Medicine: Minneapolis Quarantine

Bothered by 360 identified cases of scarlet fever among Minneapolis children, Health Commissioner Francis Edward Harrington last week imitated the drastic, effective scarlet fever quarantine established in Milwaukee (TIME, March 4), ordered all Minneapolis children under 7 to stay away from school, Sunday school, theatres and all other public gathering places for at least three weeks.

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