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Jailer Oscar Roper died as a result of complications from influenza while performing his assigned duties during the Influenza Pandemic.
Earlier in the week, an influenza outbreak had spread among prisoners and employees at the jail. Jailer Roper's death was the third death inside the jail in only hours after two prisoners died of complications of influenza. As a result of the outbreak, prisoners and employees at the jail were closely monitored for influenza symptoms.
Jailer Roper served in Law Enforcement for five years and previously served with the East Saint Louis Police Department prior to his appointment by the Sheriff to be the Jailer a year earlier.
Survived by
He was survived by his wife, four children, and his mother.
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.
