Saint Louis University

A Tale of Two Cities:
How St. Louis and Philadelphia dealt with the
flu epidemic of 1918

Welcome to "Tale of Two Cites". This is a lecture developed by Professor William Stanhope of the Institute for Biosecurity at Saint Louis University. This lecture recounts how two cities chose to react to the 1918-1919 "Spanish Flu" pandemic and the consequences that resulted from implementing each set of decisions. This lecture is historical but also designed to promote discussion and critical thinking amongst those involved in disaster planning efforts related to infectious disease outbreaks.

 

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the original Starkloff report

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Part Four

A comparison of the rates of mortality and relative effectiveness of each response.