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                    George Francis William EWENS

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Was Lieutenant Colonel in Indian Army Medical Service.
Died 1913 in Lahore, India

On the 1871 and 1881 census, George is home with parents at London Road, York Cottage, Hampton.

In 1891 he shows up at the District Royal Victoria Hospital, Hound, Hampshire as married, (Edith Agnes Bloomer in 1889) aged 26.  One assumes that he was 'on duty' on the night of the census.  He was born Chelsea and occupation was Surgeon probation. - 

UK Probate Service ref.
George Francis William Ewens of Chaddleworth Wantage Berkshire, lieutenant-colonel I.M.S died 9 Sept 1914 at Lahore India .
Probate London 27 October to George Richard Allen glover, effects £695 13s 2p.
nb.  G R Allen married Jane Frances Ewens, dau of     George Thomas & Frances Jane Ewens, nee Southam

 

George went to Lahore, India where he became the Superintendent of the Lunatic Asylum. (ref Indian Army Quarterly list for 28.07.1911.)

Here are a sample of the numerous papers he wrote -

EWENS, George Francis William (1903)  -
An account of a race of idiots found in the Punjab, commonly known as "Shah Daula's Mice". Indian Medical Gazette 38: 330-4. Reprint: Ibid. (1908) Insanity in India, 335-39. Calcutta: Thacker.
First report of shrine visit and examination of many microcephalic people or 'Chuas' (mice, rats) by a mental health specialist. Tabulates details of 15 Chuas, and discusses in depth. Finds no evidence of artificial deformation; (but admits that there might sometime have been some such practice). Fairly positive about standard of care at shrine. Recommends that itinerant begging should be stopped.

INDIAN MEDICAL GAZETTE - Calcutta - EWENS, G. F. W.: -
Insanity following the use of Indian hemp, Indian Medical Gazette, Calcutta, 1904, 39, page 401-413.
Ewens ( [ 11] ) found that there was a direct relationship between the excessive use of hemp and the form of mental disease classified as "toxic insanity".

Ewens, G.F.W. (1908) - Insanity in India, Thacker, Spink and Co., Calcutta.

However, the British psychiatrist Colonel Ewens inspected a dozen Chuas at the shrine in 1902 and reported that they were cared for as well there as they would have been at his own government mental hospital, a remarkable published testimony to the humanitarian nature of the shrine community.

list of office bearers 1907 for the Neurological Soc. of GB
1906 EWENS, GEO. FBANOIS, M.D.,
c/o Messrs. Grindley, 54, Parliament • Street, S.W

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