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| Advertisement for Nicholas’s Aspro, claiming to cure the Spanish influenza. Herald, 29 January 1919 |
Listen to the recollections of Australia’s experience of the Spanish ‘Flu in 1919. In these excerpts from the National Library of Australia Oral History and Folklore collections, Mrs Helen Hohnberg, Sid Briggs and Rocky Wedd tell us what it was like back then. It turns out that the responses and the problems were not so different to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.
Graham Seal and Rob Willis, together with Dennis McKay and Maureen Seal - and John Meredith - meander through a bracing concoction of memories, snake oil, home remedies, awful verse and the humour that helped Australians weather the pneumonic influenza outbreak a century ago.
