NRS-17694 | Admission and Discharge Book (Army Personnel)

This series records the details of Army personnel who were treated as in-patients at Royal Newcastle Hospital between 1944 and 1951. It contains 785 entries, of which 695 are under the year 1944, and 56 under 1945. In 1944 and 1945, the numbering of each year’s entries starts anew at the beginning of the year; from 1946 onwards, the numbering of the remaining 34 entries is continuous from year to year.The information recorded about each patient includes name, rank, service number and unit; age, religion and length of service; diagnosis (“malaria” being by far the most common); ward number; dates of admission and discharge or transfer, and date of death, if applicable; number of days in hospital; and unit discharged or transferred to.The single volume of which this series consists (although the possibility that an earlier volume may have existed cannot be ruled out) was originally printed for use by Army medical units, and was evidently provided to the Hospital in order to ensure that their record of Service patients would be consistent with Army records-keeping practice. The address of the “D.D.M.S.” at HQ Eastern Command, Victoria Barracks has been pencilled inside the back cover of this volume.