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

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A century ago, in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty, one of the vital world’s greatest public hospitals was once built. Massive and modern, the hospital’s twenty-two cutting-edge buildings were crammed onto two small islands, man-made from the rock and dirt excavated all the way through the building of the New York subway. As The united states’s first line of defense against immigrant-borne disease, the hospital was once where the germs of the world converged.

The Ellis Island hospital was once at once welcoming and foreboding—a fateful crossroad for hundreds of thousands of hopeful immigrants. Those nursed to health were allowed entry to The united states. Those deemed feeble of body or mind were deported.

Three short decades after it opened, the Ellis Island hospital was once all but abandoned. As The united states after World War I began shutting its border to all but a favored few, the hospital fell into disuse and decay, its medical wards left open only to the salt air of the New York Harbor.

With many never-before-published photographs and compelling, from time to time heartbreaking stories of patients (a couple of of whom are still alive today) and medical staff, Forgotten Ellis Island is the first book about this bizarre institution. This can be a powerful tribute to the most efficient and worst of The united states’s dealings with its new citizens-to-be.

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