Herring, D. Ann. "There Were Young People and Old People and Babies Dying Every Week": The 1918-1919 Influenze Pandemic at Norway House.
Document Type: Journal Articles (2)
Date of Document(s): 1994
Date Range Start : 1918
Date Range End: 1919
Indexing Progress: Finished
Date Range Start : 1918
Date Range End: 1919
Indexing Progress: Finished
Primary or Secondary Source: Secondary Source
Author: Herring, D. Ann
Title: "There Were Young People and Old People and Babies Dying Every Week": The 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic at Norway House
Journal Title: From Ethnohistory
Date of Publication: 1994
Date of Copyright: c1994
Volume ID: 41
Issue ID: 1
Location in Work: 73-105
ISBN/ISSN: CCC 0014-1801
Notes: paper and electronic copy/journal article
Abstract: Analysis of Norway House Anglican parish registers during the 1918 influenza pandemic suggests that eighteen percent of the population perished in six weeks. Its strategic position in the fur trade and lack of substantial provisions in the subarctic winter contributed to the death rate. Population recovery occurred within five to ten years, owing to a modest post-epidemic marriage boom and the maintenance of birth rates. Analysis of parish records and twentieth-century virgin soil epidemics may help to develop models for early contact epidemics.
Title: "There Were Young People and Old People and Babies Dying Every Week": The 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic at Norway House
Journal Title: From Ethnohistory
Date of Publication: 1994
Date of Copyright: c1994
Volume ID: 41
Issue ID: 1
Location in Work: 73-105
ISBN/ISSN: CCC 0014-1801
Notes: paper and electronic copy/journal article
Abstract: Analysis of Norway House Anglican parish registers during the 1918 influenza pandemic suggests that eighteen percent of the population perished in six weeks. Its strategic position in the fur trade and lack of substantial provisions in the subarctic winter contributed to the death rate. Population recovery occurred within five to ten years, owing to a modest post-epidemic marriage boom and the maintenance of birth rates. Analysis of parish records and twentieth-century virgin soil epidemics may help to develop models for early contact epidemics.