Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Raleigh's Death List from Pneumonia Following Influenza Reached 100 on Oct. 23, 1918

“Total Deaths at Raleigh Reach 100,” from the Hickory Daily Record, Oct. 23, 1918

Raleigh, Oct. 23—Raleigh’s death list from pneumonia following influenza reached an even 100 with the eight reported between the suns of October 21 and 22, and Camp Polk furnishes two of the men, one a negro and the other a white.

Oliver Kernick of Sioux City, Ia., is the latest soldier to fall and yesterday when the local undertakers were swamped again they called in volunteers, who were themselves overcome when the young wife of the splendid fellow following the body, wrapped in the flag for which he died, came up with the few whom feel the duty of caring for the dead, and set out for her Arkansas home, where the young man of 30 will be buried.

The quarantine at the camp has been lifted and there are no new cases but the death of these soldiers followed illness that drove them to the hospital a week ago. The negro soldier is the first of his race at the camp to die.

Three deaths have occurred at the State Hospital and several of these reported in the records are not Raleigh people. Nevertheless, no city in the state has been worse afflicted, not even Wilmington. There are now perhaps 1,500 cases in Raleigh, and many with pneumonia who have but small chance to live.

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