Every ship that carries immigrants is obliged to furnish the authorities
at Ellis Island with lists of these passengers, and full information about
them. The steerage passengers are landed at Ellis Island, the lists are
given to the clerks, and the immigrants have to pass before these clerks,
and answer all their questions before they are allowed to enter our
country.
Before they come to the desks where the clerks sit, they have to pass two
by two before some doctors, who watch very carefully to see if there are
any lame or deformed persons among them. If any such are found, the
doctors separate them from the rest, and they are carefully examined to
see what their trouble is.
If it is serious, and they are cripples, and not able to earn their own
living, they are not allowed to come into the country, but are sent back
where they came from, at the expense of the steamship company.
In Spain and Italy, and indeed in many of the European countries, there
are an amazing number of cripples who make their living by begging.
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