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"Walter Reed Hospital Flu Ward". Photo of Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D.C., during the great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 - 1919, also known as the "Spanish Flu". Patients are set up in rows of beds on an open gallery, seperated by hung sheets. A nurse wears a cloth mask over her nose and mouth. Date
Despite the high morbidity and mortality rates that resulted from the epidemic, the Spanish flu began to fade from public awareness over the decades until the arrival of news about bird flu and other pandemics in the 1990s and 2000s. [320] [321] This has led some historians to label the Spanish flu a "forgotten pandemic". [177]
The Family (in German, "Die Familie") was one of the last oil paintings made by Austrian painter Egon Schiele before he died of Spanish flu on 31 October 1918. The work measures 152.5 cm × 162.5 cm (60.0 in × 64.0 in) and is held by the Belvedere Gallery in Vienna.
The 1918–1920 flu pandemic is commonly referred to as the Spanish flu, and caused millions of deaths worldwide. To maintain morale, wartime censors minimized early reports of illness and mortality in Germany , the United Kingdom , France , and the United States .
1918 campaign on the dangers of Spanish flu Ministry of Health poster used during the Second World War, designed by H. M. Bateman. Later film produced in 1945 "Coughs and sneezes spread diseases" was a slogan first used in the United States during the 1918–20 influenza pandemic – later used in the Second World War by Ministries of Health in Commonwealth countries – to encourage good ...
English: "Spanish influenza," "three-day fever," "the flu.". Washington, D.C. : G.P.O., 1918. Page: page 1 (seq. 1). From the Collection Development Department ...
NHS bosses say the measure is a response to a recent rise in flu infections.
Although there were some complaints from citizens during the initial period of mask-wearing, the new ordinance in 1919 galvanized more serious opposition and the Anti-Mask League was formed. [2] Members of the league included physicians, citizens, [ 3 ] civil libertarians, [ 4 ] and at least one member of the Board of Supervisors . [ 2 ]