On Oct. 9, 1918, all Salt Lake City churches and public schools and universities, theater, and other gathering…
On Oct. 7, 1918, Dr. Max C. Starkloff, Health Commissioner for St. Louis, assembled city officials, the U.S….
By Oct. 7, 1918, influenza cases in Philadelphia had risen by over 3,000 new cases, overwhelming medical facilities….
On Oct. 7, 1918, Nashville officials ordered closed theaters, movie houses, and other entertainment areas, while leaving schools…
On Oct. 6, 1918, all of Denver’s schools, colleges, and places of public assembly were closed to try…
On Oct. 5, 1918, with 4,000 estimated influenza cases in the city, the Cincinnati mayor, health, and education…
On Oct. 5, 1918, Nashville’s health officer Dr. W.E. Hibbett announced there were between 10,000 and 15,000 influenza…
On Oct. 4, 1918, several dozen cases of influenza were reported to the Birmingham department of health. A…
On Oct. 4, 1918, City Manager of Health and Charity and former Denver mayor Dr. William H. Sharpley…
On Oct. 4, 1918, Washington, D.C. physicians were ordered to report all influenza cases and isolate patients. Public…
By Oct. 4, 1918, physicians in New York reported 999 new influenza cases for the previous 24-hour period,…
On Oct. 4, 1918, New York’s board of health enacted staggered schedules for business operations throughout the city…
On Oct. 4, 1918, Cleveland City Director of Public Welfare Lamar T. Beeman directed Health Commissioner Rockwood to…
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. 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. 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…