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How Immigrants Are Inspected at Ellis Island. The Registration Room at Ellis Island. Inspection of Our Immigrants May Be Said to Begin in Europe. The Immigrant Usually Buys His Steamship Ticket in His Native Town from an Agent or Subagent of the Steamship Company. Postcard Image circa 1905.
At the Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration and on the Foundation’s website you can explore your family heritage by searching nearly 65 million passenger records and ship manifests, examining information collected at debarkation points.
You will be teamed with one of our research experts to search the Ellis Island Database for your family’s passenger arrival record – an important stop along your genealogical journey!
Immigrant Inspection Card Containing the Immigrant's Name and Location on the Passenger Manifest At the end of each passageway is a desk at which sits an immigrant inspector. When the alien reaches the inspector, he produces his card, and the officer finds his name upon the manifest.
- Inspection on The "Line"
- Treatment For The Medically Certified
- Origin-Related Differences in Inspection Procedures
- Medical Screening Today
Medical examination centered on the "line," which became shorthand for the set of techniques and procedures that medical officers used to examine thousands of immigrants quickly. Ellis Island—where roughly 70 percent of immigrants entered the United States —set the standard. After an arriving ship passed the quarantine inspection in New York Harbor...
The PHS encouraged its officers to spend as much time as necessary to make accurate diagnoses of those "turned off the line" . Some were confined, often for many months and sometimes years, in the isolation units in the southernmost wing of Ellis Island. Over time, the IS granted medical treatment to more and more immigrants, often justifying it on...
Yet the demand for labor conformed to racial ideology. Influenced by scientific racism, the medical examination procedures differed for European, Latin American, and Asian immigrants. On the East Coast, the medical exam served more of a processing than exclusionary function for European immigrants. Non-Europeans faced more considerable medical obst...
Today guidelines for the medical screening of aliens seeking permanent residency or certain categories of temporary residency in the United States are set by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of Global Migration and Quarantine (DGMQ). Health-related grounds for barring admission to the United States include having a "communi...
- Alison Bateman-House, Amy Fairchild
- 2008
Inspection Card for Immigrants and Steerage Passengers on the RMS Oceanic, Departing Liverpool for New York on 5 June 1901 and Arriving in New York Ellis ISland on 14 June 1901. GGA Image ID # 1f1d2c323c
19. Aug. 2015 · The United States Immigrant Inspector's job was to conduct face to face interviews with all immigrants in a crucial proceeding known as immigrant inspection. Every single foreigner that entered the Port of New York was questioned - either on board ship or at Ellis Island itself.
