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SZ/OEMU/2/3/1 - [Letter, SZ to Mr Carling, 2/6/40]

Reference code
SZ/OEMU/2/3/1
Level of description
Item
Title
[Letter, SZ to Mr Carling, 2/6/40]
Date/s
1940
Quantity & Format
1 leaf Letters (typescript)
Personal name
Cairns, Hugh William Bell,
Subject
United Kingdom. Ministry of Home Security. Research and Experiments Department
Protective clothing
Splinters -- Wounds and injuries
Creator
Zuckerman, Solly, 1904-1993
Creator
Carling, Ernest Rock,
Administrative/Biographical history
recipient
Scope and content
Mentions that Cairns and SZ would be seeing Carling. Carling is briefed on the problem of splinter wounds. A full description of how these wounds are incurred, and their nature, is given. SZ proposes that a form of protection be developed. Preliminary research into field operation casualties would need to be undertaken. Statistical analyses would follow. The technical problem of devising the protection is undertaken by the Research and Experiments branch of the M.H.S.
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