Social quarantine stimulates and embraces moral quarantine.
Seaport quarantine is maintained only while the last microbe is prevented from entering the gates.
Social quarantine must extend its protection to every growing human life in a community during the period of its growth, and influence the formation of its character, in order to be signally effective. It must reach the last waif with its loving care. Reaching the last waif necessitates reaching all waifs, and that constitutes, and must be the aim of, Perfect Social Quarantine.
The character of the last, or least, unit of a nation is a vital test of the strength and consistency of a nation.
Society is indebted to the mother instinct of the race for the finest expressions of its character.
The functions of social quarantine are clearly within the province of maternal care.
The first necessity of social quarantine is to protect the dawning intelligences of children against evil or false impressions by furnishing ample facilities for gaining wholesome suggestions, so that good ideas shall dominate the mind and leave no room for the assimilation of harmful impressions.
The second necessity of social quarantine is to surround all children with good-character-forming and health-giving industrial facilities and make them so attractive that none shall escape their allurements.
Society fails of its most important duty while there is any lack of facilities for the best known methods of child protection and training.