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Ships bringing to be landed not more than twenty alien steerage passengers
are described as "non-immigrant ships."
Nonimmigrant
ships.
By an Order, dated December 19th, 1905, and made under Section 8 (3)
of the Act, the Secretary of State declared "all such passengers as are entitled
to use the cabins, state rooms, or saloons where the accommodation is superior
to that provided in any other part of the ship devoted to the carrying of
passengers, to be cabin passengers for the purpose of the Act."
Cabin
passengers
Under Section 1 (4) the Secretary of State has power, in certain circumstances
and subject to such conditions as he thinks fit to impose, to exempt
immigrant ships from the provisions of that section. The Secretary of State has
in a number of instances granted such exemptions, conditioned so as to relieve
the second-class passengers from inspection, on the owners of the ship giving
security by bond that they will not land, from amongst those passengers,
undesirable immigrants.
Exempted
second-class
passengers.
This expression means alien passengers (other than first-class or cabin
passengers) who have in their possession on arrival prepaid through tickets,
and in respect of whom security has been given under Section 8 (1) (b) of
the Act, that they will proceed to places outside the United Kingdom. Alien
passengers who come within this category are not regarded as immigrants
under the Act.
Transmigrants.
Under this heading are placed those alien passengers who come within the
provisions of Section 8 (1) (a) of the Act, to the effect that "any passenger
who shows to the satisfaction of the immigration officer on board concerned
with the case that he desires to land in the United Kingdom only for the
purpose of proceeding within a reasonable time to some destination out of the
United Kingdom."
Proceeding to
a destination
outside the
United
Kingdom.
The medical inspection of alien steerage passengers under the Aliens Act
1905, has been continued during the past year.
I append particulars of the passengers who have arrived, these having been
compiled from the quarterly returns of H.M. Inspector under the Aliens Act,
1905.
Table XXV. shows the number of alien passengers arriving in the United
Kingdom during the year to be 422,548. Of these 59,252 arrived in the
Port of London, and 8,226 required detailed medical examination under the
Act ; the others were only generally inspected so as to ascertain that none
was suffering from any illness of an infectious nature.
Table XXVI. shows that 31,516 alien passengers arrived on 2,193 nonimmigrant
ships, whilst 27,736 arrived on 423 immigrant ships.