Not sure how much use individual-level census data would be without individual level data on deaths — and, of course, those people would be mostly listed in 1911 but not in 1921!
There is of course a fair amount of published research using aggregate data on the 1918-19 pandemic, including this (and that link seems to be to an open access text):
The 1918–1919 influenza pandemic in England and Wales: spatial patterns in transmissibility and mortality impact
Gerardo Chowell, Luís M.A Bettencourt, Niall Johnson, Wladimir J Alonso, Cécile Viboud
Proc Biol Sci. 2008 Mar 7; 275(1634): 501–509
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2596813
You will see that does use aggregate 1921 census data, gratifyingly taken from our Vision of Britain system. The analysis is at local authority level, and the main data source is this report:
Supplement to the eighty-first annual report of the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in England and Wales. Report on the mortality from influenza in England and Wales during the epidemic of 1918-19 (BPP 1920. Cmd. 700).
That is not downloadable from Histpop, as their coverage of the RG’s reports ends with 1920 and they did not include that 1920 supplement. However, I was able to download it from ProQuest just now (my university subscribes). As usual, lots of dense tables of numbers, but on a very quick glance looks to be just the larger towns plus remainders of counties.
Some of the data used in the above article are in the UKDS collection, deposed by Niall Johnson:
https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=4350
I think anyone registered with the UKDS can download that. It is a single Excel workbook with two sheets, one for raw counts and one for rates. There is a row for each of about 330 areas (versus around 1800 LGDs in all), and a column for each week from the week ending 29/06/1918 to the week ending 10/05/1919. For north Staffs, there is data for Stoke on Trent CB, Newcastle-under-Lyme M.B. and Wolstanton United U.D.
Although that article is about "spatial patterns”, it does not map the pandemic, it just uses data at local authority level. Fun fact: we have twice supplied digital boundary data for local government districts as they were in 1918-19 to Public Health England, so they could analyse that pandemic geographically, but when we were trying to gather data on our “impact” for the last research assessment (not this year’s), it turned out they had never used them.
Humphrey Southall
> On 7 Apr 2021, at 11:28, David Alan Gatley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> All,
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> I'm thinking could there be anything contained within the 1921 census schedules (due for release next January) that might throw light on how the Spanish flu outbreak affected the population of the country and might help us better understand the present pandemic.
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> Anyone any thoughts and if so, could a case be made out for releasing the census schedules six months early in July just over 100 years after the census was conducted?
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> David
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