These figures are taken from Geoffrey Rice, Black November: the 1918 influenza pandemic, Canterbury University Press, 2005. The population figures are those of the 1916 census. Death rate is per 1,000 of population. Māori populations for counties are inclusive of interior boroughs. Only registered Māori deaths are listed, and these are not available for some districts. The national death toll was about 9000.
Region:
- Marlborough
- Nelson
- West Coast
- North Canterbury
- Christchurch
- Banks Peninsula and Chatham Islands
- South Canterbury
- Otago
- Dunedin
- Southland
Marlborough
Place | Deaths | Population | Death rate (per 1000) |
Sounds County and Picton | 8 | 2,322 | 3.4 |
Marlborough | 11 | 6,915 | 1.5 |
Blenheim | 27 | 3,822 | 7.0 |
Awatere | 2 | 1,542 | 1.2 |
Kaikoura | 9 | 1,906 | 4.7 |
TOTAL | 57 | 16,507 | 3.4 |
Nelson
Place | Deaths | Population | Death rate (per 1000) |
Waimea County | 11 | 9,334 | 1.1 |
Motueka | 4 | 1,475 | 2.7 |
Nelson | 29 | 8,774 | 3.3 |
Takaka | 3 | 1,858 | 1.6 |
Collingwood | – | 1,253 | |
Murchison | 6 | 1,251 | 4.7 |
TOTAL | 53 | 23,945 | 2.2 |
West Coast
Place | Deaths | Population | Death rate (per 1000) |
Buller County | 10 | 5,071 | 1.9 |
Denniston | 13 | 702 | 18.5 |
Westport | 10 | 4,067 | 2.4 |
Inangahua and Reefton | 12 | 4,130 | 2.9 |
Grey County | 17 | 7,519 | 2.2 |
Greymouth | 38 | 4,863 | 7.8 |
Westland | 14 | 4,578 | 3.0 |
Hokitika | 20 | 2,091 | 9.5 |
Kumara | 3 | 623 | 4.8 |
TOTAL | 137 | 33,644 | 4.0 |
Māori deaths | 1 | 81 |
North Canterbury
Place | Deaths | Population | Death rate (per 1000) |
Amuri County | 1 | 1,836 | 3.8 |
Cheviot County | 9 | 1,224 | 1.3 |
Waipara County | 11 | 2,058 | 5.3 |
Kowai County | 7 | 1,444 | 4.8 |
Amberley | 8 | 470 | 17.0 |
Ashley County | – | 728 | – |
Rangiora County | 10 | 2,747 | 3.6 |
Kaiapoi | 11 | 1,560 | 10.8 |
Rangiora | 9 | 1,808 | 4.9 |
Eyre County | 9 | 1,806 | 4.9 |
Oxford County | 10 | 989 | 10.1 |
Tawera County | 1 | 847 | 1.1 |
Malvern County | 6 | 2,757 | 2.1 |
Paparua County (excluding Christchurch) | 6 | 2,566 | 2.3 |
Halswell County | 2 | 1,785 | 1.2 |
Springs County | 4 | 1,785 | 2.2 |
Ellesmere County | 6 | 3,441 | 1.7 |
Selwyn County | 7 | 1,423 | 4.9 |
TOTAL | 129 | 31,117 | 4.1 |
Māori deaths | 1 | 145 |
Christchurch
Place | Deaths | Population | Death rate (per 1000) |
City East | 31 | 5,109 | 6.1 |
City Northwest | 26 | 4,364 | 6.4 |
City Southwest | 29 | 3,999 | 7.3 |
Riccarton | 11 | 2,890 | 3.8 |
New Brighton | 13 | 2,310 | 5.6 |
Sumner | 5 | 2,287 | 2.1 |
Lyttelton | 21 | 3,766 | 5.6 |
Addington | 10 | 3,045 | 3.3 |
Sydenhem | 43 | 8,418 | 5.1 |
Waltham | 7 | 2,218 | 3.2 |
Beckenham | 5 | 909 | 5.5 |
Spreydon East | 10 | 1,565 | 6.4 |
Spreydon West | 4 | 1,645 | 2.4 |
Somerfield | 6 | 1,079 | 5.5 |
Opawa | 4 | 890 | 4.5 |
St Martins | 1 | 278 | 3.5 |
Woolston | 9 | 3,990 | 2.2 |
Linwood South | 14 | 5,195 | 2.7 |
Linwood North | 25 | 4,758 | 5.3 |
Avonside and Bromley | 1 | 1,933 | 0.5 |
Richmond | 16 | 2,696 | 5.9 |
St Albans East | 22 | 4,775 | 4.6 |
St Albans West | 33 | 5,665 | 5.8 |
Papanui | 11 | 1,866 | 5.8 |
Strowan and Merivale | 11 | 2,567 | 4.2 |
Belfast and Styx | 8 | 1,839 | 4.3 |
Marshland | 7 | 1,454 | 4.8 |
Fendalton | 13 | 5,078 | 2.5 |
Sockburn and Islington | 8 | 2,397 | 3.3 |
Heathcote | 7 | 2,738 | 2.5 |
Harewood | 3 | 1,050 | 2.8 |
Soldiers who died in camp | 19 | ||
‘Christchurch’, no address | 25 | ||
