Immigration.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 36, 12 February 1914, Page 5

Immigration.

COMPULSORY INSPECTION. I THE new regulations. [By Electric Telegraph —Copyright] [United Press Association.] (Received 8.0 a.m.) London, February 10. It is expected that the new medical inspection of emigrants will bo fully operating at the end of March and will reler to every town where there is a passenger agent. Officials repudiate the suggestion that the scheme will seriously reduce emigraiton to Australia. They say that Canada and the other Dominions are earnestly and sympathetically watching its development, and regard the fact that 100 British emigrants to the I nited States were not admitted—being mostly unfit—as a sufficient warning that a full qualification is needed and to go carefully through the medical examination here. I hey declare that the passenger agents are not generally protesting, though the shipping companies are not pleased, especially with the compulsory examination of first and second class passengers. A prominent agent asserts that they are laughing and clapping hands at the prospects of the diversion of Australian immigrants to Canada and the United States.