Book on 1918 epidemic
A book written by a Canterbury historian, Dr Geoffrey Rice, on the New Zealand influenza epidemic of 1918 will be launched in Wellington tomorrow. The book, “Black November,” will be launched by the Minister of Social Welfare, Dr Cullen. Dr Rice is a lecturer in history at the University of Canterbury, and a former student friend of Dr Cullen’s. “Black November” traces the 1918 influenza epidemic, which broke out at the end of World War I, killing up to 8000 people in New Zealand. The book was published jointly by the Internal
Affairs Department and Allen and Unwin New Zealand. The historian in the Internal Affairs historical branch in Wellington, Ms Charlotte Macdonald, said the epidemic had broken out world-wide after the war. In New Zealand it decimated whole villages in some areas. Mortality among Maori people was particularly high. “The celebrations of the armistice in the streets, with everybody hugging and breathing on one another, were really the arms of death in some ways,” said Ms Macdonald.
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