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Folio(s): 197-198. Name: B.A Keen. Rank: Lieutenant. Unit/Battalion/Regiment:...

Catalogue reference: MH 106/2083/57

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This record is about the Folio(s): 197-198. Name: B.A Keen. Rank: Lieutenant. Unit/Battalion/Regiment:... dating from 1915 Aug 3 - 1915 Nov 24 in the series War Office: First World War Representative Medical Records of Servicemen and Servicewomen. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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MH 106/2083/57
Date
1915 Aug 3 - 1915 Nov 24
Description

Folio(s): 197-198.

Name: B.A Keen.

Rank: Lieutenant.

Unit/Battalion/Regiment: 1/5 Suffolk Regiment.

Service number: N/A.

Age: 25.

Hospital(s): 4th London General Hospital, Denmark Hill.

Condition/Injury/Disease: Dysentery.

Details and Outcome: Admitted to hospital at Alexandria. Ailments listed: diarrhoea, vomiting, passed blood, colic and tender abdomen. Chest very deformed. Heart sounds muffled. Bacteriological report notes amoeba present. Patient suffers a lot of pain, diarrhoea and tenesmus. 20/10/1915 stools free of amoeba. Transferred to Denmark Hill 27/10/1915. Bacteriological examination carried out. Results negative for all amoeba. Discharged.

Number of Pages: 2.

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