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Show 00 PHYSICAL EXAMINATION OF ALIENS IS NEGLECTED I WASHINGTON. Jan. 12 It would I take four hundred medical Inspectors ' at Kills Island Instead of the forty I now on dntv to make adequate examination exam-ination of immigrants for exclusion j I of all having communicable diseases ' or physical defects Impairing their I ability to earn a living. Dr. R. H : ' Creel, assistant surgeon general, pub-' pub-' lie health service, .told the house immigration im-migration committee Tuesday. The1 I present modical examlnat.cn t :he station was merely "cursory,'- he said. hut of some value. He estimated thorough examination would take an hour per individual and said th- prea- : ent flow ihrough the station was .1 '"'i a daw |