Know someone who can't stay home more than usual while we try to stifle the spread of COVID-19? Maybe that twitchy someone is you. Either way, don't feel too bad, because chances are your grand, or great-grandparents had the same propensity to go out into large groups during a pandemic.
October 1918: This is where Doctor H. L. Rockwood, in concert with acting mayor W. S. FitzGerald and public welfare director Lamar Beman came in. Not a ban as such, but a strong recommendation to suspend all gatherings until things got a bit more under control with the Spanish flu in Cleveland and Cuyahoga county.
This was in response to the practice of turning away people who looked sick only.
October 1918: This is where Doctor H. L. Rockwood, in concert with acting mayor W. S. FitzGerald and public welfare director Lamar Beman came in. Not a ban as such, but a strong recommendation to suspend all gatherings until things got a bit more under control with the Spanish flu in Cleveland and Cuyahoga county.
This was in response to the practice of turning away people who looked sick only.
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