https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85025007/1918-12-11/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1918&sort=date&date2=1918&words=influenza&language=&sequence=0&lccn=&index=12&state=&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=influenza&year=&phrasetext=&andtext=&proxValue=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1463

A Baltimore man shoots his wife and himself following the death of their three children from influenza. He does not succeed and is held on $5,000 bail. Dr Sandridge of the USPHS gives his report to the Alexandria, VA relating that a third of the budget was spent on providing privies, and describing the department as the most important in the city.

Source: “Shoots Wife, Would Die,’ Alexandria Gazette, Alexandria, Virginia, December 11, 1918. Page 1, Column 6.