WWI Influenza At
Camp Beauregard, Louisiana

September 20, 1918 to October 20 1918

Fig 1. Graph of influenza cases, the number with pneumonia and the number died during

September and October 1918 at Camp Beauregard

Fig 2. Graph of excess of beds required during the height of the influenza epidemic

in September to October 1918 at Camp Beauregard

TOTAL CASES of INFLUENZA 4814 and TOTAL SUFFERING PNEUMONIA -- 1370

Lobar Pneumonia -- 247, Bronchopneumonia -- 1123, Deaths -- 410, death from Lobar Pneumonia -- 87 and Bronchopneumonia -- 323

After the peak, FROM OCTOBER 21st 1918 to FEBRUARY 20th 1919, the number of cases of INFLUENZA fell to 186 and the total of PNEUMONIA fell to 43. There were 24 cases of Lobar Pneumonia and 19 of Bronchopneumonia.

DEATHS fell to 4 (9.3%) all these were due to Bronchopneumonia.

BACTERIOLOGY - AVERY METHOD IN 48 CASES:

Pneumococcus Type I: 1

Pneumococcus Type II: 0

Pneumococcus Type III: 2

Pneumococcus Type IV: 31

Undetermined: 1

Total: 35

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