The series on the great influenza epidemic of 1918 started with a report from a Camp Dix medical officer stating that just a few more than 800 soldiers had died in a three-week period at the camp. The total by the end of the year would reach almost 1,000. Like the flu, the series spread to troopships such as the USS Leviathan, which left Hoboken, and to the streets of Trenton and Newark as the epidemic became intertwined with the politics of the day and World War I.

From Tuckerton, on Oct. 24 it was reported, “Several Victims Along the Shore.