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.

Newspaper Tidbit: Quarantine Declared (1917)

Daily Dispatch (Richmond, VA)
20 August 1917

QUARANTINE DECLARED

Town of Manassas and Prince William County Take Steps Against Infantile Paralysis

[Special to The Times Dispatch]

Manassas, Va., August 19 -- Although infantile paralysis has not appeared in Manassas or Prince William County, the town board of health has declared a quarantine against "Rockingham, Shenandoah and Warren Counties, and such other infected areas as may be brought to the attention of the board." Posters have been circulated broadcast, and a quarantine officer has been appointed by the town council to meet all incoming trains. Three children in a family, two of which have been visiting in the Valley, have been placed under quarantine for a period of two weeks. Mayor W. C. Wagener and Dr. J. C. Meredith, town health officer, have issued a statement recommending that children under sixteen years be kept away from public gatherings during the danger period.

Fauquier County also has declared a quarantine against all infected districts. In a poster signed by Dr. R. W. Garnett, whole-time health officer for Fauquier, it is stated that children under sixteen will not be permitted to attend public gatherings of any kind during the period of quarantine.