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Reception of immigrants in the 

 Argentine Republic. 



THE IMMIGRANT INSPECTION AND ITS REASON 



Each ship that arrives in the country bringing immi- 

 grants, 2 nd - and 3 rd - class passengers, according to Law, is 

 visited and inspected by a Commission comprising the Immi- 

 gration Inspector, Board of Health doctor and Coast Guard 

 officer, who examine the hygiene and healthiness of the ship, 

 accommodation, provisioning during the voyage, supply of 

 medicines, and as to whether a doctor or chemist is carried ; 

 if or no a greater number of passengers were carried than 

 the accommodation allows; if the measurements of the deck, 

 sparedeck and of the berths are in accordance with the 

 Law; if there is sufficient ventilation, supply of firehose and 

 cooking utensils, life belts and life boats; if there are passen- 

 gers with contagious diseases; if passengers have been em- 

 barqued at ports where there is an epidemic; if any part of 

 the cargo is inflamable or unhealthy, and, finally, receive any 

 protest of the passengers of bad treatment and obtain from 

 the Captain the documents he should deliver, showing cognos- 

 cence of the Immigration Law, and any incidents that have 

 happened on the voyage. This is done in the interest of 

 the immigrants. 



RECEIVING THE IMMIGRANTS 



The immigrants are carefully questioned and classified to 

 find out their trades and means, note being taken of those 

 who do not wish to come under the Immigration Law, their 

 passports then being stamped ^passenger only*, as also are 

 stamped «former resident), the passports of those who come 

 under that heading. 



Once the passports revised by the officials, those immi- 

 grants admited under the Law, are handed over to the receiv- 

 ing officials of the Immigrants Hotel who attend to them, 

 placing them in trams, which take them to the Hotel. The 

 baggage is taken on trucks to the same place by the Hotel 

 porters. 



