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Patrolman Dennis Murphy died as a result of complications from influenza while performing his assigned duties during the Influenza Pandemic
On February 14, Patrolman Murphy finished his shift at the jailor's office and returned to his home. Later the same day, he telephoned the department to say that he was ill and suffering from Influenza. While recovering at his home in the 400 block of West Aluminum Avenue, pneumonia developed, and he died due to complications of influenza.
The Butte 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 Murphy served with the Butte Police Department for five years.
Survived by
He was survived by his wife and four children.
The 1918 Influenza Pandemic
January 1, 1918
The influenza of 1918 came in waves, the worst of them in the autumn of that year, and it killed the young and strong as readily as the old. Before it was over it had killed more people than the First World War.
Police officers worked it without vaccines, without antibiotics and often without masks: enforcing quarantines, carrying the sick, standing posts in cities where the dead outpaced the undertakers. They caught it doing the job, and there was no treatment to give them.
