These are some of the medical staff that were out in force in Sydney during the 'Spanish' influenza pandemic 100 years ago. Gowned, masked and ready to help, this photo shows doctors and nurses staff leaving the Blackfriars Depot in Chippendale, April 1919.
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In a letter -- ‘To the People of New South Wales’ -- Premier Holman wrote of the flu pandemic "A danger greater than war faces the State of New South Wales and threatens the lives of all." (Government Gazette, Monday 3 February 1919, NRS 906, [5/5348.1], 19/44289).
