The Canadian Practitioner, Vol 47 January to December, 1922 Classic Reprint

Excerpt from The Canadian Practitioner, Vol. 47: January to December, 1922

Whatever its limitations, quarantine is especially important as an educator of the public in the laws of health. It acts as a warning that hygienic principles must be enforced if the public health is to be safeguarded.

To be effective, quarantine regulations must be rigorously and efficiently enforced, but to this end, early and correct diagnosis of the disease is essential. If this can be brought about and means found to isolate carriers and mild cases that at present are often missed, quarantine would become effective in practice as well as in principle. Besides, there must be uniformity in the interpretation and carrying - out of the quarantine regulations. And not the slip-shod method in vogue at present in many parts of this province, where even ad joining townships and (their respective Medical Officers of Health have different opinions and rules for the control of outbreaks of measles whooping-cough, scarlatina and other communicable diseases.

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