Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-12-23

1 to flow
 | only overnight. Ia otAcr cares u
 eyes are not again affected for weeks
 When Russian Jew who has under
 gone such treatment passes the in, 1 spection of the German official at the
 border he is frequently sent to New
 York, whether he wants to go or not
 He is regarded as the legitimate prey ! of certain steamship companies. For example, I have heard such talk as this at the border stations: Agent
 Where are you going? Immigrant-To
 England. Agent-You are liar; you
 are going to America. Show me how
 much money you've got. l.,.. ''The immigrant produces his money, which the agent takes, handing back a through ticket to New York and the change in German money. Of course
 the agent gets his commission from the
 steamship company. If an immigrant
 fears that his eyes will hurt him again
 he buys a second class ticket and so es-
 capes inspection by the steamship phy-
 sician at Bremen or Hamburg. I have
 often heard steamship agents on the
 border advise diseased immigrants to
 take a second class passage, which,
 they say, will get them through safely.
 Other Russian immigrants fearing
 deportation at New York manage to get
 to England and attend eye clinics at
 Liverpool and London. Here they are told that Ellis island will certainly
 catch them, but if they go to Boston or
 Philadelphia they can land Some
 however, go to Canada, hoping to reach the United States that way. One Liver pool boarding house is kept by Andrew
 Barber at Kent street Barber told me he could get anybody through. He said the steamship doctors examine the first cases thoroughly, but let the last few through easy
 r 'For the purpose of appearing in good shape at Ellis island, the Ameri- can port, and evading the inspectors, immigrants with trachoma frequently use a drug called adrenaline. This i'm mediately stops the inflammation of the eyelids by causing local anemia. They carry the stuff in a vial secreted in their clothes. As its effect soon wears off, immigrantsA have to repeat the treatment again and again on the sly. The use of adrenaline, however, does not always fool the inspectors, and I believe that at Ellis island these fakirs are generally caught. The drug gives the eye certain paleness which, by an experienced inspector, may be detect i ed."
 Dr. Fishberg emphasized the fact | that Commissioner WatchoPn, at Ellis island, was doing all in his power to catch ''doctored" aliens. He said that, l in his opinion, better work could not | be done, yet he said Ellis island should | not have to bear the brunt of the fight | against the diseased alien. The law by which a steamship company was fined $100 for every diseased alien caught aboard, he said, was not suf- ficient deterrent
 There should be rigid inspection on the other side," he said Marine hospital officials ought to be stationed at all the important immigrant stations of Europe The marine hospital serv- ice of the United States is fapous for its efficiency, and it would thus head off the tide of disease at its source. Naples is the only European port at the present time where officials of this service are now stationed, and their vigilant and thorough work there has let few diseased immigrants through" The doctor said that such an exten- sion of the marine hospital service had been strongly recommended by MT. Sargent, the commissioner general of who, he added, was doing all that was possible to keep the shores of America clean"