Jonathan Reveles

“Even normal services such as schools were in short supply. Of the twenty largest cities in America, Philadelphia, the city of Benjamin Franklin and the University of Pennsylvania, spent less on education than all but one. In all of South Philadelphia, home to hundreds of thousands of Italians and Jews, there would be no high school until 1934.”
― John M. Barry, The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History