Arizona republican., 1912-08-20
Dr. Looney Issues Order Requiring Careful In spection of All Travellers at State Line Points and
 Sequestration of Children.
HEALTH BOARDS
 WILL COOPERATE
Arizona People Having Children in California Are
 Urged to Bring Them Home at Once or Be Pre- pared to Remain Away.

Acting on requests from the health officials in various cities and counties. a conference of the state board of health and members of the council and committee on public policy of the Ari- zona Medical association was held at the capitol building yesterday, results ing in the issuance of an order by pr. R. N. Looney. state health officer. es- tablishing a quarantine against Cali- fornia on account of the prevalence in portions of that state of infarti'e par- alysis in epidemic form.
 A restricted quarantine already had been established by several cities but it was thought best to make it state wide that it might be effective and while causing some temporary incon- Venience it is believed prompt action will prevent the introduction of the dis-s ease into this state and that the quars antine may be lifted in a short time. If the disease becomes established here the results will be most disastrous in a business way during the coming winter well as jeopardizing the health of the people. Members of the council of the medical association who reside in oIiAVi COhlltlNS we're lClCpilOUCu LO dItu expressed their willingness to co-oper- ate fully in the enforcement of the quarantine order. '.
 Officers will be stationed at Needles. Parker and Yuma, who will board the trains, taking the names of all pas- sengers from the infected districts of California. These will be wired to the health officials at the destinations of passengers and the latter are expect- ed to establish the quarantine and en- force such restrictions as the order de- mant1s. The order in full is as follows: T
 Following a joint conference of the state board of health with the council and committee on public policy of the Arizona Medical Association, at the capitol, August 19, the board of health, acting on the recommendations of the conference, amended its regulations so that infantile epidemic paralysis is added to the list of communicable dis- eases included in the quarantine reg ulations of the Arizona health laws.
 ''An children entering Arizona from California will be placed in quarantine for fifteen days, the incubation period of this disease This is already done in most of the cities of Arizona, but is to be made a universal practice all over the state Of more importance. perhaps, in preventing the disease, all clothing and personal effects brought in by anyone from California must be fumigated immediately on arrival at it's destination. The county health officers with the aid of the city health boards will ia ke this in charge.
 Presidents of Arizona with children visiting in California are advised to bring them home at once, subject to the modified quarantine which will be imposed on their arrival; otherwise, should the epidemic increase. an abso- lute quarantine forbidding the entrance of children under fifteen years of age from California will be instituted, which might result in keeping Arizo- ma children in California, or away from home, indefinitely. Friends and rela- tives of families now in California arc asked to write them these facts.
 "R. N. LOONEY, M. D. State Health Officer. All Arizona papers, please copy"