Policeman

Peter Hilding Isackson

Los Angeles Police Department — Los Angeles, CA
End of Watch October 24, 1918
Age 28
Gender Male

Incident

Policeman Peter Isackson died as a result of complications from influenza while performing his assigned duties during the Influenza Pandemic.

Policeman Isackson was survived by his mother and sister.

The 1918 Influenza Pandemic

Policeman Peter Hilding Isackson died on October 24, 1918 of influenza contracted in the line of duty. He was 28.

He is one of 201 officers honored here, and one of 10 at Los Angeles Police Department.

The influenza pandemic of 1918 killed more people worldwide than the war that preceded it. Police officers worked it without vaccines, without antibiotics, and often without masks, enforcing quarantines, transporting the sick, and standing posts in cities where the dead outpaced the undertakers.

They caught it doing the job. There was no treatment to give them.

Survivors

Policeman Isackson was survived by his mother and sister.

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Tributes

No vaccine, no antibiotics, and you stood the post anyway.
Policeman Isackson served with the Los Angeles Police Department.
Thank you for your service to the Los Angeles community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Policeman Isackson.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Type Police Department
Location Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA
Platform Identity lapd.losangeles.ca.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch October 24, 1918
Age 28
Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Illness
Cause Detail Influenza Pandemic

The Sacrifice · Illness

Peter is one of 2,028 officers lost to illness in the United States, 7.4% of the 27,552 remembered there.

34,103 officers are remembered on this memorial. Each number below is one of them.

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Time

In 1918, 226 officers in the United States were lost to illness, the 3rd heaviest of 108 years on record. The heaviest was 2021, with 564.

Every year on record · United States
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Who

Peter was 28. Of the 1,996 lost to illness in the United States whose age is recorded, half were between 42 and 58; the middle age was 51.

Age at death
Where he stood among them
Age by years of service
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When

October holds 14.9% of these deaths in the United States, more than any other month. Thursdays: 15.7%.

By month
By day of the week
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How

Illness deaths account for 7.4% of all 27,552 deaths in the United States, the 3rd most common cause.

Every cause
Weapons recorded
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His people

Los Angeles Police Department has at least 120 officers remembered here, Peter among them.

Across the years
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Where

Policeman Peter Hilding Isackson

Los Angeles Police Department · End of Watch October 24, 1918

Where the Name Is Cut

National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial · Panel 50-WT

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