School: Streamstown (roll number 15291)

Location:
Baile an tSrutháin, Co. na hIarmhí
Teacher:
S. Garland
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0734, Page 039

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0734, Page 039

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  2. One of the most disastrous aftermaths of the Great European War (1914-1918) was the terrible epidemic influenza which came to this country in the year 1919. It was generally believed and perhaps rightly too that the germ was brought back by the soldiers from the trenches and battlefields of Europe. One of the strangest features of the epidemic was that it was nearly all young people who were stricken down by the disease. In some districts as many as one, two, or even three people died
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