Oliver James Young

Baltimore Police Department — Baltimore, MD

Illness

End of Watch October 5, 1918

Age 32

The Vigil Panel 34 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 150

Incident

Patrolman Oliver Young died as a result of complications from influenza while performing his assigned duties during the Influenza Pandemic.

The Baltimore City Police Department had been tasked with enforcing local health laws to help prevent the spread of influenza, as well as performing their regular police duties.

Patrolman Young was survived by his wife.

The 1918 Influenza Pandemic

Patrolman Oliver James Young died on October 5, 1918 of influenza contracted in the line of duty. He was 32.

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

Patrolman Young was survived by his wife.

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Tributes

No vaccine, no antibiotics, and you stood the post anyway.
Patrolman Young served with the Baltimore City Police Department.
Thank you for your service to the Baltimore community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Patrolman Young.

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

Agency

Department Baltimore Police Department

Type Other

Location Baltimore, MD

Platform Identity baltpd.baltimore.md.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch October 5, 1918

Age 32

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Illness

Cause Detail Influenza Pandemic

Patrolman Oliver James Young is one of 1 officers lost to illness connected to their service across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,772 officers honored here.

In MD, 15 of 377 officers were lost to illness connected to their service — 4% of this state's fallen. That is 4 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Baltimore Police Department, 10 of 151 officers on record were lost to illness connected to their service — 6.6% of this agency's fallen.

Baltimore Police Department

of 151 officers

6.6% Illness

MD — Statewide

of 377 officers

4% Illness

Nationwide

of 97,772 officers

0% Illness