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Ellis Island, c. 1930, showing hospital buildings in the foreground

Ellis Island, around 1920. The hospitals, shown on the bottom of the photograph, treated 250,000 ill immigrants during the course of its operation. Ellis Island, c. 1930, showing hospital buildings in the foreground.

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Ellis Island, c. 1930, showing hospital buildings in the foreground

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  1. Ellis Island, around 1920. The hospitals, shown on the bottom of the photograph, treated 250,000 ill immigrants during the course of its operation.

  2. Ellis Island, c. 1930, showing hospital buildings in the foreground

  3. On average, 4,000 to 5,000 immigrants were processed each day on Ellis Island. The largest number of immigrants processed in one day was just over 11,000 in April, 1907

  4. U. S. Public Health Service doctors inspected immigrants for a number of diseases and impairments that might deny them entry into the country. If an individual failed the initial exam, he or she was sent to the hospitals for further treatment.

  5. Immigrants’ names were checked against the steamship manifests as part the screening procedure on Ellis Island.

  6. After the medical inspection, officials interviewed immigrants about the amount of money they had, where they were going, and if they had work promised to them.

  7. Immigrant women often traveled to America to re-join their husbands, who came first to establish a home for their families.

  8. Immigrants awaiting examination on Ellis Island, c. 1920

  9. Most immigrant spent only four or five hours on Ellis Island, departing through the ferry terminal onto boats that delivered them to New York City or the Central Railroad of NJ terminal in Jersey City, where they boarded trains to destinations across the country.

  10. Immigrants who were detained on Ellis Island, mostly awaiting a relative to retrieve them, were served three meals a day. Immigrants often spoke about eating unfamiliar food, like bananas.

  11. These immigrant children, who arrived with favus, a skin disease of the scalp, were treated in the hospitals on Ellis Island.

  12. U.S. Public Health Service doctors and nurses posed in front of the general hospital with young immigrant patients.

  13. An operating room on Ellis Island, as it looked in the 1920s. U. S. Public Health Service doctors practiced the latest in medical knowledge and techniques, giving immigrant patients the best of medical treatment.

  14. One of the wards in the Ellis Island hospital. Patients were treated for everything from broken bones to tuberculosis and other contagious diseases. Three hundred fifty-three babies were born on Ellis Island and 3,500 people died in the hospitals.

  15. Immigrants confined to the Ellis Island hospitals spent some of their time in craft classes and other activities. A library near the hospitals had books and newspapers on twenty-six languages.

  16. As part of the health services on Ellis Island, nurses held baby clinics for immigrant mothers.

  17. Many immigrant families settled in urban areas, living in small tenement apartments in heavily ethnic neighborhoods.

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