https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86072143/1918-04-25/ed-1/seq-11/#date1=1918&sort=date&date2=1918&words=influenza&language=&sequence=0&lccn=&index=7&state=&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=influenza&year=&phrasetext=&andtext=&proxValue=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=16

Influenza is near the bottom of the concerns expressed in the Vermont State Board of Health annual report. The number of deaths in the prior year were down, births up, and the 158 deaths from influenza far outpaced by cancer (392) and tuberculosis. There were also 391 deaths from pneumonia. 

Source: "State Board of Health," Burlington Weekly Free Press, Burlington, Vermont. Page 11, Column 6.