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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Spanish Influenza epidemic"”.
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Panic Behind the Mask: The Spanish Influenza Epidemic of 1918 in New Orleans
<p>As part of the most devastating influenza pandemic in modern history, the Spanish Influenza epidemic in New Orleans left the city emotionally and physically crippled as residents struggled to resume daily life after thousands succumbed to a bloody cough and painful death in October 1918. When …
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Black October : the impact of the Spanish influenza epidemic of 1918 on South Africa
… 200 'flu survivors, it traces the course of the epidemic in five main areas where its severity paralysed everyday life, viz. the Witwatersrand gold mines, Cape Town, Kimberley, Bloemfontein and the Transkei. Each of these five chapters concludes with an examination of the results which the …
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Marguerite Inman Davis: first progressive first lady of Virginia
… the war labor shortage. In the course of the Spanish influenza epidemic which swept Richmond between October, 1918, and November, 1919, she served as a volunteer nurse in the pneumonia ward of the John Marshall Emergency Hospital. Yet, while Marguerite Davis played the role of a modern woman …
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Black River Cemetery: An anthropological study of the human remains exhumed from a historic Cape Town burial ground
… occurred including; the bubonic (black) plague, Spanish influenza epidemic, the Boer War, the First World War and the Diamond Rush. It also saw the beginnings of racially segregated living and forced relocations. This backdrop provides an interesting landscape on which to view the skeletal …
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The Influence of the First World War on The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
… which deaths increased with the outbreak of the influenza epidemic. In addition to these misgivings, the president of the Church worried about the possibility that Latter-day Saints of opposing countries would have to fight one another. it would have on missionary work, the cost in lives, and the …