interdasting conundrum
model is 1917 influenza
In the waning days of September 1918, Dr. Max C. Starkloff, Health Commissioner for the city of St. Louis, actively monitored the news from Boston – at the center of the nation’s influenza epidemic – and watched the contagion as it spread westward. Not one to dodge grim reality, Starkloff understood that influenza would soon find its way to St. Louis. Quickly, he prepared the city for that inevitability. His first action was to issue a request through the influential St. Louis Medical Society that physicians voluntarily report to his office any and all cases of influenza they discovered. Next, he wrote an article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch detailing how best to avoid influenza and the deadly pneumonia that often accompanied this new form of the disease. He warned residents to avoid fatigue, alcohol, and crowds, and to get plenty of fresh air and to avoid those who are ill.
https://www.influenzaarchive.org/cities/city-stlouis.html#
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