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Patrolman Peter Jost died as a result of complications from influenza while performing his assigned duties during the Influenza Pandemic.
Patrolman Jost became ill at his traffic post in Downtown Portland near the intersection of Fifth Street and Morrison Street. He was taken to Saint Vincent Hospital, where he died due to complications of influenza.
The Portland Police Bureau was tasked with enforcing local health laws to help prevent the spread of influenza, as well as performing their regular police duties.
Patrolman Jost served with the Portland Police Bureau for approximately one year. Patrolman Jost had resigned from the department for a new job in Pendleton, Oregon, a year earlier. He had recently rejoined the Portland Police Bureau three months earlier at the request of the Chief of Police.
Survived by
He was survived by his wife.
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.
