Suddenly you encounter a gloomy room where heat and chains surround you. This room is different from the other rooms that you've been in. This one has a gloominess about it. It is a mourning room. There is a note tacked to the door: I know not everyone is intrested in history, but I decided to put this in my space place anyway. It's really intresting. ~~Jncogirl
In 1918 there was a very bad flu epidemic. It was influenza, or called the Spanish Flu because it was believed to start in Spain. It was later found out to start in a U.S. Army camp. In 1918 the people didn't have antibiotics or anything like that. And the flu was very contagious. People took precautions to help stop the spreading of the flu. 1. Work in a cool place with fresh air. 2. Walk rather than ride. (Talking about riding trolleys.) 3. Sleep with open windows. 4. Avoid large groups of people. 6. Wear a mask when with other people. (The masks looked like the ones doctors wear today.)
The flu was a very disgusting matter. You would have the fever, a headache, and muscles would get weak and achey. Your lungs would fill up with blood. It was like drowning in your own body. You'd often cough up blood and your nose could bleed. (Lovely, isn't it?) Breathing would also be painful. Many people died from this flu. The Spanish flu didn't go after just old and young people either, it went after healthy men too. It's said that more people died from the flu than from fighting in World War I. In fact, a lot of the soldiers who died in the first World War died from the flu.
Little kids would jump rope to the song, "I had a little bird, it's name was Enza. I opened up the window and in-flew-Enza!" Schools were closed to stop the spreading of influenza.
Luckily now there are antibiotics to stop the spreading of nasty flus, like the Spanish Flu. So we don't have to worry about something like that happening again.
A lot of this info cam from the book The Flu Epidemic.
