It's easy to wear a mask! United Newsreel NARA ID 89352. NARA GIF here.
DO NOT EXPECTORATE PROMISCOUSLY! & other helpful pandemic rules, circa 1918-1920
Portsmouth Navy Yard flyer, 2/3/1920. NARA ID 6861947.
By Miriam Kleiman, Public Affairs
Students: Compare & contrast past and present pandemic guidance. Should the CDC advise the following?
- Avoid wet feet! - Stay away from Boston! - Boil or destroy your handkerchief after sneezing! - Keep regular hours! - Watch out for "coughers" and "sneezers"! - NO spitting! - Have back pain? Go home!
Most importantly, even if tempted, DO NOT EXPECTORATE PROMISCUOUSLY!!!
Sanitary Precautions, Portsmouth Navy Yard, 9/12/1918, NARA ID 6861949.
Exercise caution when getting a haircut! Pandemic Flashback! U-C Berkeley 1919 U-C Berkeley creatively responded to the “pandemic hair” challenge (@1919) with an “Open air barber shop.” Students, soldiers and staff traded overgrown locks and scruffy facial hair for the fashionable “high and tight.”
U-C Berkeley, CA. War Department image, 1/30/1919, NARA ID 26428662.
See online:
Flu Pandemic of 1918
The Deadly Virus: The Influenza Epidemic of 1918
