{"id":2479,"date":"2020-08-19T15:02:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T20:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/?p=2479"},"modified":"2021-02-16T23:09:25","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T04:09:25","slug":"pandemic-of-1918-in-salem-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/pandemic-of-1918-in-salem-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Researching the Pandemic of 1918 in the Baltimore-Washington D.C. Corridor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Some of my current research is focused on investigating the impact of the 1918 pandemic in communities along an extended corridor stretching from Baltimore to Philadelphia. This work has or will take me to cities and counties along I-95, as well as jurisdictions near this region. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2019, before the novel coronavirus upended normal life, part of my fieldwork took me to rural Salem County. As I worked in South Jersey, the Salem County Historical Society<\/a> asked if I would write an article for the quarterly newsletter. <\/a> When the piece appeared in the print, no one could have guessed that in six months, another pandemic of historic proportions, the novel coronavirus of 202o, would rip across the world, shutting Salem County down for months as public health officials struggled to control the pathogen’s spread. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus this summer, as the nation battles the COVID-19 outbreak, the editor asked if I would take a further look at the fight against the disease there, 102-years-ago. This installment focused on the frontline workers when the so-called Spanish influenza ripped across the county in 1918. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My research continues as I have been working with the Delaware Public Archives death records, police blotters, public health reports, death certificates, governor’s correspondence, workhouse journals, Wilmington city records, and much more. As conditions permit, I plan to do additional fieldwork in Harrisburg, Trenton, and Philadelphia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is the front page from the Quarterly Newsletter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Salem Countians on the Frontline of the Global Pandemic of 1918, an article in the Quarterly Newsletter of the Salem County Historical Society (Fall 2020)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Some of my current research is focused on investigating the impact of the 1918 pandemic in communities along an extended corridor stretching from Baltimore to Philadelphia. This work has or will take me to cities and counties along I-95, as well as jurisdictions near this region. 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For the few requiring inpatient care, a trip to distant hospitals in Camden, Bridgeton or Wilmington, DE was required. 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Johnson, Associated Press, US Deaths from COVID hit 1 million, less than 2\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Health Care"","block_context":{"text":"Health Care","link":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/category\/health-care\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Harford County Deaths 1910 - 1920","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/harford01.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/harford01.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/harford01.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/harford01.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/harford01.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2502,"url":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/new-delaware-humanities-lecture-examines-pandemic-of-1918\/","url_meta":{"origin":2479,"position":4},"title":"New Delaware Humanities Lecture Examines Pandemic of 1918","author":"Mike","date":"August 24, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"I am pleased that Delaware Humanities has selected a timely new program I have been researching about the pandemic of 1918 in the region.\u00a0 The goal of this program is to understand how the experience of 1918, a situation that called for drastic action, unfolded and use this examination in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Programs"","block_context":{"text":"Programs","link":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/category\/programs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/large.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/large.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/large.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/large.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5234,"url":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/salem-county-newspapers\/","url_meta":{"origin":2479,"position":5},"title":"Salem County Newspapers Online","author":"Mike","date":"August 8, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Chronicling America at the Library of Congress has updated its digital newspaper database with the inclusion of two historic Salem County newspapers: The Monitor and the Monitor-Register. These Woodstown, NJ papers, spanning 1884 to 1925, are now digitally accessible for historical and family history research. 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