[Skooz]

No mention of the influenza epidemic?

That alone would mark 1919 as a very bad year.

[hanamizu]

No mention of the influenza epidemic?
That alone would mark 1919 as a very bad year.

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To get an idea of how bad the ‘Spanish Flu’ was I recommend this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE0-WWqhFls&t=159s&frags=pl%2Cwn

He puts the lethality of the flu and the war in perspective at the very end.

[SoCal Pubbie]

I think the worst of the Spanish Flu was over by 1919, though there were still cases reported. That year also saw a bad econimic downturn as war spending ended and farms and businesses that had borrowed heavily to finance expansion to meet the wartime demand went belly up.