SEVEN YEARS’ GAP.

Wairarapa Age, 19 May 1936, Page 5

SEVEN YEARS’ GAP.

CASE OF MENTAL BLANKNESS. PATIENT READING AVIDLY. MELBOURNE, May 18. The New Zealand engineer, John O’Sullivan whose case of mental blankness is puzzling the authorities at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, did not know that Jbere had been a depression, that KingsJfeorge was dead, or that there had wen a war in Abyssinia. He is at present reading avidly in order to bridge the seven years ’ gap in his memory.

(A Melbourne cable published on Saturday stated that a mystery concerning a patient brought to a Melbourne hospital over a week ago who was unable to remember anything of the past seven years and who was found unconscious in a street in the suburb of Preston has been solved. f ‘ aa been identified as John O’Sullivan, of Napier, New Zealand. He is an engineer, but is unable to remember anything about his training. When he recovered consciousness he refused to believe he was at Melbourne, but he recalled that he had worked on a rubber plantation in Malaya and contracted malaria He also recollected that he had lived -both as O’Sullivan and as Fitzgerald somewhere. Doctors believe it to be a genuine caae of a dual personality.)