Health Officer Fowler orders all public gatherings cancelled and all churches, theaters, and movie houses closed
On Oct. 3, 1918, the Health Officer for Washington, DC, Dr. W.C. Fowler ordered all public gatherings cancelled…
On Oct. 3, 1918, the Health Officer for Washington, DC, Dr. W.C. Fowler ordered all public gatherings cancelled…
On Oct. 3, 1918, Cincinnati Health Officer Dr. William H. Peters responded to the influenza threat by enacting…
On Oct. 3, 1918, state Health Commissioner Dr. Franklin B. Royer, witnessing the growing epidemic across Pennsylvania, issued…
On Oct. 2, 1918, the Washington, D.C. school board closed all public schools (which had 50,000 students). The…
On Oct. 2, 1918, Kentucky Secretary of the state Board of Health Dr. Joseph N. McCormack made influenza…
By Sept. 30, 1918, with 260 cases in Chicago, Health Commissioner Dr. John Dill Robertson ordered isolation of…
On Sept. 29, 1918, New Orleans newspapers reported the city’s first local influenza death. Anticipating an epidemic, the…
On Sept. 29, 1918, Minneapolis civilian, military, and school officials announced the arrival of the influenza epidemic to…
On Sept. 28, 1918, the Naval Reserve Station at Los Angeles Harbor was placed under quarantine as a…
On Sept. 28, 1918, Philadelphia participated in a large parade of about 200,000 people, which led to a…
On Sept. 27, 1918, local Nashville newspapers reported that there were at least a handful of cases within…
On Sept. 26, 1918, Baltimore city Health Commissioner Dr. John Blake dismissed the circulating influenza as not being…
On Sept. 24, 1918, over 100 soldiers near Louisville were reported to have influenza, from which the outbreak…
On Sept. 24, 1918, as the national press covered the escalating influenza epidemic on the East Coast, Dallas…
On Sept. 23, 1918, the Spanish Flu reached San Francisco when city health officer Dr. William C. Hassler…
By Sept. 23, 1918, the total number of influenza victims jumped to 334. That situation was growing increasingly…
On Sept. 22, 1918, Cleveland received its first warning of the influenza epidemic from City Health Commissioner Dr….
On Sept. 21, 1918, the Philadelphia Board of Health made influenza a mandatory reportable disease, as the epidemic…
On Sept. 18, 1918, Atlanta residents learned that nearby soldiers had been placed under quarantine due to the…
On Sept. 17, 1918, NYC’s Board of Health made influenza a reportable disease, requiring quarantine for infected patients….
On Sept. 12, 1918, following the arrival of a number of ships with influenza-infected passengers, New York Cityメs…
On Sept. 10, 1918, two hundred sick sailors were admitted to the new emergency hospital. Meanwhile, Chelsea Naval…
On Sept. 8, 1918, influenza arrived in Illinois after sailors at Great Lakes Naval Training Station fell ill….
On Sept. 5, 1918, Dr. John S. Hitchcock, the head of the communicable disease section of the Massachusetts…
On Aug. 11, 1918, the first influenza epidemic cases arrived in New York City with a Norwegian vessel…
On Apr. 4, 1918, the first mention of influenza appeared in a weekly public health report. The report…
In the summer of 1918, the swine influenza virus first appeared in western Illinois, where it caused not…
By spring 1919, Kansas City had suffered over 11,000 influenza cases and over 2,300 deaths from the epidemic,…
In 1918, It was estimated that about 500 million people or one-third of the world’s population became infected…
On Jun. 17, 1916, New York City experienced the first large epidemic of polio (poliomyletis), with over 9,000…