Heat stroke and heat exhaustion

Date:
1942-1951
Reference:
RAMC/792/1
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  • RAMC/792/1/1: Report on effects of heat in Persia and Iraq Force (Paiforce) With appendices including plans of Heat Stroke Centre buildings and air-conditioned hospital wards, and Standing Orders, 1944, for disembarkation of personnel and unit m(otor) t(ransport) in Persian Gulf ports, Orders on precautions to be taken to prevent casualties from the effects of heat, and photocopy of Medical Memorandum "Effects of heat in Persia and Iraq", 1943.
  • RAMC/792/1/2: Copy of a special note, 1942, by the Consultant Physician, Tenth Army, on some clinical aspects of "effects of heat". With notes from Tenth Army war diaries.
  • RAMC/792/1/3: Typescript articles, "Anuria due to the effects of heat: unsuccessful treatment of spinal anaesthesia and renal decapsulation" by Major Richard Bayliss and Major Sidney Waller of the British Military Hospital, Delhi, 1947. With related correspondence.
  • RAMC/792/1/4: Correspondence and notes re contributions to the Medical History of the War, 1949.
  • RAMC/792/1/5: Typescript of "Age incidence of adverse effects of climatic heat among British military personnel" (by Lipscombe, 1949) With graphs, tables, notes and correspondence with JIrwin at the Statistical Research Centre, 1949.
  • RAMC/792/1/6: Duplicated typescript report on heat stroke and heat exhaustion, c.1940s. Revised 1951.

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    1942-1951

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    1 file (in 2 parts)

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