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The Spanish Flu at Rice, 1918

It’s been a rough flu season in Houston this year but thankfully nothing like the epidemic of 1918. I recently ran across this account of that flu at the fledgling Rice Institute, written by E. Finley Carter (who I talked about earlier here):

There really isn’t, by the way, very much in the archives about this. This is the only personal account of it I’ve ever seen.

Bonus:

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