Diseases and Epidemics

Cumpston, J.H.L., Health and disease in Australia: A history, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1989. Details

Hyslop, Anthea, 'Insidious immigrant: Spanish influenza and border quarantine in Australia 1919', in S. Parry and B. Reid (eds), Migration to mining: Collected papers of the fifth biennial conference of the Australian Society of the History of Medicine, Darwin, July 1997, Northern Territory University Press, Darwin, 1998. Details
Hyslop, Anthea, 'Epidemics', in Graeme Davison, John Hirst and Stuart Macintyre (eds), The Oxford companion to Australian history, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1998, pp. 220-2. Details
McQueen, Humphrey, 'The "Spanish" influenza pandemic in Australia, 1918-19’', in Social policy in Australia: Some perspectives 1901-1975, Cassell Australia, Sydney, 1976, pp. 131-47. Details
Taska, Lucy, 'The masked disease: Oral history, memory and the influenza pandemic 1918-19', in Kate Darian-Smith and Paula Hamilton (eds), Memory and history in twentieth-century Australia, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1994, pp. 77-91. Details

Title: Closure of Eastern Market
Type: digitised record
Date: 31 January 1919
Control: Unit 309, 1919/660, 19 February 1919: Influenza emergency regulations as affecting the Eastern Market
Repository: Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre; Details

Title: Influenza precautions leaflet
Type: digitised record
Date: 23 November 1918
Control: Unit 309, 1919/77413, February 1919: Use of Drill Hall, Ireland Street, North Melbourne as an emergency hospital
Repository: Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre; Details

Title: Outbreak of influenza
Type: digitised record
Date: 24 January 1919
Control: Unit 309, 1919/488, 31 January 1919.
Repository: Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre; Details

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