Spanish Flu - Philadelphia's October

Time: Oct, 1918

Place: Philadelphia, U.S.

Details: In October Philadelphia was hit hard with the pandemic influenza outbreak as there ware over 500 dead body held up unburied, some of them hung there for over seven days. Cold-storage plants were utilized as transitory funeral homes, and a manufacturer of trolley vehicles gave 200 packing crates to be utilized as coffins.

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