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How would you feel if you woke one morning to find your partner lying dead beside you, not just still and cold, but their skin turned purple-black? Or if your neighbour’s children came to ask for food because their parents had been ‘asleep’ for two days?
Black November The 1918 influenza pandemic in New Zealand
Too horrible to think about? Yet such things happened all over New Zealand in November 1918 when the country was swept by the so-called ‘Spanish’ influenza pandemic.
This book details New Zealand’s worst public health crisis, and its worst natural disaster: over 8,500 New Zealanders died from influenza and pneumonia in just six weeks. Nearly a quarter of the victims were Maori, who died at seven times the death rate of European New Zealanders.
Why did the bodies turn black? Why were Maori more at risk than the rest of the population? Why did the 1918 flu kill mostly young adults in the prime of life? Why did more men die than women? How did towns, neighbourhoods and households cope with the flu? What lessons can we learn from 1918 for any future flu pandemic?
These are just a few of the many questions answered in this fascinating book. First published in 1988, Black November now has three new chapters to bring it up to date, over forty first-hand eyewitness accounts, and over 200 photographs and cartoons, many here published for the first time.
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Influenza, Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919, History, New zealand studies, New zealand, historyPlaces
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Black November: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in New Zealand
2016, Canterbury University Press
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Black November: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in New Zealand
January 2005, Canterbury University Press
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1877257354 9781877257353
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Black November: the 1918 influenza epidemic in New Zealand
1988, Allen & Unwin, Historical Branch
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0868615951 9780868615950
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