The American Journal of Tropical Diseases and Preventive Medicine, Volume 3American Journal of Tropical Diseases Company, 1915 - Medicine, Preventive |
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Page 46 - Service, who shall have had at least two years' experience in the practice of their profession since receiving the degree of doctor of medicine and who shall certify for the information of the immigration officers and the boards of special inquiry hereinafter provided for, any and all physical and mental defects or diseases observed by said medical officers in any such alien, or, should medical officers of the United States Public Health Service be not available, civil surgeons of not less than four...
Page 46 - That the following classes of aliens shall be excluded from admission into the United States: All idiots, imbeciles, feeble-minded persons, epileptics, insane persons; persons who have had one or more attacks of insanity at any time previously...
Page 46 - That the physical and mental examination of all arriving aliens shall be made by medical officers of the United States Public Health Service, who shall have had at least two years...
Page 46 - ... likely to become a public charge; professional beggars; persons afflicted with tuberculosis or with a loathsome or dangerous contagious disease; persons not comprehended within any of the foregoing excluded classes who are found to be and are certified by the examining surgeon as being mentally or physically defective, such mental or physical defect being of a nature which may affect the ability of such alien to earn a living...
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Page 44 - tropical diseases " be meant diseases peculiar to, and confined to, the tropics, then half a dozen pages might have sufficed for their description ; for, at most, only two or three comparatively unimportant diseases strictly deserve that title. If, on the other hand, the expression "tropical diseases...
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