35+ Spanish Flu 1918 People Wearing Masks Pictures. Who knew this and wrote about it in study done by dr. In 1918, people decorated their masks for parties, cut flaps in them for cigarettes and wore them to the movies.

Nationwide, officials urged people in 1918 to don gauze masks and face coverings or cover their mouths and wearing masks during the spanish flu pandemic was a proud exhibition of one's devotion to their. The centers for disease control and prevention do not recommend the use of masks by healthy people. The san francisco chronicle said the simplest type of mask was of folded gauze affixed with elastic or tape.

The spanish flu to a great extent hit the young and healthy.

Spectators are wearing masks as a precaution against the spread of influenza. At night the health board instructed reusable masks be dipped in alcohol or boiled for an advertisement from the red cross in the san francisco chronicle urging the public to wear face masks during the 1918 spanish flu pandemic in. It was called spanish flu not because it originated in spain but because spain was the first place people were able to talk about it freely. In 1918, at the height of world war i, a deadly strain of the influenza virus was spreading across the planet.