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katarina
02-Oct-12, 12:41
Does anyone know how many people in Caithness died from Spanish Flue? I heard it spoken about as a child, and my grandmother did speak about WW1 but she never mentioned anyone she knew having had it or died from it. I have been watching a program about health care before the NHS, and apparently it swept the country.
feda16
02-Oct-12, 13:07
no one would have died of Spanish Flue, but some may have died of Spanish Flu ;)
Serenity
02-Oct-12, 13:48
no one would have died of Spanish Flue

Sounds like some awful illness that would require cleaning up some rather unpleasant places?
katarina
02-Oct-12, 16:09
ha ha ha. you know what i mean!
gillsbay
02-Oct-12, 21:57
when I was young (many years ago) I heard someone speaking about a flue brush and thought it was for clearing your tubes if you had the flu!
Connor.
03-Oct-12, 12:20
It was pretty bad, I heard a paella people got sick.