Black November

How would you feel if you woke one morning to find your partner lying dead beside you, not just still and cold, but their skin turned purple-black? Or if your neighbour’s children came to ask for food because their parents had been ‘asleep’ for two days? Black November The 1918 influenza pandemic in New Zealand Too horrible to think about? Yet such things happened all over New Zealand in November 1918 when the country was swept by the so-called ‘Spanish’ influenza pandemic. This book details New Zealand’s worst public health crisis, and its worst natural disaster: over 8,500 New Zealanders…