Epidemics

P: Upon discovering eight new cases of cerebrospinal meningitis in Kiowa County, Okla. and deciding that ten recent deaths there were probably due to that disease, Health Officer James Luther Adams last week slapped a thoroughgoing quarantine upon the county's 30,000 residents. No one was allowed to go to work, school, church. Closed were all stores except drugstores and groceries. The Hobart Democrat-Chief suspended publication. When businessmen complained, Dr. Adams promised to lift the quarantine after the five-day incubation period of cerebrospinal meningitis had elapsed.

P: Upon learning that an epidemic of scarlet fever caused a quarantine of schools in Genesee and Genesee Depot, Wis., whence Chicago gets several thousand quarts of certified milk each day, Chicago's Health Commissioner Herman Niels Bundesen last week summarily forbade Genesee milk to enter Chicago.

P: Professor Lloyd Lorenzo Arnold, University of Illinois bacteriologist, last week predicted: "Common head colds will cost the American people about $100,000,000 between now and Easter. . . . There will be 2,000,000 wage-earners who will be sick for at least eight days due to common colds."

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