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Nowra Public School converted into a temporary hospital for pneumonic influenza epidemic, 1919 / photographer unknown
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Title:
Nowra Public School converted into a temporary hospital for pneumonic influenza epidemic, 1919 / photographer unknown
Date:
[1919]
Format:
1 photoprint : b & w ; 6.2 x 8.8 cm
Subject:
hospitals
school rooms
patients
beds
quilts
nurses
influenza
blackboards
Nowra Public School (Nowra, N.S.W.)
Series:
June Wallace papers
Description:
In mid-1919 the Nowra Public School was converted into a temporary hospital in response to the outbreak of pneumonic influenza in Nowra. It admitted its first patients on 30 June. The temporary hospital closed on 1 August. Nurse Helen Macgregor from Kintore, the Macgregor family home next to Meroogal, worked at the temporary hospital during this time.
Provenance:
Estate of June Wallace (1917-2010)
Published in:
Robyn Florance, 'Nowra Red Cross: celebrating 100 years. 1914-2014', Nowra Red Cross, 2014 p. 22.
Source:
Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection ; June Wallace papers: JMW/17
Rights:
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Material Type:
Picture
Record number:
41330
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