Wilmer Krusen
Books
- The Parade Philadelphia, the Liberty Loan Parade, and the Deadliest Week in American History · Liszt Think
On September 28, 1918, two hundred thousand Philadelphians gathered for a Liberty Loan parade as influenza silently spread through the Navy Yard.
- The River City and Its KeepersThe envelope arrived on Wilmer Krusen’s desk on the morning of August 26, 1918, carried by the regular post from Washington. It bore the letterhead of the United States Public H…
- The Shadow in the Ranks…lth, located in the Municipal Building at Fifteenth and Chestnut Streets, received the telegrams and filed them. The Bureau’s director, Dr. Wilmer Krusen, was a physician of established reputation, trained in Philadelphia’s medical schools, experienced in public health administration, and com…
- The Protocol of Normalcy (Mid‑September 1918)The finding was definitive in scientific terms. On that morning, it was also irrelevant to public policy. Wilmer Krusen read Paul Lewis’s laboratory report without lifting his pen from the day’s correspondence. The filterable nature of the causative agent—Lew…