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No immigrant, passenger, or other person, unless he is a Canadian citizen, or has Canadian domicile shall be permitted to land in Canada, or in the case of having landed in or entered Canada shall be permitted to remain therein, who belongs to any of the following classes, hereafter referred to as the "prohibited classes" - idiots, imbeciles, feeble-minded persons, epileptics, insane persons and persons who have been insane within the five years previous; persons afflicted with any loathsome disease, or with a disease which is contagious or infectious, or which may become dangerous to the public health, whether such persons intend to settle in Canada or only to pass through Canada in transit to some other country: Provided that if such a disease is curable within a reasonably short time, such persons may, subject to the regulations in that behalf, if any, be permitted to remain on board ship if hospital facilities do not exist on shore, or leave the ship for medical treatment. Immigrants who are dumb, blind, or otherwise physically defective, unless in the opinion of a Board of Inquiry or officer acting as such they have sufficient money, or have such profession, occupation trade, employment or other legitimate mode of earning a living that they are not liable to become a public charge or unless they belong to a family accompanying them or already in Canada which gives security satisfactory to the Minister against such immigrants becoming a public charge. (Statutes of Canada, 1910, p. 208-209)
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