Mütter Museum is reviving a 1918 Philly parade that sparked a killer flu outbreak

Emergency hospital during influenza epidemic, Camp Funston, Kansas, probably early 1918. (OHA 250: New Contributed Photographs Collection, Otis Historical Archives, National Museum of Health and Medicine)
“Preparing to Bury City’s Influenza Victims,” undated clipping from a scrapbook of the influenza pandemic in Philadelphia compiled by an unknown person, August 1918–March 1919. (Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia; acquired October 19, 1919, through the Exchange Program of the Medical Library Association)
Hull of an experimental F6L flying boat under construction at the Naval Aircraft Factory, Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, with influenza precaution sign in background, October 19, 1918. (U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph, Catalog # NH 41731, Archives Branch, Naval History and Heritage Command, Washington, D.C.)
To Prevent Influenza! Illustrated Current News, New Haven, Conn., 1918. (U.S. National Library of Medicine)
Sailors are treated in the isolation ward of the Naval hospital in Gulfport, Mississippi during the influenza epidemic, 1918/19. At least 25 million people in the United States were infected (one quarter of the population) and more than 700,000 people died in the United States alone. (NH 116532 courtesy of the Naval History & Heritage Command)
A Naval Aircraft Factory float heads south on Broad Street in Philadelphia. This parade, with its associated dense gatherings of people, contributed significantly to the massive outbreak of influenza which struck Philadelphia a few days later. (NH 41730 courtesy of the Naval History & Heritage Command)
Influenza ward, Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D.C., about Nov. 1, 1918(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
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September 27, 2019 12:32 pm

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