Volume 16, Number 12—December 2010
Historical Review
Mortality Risk Factors for Pandemic Influenza on New Zealand Troop Ship, 1918
Figure 1

Figure 1. His Majesty’s New Zealand Transport Tahiti in Wellington Harbor (c. 1914–1919). Photograph was taken by an unidentified photographer (23).
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