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e Board of Health, saw roughly 13,000 residents die as the flu swept through the inner city neighborhoods. It represented, Higgins said, the worst case scenario, with dead bodies piling up outside of police stations and others dumped into trench graves.

"Obviously, not every city had the same experience," Higgins said. "There were really no successes. You could only talk about degrees of failure and success."


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