Thank God the smell of onions to a slight extent neutralized that from the indescribably tilthy latrines. but the floor was frightfully dirty. And yet wvomen were s:tting there and trying to feed their children. That vessel had been in that harbor three days. and would be there two da ys more. and the reason why it was there at that time was because it was not possible to take those immigrants at the island. and there were four other vessels in the harbor in the same condition. and at the island there were 2.020 people who were be:ng temporarily detained. because they were rejected and had to go back. or because they could not yet comply with our regulations in time to let them be released immediately. I asked the commissioner to send me a memorandum of the detained rejected cases on board the Providence. and I got his statement this morning. The total number of steerage passengers was 1.931. Held for special inquiry. 267. Temporarily detained. 364.
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