Further on Dr. Creel says: This construction project would probably not be completed before next fall. We anticipate a probable lull in the situation this summerThat is owing to the immigration legislation recently enactedYou might get a better understanding of the situation. Mr. Chairman. if I point out that most of the quarantine stations now under the control of the Government were taken over from the various city and State governments. and for the most part were constructed 20. 30. or 40 years ago. At the time they were established they were probably sufficient for the purposes. but there has been a considerable change since then. In 1890 if a transatlantic ship came to Boston with 500 immigrants it was considered to be a " bumper " load. Now we not infrequently have 2.000 at quarantine. and we have to take off the immigrants from the ships and crowd them into small space or hold up the ship. We had the steamship San Giusto arrive from Trieste with several cases of typhus. We did not have sufficient facilities for the isolation of those passengers ashore and they had to be held on the vessel In the stream. " The result was. that the steamship San G4usto and the steamship resident Wilson had.between them about 60 cases of typhus.
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