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Folio(s): 37-39. Name: Henry Newman. Rank: Trooper. Unit/Battalion/Regiment:...

Catalogue reference: MH 106/2091/27

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This record is about the Folio(s): 37-39. Name: Henry Newman. Rank: Trooper. Unit/Battalion/Regiment:... dating from 1915 Sept 4 - 1915 Sept 21 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 106/2091/27
Date
1915 Sept 4 - 1915 Sept 21
Description

Folio(s): 37-39.

Name: Henry Newman.

Rank: Trooper.

Unit/Battalion/Regiment: 3 Dragoon Guards.

Service number: 2845.

Age: 30.

Hospital(s): 2 Birmingham War Hospital, Northfield.

Condition/Injury/Disease: Malaria.

Details and Outcome: Includes clinical chart and second medical case sheet, glued together at head. Patient has history of rheumatism around 1904 [or possibly 1905]; also had malaria in Egypt. Has just recovered from shivering attack with temperature rising to 105 degrees; on admission partially recovered, but symptoms include pain in head and back. Treatment prescribed includes chicken diet with extras, quinine and arsenic, additionally digitalis by 13/09/1915. Discharged to light duty. Second case sheet: eye examination results; eye symptoms considered probably as a result of malaria.

Number of Pages: 3.

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