"What mourning Sighs, and loud Outcries comes from the Eastern Towns, Of Children crying, and others dying, which makes a doleful Sound."
Great Sorrows, the Deadly “Throat Distemper” of 1735
Category: Disease
A century ago – The Spanish Flu epidemic raged in Massachusetts in 1918
The flu pandemic that spread throughout the world in 1918-1919 may have killed more people than the medieval Black Death.
Historic Ipswich 