That terrible time : eye-witness accounts of the 1918 influenza pandemic in New Zealand / compiled & edited by Geoffrey Rice.

  • Rice, Geoffrey
Date:
2018
  • Books

About this work

Description

"New Zealand's worst public health disaster occurred in November 1918 when around 9,000 people died in the so-called 'Spanish' influenza pandemic. Here are the voices of 110 survivors describing what they saw and what happened to them in that terrible time when the victims' bodies turned black"--Back cover.

Publication/Creation

Christchurch, New Zealand : Hawthorne Press, 2018.

Physical description

187 pages ; 20 cm

Contributors

Contents

Introduction -- Troopship Tahiti -- Passenger ship Niagara -- Auckland -- Northland -- Whangarei -- Hamilton -- Ngaruawahia -- Morrinsville -- Thames -- Omahu -- Waihi -- Rotorua -- Whakatane -- Gisborne -- Hastings -- Havelock North -- Dannevirke -- Taranaki -- King Country -- Wanganui -- Wairarapa -- Featherston Camp -- Trentham Camp -- Palmerston North -- Wellington -- Nelson -- Marlborough -- West Coast -- North Canterbury -- Christchurch -- South Canterbury -- Oamaru -- Dunedin -- Southland -- Invercargill -- Nightcaps -- New Zealand books with memories of the 1918 flu.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    FT.99.AA9
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780473447496
  • 0473447495