Kōrero: Epidemics

Influenza instructions to nurses

This poster, published by the New Plymouth Public Health Committee, gives detailed instructions to those nursing influenza patients in 1918. Cases are classified as mild, serious, extreme or ‘delirium’. Listen to people who lived through the pandemic describing flu patients suffering from delirium.

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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: Eph-B-HEALTH-1918-01

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

Sound file from Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision. Any re-use of this audio is a breach of copyright. To request a copy of the recording, contact Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision (The great plague/Reference number TCDR562)

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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Geoff Rice, 'Epidemics - The influenza era, 1890s to 1920s', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/speech/27792/influenza-instructions-to-nurses (accessed 26 April 2024)

He kōrero nā Geoff Rice, i tāngia i te 5 May 2011, reviewed & revised 8 Feb 2024