Work Of The Sisters During The Epidemic Of Influenza October, 1918
Author: first_name: Francis Edward
last_name: Tourscher
Language: English
Year: 1919

In 1918 over 2,000 Roman Catholic nuns left their convents in the Philadelphia area to nurse the sick and dying of the influenza epidemic.  Twenty-three of the sisters died because of their ministrations.  This is an account of their heroic work published in the American Catholic Historical Society Of Philadelphia, 1919.  “Gathered and arranged from reports of personal experiences of the sisters and contributed by request of the compiler.”  The compiler/author was an academic/priest at Villanova