Posted by Peter Ceresole on November 25, 2008 at 19:36:39 user PeterC.
In Reply to: Re: Metafiction and Bridget posted by Adam Quinan on November 25, 2008 at 16:42:17:
Bridget had whooping cough? Wasn't there a quarantine period for whooping cough too?
I think there was. From the Vanuatu quarantine Act (Google moves in mysterious ways...)
"In the event of a vessel presenting a "foul" bill of health such vessel may-
(a) be declared "clean" and admitted to free pratique after disinfection provided that there are no sick on board and that sufficient time, that is to say, 7 days for cholera; 9 days for yellow fever and for plague; 10 days for smallpox, diphtheria and measles; 14 days for whooping cough." etc etc...
But since the elders would have been away at boarding school, it's quite likely that they wouldn't have been in contact with her before they went on holiday- or that she would have been somewhere else, out of touch.
Whereas with Nancy, they'd been hugger mugger in the igloo... It does all make sense.