Meningitis

Typed case summary, correspondence, report and charts relating to male stokerfrom Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 24 at first examination in1942 Conditions mentioned include: fainting; giddiness; papilloedema; headache; tumour; left parietal tuberculoma; chronic adhesive meningitis; optic atrophy; epilepsy; and pituitary chromophobe adenoma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, autopsy report, note, reports, charts; and x-ray films relating to maledoctor fromoutside Great Britain aged 39 at first examination in1942 Conditions mentioned include: facial paresis; papilloedema; encephalitis; polyuria; pneumococcal leptomeningitis; otitis media; and mastoiditis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, notes, chart and correspondence relating to malecorporal fromScotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 41 at first examination in1942 Conditions mentioned include: sciatica; hypoaesthesia; scoliosis; dyspnoea; kyphosis; displaced intervertebral disc; and post operative pachymeningitis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary relating to male gunnerfromScotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 22 at first examination in1942 Conditions mentioned include: cerebrospinal meningitis; anxiety neurosis; migraine; headache; and goitre. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, drawing, charts, photographs and reports relating to male corporalfromGreat Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 26 at first examination in1942 Conditions mentioned include: concussional head injury; photophobia; scalp wound; compound skull fracture; pneumococcal meningitis; headache; diplopia; and amnesia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, and correspondence relating to male gunnerfromGreat Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 32 at first examination in1942 Conditions mentioned include: ear pain; headache; facial paresis; diplopia; papilloedema; chronic suppurative right otitis; mastoiditis; ataxia; meningitis; and hemianopia; post neuritic atrophy; post otitic cerebral abscess. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, report and chart relating to male soldier from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 25 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: chronic and sub-acute infective meningoencephalitis complicated by adhesive meningitis and chronic hydrocephalus; and mental disabilities. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, reports, charts and notes relating to male soldier from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 31 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: meningomyelitis; paraplegia; hypoaesthesia; and spasms. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 48 at first examination in 1936. Conditions mentioned include: syphilitic endarteritis; weakness in arms; paraesthesiae in arms; and pachymeningitis cervicalis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 16 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: mental deficiency; epilepsy; cerebral meningitis; and urinary incontinence. No treatment given. Patient discharged.