Medical Department - Influenza Epidemic 1918 - Influenza epidemic impedes war progress. To prevent as much as possible the spread of Spanish Influenza, Cincinnati barbers are wearing masks. Barbers all over the country took this precaution

Medical Department - Influenza Epidemic 1918 - Influenza masks worn by soldiers in camp. Soldiers at Fort Thomas, Kentucky, wearing the influenza masks. The fort was quarantined during the worst days of the epidemic

Medical Department - Influenza Epidemic 1918 - Masks as protection against influenza. Street cleaner wearing the influenza mask

Medical Department - Influenza Epidemic 1918 - Wear anti-influenza masks on streets. Soldiers passing through Cincinnati on furlough, bring their anti Spanish Influenza masks along from Camp Gordon

Medical Department - Influenza Epidemic 1918 - Masks for protection against influenza. Girl clerks in New York at work with masks carefully tied about their faces

Medical Department - Influenza Epidemic 1918 - Masks for protection against influenza. 1700 of these masks were distributed by policemen to all police stations, to be used whenever duty calls

Medical Department - Influenza Epidemic 1918 - GAUZE MASKS PREVENT SPREADING OF INFLUENZA. At the Red Cross Headquarters workers are busily engaged in turning out gauze masks to prevent Spanish Influenza Soldiers in many army camps are wearing them

Medical Department - Influenza Epidemic 1918 - Masks for protection against influenza. Typist wearing her influenza mask. Aroused by hold that disease has taken in New York City, New York, practically every worker has muffled their faces in gauze masks as a protection against disease

Medical Department - Influenza Epidemic 1918 - Combatting influenza in Seattle. At work in the Red Cross rooms in Seattle, Washington, with influenza masks on faces