Does the Public Health Service have specific information about individual immigrants to the United States?
No. The Public Health Service performed the medical inspections on arriving immigrants beginning in1891. For example, PHS doctors examined arriving immigrants at Ellis Island from when it opened in 1892. The Office of the PHS Historian can provide general information about the nature of these examinations, the medical causes for exclusion, etc. We do not have, however, information on individual immigrants, nor are we aware of any source of such information in existing PHS records.
