https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84020558/1918-12-13/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1918&sort=date&date2=1918&words=influenza+INFLUENZA&language=&sequence=0&lccn=&index=18&state=&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=influenza&year=&phrasetext=&andtext=&proxValue=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1506

The APHA meeting adjourns without a national plan for fighting influenza. A federal department is proposed to combine the public and private associations interested in public health. The US government is ready to destroy the Wobblies.

Source: “Adjourn Without National Plan to Fight Influenza,” Arizona Republican, Phoenix, Arizona, December 13, 1918. Page 1, Column 5.