History of medicine

Influenza Epidemic of 1918: during 1918’s final four months an extraordinarily virulent influenza killed as many as a hundred million people, six-percent of the world’s population. In the photo you can see Naval Training Station, San Francisco, California. Crowded sleeping area is extemporized on the Drill Hall floor of the Main Barracks with sneeze screens erected as a precaution against the spread of influenza.