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Spanish Influenza in the City of Vancouver, British Columbia, 1918-1919

During the last year of World War I (1918), a second deadly foe was causing mortality around the world. Spanish Influenza killed an estimated 50-100 million people worldwide, including 50,000 people in Canada during the 1918-1919 pandemic. This thesis examines the impact of Spanish Influenza on people living in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada between June of 1918 and June of 1919. Statistical analysis with SPSS was used to determine the association between influenza-caused deaths and socio-demographic characteristics such as age, gender, immigration status, and employment. In Vancouver, those who were between the ages of 19 to 39, and those who were employed, showed higher odds of dying from influenza during the epidemic. / Graduate

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:uvic.ca/oai:dspace.library.uvic.ca:1828/4291
Date21 September 2012
CreatorsBuchanan, Sarah
ContributorsOstry, Aleck
Source SetsUniversity of Victoria
LanguageEnglish, English
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis
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