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FREE LODGING 



Arriving at the Hotel, the names of the immigrants are 

 entered in the Hotel register and they are given a lodging 

 ticket valid for five days, which can be prolonged in case of 

 sickness. The immigrants are comfortably lodged, the women 

 and children in separate rooms to the men. The baggage is 

 taken by the Hotel porters to a deposit where it is revised 

 by the Custom House Officers, specially. 



FREE BOARD 



The rations given to the immigrants are of the best, and 

 in the following proportions per day, per adult : meat 600 

 grams, bread 500 grams, potatoes, carrots or cabbage (alter- 

 nately) 150; rice, maccaroni, or beans (alternately) 100; sugar 

 25 and coffee 10 grams; milk is given to the children. The 

 food is cooked by steam and is served by the Hotel attend- 

 ants in a large dining room. 



MEDICAL ATTENDANCE 



There is an Infirmary in the Hotel where patients are 

 carefully attended; children as well as adults can be vac- 

 cinated. There is a staff of doctors, students, sicknurses, and 

 a chemist's fully equiped with medicines and disinfectants. 



GOVERNMENT EMPLOYMENT OFFICE 



On arrival, the immigrants are questioned as to what part 

 of the country they wish to go, and are offered work by the 

 Employment Office, in accordance with the inquiries for 

 workmen received, full information of which, of wages paid 

 and other conditions are carefully entered up in books kept 

 for that purpose. If there are no enquiries for workmen in 

 the particular trade of an immigrant looking for employment,, 

 this Office undertakes to find him work by either directing 

 him to Works and Factories or by telegraphing enquiries to 

 the Interior. Immigrants are warned, should they wish to go 

 to any part of the country where there is no opening for one 

 in their trade. 



No persuasion is used to induce immigrants to go to an} 7 

 particular part of the country, it is left to them to decide. 



