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e e m ESSE ' a i" Y'\A'A\,' '\QVc\ 9 Th Substantial Decrease Noted Amendment to Restate and in Numbers of Cases Clarify Law, Minister and Deaths States A substantial decrease in both the Replying to a letter from the Council number of cases and the number of of the Township of Bucke, which had deaths from tuberculosis during 1927 been addressed to Premier Ferguson, to is noted in the third annual report of Hon, Charlee McCrea, to Opposition| the Provincial Department of Health. Leaders in the Legislature and to the | During the year 1,534 cases wore re-- press, alleging that the Minister of| g'"'"l'd to utl(;c d"m'l'""""" and th¢ Mines' amendments to the Assessment| eaths totalled 732, while in th -- %, £ l e l onl * n {nC P°C* Act favored private corporations, and | vious year there were 1,660 cases and was against the interests of the mu--| 821 dml.hts. o , micipalities in the matter of taxingv § I\n l:xd x'-poxtl H(l'll' lDl' Pg;tb('? C':'ld" surface lands in connection with miningi 'ey gives much of the cre or the F j M j decrease to the efforts of the travel~ | property.. Mr. McCrea, in a slgned? ling diagnostic clinic for the diseases, Statement, has advanced a number of | of the lungs. In 1927 the clinic visit-- arguments in favor of the proposed bill, | ed 24 centres--14 of them for the sec-- which has passed the committee stage | ond time--and 1,483 cases were ex-- j | amined. Some 90 per cent. of the phy-- and is eligible for the third reading. | sicians in these centres referred cases Supreme Court Action. | to the clinics, Following the action of the Supreme More Communicable Discases. C-ourt at Ottawa in reversing the de-- In the total of all communicable dis-- 3%%" igf t;]l:'e cfllpr,ffm%u(gfigrfrofing,?' eases there was a decided increase. In versu's the Maééfae Minin Comp;m\? 1927 there was a toial of 51,890 cases \ff MceCresa aifirms that The amene. with 3,863 deaths, while the previous ment to the Assessment Act "Js to re-- year there were 49,251 cases and 3,785 state and' clarify ~the law and to give T Gespile. Increased § that assurance as to stability of title en es e rraci s in aruonaly which the Government from tinie to measures and the promotion of immu-- time has proclaimed nization particularly against diphtheria, "Other %iflicu]ties.mi ut be enutmier-- smallpox and scarlet fever, the number ated which would arise gn. the Govern-- of cases of these diseases increased, but ment failed to restate and clarify the there was a little change in the death law," he stated. "Lawyers would be| fate unable to determine the validity of a| Two Years Compared. title or the effect of coalescing or merg-- : . _The total number of cases and deaths :)r:';'sggenfl:gts:g;;fige é::?:f Ztst'{}ecesa'iflg | in the discases wmch were most wide-- time or at a diflerefit time, the separ--| spread compared with the previoUus_yea" ately registered titles of surface rights was as follows: .!,:car]ct fe':ver.' 1927, 6-- ang mining rights. The effect, therefore, | 280 cases and 42 deaths; 1926, 5.640 of the bill introduced is as follows: cases and 38 deaths; smallpox, 1927, FR 1,532 cases and 2 deaths; 1926, 706 cases "Decision Stands. and 2 deaths; diphtheria, 1927, 3,346 "Where any estate in mines, minerals 2oo ut 200 deaths: 1926, 2,018, and or mining rights has heretofore or may T feaths: chickenpox, 1997,. 8.401| hereatter become severed To the estate cases and no deaths; 1926, 7,787 cases in the surface rights of the same lands and no deaths; measles, 1927, 13,405 tth shall, after being so severed, there-- cases and 19 deaths; 1926, 18,420 cases after be, and remain, for all purposes and 42 deaths. : of taxation and assessment, separate out of a total departmental CxPEen~| estates, notwithstanding the fact that diture of $§§82,080.65, free blc.logical, one owner may become the owner of products and insulin to the value oi. both titles. The bill expressly exempts $152,043 was distributed. Of that total the lands involved in the case of the * $47,477 was for insulin alone, of which | MacCrae Mining Company and the 11,196,200 units were distributed free. Township of Bucke. The decision stands y » M with reference to those lands. Workmen's -Compe nsation. "With the passing of the legislation Oa referring to efforts put forward referred to municipalities will be con-- under the Workmen's Compensation Act fined, as they have been previously, to * It is stated that physical examination the right of assessment in respect to f employees has been instituted by the surface rights where the titles are more industrial plants during the past severed. Where the titles are not sever-- year than in any of the previous cight| ed as to surface rights and mining years Public health nurses during the rights, the sale of lands, complying year visited 26,061 settlers' homes in the| with the requirements of the law, will " rural parts of the Province. convey the whole interest in the land." . Not Connected. In closing his statement Mr. McCrea gave assurance that he was in no man-- ner connected with the MacCrae Min-- ing Company, nor. directly or indirect-- ly, related to or associated with James A. MacCrae of Ottawa.