The Influenza Pandemic of 1918–1919 by Susan Kingsley Kent

Author:Susan Kingsley Kent
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
Published: 2018-09-20T00:00:00+00:00

The invasion made it’s [sic] way steadily into the Northern Provinces along the easiest avenues and by the most expeditious means of transport, to wit:

(a), by the Railway, (b), by the rivers which were then high, and (c), by the overland trade routes. All through, the invasion made it’s [sic] progress at the normal speed of travel; whether by rail, by steamer, by canoe, or by foot-travel. . . .

After Lagos and the towns on the railway, the next place known to be infected was Calabar at the eastern end of the coast line of Nigeria. A native was removed to Hospital from the S.S. Batanga on the 28th September but not diagnosed as Influenza but the subsequent conclusion was that it must have been a case of this disease “although no cases suspicious of Influenza were reported as having occurred on the Batanga.” Isolated shore cases began to appear on and after the 7th October: they were mild and occurred amongst the Marine and Customs Departments and the Shipping Company’s employees clearly pointing to infection by ocean ship; they gradually became more numerous and more severe until “on the 14th and 15th of November there came a sudden outburst with hundreds of cases.” . . .

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