THE NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF JAPANESE PRISONERS OF WAR, BURMA 1945

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Abstract
Each of 29 Japanese prisoners of war captured in Burma in May, 1945, was given a medical examination and stigmata of early nutritional failure, if present, were noted. Blood and urine samples were collected from each, and analyzed in a mobile biochemical laboratory as described in detail by Johnson (War Med., 1945, vii, 222.). These prisoners presented clinical evidence of anemia, hypoprotein-emia, and ariboflavinosis. The analyses showed low levels of Hb, serum protein, serum vit. C and urinary riboflavin. Serum and urinary chloride, and urinary methyl-nicotinamide and thiamine excretions were within normal limits.

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