DISEASE IN AMERICA.

Otago Witness, Issue 3495, 1 March 1921, Page 25

DISEASE IN AMERICA.

IMMIGRATION MENACE. WASHINGTON, February 19. The discovery of four desultory cases of typhus fever in various parts of'the country, and a large number of eases of sleeping sickness, including 308 in New York City alone, has caused considerable agitation that Congress should deal adequately with the immigration problem. A measure has been passed providing a large sum for the purpose of supplementing the inspection in New York Harbour, through which more than 90 per cent, of immigrants enter the country. A Cabinet meeting recently, owing to the possible menace to health as the result of unlimited immigration from the Central European countries into the United States, ordered the American Consuls in those countries rigorously to reduce and cull emigrants to America. The Senate passed a measure limiting immigration, annually to 3 per cent, of the various nationalities already present in the United States, or aporoximately to 355.000 in 1922. The local and Federal health authorities ,notably in New York and Boston, are in conflict over the application of sanitary laws to immigrants.

German men of science are swarming into Japan, and being very warmly welcomed there The Tokio correspondent c the Federation of British Industries states that a regular colony of Germans is springing up m Tokio. that Germans are being appointed to high scientific posts

and that in nine such recent appointment the salaries ranged from £2OOO to £2so’ a year. In iron and steel works, in tli dye-stuffs industry, and in the manufao true of medical instruments “Germai brains” aro evidently preferred by th Japanese.