MEDICAL INSPECTION OF VESSELS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 225, 20 September 1906, Page 5

MEDICAL INSPECTION OF VESSELS.

(By Telegraph.—PaT*_____tary Beporter.': WrTTJiTNGTON. this day. In reply to a question by Mr. Poole yesterday, as to whether the Minister for Public Health would take steps to expedite the medical clearance of vesseLs arriving from overseas, the Hon. Geo. Fowlds stated that so far as he wa.s aware no imdne delay had taken place in the clearing of ships from oversea by reason of the neglect of the Health Department. If the hon. member would state a specific instance, he would have i pleasure in inqu_r_ig into it. Mr. Poole said that people naturally expected pratique to be granted wi&fc __. ! pedition. He re_ag_i_ed the difacuity of I having health officers set apart for "the I work, there being so many ports in i Auckland, but while he did not intend ' to cine any particular mEtanee. he ! thought that greater e_pedition should I be ensured. Auckland had a good and ! populaj- health officer. He was some- I times attending to private practice when I vessels were signalled off Tiri. but there j should be ample time to make arrange- ' ments to clear vessels without dels.—. He reierred not to this officer alone, as delays cmnrrred in other ports. He ' urged that better __-irties should be I given to health officers to clear iresseis I as q_k__y _a po__i__i,