Influenza in Old Lyme
Paul Thompson (photographer), “To Prevent Influenza!” Illustrated Daily News, New Haven (October 1918) From the Florence Griswold Museum Archives An estimated 675,000 people died in the United States when a raging viral illness swept through the country during World War I, spiking again in early 1919 after fighting had ended. In Connecticut, where 8,500 people died, “the …
