SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 1919 SPANISH INFLUENZA PANDEMIC IN AUSTRALIA
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Curson, Peter and Kevin McCraken, 'An Australian perspective of the 1918 - 1919
influenza pandemic', NSW Public Health Bulletin,
Vol. 17 No. 7-8, pp. 103-107. (https://www.phrp.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/NB06025.pdf - Accessed2/04/2020)
Curson and McCracken from the Department of Human Geography Macquarie University discuss the progress of the pandemic from it first appearance
in Melbourne in January 1918. The pandemic affected relatively young adults the most. Male victims were in the majority perhaps because of their greater social
involvement. There was a second, deadlier, outbreak in June/July 1919. About 15,000 people died in Australia for a death rate of about 3 per thousand of population.
Mitigation measures included closing schools, theatres, dance halls, churches, pubs and other places of public congregation. Streets were sprayed, special isolation
depots were established and people were compelled to wear masks in public. Public transport was restricted, state borders closed, and an inoculation campaign
undertaken.
Hobbins, Peter; 'A deadly shipmate: Surviving 'Spanish flu' aboard HMAT Orsova' Museum of Australian Democracy website (https://www.sea.museum/2020/03/19/a-deadly-shipmate-surviving-spanish-flu-aboard-hmat-orsova
- Accessed 4/04/2020)
Dr Peter Hobbins is Principal Historian at Artefact Heritage Services in Sydney. Over 2018-19 he coordinated a Royal Australian Historical Society project
to document community histories of the 1918–19 influenza pandemic. In this article, with bibliography and illustrations, he discusses the effects of
an influenza outbreak on Hired Military Australian Transport (HMAT) ships bringing troops home from World War One battlefield.
Hobbins, Peter; Georgia McWhinney & Alison Wishart, 'An Intimate Pandemic : Creating community histories of the 1918-19 influenza pandemic',
Royal Australian Historical Society 27p, 2019
This guide is a history of the pandemic. Rather, it was created to assist research
into local, state and national collections to aid projects to commemorate the centenary of the pandemic. It suggests archival documents that can be drawn upon
and sites to consider to build a fuller picture of the local impact of the 1919 crisis. An extensive annotated bibliography of
period, historical and medical accounts of the pandemic is also provided at the end of the document.
McQueen, Humphrey, 'The Spanish Influenza Pandemic in Australia, 1912-19', Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Canberra Region
(https://labourhistorycanberra.org/2018/06/the-spanish-influenza-pandemic-in-australia-1912-19 Accessed 2/04/2020).
Public Health officials were aware of the dangers of the influenza virus in the later months of 1918 and took quarantine measures for ship arrivals to prevent
its spread, although eventually it did spread to the general population. Overwhelmed medical services, mutinys and breakouts by those under quarantine, quack cures,
debate about effectiveness of face masks, strains on the federal system, resentment over unusual public controls, widespread public despair and doubts about
the effectiveness of medical services, and increased industrial action,were some of the problems that arose.
Spanish Influenza: All About It by Professor Wade Oliver distributed in Australia during the pandemic
Wade, Oliver, Spanish Influenza : all about it, Melbourne, The Speciality Press, 1919, 4op.
Available online at the State Library of Victoria ( http://digital.slv.vic.gov.au/view/action/singleViewer.do?dvs=1586146971845~866&locale=en_US&metadata_object_ratio=10&show_metadata=true&VIEWER_URL=/view/action/singleViewer.do?&preferred_usage_type=VIEW_MAIN&DELIVERY_RULE_ID=10&frameId=1&usePid1=true&usePid2=true Access 06/04/2020)
Work widely consulted during the Spanish influenza pandemic. Cover reads: strips the mysterious from medical science and talks about this
terrible epidemic in good every-day terms.
Stevens, David, 'The RAN and the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic', (https://www.navy.gov.au/history/feature-histories/ran-and-1918-19-influenza-pandemic Accessed 2/04/2020)
Article from RAN historical web site dating from around 1999, discusses the impact on the RAN an how the Navy coped The Navy mounted emergency
aid missions to Somao and Tonga which had been heavily impact the by the pandemic.
'Pneumonic Influenza (Spanish Flu), 1919' State Records NSW (https://www.records.nsw.gov.au/archives/collections-and-research/guides-and-indexes/stories/pneumonic-influenza-1919 Accessed 4/04/2020)
This guide to the archival records of the NSW Government relating to the 1919 Spanish Influenza pandemic provides an overview of how the NSW State Government
reacted to the pandemic and the records available to researchers.
Nurses at Randwick During 1919 Spanish Influenza Pandemic
Whitehead, Graham J., 'Spanish Influenza Strikes Melbourne's Suburbs', Kingston Local History, City of Kingstyon Vic.
(https://localhistory.kingston.vic.gov.au/articles/214 Accessed 5/04/2020)
Discusses the outbreak of influenza in suburban Melbourne, public opinion relating to it and steps taken to help alleviate the pandemic.
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