Letter from Oliver J. Bond to Orlando Sheppard, October 3, 1918

Title

Letter from Oliver J. Bond to Orlando Sheppard, October 3, 1918

Description

Oliver J. Bond writes to Orlando Sheppard, Chairman of The Citadel's Board of Visitors with an update on the Spanish Influenza at The Citadel. Bond writes that the school's hospital facilities were exhausted, and the healthy cadets had been furloughed upon the advice of The Citadel's Surgeon, Dr. Cathcart. He writes that they had over fifty cases of the disease, and that one cadet, Cudworth, had died.

Source

CP9

Publisher

The Citadel Archives & Museum

Date

Rights

Materials in The Citadel Archives & Museum Digital Collections are intended for educational and research use. The user assumes all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright. For more information contact The Citadel Archives & Museum, The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, 29409.

Relation

Oliver J. Bond Collection

Format

application/pdf

Language

English

Type

Text

Identifier

https://citadeldigitalarchives.omeka.net/items/show/1324

Coverage

Charleston (S.C.)

Citation

Bond, Oliver James, 1865-1933, “Letter from Oliver J. Bond to Orlando Sheppard, October 3, 1918,” The Citadel Archives Digital Collections, accessed March 28, 2024, https://citadeldigitalarchives.omeka.net/items/show/1324.

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