Bureau of Health
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 Keepers…ed goods from the city’s own mills, and always, inevitably, carrying people. The people were the problem and the purpose of his office. The Bureau of Health employed forty inspectors, maintained laboratories for bacteriological analysis, and enforced the ordinances that governed everything from…
- The Shadow in the Ranks…ecretary of the Navy, which operated within the coordinated framework of the Council of National Defense. The first telegrams to the city’s Bureau of Health were sent on September 14. They were routine notifications, required by the city’s sanitary code for certain communicable diseases. The tel…
- The Protocol of Normalcy (Mid‑September 1918)…erk paused. Krusen asked for the Navy Yard figures again. The clerk read them: 600 cases under treatment, 20 deaths since September 12. The Bureau of Health minutes for that afternoon recorded that the situation at the Naval Hospital was reported as well in hand. The minutes did not record what…