View People Wearing Masks Spanish Flu Pictures. Masks were commonly worn during the 1918 spanish flu pandemic, but this photograph doesn't show them. Should people be forced to wear face masks in public?
Health officers as well as police officers were empowered to order people to wear masks or go home.
About as bad as the common cold, one day it just disappeared. With the spanish flu spreading uncontrolled in cities and rural areas alike, a breakdown in the social fabric of many communities came quickly. Pneumonic influenza, or the spanish flu, infected around 40 per cent of the population when it spread to australia from the wwi battlefields of western europe in 1919. The 1918 influenza pandemic, the spanish flu, was one of the deadliest events in human history.
