From the Pandemic of 1918 to the Bird Flu
By Monday September 27th, the Pandemic is raging and has made the front-page of the Chronicle for the first time. Mrs. Calvin Holmes, a 21 year-old, dies of the Influenza.
Influenza 1918
Influenza made its appearance in Ipswich in September of 1918. The state authorities took over the hospital that Oct. 6, and erected 50 tents. The 15th Infantry was put to the task. It was estimated that there were at least 1,500 cases of the flu in Ipswich during the height of this disease.
100 years ago – The Spanish Flu epidemic raged in Massachusetts in 1918
by Helen Breen “John F. Boland, Jr., was born in Lynn and attended Cobbet Grammar School. While in school he was active in athletics and played football and baseball on the school teams. He was a leather sorter by trade, working at times for Stephenson & Osborne, a […]
