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ROSENBAUM, Dr Sidney (b 1918)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Rosenbaum

Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

Title: ROSENBAUM, Dr Sidney (b 1918)

Date(s): 1954-1992

Level of description: collection level

Extent: one file or 0.01m3

Name of creator(s): Rosenbaum | Sidney | b 1918 | Doctor

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, London, 1918; educated Cambridge University; 2 Lieutenant, emergency commission, Royal Regiment of Artillery, 1943; temporary Captain, 1945; Principal Scientific Officer, Army Medical Statistics Branch, War Office, 1951-1963; doctorate, University of London, [1961].

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Offprints of articles by Sidney Rosenbaum including: `Heights and Weights of the Army Intake, 1951', Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (General), Vol 117, Part III, 1954; `Head Injuries to Motor-Cyclists', with D T Beeston, Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Vol 102, 1956; abstract of article `Changes in Body Weight and Subcutaneous Fat Thickness in Man on a Polar Expedition', with H E Lewis and J P Masterson, Abstracts of the 20th International Physiological Congress, 1956; `An Epidemiological Study of Rheumatic Fever in the Army in 1953', with J D H Slater, Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Vol 103, 1957; `Tuberculosis in the Armed Forces and its Control by BCG Vaccination: A Report to the Research Committee of the British Tuberculosis Association', Tubercle London, 1957; `Experience of Pulheems in the 1952 Army Intake', British Journal of Industrial Medicine, Vol 14, 1957; `Army Medical Department Statistics', Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Vol 104, 1958; `Research in Practice', Army Medical Directorate Bulletin, Second Series, No 9, 1958; abstract of `Review of Morbidity Among Young Soldiers', Proceedings of Royal Society of Medicine, Vol 52, 1959; `Cross-Sectional Review of Morbidity Among Young Soldiers', British Journal of Preventive and Social Medicine, Vol 13, No 3, Jul 1959; `Acute Rheumatic Fever in Young Men', with J D H Slater, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, Vol 18, No 4, December 1959; `Report of the Royal Sanitary Commission, 1858', Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Vol 105, No 4, 1959; `The Association of Medical Discharges from the Army with Initial Grading', Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Vol 106, 1960; `Body Weight and Skinfold Thickness of Men on a Polar Expedition' with H E Lewis and J P Masterson, Clinical Science, Vol 19, No 4, Nov 1960; `Home Localities of National Servicemen with Respiratory Disease', British Journal of Preventive and Social Medicine, Vol 15, No 2, Apr 1961; `Stability of Basal Metabolic Rate on a Polar Expedition', with H E Lewis and J P Masterson, Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 16, No 3, May 1961; `Health Assessment of Senior Officers: The Value of Periodic Medical Examinations', with W R M Drew, The Lancet, Nov 17 1962; `Nomograms for Rates per 1,000', British Medical Journal, Jan 19 1963.

`Tables of Average Weights and Expected Variation for the use of the Services', Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Vol 109, No 2 1963; `Some Aspects of Tuberculosis among National Servicemen', Tubercle London, Vol 44, 1963; `Special Enlistments', with J L Gordon, Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Vol 110, No 2, 1964.

`A Survey of Sport Played in the Army', Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Vol 113, No 2, 1967; manuscript of `A Review of Earlier Work on Skinfold Thickness, Particularly Among Army Personnel', 1979; `Population Estimates of Height and Weight in Great Britain at Ages 11 and 15, 1983 and ages 16-19 inclusive, 1980', Annals of Human Biology, Vol 14, No 4, 1987; `100 Years of Heights and Weights', The Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (General), Vol 151, Part 2, 1988; `More Than a Century of Army Medical Statistics', Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Vol 83, Jul 1990; `Casualties in the Two World Wars', The Blue, Vol 120, No 1, Mar 1992; 'British Army Recruits: 100 Years of Heights and Weights', with J P Crowdy, Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Vol 138, 1992; Manuscript of `A Comparison of Casualties in 200 Years of War', nd. Also articles by others: amendment to `Chapter 16: Medical Statistics' of the Manual of Army Health 1954, 1958; `A Survey of Heights and Weights of Adults in Great Britain, 1980', by R K Skinner, I B Knight and J S Garrow, Annals of Human Biology, Vol 12, No 2, 1985.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Articles are arranged chronologically.

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archives and Information Management.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Summary guide entry on-line.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by Sidney Rosenbaum, April 2005

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

An account of Rosenbaum's service with the 113/114 Field Battery, 33 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, 1943-1945 is available in the Imperial War Museum (Ref 83/32/1).

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Katharine Higgon.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Sept 2007


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Arthritis | Diseases | Pathology
Military medicine | Medical sciences
Rheumatic diseases | Diseases | Pathology
Rheumatic fever | Diseases | Pathology
Tuberculosis | Diseases | Pathology
Actinomycetales infections
Physiology

Personal names
Rosenbaum | Sidney | b 1918 | Doctor

Corporate names
British Army

Places