[PRCo] Re: PRT 5326 versus the Flu

[Schneider Fred]

It would be interesting to see death rates as a percentage of the  
population of all sorts of areas in the nation.   I get the feeling  
that Philadelphia was one of the worst places in 1918.


On Jan 20, 2010, at 6:35 PM, richard allman wrote:

> and how did that compare to your experience w/ the Great Flu of  
> 1917-18?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "BobDietrich" <bob.dietrich1 at verizon.net>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 10:23 AM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: PRT 5326 versus the Flu
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>> I do believe that Derrick is the exception in this group. Most of  
>> us were
>> around for the last swine flu (was it in the mid '50s?) so we are  
>> immune.
>>
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>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
>> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf  
>> Of Dennis
>> Fred Cramer
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 7:43 AM
>> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org; Nancy McCombe; Lybarger Ed;  
>> Bruce
>> Wells; Becker Scott
>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: PRT 5326 versus the Flu
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>> I managed to survive not getting H1N1 when IUP was nearly shut  
>> down last
>> fall.
>> Call it luck.
>>
>> My Uncle Fred died from the flu in 1926 at the age of 1.5.  Most  
>> of us
>> probably have a direct relative that succumbed to the disease.   
>> Getting
>> this
>>
>> back on topic, the Cramer's lived in West Penn territory during  
>> the first
>> 3
>> decades of the 20th century.  Between 1900 and 1915 their children  
>> were
>> born
>>
>> in Calumet, Uniontown, Hecla, Humbert, Isabella and Boswell.  Poor  
>> coal
>> miners moved a lot in those days.  They eventually migrated to  
>> Lincoln
>> Hill
>> and then finally to Washington during WWII.
>>
>>
>>          Dennis F. Cramer
>> http://home.windstream.net/dfc1
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