FLU Epidemics in Texas

1918
SIXTY DIE OF INFLUENZA AT STATE INSANE ASYLUM
Austin, Tex., Nov. 4.—The influenza epidemic which raged in the State Insane Asylum in this city, after taking a toll of sixty lives, has abated and conditions are back to normal, according to Dr. John Preston, 'superintendent of the institution. Fifteen hundred of the inmates of the institution were stricken with the disease. Reports here are that there are 700 cases of influenza in the insane asylum at Terrell.
[The Bartlett Tribune and News (Bartlett, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 22, Ed. 1, Friday, November 8, 1918 - Submitted by Janice Rice]