Title: War Surgery and Medicine

Author: Stout, T. Duncan M.

Publication details: Historical Publications Branch, 1954, Wellington

Part of: The Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939–1945

This text is the subject of: ‘Something of Them Is Here Recorded’: Official History in New Zealand

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Appendix C
Psychiatric and Neurosis Cases, 2 NZEF, Survey at February 1943

Diagnosis in Sample of 650 Cases

Mania	2	76 = 11.7 per cent
Simple depression	16
Mental dullness and backwardness	47
Paranoia	2
Schizophrenia	6
Psychosis—alcoholic	2
Delusional insanity	1
Epilepsy	3
Anxiety neurosis	416 = 63 per cent
Nervous or physical exhaustion	33
Hysteria	41 = 6.3 per cent
Psychopathic personality	21
Temperamental instability	10
Headaches—persistent 9
Headaches post-concussional 6	15
Neurasthenia	13
Obsessional neurosis	1
Dyspepsia, nervous	21
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	650