Royal Copeland, NYC Health Commissioner lifted all restrictions on opening hours on election day, November 5, 1918. Copeland calls it a “normal day.” That day 147 NYC residents died in the influenza outbreak. The NYC Department of Education director asks for a house-to-house canvass to find children made “destitute” the the outbreak.
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1918-11-05/ed-1/seq-18/