The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-01-18
PATCHING UP
The !mmlGRAN1
Caring" Of Diseased Aliens
! Described by Dr.. Fishberg.
TREMENDOUS INDUSTRY ABROAD

ygeecSaI Inspector OF the United States
snamigration Service Tells How
: Msareign Doctors Make Undesirable
gp4ersons Able to Enter Our Land.
: zsss1ys Tracho1fa Is Getting Inflow
a.1renaIine rs Used.
THAT diseased European immigrants
are "doctored up in great numbers
Gcr shipment to the United States is
she charge made by DR.. Maurice Fish
berg Of New York city, a special in
sspector of the immigration service of
the United States, who recently return
ed from abroad, says the New York
Tribune. DR.. Fishberg spent several
snonths ia the old world, visiting the
European terminals of the big trans
saSIantic steamship lines and making a
special study Of the shipping OF Rus
sian immigrants across the German
Frontier. Inasmuch as a tremendous
increase in the immigration of Rus
sslan Jews to the United States is I'M
der way just now, DR.. Fishberg's OBJ
servations are of special importance
Because OF their timeliness. Most Of
the things which the doctor saw abroad
sre incorporated in a report which he
nnade to the commissioner general Of
Immigration at Washington. DR.. Fish
Berg said recently at his home:
FsThe curing of diseased aliens for
admission to the United States has be-
COME tremendous industry abroad.
Ramifications of the business may be
sound at Liverpool, London, Southamp-
ton, Marseilles and at various frontier
cities Of Russia and Austria Hungary.
Nh these cities I have personally visit
safT boarding houses and so called hos
pftals' where immigrants suffering
from trachoma in it's most advanced
stages were being treated that they
Mafght pass inspection and enter the
omitted States.
f~Trachoma is disease Of the eye of
which America has special horror.
When transplanted to the tenement re-
mfons Of New York city 1t spreads rap
Idly and becomes almost as virulent as
So the orient. By the New York board
af health It is especially dreaded, and
tile authorities at the various immigra-
f.aon ports of this country are trying
with might and main to keep it out.
4<In Marseilles the treatment of ira
sSaoma has assumed remarkable d.
nnensions. Here most Of the immi-
grants from the orient, from Syria, Ar
Tnenia and neighboring countries, come
ssYl their way to the United States. Most
Ed She immigrants report to a man by
the name of Anten Fares, who refers
them to certain boarding houses. Later
rzaey are sent to d.. G. Reynaut, 20
Bou1evarde d'Athenee, for examination.
ETaose who are found free from con-
Eagious disease receive tickets and are
at once shipped to Havre, but as soon
Aa one of these orieptals is discovered
TO have trachoma, Fares takes hold of
&sle unfortunate immigrant and says:
There are only two ways open to
yog- You can either go by way Of st.
Egazaire to Mexico, where have agents
% conduct you across the frontier into
she United States, or you can go to
doctor here ard get cured. Now, the
first plan is expensive and dangerous,
orrt the doctor is very successful
<7Of course tie poor fellow goes to
fife doctor, who, by the way, does a
a5eurishing business. I met more than
III hundred immigrants every day l visit
ED the clinic. The charge is 1 franc for
each treatment, and some Of these un-
fortunate patients have told me that
they have been under the doctors care
fsr more than two months. When
"zrured' they are generally sent to Havre
and then shipped to New York. The
treatment is frequently continued until
Nf,e immigrants purse in all but emp
tied.
This business is used also to fleece
taae healthy oriental. Fares has prac-
tsce which, believe, is peculiar to him
self, of having immigrants treated for
GrachOma who have no trach0ma at all.
These generally have money and are
referred by Fares to the doctor, who
;a5eris them they have trachoma, but that
1T lis durable One franc day is charg-
sad for the treatment, or for board
asnd lodging, and this is kept up for
sTlanTh When declared cured the vic
Tim lis charged more than the usual
price for steamship ticket. Such 1ndi-
widuals are, as rule, never deported
Tor eye disease and accordingly become
excellent advertisements for Fares.
&"This man Fares is we'll known to
the french authorities and has re-
peatedly been under charges for
s.fseating immigrants. He has news
paper to boom his business, which has
ID wide circulation in Syria. He ships
from forty to fifty immigrants a week
and stops at nothing in dealing with
them.
1.-The Russian Hebrew comes to
A1nerica chiefly by way Of Germany,
either sailing directly from Bremen or
Hamburg or going to England and
esgnbarking from a British port. Little
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