WEST AUSTRALIANA AUSTRALIAN MILITARY HISTORY MEDICAL

In 1918, the troopship Boonah arrived back in Fremantle with soldiers infected with the Spanish Flu, then rampant in South Africa where the ship had docked. A number of soldiers and the nurses taking care of them died at the Woodman Point quarantine centre. Sir Hal Colebatch, as State Minister for Health features prominently in the account.

[10] p., 264 p. : ill., port ; 21 cm. First Edition. SCARCE #0919/1020/0821/201224

• Boonah (Troopship)

Influenza epidemic, 1918-1919 — Western Australia — History — 20th century.
Epidemics — Western Australia — History — 20th century.
Influenza — Western Australia — History — 20th century.
Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 — Western Australia.