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A century ago, in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty, one of the world's greatest public hospitals was built. Massive and modern, the hospital's twenty-two state-of-the-art buildings were crammed onto two small islands, man-made from the rock and dirt excavated during the building of the New York subway. As America's first line of defense against immigrant-borne disease, the hospital was where the germs of the world converged.
The Ellis Island hospital was at once welcoming and foreboding—a fateful crossroad for hundreds of thousands of hopeful immigrants. Those nursed to health were allowed entry to America. Those deemed feeble of body or mind were deported.
Three short decades after it opened, the Ellis Island hospital was all but abandoned. As America after World War I began shutting its border to all but a favored few, the hospital fell into disuse and decay, its medical wards left open only to the salt air of the New York Harbor.
With many never-before-published photographs and compelling, sometimes heartbreaking stories of patients (a few of whom are still alive today) and medical staff, Forgotten Ellis Island is the first book about this extraordinary institution. It is a powerful tribute to the best and worst of America's dealings with its new citizens-to-be.
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Sean Crain
reviewed Forgotten Ellis Island: The Extraordinary Story of America's Immigrant Hospital on March 13, 2019
Forgotten Ellis Island: The Extraordinary Story of America's Immigrant Hospital
3.75 stars
From the late 1800's into the early 1900's the hospital on Ellis Island was the most advanced hospital around. It was at it's busiest between 1902 and 1930. But by 1999 there had never been a book or film produced about it. Once the research was undertaken it was found that the patient records were no where to be found and few people were still alive to give a first hand detail.
Through years of research it was found that the immigration in the early 1900's is not vastly different from the immigration of today. The problems were very similar, the political outlook was similar and the rhetoric, news articles and cartoons similar.
This book tells how the island was built. Why it was built and now it was managed. It gives the process of medical detection and how it was dealt with. The separation of families, the refusal of family members and the deportation of those members. Many families were separated, never to be reunited, when one family member was refused admittance and sent back to their native land. If this was a child, one parent would accompany them and the other parent would take the rest of the family into New York.
There were many plagues brought in by immigrant families. Measles, scarlet fever, typhoid, tuberculosis, favus, trachoma and others. Those with mental illnesses, epilepsy, or downs syndrome were immediately refused. Often it was the simple fact that the person could not speak English that made them unsuitable and deemed a case of dementia, therefore refused entry to the US. Many suicides happened on the Island due to being refused admittance.
There are many many pictures in this book, which bring to life the processes used, the buildings then and now, and the lives of those hoping to start a future in their new world.
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