Roll of Honor
Incident
Patrolman Daniel Igo died as a result of complications from influenza while performing his assigned duties during the Influenza Pandemic.
The Watertown 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 Igo served with the Watertown Police Department for two years. He was survived by his wife and four-year-old son. Patrolman Igo's wife died the following day due to complications of influenza. Patrolman Igo's son would recover from the Influenza and become a Watertown Police Officer in the late 1940s, retiring from the Watertown Police Department before his passing in 1975.
The 1918 Influenza Pandemic
Patrolman Daniel Edward Igo died on December 6, 1918 of influenza contracted in the line of duty. He was 28.
He is one of 201 officers honored here, and one of 2 at Watertown 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
He was survived by his wife and four-year-old son.
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- July 23, 2026
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Tributes
No vaccine, no antibiotics, and you stood the post anyway.
Patrolman Igo gave the Watertown Police Department 2 years.
Thank you for your service to the Watertown community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Patrolman Igo.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
Agency
Service Record
Incident Details
Patrolman Daniel Edward Igo is one of 2,974 officers lost to illness connected to their service across the full record of this memorial — 9.1% of all 32,508 officers honored here.
In MA, 59 of 469 officers were lost to illness connected to their service — 12.6% of this state's fallen. That is 3.5 percentage points above the national rate of 9.1%.
At Watertown Police Department, 2 of 4 officers on record were lost to illness connected to their service — 50% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
How Illness compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Daniel Edward Igo's cause is highlighted.
How Daniel Edward Igo Compares
When Illness Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Illness deaths across the full memorial record. Daniel Edward Igo is highlighted in Dec.
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