Blockton Observed Strict Quarantine Laws During 1918 Flu Pandemic

From the Blocktonian, which printed this from an old newspaper during the Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918:

All cases of influenza have been released from quarantine, and there is not a case of influenza in Blockton at this time. Should a case of influenza be reported to me, it will be quarantined at once, and a strict quarantine maintained. The people of Blockton, with a few exceptions, have been very obedient to the quarantine laws. Don’t smuggle any case of influenza; report it at once to the Board of Health as the law requires you to do.

–H.L. Carr, Mayor of Blockton, December 17th, 1918.