“Inevitably the flu slipped along the railway lines, the roads and the rivers to Hazelton, arriving there in the second week of October. By October 25, the Herald was reporting that influenza had closed the town. The schools and churches shut their doors, and the railway gangs almost completely stopped working. With the hospital filled to capacity and more sick people being brought in all the time, Horace persuaded the manager of the hotel in New Hazelton to open as an emergency hospital. Harold recalled that his father also arranged for several railcars to be parked on a siding in South Hazelton, where they were used as an additional hospital. “The well are helping the sick,” the Herald said, “and the doctor and his staff are putting in many extra shifts.” Horace reported that he had treated well over a hundred cases and that the flu was now spreading to the Gitxsan.”
From Service on the Skeena: Horace Wrinch, Frontier Physician