Scouting in a Pandemic - A little history
Scouting in a Pandemic - A Little History 1918-1919 Spanish Flu Pandemic This article is from Scouting, Volume 6, Number 30, December 5, 1918 While Scouting had been mobilized during World War I to support America's war effort, they were called upon also to support the effort to stop the spread of the Spanish Flu. According to the CDC the 1918 Pandemic of the H1N1 virus (Spanish Flu) spread world wide during 1918-1919. "It is estimated that about 500 million people or one-third of the world's population became infected with this virus. The number of deaths was estimated to be at least 50 million world wide with about 675,000 occurring in the United State." (source: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-pandemic-h1n1.html) The help of the Boy Scouts was enlisted to distribute information about influenza printed by the state Board of Health to all the homes. Scouts in New York City, where the flu killed an estimated 20,000 t
