[The Great RJ]

Yes, my ancestors were immigrants, but LEGAL immigrants who stood in line at Ellis Island hoping that they would be found worthy of entering America. They had to pass both a legal inspection and a medical exam before being released to enter the United States and there were strict quotas for admission from individual countries. Even though these requirements were rudimentary, the vast majority of those illegally entering on our southern border would not pass the tests our ancestors had to pass.

[Mogger]

I have my grandmother's medical check card from when she came across from England.

She was one year old at the time, 1897.It was stamped off every day by the ship's doctor.

Any sign of TB, etc., and she would have remained on the boat for the return trip to England,