Quarantine Against Influenza, Part 1

• Dr. Hutchinson, the author, discusses traditional meaning of “quarantine” and the modern practice of simply bringing contagious patients to a hospital and surrounding their beds with sheets or barriers to prevent the airborne spread of the disease. Modern health officers no longer need to impose quarantine on a given population to prevent the spread of a disease, they only need send the sick to hospitals for treatment. • Removing the sick from a population is said to remove “nine-tenths of the danger.”Newspaper article