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Article: Tulsa World, Okla., Only in Oklahoma column: Only in Oklahoma: Flu of 1918 hit state with a wallop.(Column)
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- Tulsa World (Tulsa, OK)
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- April 4, 2007
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Byline: Gene Curtis
Apr. 4--PUBLIC MEETINGS OF ALL KINDS -- schools, churches, theaters -- were closed for most of October 1918 because of a flu epidemic that killed 7,350 Oklahomans and more than 600,000 people nationwide.
Dr. John W. Duke, the state health commissioner at the time, said the epidemic was the worst in a century and directed that no public meeting places were to open without his permission. Mayor L.H. Hubbard issued an edict, approved by the city commission, that Tulsa was under police rule. The police force immediately began closing businesses, and hundreds were temporarily out of business. The disease was called Spanish ...
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