School: Streamstown (roll number 15291)
- Location:
- Baile an tSrutháin, Co. na hIarmhí
- Teacher: S. Garland
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- (continued from previous page)This district did not suffer very much as there were merely only two deaths Jame Mc Cormack of Bishopstown, and James Sheeran of Jamestown. Nearly every house had somebody stricken with the disease. The symptoms of the disease were a headache and a sick stomach and sometimes it developed into pneumonia or pleurisy. This was one of the effects of the war and it lasted throughout the whole year.
- In this district 19 years ago in the year 1919 there was an influenza epidemic which affected the people especially the young people. This was the year after the great war in Europe and the people say that the soldiers who returned from the war brought back the germs and spread it among the people of this district. In nearly every house in the district, two or three were confined to bed and sometimes two or(continues on next page)
- Collector
- David Lynam
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Baile an tSrutháin, Co. na hIarmhí
- Informant
- Jack Slamen
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 52
- Address
- Baile an tSrutháin, Co. na hIarmhí
