Wednesday, September 29, 2021

Newspaper Tidbit: Cherry Hill Quarantine (1930)

Evening Star (Washington, DC)
14 September 1930

CHERRY HILL QUARANTINE FOLLOWS FEVER SPREAD

30 Cases Among Children of Community are Reported by Health Officials

Special Dispatch to the Star.

WOODBRIDGE., Va., September 13.-- With some 30 cases of scarlet fever among the children of Cherry Hill, the health authorities of Prince William County have quarantined the little community. The Cherry Hill School has not been opened, and the quarantine is preventing children of the community who go by school bus to the consolidated school at Dumfries from alarming the pupils there.

The health authorities and the county nurse are working in the Cherry Hill neighborhood and report that all of the cases are mild in form and no new ones appear to be development.




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