Baptism of Fire: New Brunswick's Public Health Movement and the 1918 Influenza Epidemic

Public health interventions and epidemic intensity during the 1918 influenza pandemic.

Nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) intended to reduce infectious contacts between persons form an integral part of plans to mitigate the impact of the next influenza pandemic. Although the potential benefits of NPIs are supported by mathematical models, the historical evidence for the impact of such interventions in past pandemics has not been systematically examined. We obtained data on th...

Black November: the 1918 influenza epidemic in New Zealand

phenomenon. Its greatest contribution is the author's insistence on the existence of "critical periods" in the development of a child. The value of this reprint is enhanced by the appendage of McGraw's lucid 1985 essay 'Professional and personal blunders in child development research'. Though I can only praise this series, I must air strong reservations over the quality of the forewords. Though...

Influenza in 1918: an epidemic in images.

©2010 Association of Schools of Public Health In addition to being the first major pandemic of the modern post-germ-theory era, the devastating influenza pandemic of 1918–1919 was also the first to be widely photographed. In army camps and cantonments, in hospitals, and in streets and workplaces across the nation, photographers aimed their lenses and captured a nation struggling to deal with th...

The Economic Effects of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic

The 1918-19 influenza epidemic killed at least 40 million people worldwide and 675,000 people in the United States, far exceeding the combat deaths tolls experienced in the U.S. in the two World Wars, Korea, and Vietnam combined. Besides its extraordinary virulence, the 1918-19 epidemic was also unique in that a disproportionate number of its victims were men and women age 15 to 44, giving the ...

The impact of epidemic influenza, Canada, 1918-1919.