National Library of  Medicine
A child with influenza, her mother and a visiting nurse from Child Welfare Association. Public Health Nursing Quarterly, May 1919, National Library of Medicine

There were over 6,000 deaths in South Carolina, 3,600 in October 1918 alone, and an estimated 170,000 cases in the state.

State Board of Health. Thirty-ninth Annual Report of the State Board of Health of South Carolina for the Fiscal Year 1918 to the Legislature of South Carolina. Columbia, SC: