Image collection: 1918 Influenza Epidemic

This is a sample of photographs of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic. You can search the catalogue for more photographs.

• The 1918 Influenza Pandemic
• 1918 Influenza Epidemic - an easy to read summary of this disaster
• How Christchurch coped in the 1918 Influenza Epidemic
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Nurses' Memorial Chapel, Christchurch Hospital, Riccarton Avenue, Christchurch [ca. 1930]	In an attempt to arrest the spread of infection during the influenza epidemic, people attended public inhalation chambers to have their throats sprayed [1918]	The influenza epidemic in Christchurch [1918]
A returned soldier in a motorcycle sidecar taking food to patients during the 1918 influenza epidemic [1918]	A tramway inhalation car [1918]	Some of the motorcycles and side-cars used as relief cars in conveying nurses, helpers and food-carriers [1918]
Some members of the St John Ambulance Brigade with the vehicles used as ambulances during the influenza epidemic [1918]	Men doing the laundry work at the Temuka Influenza Hospital [1918]	A section of a long photograph of vehicles used by the St John Ambulance Brigade as ambulances during the 1918 influenza epidemic [1918]
A nurse leaving a sub-depot on her daily round of visits, during the 1918 influenza epidemic, Christchurch [1918]	Cheerful boy scouts acting as messengers to distribute food and medicine to patients at their houses during the influenza epidemic [1918]	The St. Luke's sub-station, Christchurch [1918]
The medicine depot in Cathedral Square where the Government standard influenza medicine was supplied [1918]	People using the inhalation chamber in the Government Buildings in Cathedral Square, Christchurch [1918]	The soup kitchen at the Sydenham Manual Training Centre : some workers under Miss Ponder. [1918]
Dr Margaret Cruickshank MD, 1873-1918 [1923]	Nurses at Maori Hospital, Temuka, South Canterbury [1918]	Boating on the Selwyn River during the picnic given by the Canterbury Automobile Association to those who volunteered to fight the influenza epidemic [16 Dec. 1918]
Old Bishopscourt showing damage from the fire that broke out Christmas Eve, 1924 [1925]	Old St Barnabas Church, Fendalton [Nov. 1918]	Sydenham Park : with reading room, band rotunda and water tower. [ca. 1900]