Patrolman Adolph Oberdoerster

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Died on December 15, 1918, aged 45.

His life

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

The Akron 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 Oberdoerster served with the Akron Police Department for 18 years.

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He was survived by his wife and six 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.

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