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Folio(s): 380. Name: W Andrews. Rank: Private. Unit/Battalion/Regiment: [C Company,...

Catalogue reference: MH 106/2212/256

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This record is about the Folio(s): 380. Name: W Andrews. Rank: Private. Unit/Battalion/Regiment: [C Company,... dating from 1919 Jan 28 - 1919 Apr 11 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 106/2212/256
Date
1919 Jan 28 - 1919 Apr 11
Description

Folio(s): 380.

Name: W Andrews.

Rank: Private.

Unit/Battalion/Regiment: [C Company, Eastern Command Labour Centre].

Service number: 429335.

Age: 39.

Hospital(s): 2nd Eastern General Hospital, Brighton (Portland Road, Hove); The County of Middlesex War Hospital, Napsbury, St Albans.

Condition/Injury/Disease: Mania.

Details and Outcome: Patient admitted suffering with mania. Patient is said to have been awaiting discharge at Sutton when he had some sort of nervous attack: - 'It appears that he cleared off in a car to Northampton and threatened his wife at home; says he went balmy and thought he was going to kill his wife - was removed to Northants Hospital (Duston)'. Is said to have all the symptoms of 'an advanced general paralytic'; 'demented and faulty in habits - dependent'. Takes but little nourishment of a liquid nature. Further details given. Patient 'gradually sank' and died 11 April 1919. Includes a medical case sheet only.

Number of Pages: 1.

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The National Archives, Kew
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Public Record(s)
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C17183945/

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