Spanish flu
When masks were compulsory
When thinking about the impact of COVID-19, it’s timely to reflect on an earlier pandemic that affected every aspect of life, including at our places
On This Day
27 Jan 1919 - Influenza pandemic reached NSW
On 27 January 1919, the NSW Government announced the first confirmed case of pneumonic influenza, the 'Spanish Flu', in NSW
Rouse Hill Estate and the Spanish flu of 1919: a year of contradictions
In 1919, Spanish flu gripped the world. In 2020, as we confront COVID-19, the media headlines and reports from the earlier pandemic are all too familiar.
Pneumonic influenza (Spanish Flu), 1919
The pandemic threw the people and Government of the State into a community effort rivalled only by that of the recent war