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Private

Joseph B. Malloy

Pennsylvania State Police — Harrisburg, PA
The 1918 Influenza Pandemic → Illness
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End of Watch October 9, 1918
Age 24
Tour of Duty 2 yrs
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Gender Male
Incident Service The Sacrifice Memorials 1 Also Remembered Department 86

Incident

Private Joseph Malloy died after contracting the Spanish Flu while in the performance of his duties.

Due to the devastation of the Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918 members of the Pennsylvania State Police had been ordered to perform duties such as, assisting nurses and doctors in taking care of influenza victims, serve as pallbearers of influenza victims, assisting health officers, transporting victims to and from hospitals, and to police the Borough of Exeter after the two members of their police force succumbed to the influenza.

Private Joseph Malloy had served with the Pennsylvania State Police for two years and was assigned to Troop D, Butler.

The 1918 Influenza Pandemic

Private Joseph B. Malloy died on October 9, 1918 of influenza contracted in the line of duty. He was 24.

He is one of 201 officers honored here, and one of 3 at Pennsylvania State Police.

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

He was survived by his Mother, and several brothers.

In Our Keeping

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Tributes

No vaccine, no antibiotics, and you stood the post anyway.
Private Malloy gave the Pennsylvania State Police 2 years.
Thank you for your service to the people of Pennsylvania. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Private Malloy.

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

Agency

Department Pennsylvania State Police
Type State Police
Location Harrisburg, Dauphin County, PA
Platform Identity pasp.pa.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch October 9, 1918
Tour of Duty 2 yrs
Age 24
Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Illness
Cause Detail Influenza Pandemic

The Sacrifice · Illness

Joseph 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

Joseph was 24. 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. Joseph had served 2 years; the middle length of service was 20 years.

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. Wednesdays: 14%.

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

Pennsylvania State Police has 87 officers remembered here, Joseph among them.

Across the years
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Where

Private Joseph B. Malloy

Pennsylvania State Police · End of Watch October 9, 1918

Where the Name Is Cut

National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial · Panel 21-W

Also Remembered

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