Tag: Spanish Influenza
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Serious Fact #55.5 How Many Portlanders Died of the Spanish Influenza?
Read more: Serious Fact #55.5 How Many Portlanders Died of the Spanish Influenza?Today’s national news references to the 1918–1919 Spanish Influenza pandemic have focused on the contrasting experience of two cities—Philadelphia and St. Louis. In the face of the pandemic in September 1918, Philadelphia held a parade; over the next six months 16,000 residents died. St. Louis canceled its parade; its death toll was only 700. I […]