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Events

• April 22 – The State-sponsored tuberculosis sanatorium, Piedmont Sanatorium, opened in Burkeville (southeast of Farmville) for Negro consumptives.. Founded by the State Board of Health and the Negro Organization Society as a rest home for African-Americans. Before its establishment, the only treatment facilities for African-Americans were the Central State Hospital for Mental Diseases and the State Penitentiary.

• September 2 – City Council: First meeting of the two branches of the city government held this evening. The council organized by the election of the officers - Dr. W. M. Forrest President of Council. Web. Dr. W. M. Forrest President of Council, Daily Progress, Sept 3, 1918, retrieved June 8, 2019.

• October 3 – This afternoon, at the meeting of the Board of Health of the city, in view of the spread of influenza, it was decided to stop all large public gatherings until the disease was abated.Web. [https:https://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/uva-lib:2113135/view#openLayer/uva-lib:2113136/3351/4002/3/1/0 Public Gatherings are Discontinued], Daily Progress, October 3, 1918, retrieved March 3, 2020.

• October 3 – The Daily Progress reported on this Thursday that Mayor E. G. Haden ordered "all schools, public and private, churches, theaters, and all other places where there were public congregations closed until Monday, October 14th, 1918." Web. [https:https://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/uva-lib:2113135/view#openLayer/uva-lib:2113136/3351/4002/3/1/0 Public Gatherings are Discontinued], Daily Progress, October 3, 1918, retrieved March 3, 2020.. This order was extended week after week, along with additional closures and restrictions, until November 4.

• October 8 – The Daily Progress reported that the mayor also ordered pool halls closed in response to the influenza.

International Events

September 26 – The U.S. Army launched one of the largest offensives in American Military history, the Meuse-Argonne Campaign of the First World War. More than one point two million soldiers of the American Expeditionary Forces engaged in this critical battle that lasted until Armstice Day. Over twenty six thousand Americans lost their lives, and nearly one hundred thousand were wounded. Of the Americans who fell during the campaign fourteen thousand two hundred forty six were laid to rest at the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery in eastern France.

Deaths

• September 13 – Tuberculosis: “Clyde Bessie Handsbury, the 22-year-old daughter of Joseph Handsbury…One week ago another daughter of the household, Sadie Edna, aged 16, died of the same cause, tuberculosis. The funeral will be held from the First Baptist Church (colored)...” Web. 2 DIE IN ONE WEEK FROM TUBERCULOSIS, Daily Progress, Sept 13, 1918, retrieved June 1, 2019.
• September 30 – Forty-one-year-old Bruce Hackett (1877-1918), a carpenter who lived near Scottsville, was the first person in Albemarle County to die of Spanish influenza.

• September 26 – Second Lieutenant George McIntire Baker of Company "L", 313th Infantry, 79 Division. A. E. F., and nephew of Paul Goodloe McIntire, was killed in action Argonne Forest France.