CONSUMPTIVE NEWCOMERS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3614, 29 August 1912, Page 5

CONSUMPTIVE NEWCOMERS.

A CHRISTCHURCH CASE. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH, Aug. 28. Notwithstanding the medical inspection of arrivals in the Dominion a woman suffering from consumption Avas permitted to land and an application ivas made for her admission to a consumption sanatorium Avithin four months of her arrival. Tlie matter came before the North Canterbury Hospital and Charitable •Aid Board to-day Avhen the public health committee reported: There appear te be no effective restrictions regarding persons landing in New Zealand. Recently a man with his Avife and family arrived here and now', only four months after their arrival, application is made for the wife’s admission to a sanatorium. -She had been _ under treatment in a sanatorium in England, but was not cured. The husband savs he cannot pay the Board s fees if she is admitted. 'Hie committee lias decided that in this case the fees must be paid if the patient is accepted as an inmate of the institution.

It was decided that the Minister for Internal Affair's should be advised of the matter. . , The Board affirmed the principle that a children’s dental ward should he established and referred the matter to a special committee to report-.