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1918: Samoa and the Ship of Death (Talune)
Web (Excerpts) – 2018
According to a 1947 United Nations report, it ranked as ‘one of the most disastrous epidemics recorded anywhere in the world during the present century, so far as the proportion of deaths to the population is concerned’.– NZ History page on the 1918 influenza epidemic in Samoa
[It is] temporary and, like children, they [Samoans] will get over it provided they are handled with care ... They will later on remember all that has been done for them in the previous four years...– Lines from a 1919 report by Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Logan, the NZ Administrator in Samoa
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