Purpose

This article examines the impact of the 1919 influenza pandemic on the life and culture of Australian universities, and the curious absence of sustained discussion about the crisis in university magazines. It considers two contexts, from the perspective of the general university population, and from the particular focus of medical students.

Design/methodology/approach

The primary source for this analysis is based on detailed reading of university magazines across three universities, as well as other primary and secondary literature. The article was written during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, which has limited access to some other magazines held in library collections, but the corpus of material is more than sufficient.

Findings

This article shows that the pandemic further deferred the resumption of university life after a hiatus during the First World War. The failure to identify the causal agent limited technical discussion in medical school magazines.

Originality/value

This is one of the first dedicated studies of the effect of the 1919 influenza pandemic on Australian universities. It joins a growing body of work considering the effect of the influenza on different community groups.

中文翻译：

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1919年流感大流行期间的澳大利亚大学和医学院生活

目的

本文探讨了1919年流感大流行对澳大利亚大学的生活和文化的影响，以及奇怪的是缺乏在大学杂志上对危机的持续讨论。它从普通大学群体的角度以及医学生的特殊重点出发，考虑了两种情况。

设计/方法/方法

该分析的主要依据是对三所大学的大学杂志以及其他中小学文献的详细阅读。这篇文章是在2020年COVID-19大流行期间撰写的，该文章对图书馆藏书中的其他一些杂志的访问有限，但资料库已经足够。

发现

本文表明，这种大流行进一步推迟了第一次世界大战后中断大学生活的时间。未能确定病因的原因限制了医学院杂志上的技术讨论。

创意/价值

这是对1919年流感大流行对澳大利亚大学的影响进行的首批专门研究之一。考虑到流感对不同社区群体的影响，它加入了越来越多的工作。