HEALTH OF IMMIGRANTS
EXAMINATION DIFFICULTIES PRESENT SYSTEM EFFECTIVE [Pee United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, April 27. Interviewed regarding the serious allegation made at the Wellington Hospital Board meeting as to the health of immigrants, Dr Watt, Deputy Director-General of Health, said that, apart from adopting tho extreme steps taken in the United States of detention on Ellis or Angel Island, tho regulations in force in New Zealand covering the arrival and treatment of immigrants are the best in the world. Dr Watt pointed out that to make _a full medical examination of every immigrant would require the whole-time services of at least naif a dozen port medical officers at a cost of several thousands per annum; also that in recent years 40,003 immigrants had reached tire dominion, anti" only a few cases had occurred of persons suffering from serious disease getting through, and these had been immediately detected, lit was cheaper to bear the cost of returning them to their own countries than to incur the expense of a minute individual examination of immigrants.
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Evening Star, Issue 18925, 27 April 1925, Page 6
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