Deficiency disease in P.O.W., Royal Naval Hospital, Sydney.

This film shows symptomatology and treatment of deficiency disease in internees and prisoners of war from Hong Kong and Singapore interned by the Japanese between 1941 and 1945. There is a sound narrative as well as rolling intertitles. The clinical features shown include optic atrophy and corneal scarring, foot-rot, loss of proprioceptor sensation and knee reflexes, ataxic and hysterical gaits, unilateral anaesthesias (a man is pricked many times on his legs and feels nothing) and paraesthesias, muscle wasting and "nerve-deafness". The patients perform some physiotherapy as a group. It is noted that the patients are treated with vitamin therapy. Unfortunately many of the neurological changes have proved to be permanent.

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1945-46.

1 videocassette (Digibeta) (11 min.) : 1 DVD (11 min.) : sound, black and white, PAL. sound, black and white, PAL.

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Intended primarily for neurologists. Of considerable interest to historians of neurology. Copy given to the Trust by the Royal College of Physicians in March 1990.

Bears close comparison with Neurological Sequelae of Captivity (1945-46).

Copy 1 (the original) is labelled 'Kay Laboratories' and 'Customer: British Movietone News'. Copy 2 is a more recent duplicate, SFVL Ltd.

Dr. [now Sir] Cyril Clarke and Dr. I.D. Snedden.