I know something about this. I have received letters and petitions and memorials from various boards of health and sanitary commissions all through the West. from Saint Louis. from Chicago. from Indianapolis. from Cincinnati. from Louisville. all protesting against wi ibolding from the National Board of Health the amount of money necessary to enable them to keep these diseases out of the country. They have established stations of refuge for New York City on the lines of railroad running to the Northwest. and you Senators of the West and Northwest know how your country has been scourged in past years by immigrants bringing the smallpox. They have established stations. and the medical gentlemen all say these stations havebrought the smallpox within manageable limits. If you take away from the Board of Health the power and withhold from them the money necessary to establish these stations. you will be overrun with the smallpox.
Identified stereotypes
Immigrants are stereotyped as carriers of smallpox.