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In 1918, during the Spanish flu epidemic, Palestra transformed its facilities on Rua Líbero Badaró into a hospital for the Red Cross to act in the fight against the disease. With the generous action, the team gained popular support and there was pressure for the club to return to Apea (Associação Paulista de Esportes Atléticos), which it had left because it felt persecuted by the city's elite clubs and by the referees.