Vee L. Housman wrote: > > Nadine, > > Mother said that the deaths were so numerous on a daily basis that the > Health Dept.(?) would drive up and down each street in Steelton with a > horse and wagon every day and (I may be confused on this point) call out > to the residents, "Bring out your dead." It was all that the local > carpenters could do to keep up with the demands for even a simple pine > box coffin. As noted, little Paul was buried the day after he died > which would indicate that there was an urgency to bury the dead. > Vee - My mother was raised in a village in central PA (Clearfield County) and she always said the only spanking she ever remembered receiving was when she and her sister, walking along the road during this time, accepted a lift on what in those less-euphemistic days was called the 'dead wagon.' Neither of them got the flu but I think she said a cousin died of it. jan