WWI medical records

[Mike in Cumbria]

I'm going through my great-uncle's WW1 war records and making sense of most of it. He had a couple of serious illnesses in Mesopotamia and India and I'm having trouble deciphering the medic's notes (no surprise there!)

Can you make sense of this extract? In particular - the "Amara" word, the one that looks like "father" and the phrase that seems to start "dysentery disposed of.."

I'm guessing that the Adm could stand for admitted. There seem to be a lot of abbreviations!

Many thanks for any help.

Mike

[Mike in Cumbria]

I might just have solved the first bit. Army form B104-82 was to notify families of deaths. Maybe this was a similar form to notify of serious illness, and "father" was the recipient.

[KGarrad]

There is a place called Amarah in present-day Iraq?
Could be a field-hospital was there?

[Mike in Cumbria]

Brilliant - that would make sense

[JJen]

Disposed of to Jubbulpore/Jabalpur?

http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Jubbulpore

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabalpur

JJ

[Mike in Cumbria]

Jubbulpore would also make perfect sense as I know he was sent to India from Mesopotamia on 14th June 1916.

I had no idea that was related to his dysentery though.

Many thanks

Mike

[Mike in Cumbria]

Any thoughts on the "Calls for dorp docks"   section below Jubbulpore?

[JJen]

Calls for duplicate documents 

The military like to have everything in duplicate or triplicate 

[Mike in Cumbria]

There is a place called Amarah in present-day Iraq?
Could be a field-hospital was there?

You were spot on - there certainly was a field hospital there and a very active one. I've now found many refereces to it and to the Mesopotamia campaign (about which, in my ignorance, I knew very little.)

Extract from "The long, long trail"

Mesopotamia is an ancient desert land, through which run the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. It was rich in oil upon which Britain relied to keep its navy at sea and the oilfields and pipeline near Basra were occupied early in the war to protect and defend them from German forces. However conditions in Mesopotamia defied description. Extremes of temperature (120 degrees F was common); arid desert and regular flooding; flies, mosquitoes and other vermin: all led to appalling levels of sickness and death through disease. Under these incredible conditions, units fell short of officers and men, and all too often the reinforcements were half-trained and ill-equipped. Medical arrangements were quite shocking, with wounded men spending up to two weeks on boats before reaching any kind of hospital. These factors, plus of course the unexpectedly determined Turkish resistance, contributed to high casualty rates. During the campaign 3985 troops died of wounds and 12678 died of sickness." - The Long, Long Trail (7)