page_title: Cordon sanitaire
hierarchical_section_title: Cordon sanitaire
caption_attribution_description: English: Isolating a village whose inhabitants believe that doctors poison those suspected of cholera Русский: Изоляция деревни, жители которой считают, что врачи травят потенциально больных холерой It seems almost superfluous to say that a great war is being wage throughout the world against that dread disease, cholera; and just at the moment it may be noted that the visit of the King and Queen to Malta, while on their way to India, was cancelled owing to an outbreak of cholera there. Perhaps themost remarkable phase of this visitation of the plague comes from Roumania, and affords a parallel to a recent demonstration in Italy, in which ignorant peasantry, believing that the doctors took cholera patients to hospital that they might kill them, forcibly removed "cases" from the authorities and carried the dying shoulder-high throughout the streets to their homes. Our drawing is from a sketch made in Roumania. our correspondent says: "The peasantry, believing that the doctors poison any 'suspects' taken to the hospitals, hide their sick, and in some cases attack and defeat the authorities inspecting. When this action is taken in a village, the Government isolates it by making it the centre of a circle of soldiers. The women of the village show considerable interest in the military."
context_page_description: A cordon sanitaire is the restriction of movement of people into or out of a defined geographic area, such as a community, region, or country. The term originally denoted a barrier used to stop the spread of infectious diseases. The term is also often used metaphorically, in English, to refer to attempts to prevent the spread of an ideology deemed unwanted or dangerous, such as the containment policy adopted by George F. Kennan against the Soviet Union.
context_section_description: A cordon sanitaire ([kɔʁdɔ̃ sanitɛʁ], French for "sanitary cordon") is the restriction of movement of people into or out of a defined geographic area, such as a community, region, or country. The term originally denoted a barrier used to stop the spread of infectious diseases. The term is also often used metaphorically, in English, to refer to attempts to prevent the spread of an ideology deemed unwanted or dangerous, such as the containment policy adopted by George F. Kennan against the Soviet Union.
caption: A loosely enforced cordon sanitaire during a cholera epidemic in Romania, 1911
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