The 'Spanish' influenza of 1918 was the deadliest pandemic in
history, killing as many as 50 million people worldwide. Canadian
federal public health officials tried to prevent the disease from
entering the country by implementing a maritime quarantine, as had
been their standard practice since the cholera epidemics of 1832.
But the 1918 flu was a different type of disease. In spite of the
best efforts of both federal and local officials, up to fifty
thousand Canadians died.
In The Last Plague, Mark Osborne Humphries examines how federal
epidemic disease management strategies developed before the First
World War, arguing that the deadliest epidemic in Canadian history
ultimately challenged traditional ideas about disease and public
health governance. Using federal, provincial, and municipal
archival sources, newspapers, and newly discovered military records
- as well as original epidemiological studies - Humphries' sweeping
national study situates the flu within a larger social, political,
and military context for the first time. His provocative conclusion
is that the 1918 flu crisis had important long-term consequences at
the national level, ushering in the 'modern' era of public health
in Canada.
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