Camp Dix – Flu part three

Despite the reassurances in newspaper articles in mid-September 1918, it was becoming apparent the epidemic of the Spanish influenza was spreading rapidly across the United States. What made this outbreak more frightening was that it struck most heavily in the age group 18 to 30. This was especially unnerving due to the fact the nation was in the midst of training millions of young doughboys in hastily constructed camps for the purpose of sending them to fight in the trenches of France.

One of the largest and most vulnerable of these training facilities was Camp Dix in Burlington County.