SZ/OEMU/62/1/23 - Ammonia-gas poisoning: forty-seven cases in a London shelter. The Lancet, 26/7/41

Reference code

SZ/OEMU/62/1/23

Level of description

Item

Title

Ammonia-gas poisoning: forty-seven cases in a London shelter. The Lancet, 26/7/41

Date/s

1941

Quantity & Format

1 leaf

Subject

Ammonia -- Accidents

Creator

Caplin, Maxwell.

Scope and content

In early September 1940, a large brewery whose cellars were being used as a shelter received a direct hit from a bomb. A fragment of metal pierced the connecting pipe of an ammonia condenser and gaseous ammonia was set free. There were 13 fatalities.

SZ/OEMU/62/1/22

Attached to [SZ/OEMU/62/1/22].

SZ - Zuckerman Archive
- SZ/OEMU - Ministry of Home Security, Oxford Extra-Mural Unit
  - SZ/OEMU/62 - [OEMU. Reprints collection]
    - SZ/OEMU/62/1 - [Reprints: miscellaneous]
      - SZ/OEMU/62/1/23 - Ammonia-gas poisoning: forty-seven cases in a London shelter. The Lancet, 26/7/41

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