Volume 16, Number 12—December 2010
Historical Review
Mortality Risk Factors for Pandemic Influenza on New Zealand Troop Ship, 1918
Figure 2

Figure 2. His Majesty’s New Zealand Transport Tahiti with World War I troops alongside a wharf (c. 1915). This photograph was presumably taken in a Wellington, New Zealand, wharf, given the gauge of the railway tracks and the crane type. Photograph was taken by David J. Aldersley (24).
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