Finally! Thanks to the efforts of many of you, the Spanish Influenza book is done! I couldn't have done it without you. Here's the information on it. A Time For Prudence Rather Than Panic, Volume 2. In volume 1 of this series I covered the newspaper and book accounts of how the Spanish Flu came to Kentucky. It was almost a daily diary from newspaper accounts of the spread of the pandemic in KY, what the doctors, hospitals and city officials did to try to stop it and of the massive deaths at Camp Taylor (near Louisville) where it was introduced to the state. In Volume 2, as you know, with about 24 volunteers (for whom I will ever be grateful!), we read every KY death certificate from September 1918 through either June of 1920 or in some areas, the entire year of 1920. As the counties were finished, I took the data and formatted it. I showed it in county order. Within the county, then in chronological order alphabetically. Originally, I wanted to present this in columns across the page, but I soon realized that there were too many names. So I went back and reformatted again and the results are still huge. I found it necessary to use abbreviations for the cause of death but each entry shows the name, age, date of death and cause of death. Physicians called the causes flu, influenza, Spanish Influenza. Going along with the Spanish Flu was "contributory cause". - many who had the flu and survived died of bronchial or lobar pneumonia or measles due to their weakened immune systems. Now, it is obvious that this is not a 100% accurate total. Many deaths were not reported, some certificates were impossible to read (faded, writing) and some dying of influenza or pneumonia might not have been involved in the pandemic. Those two causes of death of course were present every year. We tried to find those that occurred in the same time frame and area as those dying of Spanish Influenza. It is also possible that there were more deaths past the cut-off date. But, this is the first time a list of those dying in Kentucky has been done. The result? There are approximately 21,473 deaths listed. This came out to 235 pages of names, two columns wide. I also included a breakdown on the deaths in Jefferson County and Camp Taylor, definition of the diseases and other statistical data. The surname index alone is over 42 pages long. I will be contacting privately the volunteers who helped me to give them a special thanks and I will be sending them, if they desire, a PDF copy of the book. Sandi