Spanish Flue Quarantine Camp Wallangarra 1919
I have come across glancing references to the impact of the Spanish Flue epidemic across New England, but hadn't really focused on it. This short note is by way of a placeholder.
As part of this project, Dr Peter Hobbins has been running a small series of workshops across NSW to encourage community interest and to energise local research. Two of these were held in the broader New England, one at Port Macquarie, a second at Tenterfield (and here also in the Tenterfield Star). For those on Twitter, the hash tag is #anintimatepandemic.
The project strikes me as a worthwhile one.
The National Museum of Australia has a very useful short summary on the pandemic. A PhD thesis by Patrick Hodgson looks at the Queensland experience while this is a general list of some Trove newspaper articles.
Update
Regular commenter JohnB pointed me to this piece in The Conversation by Richard Gunderman, The ‘greatest pandemic in history’ was 100 years ago – but many of us still get the basic facts wrong
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The official figures suggest that there is a substantive margin of error Associated to them Jim.
‘About 40 per cent of the population fell ill and around 15,000 died as the virus spread.’
The following is a link to an article detailing some of the myths associated with the pandemic, two of them seem particularly relevant to the story given in your links. Firstly for the Timeline given by Dr Peter Hobbins and Secondly on the hindsight value of the Quarantine Stations set up to contain the spread of the virus.
https://theconversation.com/the-greatest-pandemic-in-history-was-100-years-ago-but-many-of-us-still-get-the-basic-facts-wrong-89841
Thanks, John. Appreciated. I will bring the link up in the main post.
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