"Quarantine Lifted": An Extract from the Trinity Tripod

"Quarantine Lifted": An Extract from the Trinity Tripod

Title

"Quarantine Lifted": An Extract from the Trinity Tripod

Subject

Trinity College and the Influenza Pandemic of 1918

Description

"Quarantine Lifted": an extract from the Trinity Tripod of November 5, 1918, reporting the end of the College's October quarantine. While the "influenza ban, which had restricted members of the S.A.T.C. [Students’ Army Training Camp] to the college grounds since Oct. 4, was formally rescinded at retreat on Friday," there remained “restrictions…on trolley cars and drinking at soda fountains.”

Creator

The Trinity Tripod

Source

Trinity College Digital Repository

Publisher

Watkinson Library and Trinity College Archives, Trinity College (Hartford, CT)

Date

November 5, 1918

Contributor

N/A

Rights

Digital reproductions and permission to publish Watkinson materials may be requested by contacting Watkinson staff. With permission of the staff, readers may use their own cameras in the library. Users of materials from the Watkinson Library or the College Archives must accept full legal responsibility for observing the laws of copyright, as well as the laws of libel and invasion of privacy and property rights.

Relation

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Format

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Language

English

Type

Text, College Newspaper Article

Identifier

N/A

Coverage

Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut

Citation

The Trinity Tripod, “"Quarantine Lifted": An Extract from the Trinity Tripod,” Watkinson Library - Virtual Museum, accessed May 1, 2024, https://watkinsonlibrary.omeka.net/items/show/1.

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Hey nice post Kansas in March of 1918 after gale force It created a massive yellow dust haze that burned throat and sinuses. Two days later there were 100 cases of flu at the camp hospital, and a week later, 500. FMWhatsapp

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