by the crew of theUSS
Pittsburgh, in memory of their shipmates who died from the influenza,
October-November 1918.” Perhaps
this photo was taken at that time.

On page 171 of the Annual Report of the Surgeon General, U. S. Navy, for the fiscal year
1919 to the Secretary of the Navy the following is written:

“All
but 42 of these bodies were embalmed and shipped to the United States. On
January 30, 16 standard metal caskets were received on the U. S. S. Cyclops and
the U. S. S. Pueblo brought 12 more in November. The cost of metal-lined
hermetically sealed caskets with shipping box is $750 United States gold on
this station. Our metal caskets are in store in Bahia, Rio, and Montevideo.
Forty-two bodies have been interred in the San Francisco Xavier Cemetery in
Rio. All but one ofthese were victims of the influenza epidemic, the exception
being the body of the enlisted man attached to the U. S. S. Cyclops who was
drowned and due to the long immersion in the water was so badly decomposed that
shipment to the United States was impossible. The 41victims of influenza are interred
in the same plot of the cemetery, each grave marked with a simple wooden cross
on which the name of the deceased is stenciled, and in addition each grave is
numbered in accordance with the cemetery regulations. A plan of the plot, designating
the individual graves has been forwarded to the bureau and one given the cemetery
and a third copy is in the files of the consulate at Rio.”

On May 30, 1919 The Indianapolis Star carried the
following story: “Washington, May 29,
-Bodies of