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The 1918 influenza epidemic in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania / by Michael J. Wiecks

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18583

Author: Wiecks, Michael J.

Call Number: 974.843 CCH v.22 no.1/2

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Author: Wiecks, Michael J.

Place of Publication: Carlisle, Pa

Publisher: Cumberland County Historical Society

Physical Description: p. 3-37 ; ill. : 23 cm.

Series: Cumberland County History ; v.22 no.1/2

Summary: "The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919, also known as Spanish Flu, claimed the lives of 675,000 Americans and as many as 40 million people worldwide. The roll among U.S. servicemen during WW1 was especially severe. "Of the U.S. soldiers who died in Europe, half of them fell to the influenza virus and not to the enemy. An estimated43,000 servicemen died of influenza." No part of America escaped this pandemic. Yet, each community in America was affected by, and reacted to, this disease in a unique way. This paper is an examination of the1918 Influenza epidemic in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania and a comparison with the findings of other historians on the effects of the epidemic in Philadelphia, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Particular attention will be given to the measures taken to curb the epidemic by the Board of Health in each of these cities. The effectiveness of these measures, and the controversies that arose in response to them, will also be examined." [from the introduction]

Subjects: Communicable diseases - Cumberland County; Influenza - Pennsylvania - Cumberland County; Epidemics - Pennsylvania - Cumberland County

Location: Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article

Call Number: 974.843 CCH v.22 no.1/2

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https://gardnerlibrary.org/sites/default/files/vol22n1.pdf#page=5

A city besieged : the 1918 influenza pendemic in Lancaster

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14064

Author: Gerstenblith, Meg Rebecca

Date of Publication: Winter 2000.

Responsibility: by Meg R. Gerstenblith.

Author: Gerstenblith, Meg Rebecca

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society ,

Date of Publication: Winter 2000.

Physical Description: 138-174 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society v.102, no.4.

Notes: Commonly refered to as the Spanish flu.

Subjects: Lancaster Board of Health - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; Influenza - Pennsylvania - Lancaster; Epidemics - Pennsylvania - Lancaster

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 102, number 4 (2000), p. 138-174Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.102, no.4

Contributions from Lancaster County for the distressed poor of Philadelphia during the yellow fever epidemic of 1797

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Author: Worner, William Frederic.

Date of Publication: 1928

existence, Philadelphia was ravaged by the yellow fever scourge. The worst of these epidemics occured in 1793. It is estimated that at least 5,000 people succumbed to the disease in the summer and autumn of that year. During its prevalence, about 17,000 inhabitants left the city. While the disease raged, it

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Responsibility: by William Frederic Worner.

Author: Worner, William Frederic.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1928

Physical Description: 137-139 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 32, no. 9 & 10

Subjects: Yellow fever - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia; Epidemics - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia; Poor - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 32, number 9/10 (1928), p. 137-139Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.32

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The Lancaster County cholera epidemic of 1854 and the challenge to the miasma theory of disease

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19749

Author: Osborne, John B.

Date of Publication: 2009

Call Number: 905.748 HSP v.103

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Responsibility: John B. Osborne

Author: Osborne, John B.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia, Pa

Publisher: Historical Society of Pennsylvania ,

Date of Publication: 2009

Physical Description: p. 228-250 ; 23 cm.

Notes: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, v. 133.; This record provides a link to this resuorce on the publisher's official online repository.

Subjects: Atlee, John L. - 1799-1885; Cholera - Pennsylvania - Columbia; Epidemics - Pennsylvania - Columbia; Medicine - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County

Location: Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article

Call Number: 905.748 HSP v.103

Websites

https://journals.psu.edu/pmhb/article/view/59320/59047

Letter

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/52b3a272-c99f-401a-b883-772324780757

Collection: James Buchanan Family Papers, Part 7 Jonathan Messersmith Foltz

Title: Letter to James Buchanan from J. M. Foltz

Object ID: JBFP 7.1.1.043

Date Range: 1857/02/23

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Collection: James Buchanan Family Papers, Part 7 Jonathan Messersmith Foltz

Title: Letter to James Buchanan from J. M. Foltz

Description: Letter to James Buchanan from J. M. Foltz alerting him of an epidemic at an hotel and advises him to stay at another location. Philadelphia.

Date Range: 1857/02/23

Creator: Foltz, Jonathan Messersmith, 1810-1877

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Container: JBFP Part 7, Box 1

People: Foltz, Jonathan Messersmith; Buchanan, James

Subjects: Epidemics; Letters

Search Terms: Correspondence; Letters; Epidemics; James Buchanan; Buchanan Collections; James Buchanan Presidential Library

Extent: 1 item, 4 pages to scan, 12.5 x 20.5 cm.

Object Name: Letter

Language: English

Parent Object ID: JBFP Part 7 Series 1

Object ID: JBFP 7.1.1.043

Associated Material: James Buchanan Papers, Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections,; http://archives.dickinson.edu/collection-descriptions/james-buchanan-papers; James Buchanan and Harriet Lane Johnston Papers, Library of Congress,; https://www.loc.gov/collections/james-buchanan-and-harriet-lane-johnston-papers/; James Buchanan Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania,; http://www2.hsp.org/collections/manuscripts/b/Buchanan0091.html; James Buchanan Papers, Penn State University Libraries,; https://libraries.psu.edu/findingaids/1458.htm

Related Item Notes: James Buchanan Family Papers; MG-96 James Buchanan Collection; Historical Society of Pennsylvania microfilm; Photograph collections; Curatorial collections; Wheatland Mansion

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Accession Number: JBMS1995.759

Other Number: JBFP Part 7, Series 1, Subseries 1, Folder 43

Description Level: Item

Custodial History: The James Buchanan Family Papers were collected by the James Buchanan Foundation for the Preservation of Wheatland. This collection was relocated from the Wheatland mansion to the LancasterHistory archives in the Spring of 2009. Digitization of the James Buchanan Family Papers was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # 201808013051, 2019-2020.