Vital Statistics in the Promotion of Public Health.

‘When the city is a great field hospital’: the influenza pandemic of 1918 and the New York city nursing response

“…Despite the prompt and systemic grass‐roots nursing response and the cooperation of numerous social agencies, New York reported thousands of fatalities over the months that the city had been afflicted. From mid‐September to mid‐November, New York City reported 10886 deaths from influenza and 9722 deaths from pneumonia (Guilfoy 1918). Across the nation, it was much the same story: Americans had died by the thousands and the strain on morgues and burial facilities had been unprecedented (Keen‐Payne 2000, Crosby 2003).…”