The Other Pandemic – the Spanish Flu in the Inner West: – Patricia Skehan, author of Frontline of the Pandemic Australia 1919
Pratten Park Community, Sports and Bowling Club 42 Arthur Street, Ashfield, NSWPatricia Skehan will talk about the pandemic that touched the Inner West after WW1. She will reveal aspects of how this played out using firsthand accounts from the time. Her book, Frontline of the Pandemic, is about this so-called “Spanish Flu”, which reached Australia in 1919.