The influenza quarantine was reimposed on December 18 when about 75 cases of the disease were reported in Juneau. The schools were again closed as well as churches and other public places, including hotel lobbies. The wearing of gauze masks by all persons when outside their own homes was again required. The papers ran long lists of hints for avoiding the flu. The town was shocked and saddened by the influenza deaths of Mrs. Lester D. Henderson, the wife of Alaska’s first Commissioner of Education, and of Myrtle Jorgenson, a high school senior who had only a few days earlier been named assistant editor of the yearbook.
The reimposition of the quarantine put a real damper on the Christmas season. The quarantine was, however, lifted again just before the end of 1918, a year that most Juneauites were not sorry to have behind them. Days Of Yore – 06/29/1991