Three medical officers who had seen the patients also fell ill.
Camp Pike: For the first half of September, the Hospital at Camp Pike saw an average of 17 new patients a day with acute Bronchitis. Then that number doubled, and tripled. It had soared 797 patients on the 26th of September. Influenza and Pneumonia would claim 466 Camp Pike Soldiers.
In 1918, two new army posts in central Arkansas had a population one and half times bigger than Little Rock when the pandemic struck. Camp Pike (now Camp Robinson) and Eberts Training Field in Lonoke county lost 466 soldiers to the epidemic.
