War Surgery and Medicine
Analysis of Post-mortem Examinations Made at 1 General Hospital, Helwan, October 1941 to March 1944
Analysis of Post-mortem Examinations Made at 1 General Hospital, Helwan, October 1941 to March 1944
admissions— | |
Surgical (incl over 2000 battle casualties) | 10,500 approx |
Medical | 15,000 approx |
Total (includes other than New Zealanders) | 25,500 |
deaths | 91 |
Post-mortems carried out— | |
On hospital deaths | 90 |
‘Brought in dead’ | 43 |
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133 |
CAUSES OF DEATH IN HOSPITAL— | |
Battle casualties | 21* |
Pneumococcal infections | 11 |
Following accidents | 10 |
Following burns | 6 |
Staphylococcal infections | 6 |
Tuberculosis | 4 |
Infective hepatitis | 4 |
Typhoid fever | 4 |
Typhus fever | 3 |
Diphtheria | 3 |
Malaria | 1 |
Miscellaneous | 18 |
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91 |
CAUSES OF DEATH OF SOLDIERS ‘BROUGHT IN DEAD’— | |
Murder | 1 |
Suicide | 8 |
Accident (vehicle and falls) | 21 |
GSW (accidental) | 3 |
Drowning | 1 |
Natural causes | 9 |
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43 |