They were good surgeons and did their work well. I have seen the steamship loaded at Liverpool. and the gentleman from Tennessee is absolutely correct as to what lppens. Down at Patras. in Greece. the AustroAmericana Line sent out loads of emigrants without any inspection at all. and the result wvas that tley were heavily fined. and in addition when the aliens came back to Fliume they nearly wrecked the place. After that the AustroAmericana people senttheir physician to this country to study our ways it Ellis Island. I saw him at Patras before the people were loaded on the boat examining the aliens physically. They were so careful about it that they would stamp the man on the wrist with an indelible stanip. and the stamp was changed every day. so that nobody knew what it Nvas except the captain of the vessel and the surgeon. At Flume the consul went down himself with a physician and inspected tile emigrants. At the port of Antwerp the authorities told the American consul to keep off the wharf. that they would do their own inspecting. and lie could have nothing to do with it. Now. the fact \\.as thisand I am offering the fact vithout ally colimment--that the percentage of rejection of aliens at Ellis Island who came from these four ports because of physical conditions was less as to those coming from Antwerp than those coming from Naples.
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