1. The Forgotten Pandemic:
The Forgotten Pandemic: A Short History of the Influenza Outbreak and the Effect on Western State Normal School
Katie Jones

2. Statistics 50 million deaths worldwide
600,000 deaths in the United States
25% of the United States population infected
Still kills 36,000 people every year

3. Statistics

4. H1N1 Virus
“Waves” or Mutations

5. What are the symptoms?
First Wave: violent headaches & body aches, deep coughing, fever
Second & Third Waves:
Cyanosis
Lungs & Heart double in capacity and weight
Lungs fill with blood
High fever, headaches, difficulty breathing, severe aches and pains
Blood flowed from eyes, nose, ears

6. Where did the flu begin?
Haskell County, Kansas

7. Haskell County, Kansas

8. Journal of the American Medical Association,
Spring 1918

9. Camp Funston, Kansas
Apprx. 300 miles apart

10. Camp Funston, Kansas

11. Camp Funston, Kansas

12. The “Spanish” Influenza
Spanish King Alphonse XIII

13. The Second Wave
August – November 1918

14. Attack on the Young

15. Kalamazoo Gazette
Camp Devens, MA, Sept. 16
Great Lakes, IL, Sept. 18

16. The ‘Flu’ Reaches Kalamazoo

17. Sept. 27
Sept. 25
Sept. 30

18. Sept. 30, Kalamazoo Gazette
Oct. 2, Western Herald

19. Oct. 3

20. Oct. 10, Western Herald

21. Elsa Nelson
October 17, 1918

22. Gabriella Payne
October 21, 1918

23. Western Closes
October 30, 1918

24. George Habel and Henry James Perkins
October 23, 1918
November 6, 1918

25. Jessie Richmond Denney Cora Marie Everse
George Upfield
Ruth Cramer
Jessie Richmond Denney
Cora Marie Everse
January 8, 1919

26. Deaths United States = 600,000 World Wide = 50 million
Western = 8 deaths out of 1,000 students
Kalamazoo = 125 deaths (4,064 cases)
2.5 deaths per people
United States = 600,000
World Wide = 50 million