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Show fljl PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. H J Over in a certain portion of Europe where, unfortunately, chol- H era is prevailing, some of the residents have become so desperate H that they stormed a hospital to which cholera patients had been H taken, says the Butte Miner. H Baseless and unreasoning fear caused such action. To the pco- H pie of this country it seems strange that those European citizens who stormed the hospital did not immediately recognize, the necessity and benefit of scientific and systematic treatment of cholera patients. pa-tients. It is difficult to believe that they actually could Relieve they were performing a service for the patients by liberating them. Nothing of that spvt could occur in this country, because of the very fact that the right sort of general knowledge is had of conditions having to. do with the welfare in any department of the commonwealth. A health department begins tho enforcement of rules and regulations reg-ulations and tells why. H isn't a question of law enforcement in that phase of public welfare, but a clear, concise and timely explanation of such requirements re-quirements as arc needed. The result is a co-operation on the part of all, citizens with the authorities. , Publicity, and the very fact that the people of this country are the sponsors of its laws and regulations, means immediate and general gen-eral recognition of heeded health regulations. The fear which swayed those who stormed the hospital in question ques-tion was absolutely in consequence of not knowing the true reason and necessity for prompt and emphatic isolation and proper treatment treat-ment of cholera cases. ( Beginning with a vague fear that it wasn't right to have the patients taken to the hospital, that fear speedily grew to an unreasoning unrea-soning terror that to the citizens of this country seems remarkably strange. |