Pandemic
eBook - ePub

Pandemic

The Spanish Flu in Australia 1918-1920

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Pandemic

The Spanish Flu in Australia 1918-1920

About this book

Between January 1919 and March 1920, waves of Spanish flu swept across Australia, touching every settlement from the bottom of Tasmania to the tip of Cape York and from Byron Bay in the east to Broome in the west.
At least 15, 000 people died and many more were incapacitated, but medical and health specialists, by literally putting their lives on the line, saved countless more and gave Australia a template for what was to come at the country exactly a century later.
This book tells the full story of the Australian experience of the Spanish Flu and of those who fought it and sometimes lost their lives to it.
This fascinating account also illustrates many striking parallels to the Covid pandemic of 2020, including intense interstate rivalries, personal heroics, frequent confusion and incompetence, and widespread economic disruption.

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Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgments
  2. Introduction
  3. Chapter 1, Incubation
  4. Chapter 2, Prophylaxis
  5. Chapter 3, An Ounce of Prevention
  6. Chapter 4, Woodman’s Point
  7. Chapter 5, Hiatus: December 1918-January 1919
  8. Chapter 6, Public Policy, Private Pain
  9. Chapter 7, New South Wales: The Heart of the Matter
  10. Chapter 8, Victoria: A State of (some) Denial
  11. Chapter 9, South Australia: A Big Picnic and a Little Mutiny
  12. Chapter 10, Queensland: A Little Late, a Little Light
  13. Chapter 11, Western Australia: Friction at the Edges
  14. Chapter 12, Tasmania and T.I.: The Outliers
  15. Chapter 13, Post-mortem
  16. Appendix, The long voyage of the Boonah
  17. Endnotes
  18. References