SZ/OEMU/2/3 - [Correspondence: E. Rock Carling, 1940-1943]

Reference code

SZ/OEMU/2/3

Level of description

File

Title

[Correspondence: E. Rock Carling, 1940-1943]

Date/s

1940-1943

Quantity & Format

10 items Mixed

Personal name

Carling, Ernest Rock,

Scope and content

Correspondence relating to Carling's work with the M.R.C., surrounding the need for protective clothing for the prevention of wounds.

Contains 10 items. Ernest Rock Carling was a member of the Medical Research Council (MRC). The correspondence deals with: investigations by SZ’s teams into splinter injuries and burns from incendiary bombs; access by OEMU personnel to records held by the Ministry of Pensions when following up the progress of air-raid casualties; the commissioning of photographs on which a standard ‘regional wound chart’ of the body could be based; and the circulation of the results of Casualty Survey studies.

SZ - Zuckerman Archive
- SZ/OEMU - Ministry of Home Security, Oxford Extra-Mural Unit
  - SZ/OEMU/2 - [OEMU. Research queries and correspondence, 1940-1962]
    - SZ/OEMU/2/3 - [Correspondence: E. Rock Carling, 1940-1943]

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