Abstract
To the Editor: —The Commissioners of the District of Columbia have adopted a quarantine of pneumonia and promulgated a number of regulations including due penalties. All will agree that pneumonia is infectious, yet it is highly questionable whether any drastic measures will materially affect its incidence. After an extensive experience in treating lobar pneumonia in open wards in which there were other medical cases, I cannot recall a single instance in which one such case had led to an outbreak, or a single case of ward infection. Likewise in private practice it has not been my privilege to see a second member of any family acquire pneumonia as a direct infection from the original case. Also, one rarely finds a nurse contracting pneumonia, yet she is exposed to it frequently, hours at a time. There are other contributing causes than the patient suffering from pneumonia; and one is moved to
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