Dunn, United States Health Service representative in China, all persons Jeaving Shanghai for' the United States must first submit to a medical examination and be pronounced free from contact with spinal meningitis eases. This "applies only to first and second class passengers as no steerage passengers are being ace cepted from Shanghai, (A medical Foport must algo be had in Japan and the Philippines where steerage, passengers are being accepted, The examination will be formal but rigid to the extent that the person being examined must furnish Proof of not having been in contact, with the disease, Provided the person has been found free of, meningitis, a medical certificate is issued and this must, be presented with the application for passage.
The Public Health Service Bureau in Washington has ordered that the steerage accommodation list be reduced by 75 per cent, Protests From Manila Manila, July 29, Steamship company officials have protested to their -home office regarding the new U. S, immigration regulations, Immigration of Filipinos into the United States has been virtually strangled, it was stated, since the reduced ' space in steamships' steerage quarters is more than filled by Filipino workers bound for the Hawaii cane fields in accordance with contracts with the Hawaii Sugar Planters Association, felt that the new regulations!
for extra space per person a, preventive of disease ave unreascnable.—United Press,
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