It must not be inferred that all these admissions were wrongful. though I believe the greater part of them were. In an effort to get the simple truth. without concealment and without exaggeration. I personally copied the figures given in these tables and submitted them to the Commissioner General of Immigration. from whose reports I had taken them. and requested him to point out any inaccuracies or wrongful inferences. He replied in writing that the figures harmonized with Isis records. In the same connection he wrote a long letter undertaking to show why the nonmedical inspectors. boards of inquiry. and the officials at the ports and at Washington were justified in admitting some tens of thousands who. according to the certificates of the Public Health Service. were of the classes excluded by law.
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