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Understanding the Role of Medical Experts during a Public Health Crisis: Digital Tools and Library Resources for Research on the 1918 Spanish Influenza

E. Thomas Ewing, Samah Gad, Naren Ramakrishnan, and Jeffrey S. ReznickVirginia Tech and the National Library of Medicine

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Chart 1: New York City daily deaths due to influenza and pneumonia, as reported in Evening World, October 1918:

10/1/1

918

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918

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Chart 2: Pages per issue, total and with word “influenza”

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Evening World , October 1918

Infuenza pages Total pages

Illustration 1:

Evening World,

October 17, 1918

Illustration 2: Daily Public Ledger, November 25, 1918

Illustration 3: Montgomery Advertiser, August 17, 1918

Illustration 4: Roanoke Times, October 30, 1918

Illustration 5: Evening World, November 21, 1918

Illustration 6: All Newspapers, August 17-September 7, 1918

Illustration 7: All Newspapers, Sept. 8-Nov. 3, 1918

Illustration 8: All Newspapers, November 4-11

Illustration 9: Medical Record, November 2, 1918.

Illustration 10: Medical Record, All Text, 1918

Illustration 11: Medical Record, Influenza Paragraphs, 1918

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