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It Came Across The Plains: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic In Rural Nebraska, Kristin Watkins

Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this historical case study was to understand and describe rural community experiences during the 1918 influenza pandemic in Nebraska.

Examining the rural experience in Nebraska during the 1918 influenza pandemic provided a new level of insight into the differences and similarities between the urban and rural experience. As related by a detailed study of Omaha during the 1918 pandemic, the community was devastated by disease. Despite public ordinances and health department warnings, streetcars ran at capacity, parades were held to raise money for war bonds, and the annual Aksarben Coronation took place. Cases of flu were too …

The History And Development Of A Consolidated Communications System And An Emergency Medical Services System In Nebraska, Kenneth F. Kimball, Donald G. Penterman, Rollin D. Schnieder

Nebraska History: Books

•A Chronology of Events

•Nebraska Vital Statistics

•A Consolidated Communications Concept

•A Total Emergency Medical Service System Concept

•The Nebraska Adjutant General's Study of Telecommunications

•Nebraska State Civil Defense

•The Nebraska Consolidated Communications Corporation

•Emergency Telecommunications Service: Planning for the State Disaster Plan

•Evolution of Ambulance Service in Nebraska

•The Nebraska Committee on Transportation and Communication

•The University of Nebraska College of Medicine

•Extension Service, the University of Nebraska College of Agriculture

•The Nebraska State Department of Health

•Area Funding

•The Department of Health, Education and Welfare

•The Six EMS Regions in Nebraska

•The Office of Traffic Highway Safety in …