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In 2-3 pages summarize the Ellis Island policies discussed in the article "Medical Examination of Immigrants at Ellis Island" by Alison Bateman-House and Amy Fairchild on the American Medical Association's online journal, Virtual Mentor. Identify and discuss the policies that would and would not be acceptable and/or ethical in today’s society. Refer to the discussion in Chapter 6 about due process and indivdual rights in relation to these events at Ellis Island. Refer to Chapter 11 for ethical considerations
	
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The given article discusses about the public health laws that were prevalent during the 19
th
 
century when there was large scale immigration in U.S coasts in order to weed out the infectious 
and other chronic diseases out of Ellis Island and other small stations. 
Federal government initiated several measures to control the spread of such diseases as there 
were rising concerns about the complexity of the industrial economy. 
One of the laws was to make decisions about the admissions of the immigrants as prescribed by 
United States Public Health Service (PHS) on the basis of certification of medical fitness 
whenever any immigrant was diagnosed with any disease. It was a permissible law to certify 
such immigrants but there were exclusions of few infectious diseases like trachoma, tuberculosis 
or favus, etc. It was justified on the basis of public health as judicial actions which need to be 
interpreted initially by the branch development of legislative laws and its execution. In case of 
any violation of the law, it is in the hands of court to act according to federalist system like in 
case of US constitution there is implementation usage of State Charter Act. 
Another rule of law during that period was related to the confinement of the immigrants who 
were not allowed to enter the state rejected on the basis of their medical conditions. They were 
kept in isolation in the separate wing of Ellis Island in Southernmost region.

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