‘Derry Catches Infection’: The Influenza Pandemic in Derry

Patricia Marsh ()

Chapter Chapter 7 in The Spanish Flu in Ireland, 2021, pp 187-200 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Londonderry situated in the north west of Ireland was a port and an industrial city, described during this period as the second city in Ulster. It specialised in the textile industry, especially the shirt-making industry. As in Belfast there were three waves of influenza in Londonderry, in summer 1918, autumn 1918 and spring 1919. The pandemic was largely ignored in the official Londonderry records. This chapter will explore the effectiveness of the medical and local authority response to the pandemic. It will discuss how the military occupation of the workhouse in Strabane as well as wards in the Londonderry union impacted on the medical response to the disease in the city.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-79500-9_7

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