Manual of the Mental Examination of Aliens 1918

Treasury Department, United States Public Health Service Miscellaneous Publication No. 18. Guidelines issued by the Surgeon General for the screening of immigrants at Ellis Island and coastal ports. Softcover 16mo, 118pp. Very Good condition: Spine rolled with very slight loss at the ends; last lined page and first page of the index are stuck together with a small tear where they're attached. Light sunning and signature to cover. Illustrated in b&w with photographs including "An average group of suspected mental defectives" and individual photographs of persons labeled as low- and high-grade imbeciles and morons, constitutional inferiors, etc. Intended for reference by examiners, it includes a fold-out chart with conversational phrases in various languages, as well as several ruled pages for notes at the rear. The previous owner has contributed about 6 pages of notes, guidelines for quarantine, and longer notes about bacterial testing and pasteurization. The manual calls for suspec