The Pennsylvania Gazette: The Flu of 1918
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Description: An account of the outbreak based on contemporary newspaper accounts of its progress through Philadelphia.
The Pennsylvania Gazette: The Flu of 1918 was the end of the summer in 1918 in Philadelphia, a city of a million and a half people. World War I, "the war to end all wars," was drawing to a close as the British crossed the Hindenburg Line. At the University of Pennsylvania, drilling, uniforms, and war courses were the order of the day for 2,240 students of draft age who had been inducted into the Students' Army Training Corps (SATC), a federal program designed to prepare young men as officers. Penn's dormitories and fraternity houses served as barracks. By order of Major Charles T. Griffith, the officer in charge of the program, the University's daily newspaper,
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| Page title: | The Pennsylvania Gazette: The Flu of 1918 |
| Keywords: | Michael Glantz, El Nino, weather, atmospere |
| Description: | The Pennsylvania Gazette, The Alumni Magazine of the University of Pennsylvania |
| IP-address: | 87.245.200.90 |