There has been a similar, though not" yet "so -univeMAlly- accepted, change in respect of the quarantine. or isolation, of healthy persons who have been in contact, however slight or transient, with others who have been suffering from, or have subsequently developed, some infectious fever. Here again, as recent long-distance observations in relatively l communities have tended to show, much of this is probably entirely unnecessary and indeed wasteful. No more, unless he is actually himself suffering from the complaint, is the contact per se likely to be a source of potential danger than a piece of furniture. And a recently published ten-years' follow-up of several thousands of such ordinary, healthy casual contacts has shown that an extremely small proportion of them do in fact become sufferers., Provided, therefore, that such contacts, if in industry, schools or colleges, can be kept under medical observation, there would seem to be no adequate reason for the very prolonged periods for which it has been—and in some cases still is—the custom to segregate them from their normal activities. subsequently a sly reference to Don Quixote's sweetheart—"the wench whom he insisted was a princess"—and I noticed that Sir Arthur and Mr. Marston continued their arguments after the large meeting had broken up.
Sir Arthur did not underrate the greatness of the discovery itself The Swanscombe skull he showed by calculations, was astonishingly near to present-day types. It had features found only. in anthropoid apes and had markings never seen on any modern skull.
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