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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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Washington DC October 1918 Dallas TX October 2014
Chart 1: New York City daily deaths due to influenza and pneumonia, as reported in Evening World, October 1918:
10/1/1
918
10/3/1
918
10/5/1
918
10/7/1
918
10/9/1
918
10/11/1
918
10/13/1
918
10/15/1
918
10/17/1
918
10/19/1
918
10/21/1
918
10/23/1
918
10/25/1
918
10/27/1
918
10/29/1
918
10/31/1
9180
100200300400500600700800900
Chart 2: Pages per issue, total and with word “influenza”
10/1
/191
8
10/3
/191
8
10/5
/191
8
10/7
/191
8
10/9
/191
8
10/11
/191
8
10/1
3/19
18
10/1
5/19
18
10/1
7/19
18
10/1
9/19
18
10/2
1/19
18
10/2
3/19
18
10/2
5/19
18
10/2
7/19
18
10/2
9/19
18
10/3
1/19
180
5
10
15
20
25
30
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
