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Influenza at Seacliff Hospital
Seacliff psychiatric hospital, Dunedin c.1910.
Institutions containing large numbers of people living in close quarters were particularly at risk of influenza epidemics – but they could be prevented through the enforcement of strict quarantine. Alert superintendents at Auckland and Christchurch psychiatric hospitals imposed isolation and only two people died at each institution.
Meanwhile, Seacliff and Porirua psychiatric hospitals suffered serious epidemics. There were 22 deaths at each institution and many more staff and patients fell ill. Jean Thompson, who was nursing at Seacliff at the time, recalled: 'Out of a staff of 80 we had only 18 nurses on duty at one point. Keys had to be given to patients that had disturbed and even dangerous case histories, yet they never let us down.'
Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: 1/2-002563-F
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My grandfather was a Doctor at Seacliff in the 1930's and my mother was born there. My aunt who was a little older and started school there in 1936 is keen to find out where the house they lived in was but cannot remember either. She knows she started school with Alastair Findlay, the son of the Farm Manager, but doesn't know if there was a school at Seacliff or Wsitati. Can anyone help? Thanks.
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