Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 1, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba 16 Winnipeg free press monday october i. 1973 immigrant policy blamed for ills by Peter Michaelson Ottawa up two Toronto doctors say the immigration policy that allowed visitors to Canada Between 1967 and 1972 to apply for landed immigrant status has made Canada a Breeding ground for tropical diseases. Since last fall visitors can to longer apply for landed immigrant status but thousands of people who had no immigration medical examinations re main the doctors say in the september Issue of the Canad an medical association Jour Nal. Now doctors have to try to in do what the government of Canada has say w. Harding Leriche professor of preventive Medicine at the University of Toronto and m. M. Lenczner director of University clinic for tropical and parasitic diseases at Toronto general Hospital. However or. F. H. Hicks a Federal government medical consultant said in an interview Friday there is no evidence that tropical diseases Are More prevalent among canadians who stay at Home. More cases of such diseases Are turning up Here he said but mostly among travellers such As missionaries foreign service and Aid personnel and the two doctors say a total of cases of tropical and parasitic diseases were treated at the Toronto clinic Between july 1966 and june 1972. Each year the number of cases in creased to in 1971 from 392 in 1967. Of the total cases involved immigrants to solved missionaries 741 were travellers and most of the remainder had worked abroad. Persons who had not left the country accounted for 136 cases. T tropical and parasitic Dis eases encountered in Canada include amoebic dysentery malaria Tri Churis hookworm As Caris and pinworm say the doctors. Rarer tropical diseases present a considerable diag Nostic Challenge to Canadian they say there for better teaching to recognize tropical diseases As Well As More diagnostic and treatment facilities and the establishment of tropical disease clinics in other cities. An immigration department official said Friday that medi Cal examinations turn Down less than one per cent of immigration applicants. Jim Cross director of pro Grams and procedures Branch of the department said in an interview the examinations Are thorough. They turned Down applicants with tuberculosis trachoma Eye or any contagious or infectious disease dangerous to Public health. He also agreed that in creased travel accounts for the higher incidence in Canada of tropical diseases. For instance about 38 Mil lion tourists most from the u.s., visited Canada last year compared with about 14 million in 1952. Visitors who can stay up to one year in the country Are not Given medical examinations. Foreign students Many from tropical and subtropical coun tries often stay in Canada for four years with extensions of their visitors privileges. The Toronto tropical clinic diseases clinic treated 121 foreign Stix dents in the six year period for which figures Are available. As Many As illegal immigrants will be Given Stan d a r d medical examinations under new regulations allowing until oct. 15 to Register for landed immigrant status. Tha Toronto doctors say immigration has also contributed to the incidence of tuberculosis and leprosy. In 1970 the tuberculosis rates among asians in Canada 20 times the rate among Cana Dian born Whites. It was eight italians portuguese n d times higher in 1961. V Eastern european immigrants also had a High incidence of the disease. The immigration Law we e r e b y children under 12 years require no a Ray prior to admission into Canada should be changed because tubercular children Are common in some countries the doctors say. Dermatologists Are discover ing More cases of leprosy than before particularly in patients from the tropics subtropics Greece Portugal and Spain. The disease is hot highly infectious and can be treated wit drugs. Immigration in 1972 reached a total of up from the previous year. In 1972, and during the first six months of 1973, about asian refugees from Uganda came to Canada. During the first half of 1973, about immigrants arrived compared with 54313 during the first half of 1972. Included in the six month 1973 figures Are portuguese 3.-913 Hong Kong Resi dents indians trinidadian 1.-740 guyanese 960 pakistanis and 744 tanzanians All increases Over the same period last year. Decision reserved on Energy Bills Calgary up the Al Berta Energy resources Conser vation Board reserved decision Friday on whether one of Al Berta s Basic pieces of Energy legislation is constitutional. The Ontario government is challenging the constitutionality of Alberta s Gas re sources preservation act As Well As the hearing the Board is conducting and the lieu tenant governor s order in Council authorizing the hear ing on grounds that they inter Fere with inter provincial Trade a Federal jurisdiction. The hearing is to re examine a permit granted in 1969 to consolidated natural Gas Ltd. To Export Gas to the United states. Consolidated later sold the Gas to Tran Canada pipelines Ltd. For distribution Ute astern Canada primarily in Ontario after the National Energy Board refused to let the Gas in ques Tion leave Canada. Board chairman or. George Govier indicated it is unlikely the Board will give a ruling on the constitutional issues when the hearing resumes monday. He said the Board has grave doubts that it is the proper forum to Settle the constitutional Battle Between Ontario and Alberta. With decision reserved on the constitutional issues the Board will begin the consolidated permit on monday. Lawyers for the Ontario at Torney general s department and Ontario Hydro told the hearing that a new National attitude toward Energy is required. Robert Macaulay represent ing Ontario Hydro said the attitude would require sacrifices by certain provinces. Canada is one country no a collection of competing prov he said. Christmas Cactus v needs attention by Tom Stevenson the Washington Post the Christmas Cactus will not Bloom for Christmas unless it is Given a certain kind of treatment at this time of the year. Put it in a sunny window but Shade it a Little from sunlight until about the Middle of no vember sunlight then will not be As Bright As it is Force the Plant to rest now by giving it Only half As much water As it has been getting. About a month from now re s u m e the regular watering schedule. Flower buds Are developed during the resting period. 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