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![COMMISSION APPOINTED TO INQUIRE: (a) Into the Prevalence and Spread of Tuberculosis within the Union, and (b) Into the Health of Natives employed on the Witwatersrand Mines. FINAL REPORT. TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE EIGHT HONOURABLE VISCOUNT GLAD- STONE, A Member of His Majesty's Most Honoukable Privy Council, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael AND St. George, High Commissioner for South Africa, Governor- General AND Commander-in-Chief in and over the Union of South Africa. MAY IT PLEASE YOUR EXCELLENCY, We, Your Commissioners, have the honour to report on the subject of our terms of reference as follows: — The Commission was appointed on the 26th February, 1912: —• (a) To inquire into and take evidence, for the purpose of ascertaining the extent and causes of the prevalence and spread of Tuberculosis, in its various forms, among Europeans, Coloured persons, Natives, and Asi- atics in the different areas of the Union ; having regard, inter alia to the effect of race, immigration, occupation, housing and the concen- tration of persons in compounds, mission stations, and locations, and of conditions of life generally, in spreading the disease, and to report as to the steps which can be profitably taken by the Government, local authorities, and others for ameliorating the condition of those affected with the disease, and for controlling the disease in those areas in M^hich it already prevails, and for preventing its introduction into fresh areas ; (h) to inquire into and take evidence for the purpose of ascertaining the extent and f^auses of the mortality of natives employed on the Wit- watersrand Mines, and their susceptibility to pneumonia, with special reference to those coming from tropical areas, and to make recom- mendations thereon. PRELIMINARY. Interivi Refort on the Immigration of Tuberculous Persons. 2. On the 30th April, 1912, Your Commissioners had the honour to present to Your Excellency a First or Interim Report dealing with the effect of immi- gration in spreading tuberculosis within the Union. We hastened our report on this part of our Terms of Reference, in view of the fact that at the time a Bill was before Pailiament to consolidate and amend the Laws in force in the various parts of the Union relating to restriction upon immigration thereto. 3. This Bill, however, was not proceeded with in that Session, but during the Session of 1913, a similar measure was introduced and passed and became law on the 1st August, 1913, entitled an Act to Consolidate and Amend the Laws in force in the various Provin- ces of the Union relating to Prohibited Immigrants, to provide for the Establishn'ient of a Union Immigration Department, to regulate Immigration into the Union or any Province thereof, and to provide for the removal therefrom of undesirable persons. [U.G. 34--'14.] B](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21353335_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
