Ellis Island is the main portal that over 12 million immigrants passed through.
Medical Examination:
They had a very long medical inspection in a buliding called U.S. Marine Hospital Number 43, or as the Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital, it was by far the biggest hospital in the nation at the time. The tests were to see how well they could do physical things too, such a cimb a stair case. They got marks on there backs wit chalk they had many symbols such as C - Conjunctiviti, CT- Trschoma, E-Eyes, F-face, FT-feet, G-Goiter, H- Heart, K-Hernia, L- Lameness, N- Neck, P- Physical and Lungs, PG- Pregnancy, S- Senility, SC- Favus, SI- Special Inquiry, X- Suspected Mental Defect, Circled X- Definite Mental Defect. Most people turned their clothes inside out so they couldn't see the chalk.
Mental Examination:
They got asked simple questions, 'How old are you?' 'Whats your name?' 'Where are you from?'. They also were asked simple adding like '8+8 is?' They go through the weed out where they take the people that have an X or circled X on them and see who really has a Mental Defect. They get cards to show they are supposed to be examaid, these are the results of people they thought had a mental defect:
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