The last plague : Spanish influenza and the politics of public health in Canada / Mark Osborne Humphries.
"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 pra...
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Toronto ; Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- I. Introduction
- II. Establishing the Grand Watch: Epidemics and Public Health, 1832-1883
- III. 'Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business': Sanitary Science, Social Reform, and Mentalities of Public Health, 1867-1914
- IV. A Pandemic Prelude: The 1889-90 Influenza Pandemic in Canada
- V. Happily Rare of Complications: The Flu's First Wave in Canada and the Official Response
- VI. A Dark and Invisible Fog Descends: The Second Wave of Flu and the Federal Response
- VII. 'A Terrible Fall for Preventative Medicine': Provincial and Municipal Responses to the Second Wave of Flu
- VIII. The Trail of Infected Armies: War, the Flu, and the Popular Response
- IX. 'The Nation's Duty': Creating a Federal Department of Health
- X. 'Success is somewhere Around the Corner': The Changing Federal Role in Public Health
- XI. Conclusion
- XII. Bibliography of Sources Consulted.