My family has a tape recording made in the 1960s of an old country doctor. Asked the most difficult period was, he answered without hesitation the Spanish Flu,

My family has a tape recording made in the 1960s of an old country doctor. Asked the most difficult period was, he answered without hesitation the Spanish Flu, not any of the mass grave yellow fever epidemics. "I would see an old friend in town in the morning, be asked to go check on him in the afternoon, and find the whole family dead".