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For nearly two years during World War I, a St. Louis hospital set up an outpost near the battlefields in France. Dr. Fred Murphy, head of surgery at Washington University School of Medicine, realized the allies needed help when he volunteered at an American hospital in Paris in 1916 before the U.S. entered the war. When he came back to St. Louis, Murphy recruited dozens of doctors, nurses, medical students and other personnel from the university and then-Barnes Hospital to form their own hospital to relieve British and French medical officers. Take a look inside the $30M renovation of Soldiers Memorial, set to reopen by Veterans Day Soon after the U.S. declared war with Germany, the St. Louis medical team shipped out in May 1917, becoming some of the first Americans to reach the European war zone. U.S. Army Base Hospital 21 was assigned to Rouen in the Normandy region of France as one of several hospitals formed by American medical schools to serve sick and injured soldiers and … [Read more...] about A St. Louis hospital opened in France during World War I

It started in a dusty and desolate corner of Kansas, as horror stories might. The deadly influenza virus that would be known as the mother of all outbreaks tore through Haskell County in the winter of 1918. The county doctor warned that young, sturdy hog farmers were collapsing in the fields as if they’d been shot. Historians believe that the flu soon reached Camp Funston at Fort Riley, where troops trained to fight World War I. By spring, flu outbreaks hit most of the Army camps across the country. Thousands of troops in effect carried germ warfare in their arsenal to European shores, and the pandemic took hold. The particular strain of influenza was most aggressive in healthy people ages 20 to 40, possibly because their strong immune systems overreacted to the invading virus. The 1918 Spanish flu got its name after King Alfonso of Spain, 32, fell ill that May. “It was working-age adults, people who were young and healthy suddenly getting sick and dying,” said Dr. … [Read more...] about St. Louis saw the deadly 1918 Spanish flu epidemic coming. Shutting down the city saved countless lives

It started in a dusty and desolate corner of Kansas, as horror stories might. The deadly influenza virus that would be known as the mother of all outbreaks tore through Haskell County in the winter of 1918. The county doctor warned that young, sturdy hog farmers were collapsing in the fields as if they’d been shot. Historians believe that the flu soon reached Camp Funston at Fort Riley, where troops trained to fight World War I. By spring, flu outbreaks hit most of the Army camps across the country. Thousands of troops in effect carried germ warfare in their arsenal to European shores, and the pandemic took hold. The particular strain of influenza was most aggressive in healthy people ages 20 to 40, possibly because their strong immune systems overreacted to the invading virus. The 1918 Spanish flu got its name after King Alfonso of Spain, 32, fell ill that May. “It was working-age adults, people who were young and healthy suddenly getting sick and dying,” said Dr. … [Read more...] about St. Louis shut down and saved lives in 1918 flu pandemic

Joe “Bucket Joe” Mossberger, a man known to many in south St. Louis as a local character and transient window washer in the ’70s and ’80s, died Saturday (Sept. 2, 2017) at age 73. For some 30 years, Mr. Mossberger was a fixture on Gravois Avenue and Grand Boulevard whom most longtime South Siders seemed to know. Few knew his real name, so he was simply known as “Bucket Man” or “Bucket Joe.” He was homeless, often disheveled, typically drank alcohol out of a milk jug and almost always carried a bucket he’d use to wash windows for local businesses, cars or anywhere that would let him. Over the years, there were two feature stories written about Mr. Mossberger in the St. Louis Suburban Journals, as well as a song written in his honor and — at some point — a Facebook fan page filled with memories of run-ins with “Bucket Joe.” “People still recognize the name he went by — to a degree that would make … [Read more...] about ‘Bucket Joe’ Mossberger, once a fixture on the streets of south St. Louis, dies at 73