[Tarheel]

My grandmother was a young mother of two during the Spanish Flu. Grandfather caught it but recovered. Baby Emil got it and d/n survive. Most people just took care of their own sick at home with good supportive care.

She told how people would place their dead wrapped in sheets with an ID tag at the garden or yard gate. Undertakers would come along and pick up the deceased. There were no gatherings for funerals or anything else including church, school, etc.

[kinghorse]

People were harder back then. If you contracted TB or another contagion it was goodbye so long. They had these places called sanitariums. Most everyone lost someone to a contagious disease.