Mobile Public Library Digital Collections

Mobile Public Library Local History & Genealogy Library

The Local History and Genealogy Library is dedicated to collecting, preserving, and providing access to the history of Mobile, and the greater Gulf Coast region.

Browse Items (141 total)

6 Oct . Influenza history 1918 p12 Mobile Register.pdf
News article

27 Oct . Vaccine use for flu 1918 p2 Mobile Register.pdf
News article

8 Dec . stole best years of life.pdf
News article about the pandemic being most lethal to persons under the age of 30

Sub-headline: Young and Vigorous of Nation's Population Suffered Greatest Depletion

14 Dec. . voice of the people.pdf
Letter to the editor complaining that half measures will not stop the spread of influenza

9 Oct . Mississippi combats flu 1918 p9 Mobile Register.pdf
News article about influenza spread in Mississippi

1 Nov . No lifting of MS quarantine 1918 p10 Mobile Register.pdf
News article

Sub-headline: Mississippi Health Authorities Ask State Board to Continue Restrictions

2 Nov . MS ban to be raised 1918 p7 Mobile Register.pdf
News article

Sub-headline: Dr. W. S. Leathers Makes Official Announcement - Negro Schools to Remain Closed

8 Oct . Flu stops public mtgs 1918 p8 Mobile Register.pdf
News article about the spread of influenza and Governor Henderson's proclamation forbidding public assembly

10 Oct . 9,194 cases in AL 1918 p9 Mobile Register.pdf
News articles about influenza in Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida
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