NATIONALLY-NOTED AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSIONER and EPIDEMIC FIGHTER.
Dr. MAX C. STARKLOFF, M.D., was the Chief Medical Commissioner for the City of St. Louis during the devastating national Spanish Influenza epidemic of 1916-18,which afflicted and killed many Americans, among them many St. Louisans.
Enterprising and decisive, Dr. Starkloff obtained an agreement from the Mayor of St. Louis and the city's police and fire departments, as well as the city's religious, sports and entertainment leaders, to close all public venues that featured large public assemblies to effectively reduce the contagion that spread the dreaded Spanish Flu among the general public during the epidemic.
The Mayor and Board of Aldermen delegated police powers of enforcement and public closure to Dr. Starkloff during the epidemic--and his drastic measures for temporary public closures of public sporting and religious events, assemblies and the curtailment of contagion caused the flu epidemic to abate locally within a year--a huge public victory over the disease which had killed hundreds.
The notoriety of Dr. Starkloff's controversial and decisive actions as a young man made his career as a St. Louis public figure and national health leader, making him a noted celebrity for many years.
Dr. Starkloff died in St. Louis on Feb. 7, 1942, with cremation following and inurnment on his family lot at Bellefontaine Cemetery. (His wife, GENEVIEVE B. STARKLOFF 1875-1957, died at a later date and is also interred beside him).
His grandson and namesake, MAX D. STARKLOFF II (1937-2010), obtained comparable national fame as the founder of Paraquad, a disabilities-rights group for disabled Americans founded by him, which has achieved notable accessibility and civil rights advances for public access, residential, commercial and civic architecture, and transit venues internationally as well as in the U.S.A.
He is also buried on Dr. Starkloff's burial lot.
A moderate sized grey granite 'sarcophagus" monument, inscribed on three sides, marks the Starkloff family burial plot, as well as individual oval bevel sandblast granite markers.∼St. Louis Health Commissioner.
Dr. MAX C. STARKLOFF, M.D., was the Chief Medical Commissioner for the City of St. Louis during the devastating national Spanish Influenza epidemic of 1916-18,which afflicted and killed many Americans, among them many St. Louisans.
Enterprising and decisive, Dr. Starkloff obtained an agreement from the Mayor of St. Louis and the city's police and fire departments, as well as the city's religious, sports and entertainment leaders, to close all public venues that featured large public assemblies to effectively reduce the contagion that spread the dreaded Spanish Flu among the general public during the epidemic.
The Mayor and Board of Aldermen delegated police powers of enforcement and public closure to Dr. Starkloff during the epidemic--and his drastic measures for temporary public closures of public sporting and religious events, assemblies and the curtailment of contagion caused the flu epidemic to abate locally within a year--a huge public victory over the disease which had killed hundreds.
The notoriety of Dr. Starkloff's controversial and decisive actions as a young man made his career as a St. Louis public figure and national health leader, making him a noted celebrity for many years.
Dr. Starkloff died in St. Louis on Feb. 7, 1942, with cremation following and inurnment on his family lot at Bellefontaine Cemetery. (His wife, GENEVIEVE B. STARKLOFF 1875-1957, died at a later date and is also interred beside him).
His grandson and namesake, MAX D. STARKLOFF II (1937-2010), obtained comparable national fame as the founder of Paraquad, a disabilities-rights group for disabled Americans founded by him, which has achieved notable accessibility and civil rights advances for public access, residential, commercial and civic architecture, and transit venues internationally as well as in the U.S.A.
He is also buried on Dr. Starkloff's burial lot.
A moderate sized grey granite 'sarcophagus" monument, inscribed on three sides, marks the Starkloff family burial plot, as well as individual oval bevel sandblast granite markers.∼St. Louis Health Commissioner.
NATIONALLY-NOTED AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSIONER and EPIDEMIC FIGHTER.
Dr. MAX C. STARKLOFF, M.D., was the Chief Medical Commissioner for the City of St. Louis during the devastating national Spanish Influenza epidemic of 1916-18,which afflicted and killed many Americans, among them many St. Louisans.
Enterprising and decisive, Dr. Starkloff obtained an agreement from the Mayor of St. Louis and the city's police and fire departments, as well as the city's religious, sports and entertainment leaders, to close all public venues that featured large public assemblies to effectively reduce the contagion that spread the dreaded Spanish Flu among the general public during the epidemic.
The Mayor and Board of Aldermen delegated police powers of enforcement and public closure to Dr. Starkloff during the epidemic--and his drastic measures for temporary public closures of public sporting and religious events, assemblies and the curtailment of contagion caused the flu epidemic to abate locally within a year--a huge public victory over the disease which had killed hundreds.
The notoriety of Dr. Starkloff's controversial and decisive actions as a young man made his career as a St. Louis public figure and national health leader, making him a noted celebrity for many years.
Dr. Starkloff died in St. Louis on Feb. 7, 1942, with cremation following and inurnment on his family lot at Bellefontaine Cemetery. (His wife, GENEVIEVE B. STARKLOFF 1875-1957, died at a later date and is also interred beside him).
His grandson and namesake, MAX D. STARKLOFF II (1937-2010), obtained comparable national fame as the founder of Paraquad, a disabilities-rights group for disabled Americans founded by him, which has achieved notable accessibility and civil rights advances for public access, residential, commercial and civic architecture, and transit venues internationally as well as in the U.S.A.
He is also buried on Dr. Starkloff's burial lot.
A moderate sized grey granite 'sarcophagus" monument, inscribed on three sides, marks the Starkloff family burial plot, as well as individual oval bevel sandblast granite markers.∼St. Louis Health Commissioner.
Dr. MAX C. STARKLOFF, M.D., was the Chief Medical Commissioner for the City of St. Louis during the devastating national Spanish Influenza epidemic of 1916-18,which afflicted and killed many Americans, among them many St. Louisans.
Enterprising and decisive, Dr. Starkloff obtained an agreement from the Mayor of St. Louis and the city's police and fire departments, as well as the city's religious, sports and entertainment leaders, to close all public venues that featured large public assemblies to effectively reduce the contagion that spread the dreaded Spanish Flu among the general public during the epidemic.
The Mayor and Board of Aldermen delegated police powers of enforcement and public closure to Dr. Starkloff during the epidemic--and his drastic measures for temporary public closures of public sporting and religious events, assemblies and the curtailment of contagion caused the flu epidemic to abate locally within a year--a huge public victory over the disease which had killed hundreds.
The notoriety of Dr. Starkloff's controversial and decisive actions as a young man made his career as a St. Louis public figure and national health leader, making him a noted celebrity for many years.
Dr. Starkloff died in St. Louis on Feb. 7, 1942, with cremation following and inurnment on his family lot at Bellefontaine Cemetery. (His wife, GENEVIEVE B. STARKLOFF 1875-1957, died at a later date and is also interred beside him).
His grandson and namesake, MAX D. STARKLOFF II (1937-2010), obtained comparable national fame as the founder of Paraquad, a disabilities-rights group for disabled Americans founded by him, which has achieved notable accessibility and civil rights advances for public access, residential, commercial and civic architecture, and transit venues internationally as well as in the U.S.A.
He is also buried on Dr. Starkloff's burial lot.
A moderate sized grey granite 'sarcophagus" monument, inscribed on three sides, marks the Starkloff family burial plot, as well as individual oval bevel sandblast granite markers.∼St. Louis Health Commissioner.
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