Forgotten Ellis Island

Author: Lorie Conway
Edition: 1
Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B003V1WUDU
Category: Medical

Forgotten Ellis Island: Fear and Fever on Ellis Island

A century ago, in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty, one of the world's greatest public hospitals was built. Download Forgotten Ellis Island medical books for free.
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 Get Forgotten Ellis Island our bestseller medical books.

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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

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