Historical 1918 pandemic reports, advice, treatments and hope for our ancestors

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This report from Chicago, Illinois by health officials in 1918 reads like a one that could have been written in 2021. The upshot is that we should learn from our ancestors.

Meanwhile, similar messages were urgently distributed that are similar to those of 2020-21.

An image of a Red Cross nurse published in Illustrated Current News. 1918.
An image of a Red Cross nurse published in Illustrated Current News. 1918.Credit…National Library of Medicine
Another similar health heed
Newspaper Ads on the Spanish Flu Echo Coronavirus Messaging | Time
Consider the following in the current pandemics
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Yet, in Kansas City, hope against hope was expressed. An article in the Kansas City Star newspaper in December 1918 expressed hopefulness about the “influenza serum” after Congress allocated $1 million to push it out to help save U.S. residents.

Hope in Missouri
Hope against hope years later …
  • http://Wilson Daily Times, 21 April 1924. Graded colored school — the Colored Graded School on Stantonsburg Street. Colored high school — Wilson Colored High School, later known as C.H. Darden High school. Wilson Training school — the private school formed after the 1918 school boycott, known formally as the Wilson Normal and Industrial Institute. Clipping courtesy of J. Robert Boykin III.

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