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During the height of the 1918 influenza outbreak, central Pennsylvania ran out of coffins

Posted on February 6, 2018April 11, 2018 by Jake Wynn

Undertakers in Harrisburg found their morgues full of flu victims in October 1918 with no way to give them proper burials.

Posted in Central Pennsylvania, WWITagged 1918, 1918 Influenza Outbreak, Central Pennsylvania, Dauphin County, Harrisburg, Influenza, Lebanon, Lebanon County, Medicine, October 1918, Spanish Flu, Steelton, World War I2 Comments

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