Catalogue description Folio(s): 58-65g. Name: Olga M Bigg-Withers . Rank: Nurse . Unit/Battalion/Regiment:...

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Details of MH 106/2207/22
Reference: MH 106/2207/22
Description:

Folio(s): 58-65g.

Name: Olga M Bigg-Withers.

Rank: Nurse.

Unit/Battalion/Regiment: Voluntary Aid Detachment.

Service number: [unspecified].

Age: 27.

Hospital(s): No.19 General Hospital, Alexandria, Egypt; HMHS Dunluce Castle; Hospital for Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service, Vincent Square, London; 9 Palace Green; Manor War Hospital, Epsom.

Condition/Injury/Disease: Nervous Debility and Memory Loss; Exhaustion Psychosis.

Details and Outcome: Patient admitted suffering with nervous debility and memory loss. Condition later classified as 'exhaustion psychosis' and deemed to be the consequence of working hard in Egypt for the past two and half years: - 'she is depressed, easily cries, very confused and has remarked on 2 or 3 occasions that she wishes she were dead'. Includes account of patient's behaviour during journey home aboard Hospital Ship. Further details given. A brief account of patient's personal, professional and medical history is also given. Discharged to mother's care on 19 February 1919. Contains patient's home address. Includes three medical case sheets, a Special Hospitals for Officers case sheet, proceedings of a Medical Board, a medical transfer certificate, sdven diet sheets and a note.

Number of Pages: 14.

Date: 1918 May 4 - 1919 Feb 19
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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