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Contagious Disease Hospital, Ellis Island, New York, USA

Measles and isolation wards of the Contagious Disease Hospital (left), and Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital, opened 1901 and closed in 1951 (right), on Ellis Island, the immigration processing centre for the United States from 1892 to 1954, at the mouth of the Hudson river in New York City, NY, USA. The Contagious Disease Hospital comprised 17 sealable pavilions, designed James Knox Taylor in Italian Renaissance style and built 1911, including 8 measles wards, 3 isolation wards, an autopsy theatre, mortuary, laboratory, administration building, kitchen, and staff house. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Measles and isolation wards of the Contagious Disease Hospital (left), and Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital, opened 1901 and closed in 1951 (right), on Ellis Island, the immigration processing centre for the United States from 1892 to 1954, at the mouth of the Hudson river in New York City, NY, USA. The Contagious Disease Hospital comprised 17 sealable pavilions, designed James Knox Taylor in Italian Renaissance style and built 1911, including 8 measles wards, 3 isolation wards, an autopsy theatre, mortuary, laboratory, administration building, kitchen, and staff house. Picture by Manuel Cohen