HEALTH OF IMMIGRANTS.
A DISTURBING REPORT. HAMILTON, January 9. Describing the position as astounding and appalling, Mr W. Hill, of Rotorua, drew attention at a meeting of the Wai kato Hospital Board to a confidential report recently received from the Health Deparment. Air Hill said the returns showed that a large proportion of immigrants over the past year, presumably nominated, were suffering from a grave social disease or were mentally defective. This was a stat-e of affairs that no hospital board should regard complacently. It was decided to send a remit to the Hospital Boards’ Conference calling attention to the unsatisfactory conditions disclosed in the returns, and stressing the necessity for more stringent supervision of the physical and financial condition of immigrants.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3957, 14 January 1930, Page 75
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122HEALTH OF IMMIGRANTS. Otago Witness, Issue 3957, 14 January 1930, Page 75
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