[”News and Notes”, The West Australian, Tuesday 8 February 1910, pages 4-5]
The Native Lock Hospitals.—Gratifying proof of the good work being done by the lock hospitals established by the Government for the treatment of diseased natives is afforded by the announcement of the Chief Protector of Aborigines (Mr. C. F. Gale) that on Friday last the Koombana picked up at Carnarvon the first batch of cured patients. This batch comprised 10 males and 27 females, and is in charge of Miss Lenehan. The natives will be distributed at the ports whence they came, some going as far north as Wyndham. They will be sent back to their own country, and it is hoped that they will disabuse their fellows of any notion that Bernier Island is anything in the nature of a gaol, and that as a result those other aborigines having need of treatment will voluntarily submit themselves to the authorities.
AB notes:
reference her to the first repatriation of cured patients, on or about Friday 04 February 1910.
