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References

1 ‘So-called’ because the only reason for the label ‘Spanish’ was that, unlike most countries
where the epidemic struck, Spain was not at war in 1918 and so did not censor press reports
about the epidemic’s presence there.
2 Daily Dispatch, 28 September 1918.
3 Western Cape Archives Repository, Cape Town, 1/TSO 11, file 485 (1), Telegram from
Magistrate Tsolo to Chief Magistrate Transkei, 16 October 1918.
4 People’s Weekly, 12 October 1918.
5 Daily Dispatch, 4 November 1918.
6 Christian Express, 2 December 1918, p. 185.
7 Witwatersrand University Library, Historical and Literary Papers Division, AB 1011
(Bishop J. W. Williams Papers), Diary 1918-19, Entry for 9 November 1918.
8 The Friend, 8 November 1918.
9 Uitenhage Times, 16 October 1918.
10 Debates of the House of Assembly…as reported in the Cape Times, vol. 4 (1919), p. 51,
col. 3.
11 National Archives Repository, Pretoria, Acc. 172, vol. 2, E.O. Műller, ‘Lewensloop’, pp.
37-8. (Translation by author).
12 Interview by author with Mr P. J. du Plessis, 20 January 1981.
13 South African Medical Record, 14 February 1918, p. 364.
14 Letter to author from Dr R. L. Forsyth, 2 November 1978.
15 Western Cape Archives Repository, Cape Town, Kimberley City Council Minute Book 18,
p. 55, ‘Report to Mayor and City Councillors from Deputy Mayor, Cllr. C. W. Lawrence on
th
Organisational Work to Combat Epidemic of Spanish Influenza, 7 November, 1918’, p. 25.
16 W.H. Dawson, South Africa – People, Places and Problems (London, 1925), p. 252.
17 Library of Parliament, Cape Town, ‘Union of South Africa, Commission on the Influenza
Epidemic, Evidence 1918-1919’, vol. 1, file 5, Evidence of A. Stewart, p. 1.
18 Ibid., ‘Memorandum on Progress of Epidemic in Bloemfontein Submitted by J. P. Logan’,
Entry for 14 October 1918.
19 Cape Argus, 14 October 1918.
20 De Koningsbode, July 1919, p. 141. (Translation by the author).
21 Evening Post, 28 August 1965.
22 Daily Dispatch, 21 January 1919.
23 Cape Times, 13 April 1920.
24 National Archives Repository, Pretoria, PM 1/1/449, file PM 1/30/10/19, Report on the
Public Health Act by E. L. Mathews, Law Adviser, 29 July 1919, p. 4.
25 Die Huisgenoot, March 1919, p. 676. (Translation by author).
26 C. M. J. Aarts de Vries, Ziekeverpleging in Huis (Cape Town, 1919), preface. (Translation
by author).
27 Cape Times, 16 July 1929.
28 Cape Times, 31 October 1919.
29 Debates of the House of Assembly…as reported in the Cape Times, vol. 8 (1923), p. 67,
col. 3.
30 Interview by author with Mrs M. Jones, 14 June 1978.