Dr. Richmond’s presentation focuses on the impact of Spanish Influenza on the city of Detroit. She highlights the spread of the disease within the city, the impact of influenza on wartime production, and the ways in which the city and state governments attempted to stop the spread of the disease. Additionally Dr. Richmond provides a brief discussion on the illness itself, what made it so dangerous, and what could be done to combat the disease.
Link to the presentation: Richmond_1918-1919 Flu Pandemic_Detroit

Image credit: With masks over their faces, members of the American Red Cross remove a victim of the Spanish Flu from a house at Etzel and Page Avenues, St. Louis, Missouri. St. Louis Post Dispatch. The photo is in the public domain and available through Wiki Commons.