CONSUMPTIVE IMMIGRANTS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 672, 24 November 1909, Page 7

CONSUMPTIVE IMMIGRANTS.

In the ooursa of a dispatch to tho Secretary for State for tho Colonies in March, 1903, his Exoelloncy tho Governor stated:—"My Goieminent do not wish to deny tho boncttt of this , climato to Britishers who oro in tho ourablo ' stages of consumption, but at the samo time they consider that it n. unfair lo citpcot this Dominion to rccoivo indigent oases, whether ourablo or not Ahnoit every ship arriving from Gieat Britain—about forty annually— ' , brings ono or inoro pntfengcrs whoso health is t i tho subject of inquirj bj the Tlcilth Department. It iiot infrequently happens that a. man j ' spends all ho has in order to coino out hero in \ search of health and is then prohibited from landing. Tho agents in No* Zetland of tho ■! various shipping companies nro veil awaro of • tho embargo which is plated upon such passongois, but, although tlicy liavo advised tneir '» principals at Home, tho practice still eon- '{,- tinues My Ministers dc;iro tp suggest that, J if greater care could bo cxeroii*d at tho medical inspection which is made at tho port of departure, much disappointment nwl ivasle of money might bo prevented."