chaz Posted 30 December , 2018 Share Posted 30 December , 2018 one of my collection Aaron Joseph Lawson 96513 ended up a WO2 with the Labour Corp, previously a CSM with the R.F.A he died 2nd July 1918 at home , buried at Brookwood Cemetery. according to one source he Died : from Pulmonary Tuberculosis 02.07.1918 at Middlesex War Hospital, Napsbury, St Albans, Herts on another he is recorded Ailment: General paralysis of the insane Date of Transfer From Other Hospitals: 04/06/1918 would Kew records tell any more MH106/1547 MH106/1547 ? apparently he had not 'been in good health' after returning from France where he was in 1916. possible gas? would the Pulmonary Tuberculosis and paralysis of the insane be connected? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 30 December , 2018 Share Posted 30 December , 2018 Almost certainly not; GPI is usually the end stage of tertiary syphilis. If he had pulmonary (i.e. lung) TB, the gas would had a more damaging effect even than usual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaz Posted 30 December , 2018 Author Share Posted 30 December , 2018 thankyou Jane he got released from the GPI hospital less than a month before he died, I thought it was only the OR's that caught syphilis overseas, but he was married with children as an instructor at home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 30 December , 2018 Share Posted 30 December , 2018 Tertiary syphilis can take years to develop, and sometimes never does, so it could even have been wild oats sown before marriage that caught up with him in the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnboy Posted 30 December , 2018 Share Posted 30 December , 2018 Napsbury was a mental hospital until it closed some years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaySearching Posted 30 December , 2018 Share Posted 30 December , 2018 (edited) I don't think that all cases of deaths recorded as having died in a mental hospital of General paralysis of the insane can be attributed to having died of syphilis although it could have been one of the causes I researched a sailor some time back who was severely shell shocked reduced to a quivering wreck evacuated home and admitted into the local mental hospital as a lunatic his death is recorded as having died of General paralysis of the insane Ray Edit Footnote that's not to say the the sailor in question was not also suffering from syphilis his condition "shell shock" could also have been wrongly diagnosed and his mental illness may have been the result of a syphilis infection, One has to keep an open mind LINK general paralysis of the insane Edited 30 December , 2018 by RaySearching Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 30 December , 2018 Share Posted 30 December , 2018 (edited) That's interesting Ray, thanks. Although I notice in post #1 that Napsbury is described as the Middlesex War Hospital, and that it wasn't uncommon for patients to be cleared from asylums to make room for military casualties; so it wasn't necessarily known as a lunatic asylum during the war. Edited 30 December , 2018 by seaJane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnboy Posted 30 December , 2018 Share Posted 30 December , 2018 The LCC handed the hospital to the Army for surgical and medical cses.The original patients might have been transferred to near by mental hospitals Shenleybury. Harperbury and Leavesden, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai Bach y Sowldiwr Posted 30 December , 2018 Share Posted 30 December , 2018 1 hour ago, RaySearching said: I don't think that all cases of deaths recorded as having died in a mental hospital of General paralysis of the insane can be attributed to having died of syphilis although it could have been one of the causes In medicine you can never say 'never' or 'always', but I'd say that if it says GPI, then it's a strong probability rather than a mere possibility. A surprisingly large proportion of mental hospital inmates with dementia like illnesses in the pre-penicillin era had GPI and died of it. And there would be at the time a serological test (WR) to confirm the diagnosis, although how widespread was its use, I can't say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaz Posted 30 December , 2018 Author Share Posted 30 December , 2018 his summary of service, so could have got anywhere!!! would like to reunite my trio with his LSGC issued in 1911. Born: 30.04.1878 Christened/Baptised: 02/06/1878 son of William Joseph and Elizabeth Mary. Census: 1891 living at 32 Exmouth Road, Great Yarmouth Enlisted: as a boy age 14y into Royal Artillery 11/12m 17/03/1893 Certificate: 3rd class exam 29.04.1893 Certificate: 2nd class exam 25.10.1893 Transferred: Boy 15.12.1893 at home: 17.03.1892 to 09.10.1894 Appointed: Trooper 10.10.1894 Transferred: 10.10.1894 Reverted: Boy 26.02.1895 : Driver 17.04.1896 In Gibraltar: 10.10.1894 to 18.07.1896 Transferred: Driver 26.07.1896 Appointed: A Bombardier 16.10.1896 Promoted: Bombardier..08.1897 Certificate: corporal 22.09.1897 Posted: Re-organisation 15.07.1898 Elected to: 01.04.1898 Promoted: to Corporal 21.10.1898 Certificate: Gunnery 31.01.1900 Posted: to Corporal 15.02.1900 Certificate: Sergeant 22.11.1900 Census: 1901 none, presumably as living in camp. Promoted: to Sergeant 14.03.1901 110th Bty R.F.A Elected: 1902 21 years service: 30.11.1904 Certificate: 1st class exam 28.03.1905 Married 07.09.1905 to Alice Emily Deacon at Fittleton, Wilts occupation Sergeant in R.F.A Posted: Sergeant 20.07.1908 At Home 26.07.1896 to 15.11.1915 Expeditionary Force to France 1914 To France 16.11.1915 to 09.02.1916 To Home from 10.02.1916 Daughter Victoria Mary born 10.11.1906 Son William Albert born 01.12.1909 1911 Census: address Artillery Drill Hall, Nelson Road, Great Yarmouth Son Reginald Percival Gordon born 26.09.1911 Permitted to continue in service past 21 years: 19.12.1913 Promoted: B.S.M 17.03.1914 1st East Anglian Bde R.F.A Promoted: W.O class 2 29.01.1915 Posted: B.S.M 17.01.1916 Joined: 09.02.1916 ~4Reserve Bde. Transferred: 11.05.11917 Transferred: to Labour Corps C.S.M 18.05.1917 Posted: B.S.M 04.01.1918 Elected: to continue in service and draw pension 11.03.1918 Died : from Pulmonary Tuberculosis 02.07.1918 at Middlesex War Hospital, Napsbury, St Albans, Herts . Estate worth £230.3s.8d Total service: Attestation to death 25yrs 108 days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 4 January , 2019 Share Posted 4 January , 2019 I see from another post that MH 106 records for Napsbury have now been added to FindMyPast's holdings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEW Posted 4 January , 2019 Share Posted 4 January , 2019 Some have but not the one the OP was after, the BEF France set ends with MH106/1544, 1917 Aug/5/1917 - Sept/21/1917. May have to wait till the next update. TEW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 4 January , 2019 Share Posted 4 January , 2019 Oh, ok - sorry! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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