TheFluMaster
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Arizona State Summit
Opening Remarks Prepared for Delivery
By the Honorable Mike Leavitt
Secretary of Health and Human Services
January 6, 2006
The Great Pandemic also touched Arizona.
The leading newspaper of the day was the Arizona Republican. The threat was high enough that it did not publish a paper for a time.
A "Citizens Committee" deputized a special police force and called upon all "patriotic citizens" to enforce anti-influenza ordinances.
Each person had to wear a mask in public. Those who coughed or spat without covering their mouths were arrested. The Republican described "A city of masked faces, a city as grotesque as a masked carnival."
As the disease raged, people took recourse to unusual remedies.
For instance, Arizona had ratified Prohibition earlier in the year (May 1918) and so the state superintendent of public health turned to nearly 10,000 pints of bootleggers' whiskey that had been confiscated by the sheriff's office.
Within two days, news of the loophole traveled across the city, and the sheriff's office was besieged with citizens and doctors alike, all of them seeking the "remedy."
http://www.pandemicflu.gov/general/greatpandemic.html#arizona
Opening Remarks Prepared for Delivery
By the Honorable Mike Leavitt
Secretary of Health and Human Services
January 6, 2006
The Great Pandemic also touched Arizona.
The leading newspaper of the day was the Arizona Republican. The threat was high enough that it did not publish a paper for a time.
A "Citizens Committee" deputized a special police force and called upon all "patriotic citizens" to enforce anti-influenza ordinances.
Each person had to wear a mask in public. Those who coughed or spat without covering their mouths were arrested. The Republican described "A city of masked faces, a city as grotesque as a masked carnival."
As the disease raged, people took recourse to unusual remedies.
For instance, Arizona had ratified Prohibition earlier in the year (May 1918) and so the state superintendent of public health turned to nearly 10,000 pints of bootleggers' whiskey that had been confiscated by the sheriff's office.
Within two days, news of the loophole traveled across the city, and the sheriff's office was besieged with citizens and doctors alike, all of them seeking the "remedy."
http://www.pandemicflu.gov/general/greatpandemic.html#arizona