| Description Of Item | The report is divided into three parts: Living Conditions and Diet of AIF [Australian Imperial Force] Prisoners of War in Malaya; The Production and Testing of Vitamin Containing Substances in Changi; and Manifestations of Deficiency Disease Among Prisoners of War in Malaya.
It contains a wealth of statistical information, including a table analysing the diet from 1941-1944, the number of cases for each condition and graphs of weekly incidence of cases, and although it includes case histories they have been anonymised. It contains some annotations by Woodruff.
At the end is a copy of a printed article 'Deficiency Diseases in Prisoners-of-War at Changi, Singapore' by R C Burgess from The Lancet, 1946. The report was originally in two folders sellotaped together, with a label, written on the headed paper of the University of Otago Medical School 'Deficiency Diseases Original Report to DGMS [Director-General of Medical Services]- MW'. The current arrangement into two folders reflects this original arrangement. |