§ SIR HOWARD VINCENTI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department why Taube Genen, Schie Birow, and Josef Gureivitz, who were refused admittance to the United States of America as suffering from trachoma and being otherwise undesirable associates for the citizens of the Republic, were, upon their rejection at New York, admitted, on his special order, to this country as desirable immigrants; and if he can explain the reasons for the course adopted, and say how many of His Majesty's subjects have since been infected with the contagious disorders from which these aliens were suffering.
§ *MR. GLADSTONEThese three persons were not immigrants within the meaning of the Act, but transmigrants. The woman named Genen was suffering from trachoma, and the two men from hernia and heart disease respectively. An appeal was made on their behalf on the ground that they were refugees from disturbed parts of Russia, and, after careful inquiry, I decided to allow them to remain in the United Kingdom under the special powers given me with regard to transmigrants by Section 8 (1) (b) of the Act. Before doing so, I obtained guarantees for the medical treatment of the woman with a view to prevent infection and to effect a cure, and for the maintenance of the two men.
§ SIR HOWARD VINCENTIs it a fact that these persons were refused admission into the United States as unfit associates for citizens of the Republic?
§ *MR. GLADSTONEreplied that they were refused admission.