THE SUGGESTED CALIFORNIA QUARANTINE.

While individual physicians have expressed views favoring the proposed California quarantine against tuberculosis, the general expression of opinion of the medical press has been, so far, that it would be inexpedient and not in the line of true medical progress, besides being practically inefficient. It is of interest to note the opinions of the lay press so far as they have come to us. It appears from these that the average editor sees little possibility of an efficient quarantine, and some decidedly disapprove of such measures. One paper, the Salt Lake Tribune, while approving the proposed measure, takes the opportunity for claiming that the real sanatoria for consumptives are to be found in the mountain plateaus of the great central region of the continent, "and there is no quarantine against the sick in all that space." The legal difficulties of the proposed quarantine are, in the opinion of the majority