1918 Influenza Epidemic (Spanish Flu): Primary Sources

This link provides access to a books and documents in the HathiTrust database which were published about the epidemic around the time of the crisis

The Influenza Encyclopedia has become the Internet repository for historical documents on the American influenza pandemic of 1918-1919.
The Encyclopedia is Produced by the University of Michigan Center for the History of Medicine and Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library

Selected documents from the National Archives.

Times (London) 10/10/18 P. 5

Public Health Reports vol. 35, no. 37, 1920, pp. 2155–2161.

Colon, Ann, RN. American Journal of Nursing v.19 #8 p. 605-606.
Experiences in Michigan logging camp.

JAMA. 1918;71(25):2068–2073.

Times (London) 7/4/18 p.5

Westerphal, Mary E. (Assistant Superintendent in the Visiting Nurse Association, Chicago)
Public Health Nurse, v.11 #2 (1919) p. 129-133.

Article from "The Lancet" 10/26/18 p. 567

Translation of May 1919 article by Japanese physician Dr. Ijiro Gomibuchi.
Published in Bulletin of History of Medicine
V. 66 (1992) p. 569-570, 573.

E. Oliver Ashe, South African Medical Journal 1/11/1919 p. 6-8

Brief interview with U.S. Navy Nurse about her experiences caring for soldiers during epidemic
Navy Medicine, v.77#3 (1986) p. 18-19

Published by U.S. Public Health Service (1918)
[See "Influenza Encyclopedia" at left for a large collection of digitized documents from the Heath Service on this topic.]

U.S. Public Heath Service Sept, 1918

Extensive statistics and information on actions of U.S. Public Health Service to the epidemic
(see Table of Contents)

Medical Dept. of the U.S. in the World War- V.9 (communicable and other diseases) Chapt. 2
GPO, 1928.