1. Household Income and Spending in the United States During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic • Johan Fourie, Stellenbosch University; Johannes Norling, Mount Holyoke College.

2. Inequalities in Excess Mortality during the 1918-9 Influenza Pandemic in the Netherlands • Rick J. Mourits, International Institute of Social History; Auke Rijpma, Utrecht University; Schalk Ruben, Utrecht University; Ingrid K van Dijk, Lund University; Richard L. Zijdeman, International Institute of Social History.

3. Pandemic Influenza and the Gender Imbalance: Evidence from Early Twentieth Century Japan • Kota Ogasawara, Tokyo Institute of Technology; Minami Yumitori, Tokyo Institute of Technology.

4. Death around the Kitchen Table: Inequality, Urban Habitat and Disease Avoidance during a Typhoid Epidemic in a Finnish City, 1916 • Jarmo Peltola, Dr, Senior researcher, Tampere University, Faculty of Social Sciences, History; Sakari Saaritsa, University of Helsinki; Henri Mikkola, University of Helsinki.