Another century, another virus ... how our small towns coped

By Laurelle Pacey
Updated March 18 2020 - 11:13am, first published 11:11am
VOLUNTEERS IN 1919: Narooma School of Arts was converted into an emergency hospital manned by Volunteer Aid Detachments (VADs). Shown are Amy Verent (nee Woollett), front left; Cyril Fuller, back left, Queenie Fuller, Mr Hansen, Queenie Costin, Ettie and Lottie Fuller (seated right). Hansen's son Hilary believes the empty chair represents Mrs Dawson Hansen, Hansen's first wife, who died while nursing at the emergency hospital. Photo courtesy Stella Costin and Narooma Historical Society.
VOLUNTEERS IN 1919: Narooma School of Arts was converted into an emergency hospital manned by Volunteer Aid Detachments (VADs). Shown are Amy Verent (nee Woollett), front left; Cyril Fuller, back left, Queenie Fuller, Mr Hansen, Queenie Costin, Ettie and Lottie Fuller (seated right). Hansen's son Hilary believes the empty chair represents Mrs Dawson Hansen, Hansen's first wife, who died while nursing at the emergency hospital. Photo courtesy Stella Costin and Narooma Historical Society.

Soldiers returning from the First World War battlefields of Europe in 1918-1919 took home the highly contagious and sometimes fatal "Spanish" influenza.

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