Quarantine Girard College
Title
Quarantine Girard College
Description
Newspaper article about a quarantine for scarlet fever at Girard College
Creator
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
Source
Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries
Date
December 3, 1921
Contributor
Kate MacDonald
Rights
Courtesy of Temple University Libraries
Text
QUARANTINE GIRARD COLLEGE
25 Mild Cases of Scarlet Fever Discovered Among Students
Girard College has been quarantined because of the discovery of twenty-five mild cases of scarlet fever among the students.
None of the students in any class are allowed outside the college wall, nor are relatives of friends permitted to visit them. All week-end leaves of absences have been cancelled, and forty older boys, working in stores and markets on Saturdays were unable to help their Christmas funds today.
The first case was discovered Monday, and according to Dr. Chessman A. Herrick, president of the institution, the quarantine is a precautionary rather than a necessary measure.
"Some of the cases are diagnosed as possible scarlet fever," he said, "and if the illness was outside of an institution, undoubtedly would occasion no notice. There is no cause for alarm."
Most of the ill students are younger boys, in the junior school, which has 320 students in all classes. This building and its dormitories has been quarantined within the general quarantine. The other students are allowed in all buildings and about the friends of the college, but cannot go into the juniors' quarters. Dr. Herrick said the quarantine was established in the advice of the Department of Public Health.
Monet has been sent for one boy to attend the funeral of his sister in Pottsville on Monday. Dr. Herrick is taking the case up with the Health Department and the boy probably will be allowed out.
25 Mild Cases of Scarlet Fever Discovered Among Students
Girard College has been quarantined because of the discovery of twenty-five mild cases of scarlet fever among the students.
None of the students in any class are allowed outside the college wall, nor are relatives of friends permitted to visit them. All week-end leaves of absences have been cancelled, and forty older boys, working in stores and markets on Saturdays were unable to help their Christmas funds today.
The first case was discovered Monday, and according to Dr. Chessman A. Herrick, president of the institution, the quarantine is a precautionary rather than a necessary measure.
"Some of the cases are diagnosed as possible scarlet fever," he said, "and if the illness was outside of an institution, undoubtedly would occasion no notice. There is no cause for alarm."
Most of the ill students are younger boys, in the junior school, which has 320 students in all classes. This building and its dormitories has been quarantined within the general quarantine. The other students are allowed in all buildings and about the friends of the college, but cannot go into the juniors' quarters. Dr. Herrick said the quarantine was established in the advice of the Department of Public Health.
Monet has been sent for one boy to attend the funeral of his sister in Pottsville on Monday. Dr. Herrick is taking the case up with the Health Department and the boy probably will be allowed out.
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Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, “Quarantine Girard College,” Philly Immigration, accessed July 27, 2024, http://phillyimmigration.nunncenter.net/items/show/698.