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cartoon Span Flu 3
The tenements and poorer sections of town were the hardest hit. Entire families lay prostrate with fever and fear. Neighbors were helping neighbors. Friends were visiting families to see if they were OK, or needed assistance. Some men stopped working at the mills and factories of the town to help in their neighborhoods. In one Monessen family, a father and seven children were in the hospital and the mother, unable to cope with fever and her stricken family, ended up at the County Home for the Insane. In another, six of the nine Bachovchins on Ontario Street were stricken with the influenza. If fell to Mary Bachovchin, age 10, to nurse the sick back to health. When the doctor visited he wanted to take some of the family to the hospital, but Mary "wept bitterly and begged to leave the family there, saying that she was getting along all right and could care for them." According to the Monessen News, she did, and they did.
cartoon Span Flu 3
The tenements and poorer sections of town were the hardest hit. Entire families lay prostrate with fever and fear. Neighbors were helping neighbors. Friends were visiting families to see if they were OK, or needed assistance. Some men stopped working at the mills and factories of the town to help in their neighborhoods. In one Monessen family, a father and seven children were in the hospital and the mother, unable to cope with fever and her stricken family, ended up at the County Home for the Insane. In another, six of the nine Bachovchins on Ontario Street were stricken with the influenza. If fell to Mary Bachovchin, age 10, to nurse the sick back to health. When the doctor visited he wanted to take some of the family to the hospital, but Mary "wept bitterly and begged to leave the family there, saying that she was getting along all right and could care for them." According to the Monessen News, she did, and they did.