Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-01-22
HUNDREDS !.
IMMIGRANTS
AREREJECT1ED
Signs Of Disease, Detected
by Ships Doctors, Bar
Many From Bremen.

Bremen. Germany, Jan. 22.-Hun-
dreds Of enAgrants who come into
Bremen. Hamburg and Danztg t seek
new homes in. America are rejected
before they can embark for what to
them is the land Of plenty and prom
Use. Tragic Genes are numerous
when the ships physicians announce
the list Of these barred because of
signs of disease or disability which
would prevent their admission to the
United States.
One hundred houceseekers were re-
tected out of 500 who attempted to
leave Bremen on one steamer recent
". All these unfortunates were not
defective but the rejection Of one
member of a family in many cases
prevented the entire group from sail
ing TOR America.
The most pitiful of the tragedies
occur in the breaking up. Of family
groups when some children old
to proceed to Americas while Others
are. detained. Weeping mothers
among the hundred rejected the other
day tried to kiss the hands Of the
physicians in an effort to get them to
alter their diagnoses while scared
groups Of bundle-laden emigrants
stood by in terror lest some techni-
cality might also keep then. off the
steamer train for B~remerhaven.
One Polish woman, the widow of
an army surgeon inc her 16-year-old
son had been rejected at Danzig when
the steamer had touched there be-
cause the boy had 5conjunctivitis. The
woman came with her son by train to
Bremen and pleaded for another x
ans.nation here, but the physicians
adhered to their original diagnosis
and the woman was compelled to re-
main with her son. In several cases
showed traces of trachoma or con-
1unctivitis. This was sufficient to halt
the whole family or to break up the
family group. some of the members of
which might go to America while
others could not.
Tyhus, trachoma and favus. an at
lection of the scalp, are the three dis
cases for which ships PHYSICIANS seek
above all Others in x ming en.:-
grants from Poland and other war
areas destined for the United States.
The United States emigration officials
are slow to admit persons whose yes
are no normal and force the steam
ship line to carry them back to their
port Of embarkat.on. Besides a fine
OF 5000 may be imposed upo the
steamship companies for carrying
such persons to American ports.
Consequently, agents of the steam
ship lines take few chances in these
days. when there are hundreds of
emtgrants clamoring for every steer
age passage available from Danzig,
Bremen and Hamburg to the United
States. s.
Czecho-Slovakia. Jugo-Slavia and
Poland are pouring streams of pros
pective e%migrants into these three
ports and the steame lines are forced
to exert every effort to check them
from c~ongregating at Hamburg and
Bremen in larger numbers than can
be accommodated. Model. sanitary
quarters are available in these. two
ports for emigrants. but the condi-
tons are far less satisfactory in
DAnzig where many complaints IRE
made concerning the emigrAnt quar-
tiers and charges are made that they
are not free from vermin.
The refugees who flock into Danzig
are generally in a wretched state
when they arrive from the devastated
Their accommodations there are old
and unsanitary. Political c%ross-cur-
rents and divided authority keeping
shipping in Danzig in a constant state
OF -uncertaihty, with the result that
emigrants can o get proper atten-
ton.
Storage passage from German
ports to America this winter have
been exactly three times the rate
charged before tbs, war, or the
equivalent of s110 while a second
class passage has cost 1920.
In spite of the increased expense of
transatlantic travel. every steamer
leaving for America has every berth
taken and reservations are booked for
months in advance. 1t is expected
here that this situation may be reliev-
ed by the gradually increasing num-
Der of ships entering the German
American service and possibly. ly i'm
migration legislation now pending in
the United. States congress.
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