Forgotten Ellis Island

Author: Lorie Conway
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0061241962

Forgotten Ellis Island: The Extraordinary Story of America's Immigrant Hospital

A century ago, in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty, one of the world's greatest public hospitals was built.
This is the first film about the once abandoned immigrant hospital on Ellis Island. In the era before antibiotics, tens of thousands of immigrant patients were separated from family, detained in the hospital, and healed from illness before becoming citizens. 350 babies were born, and ten times that many immigrants died on Ellis Island, 3500 were buried in pauper's graves around New York City.
Massive and modern, the hospital's twenty-two state-of-the-art buildings were crammed onto two small islands, man-made from the rock and dirt excavated during the building of the New York subway. As America's first line of defense against immigrant-borne disease, the hospital was where the germs of the world converged.The Ellis Island hospital was at once welcoming and foreboding-a fateful crossroad for hundreds of thousands of hopeful immigrants. Those nursed to health were allowed entry to America. Those deemed feeble of body or mind were deported. Three short decades after it opened, the Ellis Island hospital was all but abandone

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Categories: Ellis Island Immigration Station (NY and NJ). Contributors: Lorie Conway - Author. Format: Hardcover

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Massive and modern, the hospital's twenty-two state-of-the-art buildings were crammed onto two small islands, man-made from the rock and dirt excavated during the building of the New York subway. As America's first line of defense against immigrant-borne disease, the hospital was where the germs of the world converged.The Ellis Island hospital was at once welcoming and foreboding-a fateful crossroad for hundreds of thousands of hopeful immigrants. Those nursed to health were allowed entry to America
Three short decades after it opened, the Ellis Island hospital was all but abandone