On This Day
On This Day, 25 November 1918
On 25, Nov 2018 | In On This Day | By Nicola Gauld
Birmingham Daily Post
Monday 25 November 1918
THE INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC
BLACK COUNTRY SCHOOLS STILL CLOSED
The schools in the Hales Owen and Rowley Regis districts have been closed for a further fortnight, and those in the Langley district for another week, in consequence of the continued prevalence of influenza.
Four deaths have occurred from the malady in one family residing at Langley, a man named Fanthom and his three grown-up daughters being the victims. One daughter went to the Registrar to record the death of her sister, and two days later she also succumbed to the disease.
