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Belsen Concentration Camp, Germany, 1945

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Comprises:
<li>RAMC/792/3/1: Copy of Lipscombe's report to Brigadier Bulmer, Consultant Physician, 21 Army Group, re the situation on 9 May, 1945.</li>
<li>RAMC/792/3/2: Administrative reports as medical adviser, May-June 1945.</li>
<li>RAMC/792/3/3: Notebooks and lists re diet scales, c.1945.</li>
<li>RAMC/792/3/4: Copies of reports of treatment of starvation and malnutrition. With United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration instructions to medical officers on nutrition survey teams re records of examinations and laboratory work, 1945.</li>
<li>RAMC/792/3/5: Copy of report re treatment of diarrhoea, c.1945.</li>
<li>RAMC/792/3/6: Statistics and notes re tuberculosis sufferers, c.1945.</li>
<li>RAMC/792/3/7: List of equipment required per 150 beds, c.1945.</li>
<li>RAMC/792/3/8: Account of the activities of London medical students at Belsen in May 1945, by Dr A.P Meiklejohn of the Rockefeller Foundation, 1945.</li>
<li>RAMC/792/3/9: Lipscombe's reports on work at Belsen, for the Inter-Allied Medical Conference, June 1945, and for "The Lancet", Sept 1945.</li>
<li>RAMC/792/3/10: Letters of thanks for work done at Belsen, 1945-1946.</li>
<li>RAMC/792/3/11: Plan (of Belsen Concentration Camp), stuck onto a German army file, c.1945.</li>

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