TOTAL | 458 | 92,773 | 4.9 |
Banks Peninsula and Chatham Islands
European | Maori | |||||
Place | Deaths | Population | Death rate (per 1000) | Deaths | Population | Death rate (per 1000) |
Mt Herbert County | 2 | 405 | 4.9 | 1 | 120 | 16.6 |
Akaroa County | 13 | 1,982 | 6.5 | – | 33 | – |
Akaroa | 4 | 540 | 7.4 | |||
Chatham Islands County | 1 | 219 | 4.5 | 5 | 258 | 19.3 |
Wairewa County | 2 | 1,036 | 1.9 | 2 | 75 | 26.6 |
TOTAL | 22 | 4,182 | 5.2 | 8 | 486 | 16.4 |
South Canterbury
Place | Deaths | Population | Death rate (per 1000) |
Ashburton County | 46 | 13,136 | 3.5 |
Ashburton | 25 | 3,109 | 8.0 |
Geraldine County | 11 | 5,194 | 2.1 |
Geraldine | 5 | 869 | 5.7 |
Temuka | 21 | 2,173 | 9.6 |
Levels County | 11 | 4,378 | 2.5 |
Pleasant Point | 4 | 722 | 5.5 |
Timaru | 38 | 12,238 | 3.1 |
Mackenzie County | 6 | 2,868 | 2.0 |
Waimate County | 13 | 6,984 | 1.8 |
Waimate | 17 | 1,867 | 9.1 |
TOTAL | 197 | 53,538 | 3.6 |
Māori deaths | 10 | 232 | 43.1 |
Otago
Place | Deaths | Population | Death rate (per 1000) |
Waitaki County | 22 | 9,694 | 2.2 |
Hampden | 4 | 364 | 10.9 |
Oamaru | 46 | 5,140 | 8.9 |
Waihemo County | 6 | 1,446 | 4.1 |
Palmerston | 5 | 752 | 6.6 |
Waikouaiti County | 6 | 2,841 | 2.1 |
Waikouaiti | 4 | 611 | 6.5 |
Seacliff* | 21 | 1,253 | 16.7 |
Taieri County | 10 | 5,662 | 1.7 |
Mosgiel | 11 | 1,719 | 6.3 |
Bruce County | 3 | 4,763 | 0.6 |
Kaitangata | 4 | 1,681 | 2.3 |
Milton | 5 | 1,317 | 3.7 |
Clutha County | 6 | 6,194 | 0.9 |
Balclutha | 10 | 1,409 | 7.0 |
Owaka district | 15 | 707 | 21.2 |
Tuapeka County | 4 | 4,818 | 0.8 |
Lawrence | 4 | 837 | 4.7 |
Roxburgh | 2 | 449 | 4.4 |
Tapanui | 8 | 627 | 12.7 |
Maniototo County | – | 2,527 | – |
Naseby | 2 | 276 | 7.2 |
Vincent County | 7 | 3,930 | 1.7 |
Alexandra | 9 | 679 | 13.2 |
Cromwelll | 4 | 549 | 7.2 |
Lake County | 1 | 1,749 | 0.5 |
Arrowtown | 1 | 307 | 3.2 |
Queenstown | 3 | 657 | 4.5 |
TOTAL | 223 | 62,958 | 3.5 |
* includes Seacliff Mental Hospital
Dunedin
Place | Deaths | Population | Death rate (per 1000) |
Roslyn | 22 | 6,300 | 3.4 |
Maori Hill | 4 | 2,075 | 1.9 |
North East Valley | 18 | 4,750 | 3.7 |
Central Dunedin | 63 | 21,290 | 2.9 |
Mornington | 9 | 4,381 | 2.0 |
St Kilda | 28 | 5,520 | 5.0 |
South Dunedin | 30 | 6,687 | 4.4 |
Caversham | 22 | 6,165 | 3.5 |
Green Island | 15 | 1,841 | 8.1 |
St Clair | – | 1,797 | – |
Port Chalmers | 20 | 2,615 | 7.6 |
West Harbour | 1 | 1,631 | 0.6 |
Tainui–Andersons Bay | 4 | 1,871 | 2.1 |
Peninsula County | 1 | 1,793 | 0.5 |
‘Dunedin’, no address (including soldiers who died in camp) | 36 | ||
TOTAL | 273 | 68,716 | 3.9 |
Southland
European | Maori | |||||
Place | Deaths | Population | Death rate (per 1000) | Deaths | Population | Death rate (per 1000) |
Southland County | 100 | 23,531 | 4.2 | 1 | 43 | 23.2 |
Campbelltown (Bluff) | 8 | 1,823 | 4.3 | |||
Gore | 27 | 3,551 | 7.6 | |||
Lumsden | 5 | 570 | 8.7 | |||
Mataura | 13 | 1,129 | 11.5 | |||
Winton | 19 | 1,155 | 16.4 | |||
Wyndham | 13 | 991 | 13.1 | |||
Invercargill | 171 | 15,866 | 10.7 | |||
Wallace County | 65 | 7,729 | 8.4 | 7 | 92 | 76.0 |
Nightcaps and Wairio | 33 | 718 | 45.9 | |||
Otautau | 21 | 837 | 25.0 | |||
Riverton | 16 | 985 | 16.2 | |||
Fiord County | – | 17 | – | |||
Stewart Island County | – | 349 | – | 1 | 4 | 250 |
TOTAL | 491 | 59,251 | 8.2 | 9 | 139 | 64.7 |
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