Pneumonic influenza or the spanish flu infected around 40 per cent of the population when it spread to australia from the wwi battlefields of western europe in 1919.
House for sale spanish flu. The photo with its original caption on the back and stamped feb. Photo of masked players during spanish flu leads off rmy auction. The spanish flu 100 years later. During the height of the spanish flu pandemic that hit the us in september 1918.
Since consumers wish to avoid nonessential human contact the 2003 sars pandemic led to a temporary fall in monthly real estate transactions from 33 to 72 vs. By october november 1918 the cardiff death rate was peaking at 38 3 deaths per 1 000 and swansea at 37 9 during. Baseline for the duration of the epidemic while real estate prices held steady. Hannah was invited to visit and.
An iconic photo of the players or masked marvels is part of the new rmy auctions sale that ends june 6 at 8 p m. May we never see the like of it again a look at how the capital region coped with the world s deadliest flu ever. House to be in. 10 1919 for newspaper enterprise association nea is a stark reminder of.
For comparison world war i killed approximately 60 000 canadians. Remembering the spanish flu. In 1918 a flu pandemic swept across the world lasting two years from january 1918 december 1920. In canada the spanish flu claimed the lives of an estimated 55 000 people out of a population of 8 7 million.