The Quarantine Off

• The citywide quarantine will be “partially lifted” today so that children can attend schools. Tomorrow all other closed public places will be re-open as well. • Health officials believe the danger from Spanish Influenza will pass within a few days. • “The closing of the schools, amusement places, and churches, and the prohibition of public gatherings was deemed by some a drastic and unnecessary action. But there are good reasons to believe that such action made the efforts of physicians and nurses to control the epidemic more effective. Not only was contractual danger lessened, but the disruption of the normal machinery of living impressed upon the minds of the people the importance of vigilance and precaution.”• The public’s “vigilance and precaution” should not be let down even though there is a drop in influenza cases and the weather is fine. “Applied common sense is the best form of health insurance.”Newspaper article