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We've Been Here Before: A Century Ago, Influenza Tested Southampton's Health Care System, And Took A Toll On Its Community

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Soldiers from Fort Riley, Kansas, ill with Spanish flu at a hospital ward at Camp Funston, 1918.

An article in the October 17, 1918, edition of The Southampton Press. Courtesy Southampton History Museum

C. Elmer Smith, a popular and influential Southampton Village official who died of influenza in 1918. Courtesy Southampton History Museum

The December 12, 1918, edition of The Southampton Press, announcing the new wave of influenza. Courtesy Southampton History Museum

Southampton Hospital, founded in 1909 to serve the communities on the South Fork, moved into its then-state-of-the-art building in 1913 — and faced its first serious epidemic three years later.... more

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We've Been Here Before: A Century Ago, Influenza Tested Southampton's Health Care System, And Took A Toll On Its Community

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