VISUAL DEFECTS IN PRISONERS-OF-WAR FROM THE FAR EAST

The Lancet ◽  
1946 ◽  
Vol 248 (6414) ◽  
pp. 149-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
H.E. Hobbs ◽  
F.A. Forbes
Keyword(s):  
Far East ◽  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Visual Defects

Medical Affairs in the Far East after V-J Day: A Personal View

1995 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 84-87
Author(s):  
R.H. Girdwood
Keyword(s):  
Far East ◽  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
Personal View ◽  
The Far East ◽  
British Rule

The invasion of Singapore and Malaya was delayed because of the reduction in the period of service in the Far East. The atom bombs were then dropped and plans for all services including medical ones had to be altered, their main aim becoming the treatment and repatriation of surviving prisoners of war. The ending of the war did not occur abruptly on V-J day; many Japanese troops had to be convinced that the war was over. Meantime the treatment of diseases in British and other service men continued; reference is made to some experiences in Rangoon. The morale of personnel who now were anxious to return to their homes was low and efforts were made to raise their spirits. In India it was accepted that the days of British rule were over.

" BURNING FEET " IN BRITISH PRISONERS-OF-WAR IN THE FAR EAST

The Lancet ◽  
1946 ◽  
Vol 247 (6409) ◽  
pp. 959-961 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Far East ◽  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
The Far East

An Investigation into the Association of Creeping Eruption with Strongyloides Infection Contracted in the Far East

1952 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. A. Sandosham
Keyword(s):  
Far East ◽  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
Tropical Diseases ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Creeping Eruption

Dr. J. P. Caplan (1949) of the Ministry of Pensions Tropical Diseases Unit, Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton, reported that in the course of 8 years he had observed several hundred cases of creeping eruption am, ong ex-prisoners-of-war from the Far East and that more than 98 per cent, of them had Strongyloides infection.According to Napier (1949), who comments on this condition, at least 90 per cent, of these patients had worked in Siam on. the notorious railway. One of Napier's cases came from the Assam-Burma frontier and one of Caplan's from Java. Professor J. J. C. Buckley, who was consulted, was of the opinion that morphologically the parasite in the faeces of these patients was in no way different from S. stercoralis Bavay, 1876).The writer decided to undertake this investigation, with Professor Buckley's permission, on ascertaining that a friend of his, an English doctor on leave from Malaya who had worked on the Siamese. Railway under the Japanese, was harbouring Strongyloides infection and had creeping eruption.

Pellagra and the Nutritional Neuropathies: A Neuropathological Review

1952 ◽  
Vol 98 (410) ◽  
pp. 130-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denis Leigh
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Neurological Disorders ◽  
Clinical Studies ◽  
Clinical Status ◽  
Far East ◽  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Pathological Findings ◽  
The Far East ◽  
The Individual

It is now well recognized that many of the syndromes previously described as pellagra, such as nutritional retrobulbar neuropathy, the ataxic, and burning feet syndromes, may occur as isolated manifestations of nutritional deficiency. The term “pellagra,” as it is often used, is no more than a generic title embracing a wide variety of nutritional disorders. The clinical status of the individual deficiency syndromes has been elucidated of late years in America (Spies et al., 1939; Harris, 1941), and with particular regard to the neurological disorders, in groups of prisoners of war in the Far East (Denny Brown, 1947) and Middle East (Spillane, 1947). The majority of the pathological studies of pellagra were completed in the era before advancing biochemical knowledge provided the impetus to further these clinical studies, and this is reflected in the great diversity of neuropathological changes described as “pellagrous.” The extensive literature contains many excellent studies of cases dying from malnutrition, and it now seems possible to attempt a correlation between the pathological findings and the more recently described individual syndromes. A review, therefore, of the neuropathological changes encountered in “pellagra” might be not untimely.

PAINFUL FEET IN PRISONERS-OF-WAR IN THE FAR EAST

The Lancet ◽  
1946 ◽  
Vol 248 (6420) ◽  
pp. 369-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
E.K. Cruickshank
Keyword(s):  
Far East ◽  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
The Far East

scholarly journals Activities of the NKVD of the Far East in the fight against crime in the second half of 1945

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 555-567
Author(s):  
Alexander V. Zhadan
Keyword(s):  
Far East ◽  
Criminal Activity ◽  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
Street Crime ◽  
Law And Order ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
Post War ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Impact

This article examines the causes and conditions of the aggravation of the criminal situation in the Far East in the second half of 1945 and the historical experience of local NKVD (Peoples Commissariat of Internal Affairs) bodies in maintaining law and order under the conditions of the Soviet-Japanese war and the first post-war period. Based on the analysis of the documentation of the NKVD departments of Primorye and Khabarovsk territories, including internal administrative documents (orders, plans, etc.), as well as materials of primary party organizations (minutes of party meetings, certificates, memos, etc.), the author draws conclusions about the development of the criminal situation in the region, and discusses the NKVDs ways and directions to ensure law and order. Studying the stated problems, it was possible not only to state the presence of negative dynamics in the number and severity of criminal manifestations, but also to establish that the criminal crisis of the second half of 1945 was caused by the imposition of new socio-economic and political factors (including the amnesty for prisoners, the relocation of large masses of troops, the Soviet-Japanese war, the placement of prisoners of war, demobilization) on the already difficult criminal situation that had developed during the Great Patriotic War. The study largely confirmed the fact repeatedly noted in historiography about the impact of personnel starvation and problems of material support on the effectiveness of the NKVD in the war and post-war period. The archival documents show that the main ways to normalize the operational situation in the Far East region were measures concerning organizational work and operational-search activities, as well as control-methodical and administrative measures. The author concludes that the measures taken allowed the NKVD of the Far East to reverse the explosive growth of serious street crime by the end of 1945. However, this success was only partial - the overall level of criminal activity in the region continued to remain at a fairly high level for several post-war years.

MALNUTRITION IN INDIAN PRISONERS-OF-WAR IN THE FAR EAST

The Lancet ◽  
1947 ◽  
Vol 249 (6441) ◽  
pp. 205-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.H. Walters ◽  
R.J. Rossiter ◽  
H. Lehmann
Keyword(s):  
Far East ◽  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
The Far East
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