The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-12-10
SHALL HOMES Be
QUARANT|NED HERE?
THAT INFLUENZA
CASES BE CLOSELY QUARAN-
TINED AT HOME

The question of what shall be done to
stop the influenza is agitating the people
of the entire United States. The sug-
gesticn often made that the quarantine
has been worked backwards" and that,
instead of closing schools and all public.
gatherings, the cases of influenza should
be quarantined in the homes has fire.
quently been made, but has not been
accepted any place. If it were smallpox
or any other contagious disease that
were raging and taking hundreds of thou
sands of lives, the business houses and
public meetings would not be closed, but
those having the disease would be quar-
antined in their homes. The following
suggestion by the Rev. w. Fl. Bridge.
rector of ST. Marks Episcopal church, is
a timely one and is worth considering.
1t follows
Moscow. Idaho, Monday night
s'Dea Sir: Is it too late in the day to
suggest, what to many people is obvious
common sense, in this flu treatment
in which a case is developed? Is there
not at least little sense in the sugges-
ton that the whole blessed household
should be p1acarded? Easier and saner,
surely to shut up the few who have it
or are in necessary contact with it, than
the masses who haven't got it. Seems
so.
"Yours,
"W. H. BRIDGE"
That this method has proved success
full in other places is shown by the fol-
lowing dispatch from Great Falls, Mont,
where the number of new cases dropped
from 100 to |, daily, in less than a week
after the quarantine of the afflicted
homes began. The story is told in the
following Associated Press dispatch:
"GREAT FALLS, Mont-One week
ago yesterday the city board of health
and a committee from the Merchants
club and the Merchants association join
ed with the county board and planned !
a campaign to check the influenza. There I
were about 100 cases being reported daily
by the doctors then. Today there was
just one case of influenza reported and |
every doctor was heard from. The plan |
adopted was to quarantine every case at |
the source, placard the house and keep !
the case in until released by physicians |
order. Physicians were required to give |
the address of every case. The slump |
started and Friday the number fell to
20 with one today"
Close Whitman County Schools.
PULLMAN, Wash.-Al1 the schools
Of Whitman county will close tomorrow
and remain closed until the influenza
situation is under complete control.
Orders to this effect were issued this
afternoon by the county school superin
endent following a conference with the
state superintendent. The pupils will be
apprised of the order tomorrow morning
md will be Immediately dismissed.
The influenza situation in Pullman,
while still menacing, is not considered
l1arming, but the orders of the county
superintendent will be followed to the
etter.
Health Officer Issues Order.
COLFAX, Wash.-Due to the increase
n the number of influenza cases all
chools of Whitman county have been
,rdered closed indefinitely by County
Physician R. J. Skaife.
Kititas County (Wash.) Closed.
ELLENSBURG, Wash.-All schools,
hurches, dances, poolrooms, card tables.
heaters, all places of amusement and all
ocia1 gatherings in Kittitas county were
losed at l o'clock Saturday afternoon
" the county board of health. The rea-
on for the action is because of the
reaking out of scarlet fever and small
OK, as we'll as the number of cases or
Influenza.
The exact number of cases of any one
f the diseases is not known, as DR.. Fl. ].
'e1ch, county physician, stated that the
octors had not time to report cases, as
1ey were working night and day caring
Or the sick.
Three cases of scarlet fever are report
d, two in the Kittitas schools and one
l Denmark district, the latter patient
eing stricken in school, exposing many
f the patients The two in Kittitas had
cen in regular attendance when they
ere taken i'll.
There are three or four cases of small
1x in Ellensburg, and the influenza has
ever been SO prevalent, according to
r. Fe1ch.
There are more cases by far than when
e county was quarantined previously. :
number of these are serious. There =
e many who have urged closing the .
hools before this and others have op- y
osed it, but the seriousness of the situa +
On made the county health board take =
.tion when scarlet fever was reported 3
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