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From: "Dawna Morton" <>
Subject: Re: [GFO] 1918 Influenza Timeline
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 10:39:21 -0700
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do you know where they transferred the influenza records to?

----- Original Message -----
From: "mbkitts" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: [GFO] 1918 Influenza Timeline


> That website (original message below) gave a rather pale
> report of the
> 1918+ influenza epidemic. See the quotation next below. It
> was truly
> terrible, not only in the United States but worldwide. The
> Portland Civic
> Auditorium (now renamed) contained thousands of beds for the
> ill
> and dying. For many years, the files for those who died
> there were stored
> in green four drawer filing cabinets in the basement there.
> Maggie Kitts
>
> "The 1918 flue had two unquestionably distinctive
> characteristics. Firstly, it
> killed not only the young and the old, but those in the
> prime of life: about half
> the victims were between twenty and forty years of age.
> Secondly, it had a
> distinctive propensity for itself initiating pneumonia or
> encouraging bacterial
> secondary infections to do so. In ten months it killed at
> least 550,000 citizens
> of the United States, about ten times as many as had died in
> combat in the war.
> The mortality in India in October 1918 was 'without parallel
> in the history of
> disease', according to one official. The demographer
> Kingsley Davis has suggested
> that 20 million may have died in India alone. The pandemic
> did its worst in
> Western Samoa, where 7,542 died out of a population of
> 38,402 in November
> and December 1918."
>
> pp 150-151, Plague, Pox & Pestilence" edited by Kenneth F.
> Kiple,
> Chapter 23, "Influenza: in the Grip of the Grippe", by
> Alfred Crosby",
> pp 148-153, Barnes & Noble, Inc., by arrangement with
> Weidenfeld & Nicolson,
> The Orion Publishing Group, London, WC2H 9EA.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carole Hammond" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 9:50 PM
> Subject: [GFO] 1918 Influenza Timeline
>
>
> > This came in on my Kelley List:
> >
> > PBS website:
> > 1918 Influenza Timeline
> >
> http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/influenza/timeline/index.html
> >
> > Other links of interest on the website include: Maps,
> and People and
> > Events.
> >
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