Article June 9, 1917 Issue

The Montana legislature is one of the first in the United States...

Cascade (Mont.) Courier

The Montana legislature is one of the first in the United States to recognize the Christian Science belief and to exempt children of Scientists from the medical examination which the board of health may now order in all schools. In a bill which was introduced by Representative Husser and which is now law, this provision is made: "Nothing in this act shall be construed or operate so as to interfere in any way with the exercise of the child's or parent's religious belief as to examination for, or in the treatment of, disease; provided that non-quarantine regulations relating to contagious or infectious diseases are not infringed upon." Thus the children who hold Christian Science belief may be exempted from the physical examination in schools and no medical treatments may be given them. But if the children of Christian Scientists are known to have or "thought to have" contagious diseases by medical examiners, they may be quarantined the same as other children. Scientists have reason to congratulate themselves on securing official recognition in this law.

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