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New Jersey deaths in the 1918-1919 global Spanish flu pandemic were estimated to approach 5,000 of the 650,000 who died across the US. This article describes actions by the mayor of Hackensack to comply with order closing public gathering places of the State Board of Health. Image: Bergen Evening Record October 8, 1918 from www.hackensackschools.org
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