Council Likely To Deny Quarantine

• Flu committee recommends closure of all places of amusement and required wearing of flu masks places of congregation • Passage of regulations does not seem likely• Unidentified councilman: “If these recommendations were not in the nature of pure experiment none of the council would hesitate a moment to put them into effect . . . But we do not like to see business houses closed up tight during the holiday season. Especially when the flu is shown to be as deadly in isolated districts as in any of the most congested sections of the city. It is not shown that the flu is spread in crowds.”• Mayor Fairweather expressed belief that quarantine should be full or there should be none at all• Theater men believe closing of amusement places lowers morale, but are willing to close if all places of congregation are closed• State law does not allow quarantine of individual homes where influenza is present• Streetcar ventilators removed yesterday, but will be replaced today after threat of strike by carmen’s union • “Warfare against the flu may yet be waged in the open field, and all restrictions of law removed to let the individual use his own judgment as to how he may best avoid becoming a victim of the malady with the efforts of the board of health and its flu committee directed toward taking care of known flu cases and offering suggestions instead of trying to devise ways of preventing its spread by restrictive regulations.”Newspaper article1, 1