Roll of Honor
His Life
Patrolman Tony Natale died as a result of complications from influenza while performing his assigned duties during the Influenza Pandemic.
Patrolman Natale served with the McKees Rock Borough Police Department for only one month.
The 1918 Influenza Pandemic
Patrolman Domenico Antonio Natale died on October 23, 1918 of influenza contracted in the line of duty. He was 43.
He is one of 201 officers honored here.
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 wife and son.
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Tributes
No vaccine, no antibiotics, and you stood the post anyway.
Patrolman Natale served with the McKees Rocks Borough Police Department.
Thank you for your service to the McKees Rocks community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Patrolman Natale.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
Agency
Service Record
His Life Details
Patrolman Domenico Antonio Natale is one of 3,037 officers lost to illness connected to their service across the full record of this memorial — 9.3% of all 32,587 officers honored here.
In PA, 121 of 1,261 officers were lost to illness connected to their service — 9.6% of this state's fallen. That is 0.3 percentage points above the national rate of 9.3%.
At McKees Rocks Borough Police Department, 1 of 3 officers on record were lost to illness connected to their service — 33.3% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
How Illness compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Domenico Antonio Natale's cause is highlighted.
How Domenico Antonio Natale Compares
When Illness Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Illness deaths across the full memorial record. Domenico Antonio Natale is highlighted in Oct.
Incident Location
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