JOSEPH ROLAND BROWN
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Officer Rank: Private
Memorial Panel: 35-E: 30
Department: Pennsylvania State Police
End of Watch: October 22, 1918
Cause: PHYS
Age: 29
Years of Service: 6
Description: On October 11, 1918, Private Brown contracted influenza during the Spanish Influenza epidemic of 1918. Members of the Pennsylvania State Police were ordered to enforce the state health laws and perform duties such as assisting doctors and nurses care for influenza victims, to serve as pallbearers of influenza victims and to transport ill patients to and from hospitals. Private Jackson died of bronchial pneumonia due to influenza 11 days later. Privates Edward Jackson, George Higgins, Joseph Malloy, John McLaughlin, Chester Kuhns and Sergeant Zoe Remaly also died as a result of the flu that October. Private James Walsh became ill and died of the flu in December.
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