 31st December, 1923.

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Port. Number of Vessels inspected. Remarks as to Cases of Infectious Disease on Board or Persons not allowed to land. Dargaville Auckland 3 337 157 prohibited immigrants reported ; .1.9 cases infectious disease reported. Thames Tauranga New Plymouth Wanganui Wellington I 2 13 16 164 40 infirm and 2 prohibited immigrants reported.; 26 cases infectious disease and 5 cases contagious disease "reported. Picton Nelson Westport Lyttelton Timara 5 1 6 40 2 1 23 41 3 cases contagious disease reported. Oamaru Port Chalmers .. Bluff Total 655