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Typed case summary, correspondence and chart relating to male airman from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 27 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: staphylococcal meningitis with cerebral abscess; headache; and suppurative otitis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, correspondence and charts relating to male sailor from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 40 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: traumatic lesion (disseminated blood extravasation) of lumbar enlargement of spinal cord; complete paralysis of legs; and paraesthesiae. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence and chart relating to male soldier from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 29 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: penetrating gunshot wound to left parietal region; right spastic hemiplegia; and transient aphasia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence and charts relating to male driver from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 19 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: penetrating wound to the skull (left parietal region); resultant right hemiparesis; dysphasia; and acalculia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary relating to male sailor from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 26 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: musculo-ligamentous back strain; and backache. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary relating to male soldier from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 27 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: compound fracture of left frontal sinus; cerebrospinal fluid leak from nose; and post-operative epilepsy attack. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and chart relating to male soldier from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 19 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: penetrating wound in left temporal region; four small metallic foreign bodies in scalp; penetrating wound in left arm and cheek; and wound infection. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence and charts relating to male soldier from outside Great Britain aged 37 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: prolapsed disc displacement; chronic backache; left sciatic pain; and left sciatic neuritis. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary relating to male sailor from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 20 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: shell wound in neck; leg paralysis; muscle wasting; and loss of sensation in leg. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary relating to male airman from outside Great Britain aged 22 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: concussional head injury; brachial plexus lesion; and subconjunctival haemorrhage. No treatment given. Patient discharged.