HLST 4010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: 1918 Flu Pandemic, Tvontario, Ontario Temperance Act
14 Oct 2020
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Week 1 reading- when the spanish flu came to ontario: 9:31 pm: jamie bradburn, when the spanish flu came to ontario . Available at: https://www. tvo. org/article/when-the-spanish-flu-came-to-ontario: as hospitals filled and overextended medical staff fell ill, women were asked to volunteer to care for patients. They are not dying because we do not know about them, ottawa mayor harold fisher noted in an october 14 appeal. We know where they are, but have nobody to send: nurses were forced to contend with the increasing paranoia of the public, schools and church basements became makeshift kitchens where volunteers prepared food baskets for home delivery. Private car owners were urged to lend their vehicles to those delivering food and other nursing services. Neighbourhood groups collected clean sheets and night clothing for those confined to bed: the pandemic benefited producers of legitimate and quack remedies.
