Event EVT-000170
September 1918 · national
The influenza pandemic arrives with returning troops in September-October 1918 and kills on the order of 300,000 people in South Africa within weeks - one of the world's worst national death rates. Country districts lost whole households; church registers of late 1918 are a roll of it.
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