Maine Memory Network

Mercy Hospital - The Spanish Flu

"The global Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 killed between 50 and 100 million people worldwide, far more than the 21 million killed in the much more…"

Mercy Hospital - 100 Years of Mercy Hospital

"… city's history, the pandemic known as the Spanish Influenza. This emergency, along with limited proper hospital facilities in the Portland area…"

Mercy Hospital - Portland Hospitals Before Mercy

"None of these facilities, however, proved sufficient to cope with the great Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919."

Mercy Hospital - Founding of Mercy

"Known at the time as the Spanish Influenza, the pandemic of 1918-1919 claimed millions of lives worldwide."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"… for saving many lives in Northeast Harbor in the influenza outbreak during the First World War. Mr. Totten owned a china shop."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… first Europeans brought epidemic diseases such as influenza, smallpox, and diphtheria. These contagions swept through native societies in waves…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"The influenza epidemic of 1919 closed schools for weeks. Contagious diseases such as measles, mumps and chicken pox were also rampant."

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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