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Public health workers checking Immigrants arriving to the US
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Public health workers checking immigrants arriving to the United States for signs of illness. The immigration law of 1891 made it mandatory that all immigrants coming into the United States undergo health inspection by Public Health Service physicians. The largest inspection center was on Ellis Island in New York Harbor. Credit: NIH
Ellis Island is located in Upper New York Bay in the Port of New York and New Jersey, United States. It was the gateway for millions of immigrants to the United States as the nation's busiest immigrant inspection station from 1892 until 1954.
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1914
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Ellis Island, New Jersey, United States, 40.69947, -74.03956
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