Medical Department - Influenza Epidemic 1918 - Spanish Influenza in army hospitals. In the hospital Number 4 at Fort Porter, New York, the epidemic was guarded against so closely that persons of the office force used masks at work. Showing dictation being giving through the masks

Medical Department - Influenza Epidemic 1918 - Spanish Influenza in army hospitals. Masks and cubicles used in United States of America General Hospital Number 4, Fort Porter, New York. Patients' beds are reversed, alternately so breath of one patient will not be directed toward the face of another

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

Medical Department - Influenza Epidemic 1918 - Spanish influenza in army hospitals. Medical and quartermaster corps men in connection with the United States Army Hospital Number 4, Fort Porter, New York wore masks while at work around the hospital

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 - 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 - Combatting influenza in Seattle. At work in the Red Cross rooms in Seattle, Washington, with influenza masks on 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