Stout, Robert James (b. 1917)

Notes and record cards of cases anaesthetised during the Second World War, in Normandy 1944 and Burma 1945; records of anaesthesia accidents, 1941-1983; biographical and memoirs

1941-1998

1 box

Dr Stout's records of anaesthesia in the Second World War (Accession 640) were received by the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in August 1996 along with the papers of Dr V F Hall (GC/203), who had been using them to write a history of the development of anaesthesia during the Burma Campaign. Additional material (accession 679) was given by Dr Stout in November 1996 and March 1998.

Robert Stout trained at the London Hospital, qualifying LRCP, MRCS in December 1940, and after a year as house surgeon at the Connaught Hospital,Walthamstow, qualified MB, BS and DA to become house anaesthetist at the London Hospital. Commissioned in the RAMC in June 1943, he was anaesthetist to a Field Surgical Unit in the British Liberation Army for six months, then to an Indian Mobile Surgical Unit for the last year of the Burma campaign, after which he was based in military hospitals in Bombay and Fayid, Egypt. After a year at the Bristol Royal Infirmary, he became a lecturer in anaesthetics, in Iraq 1947-1948, in Nigeria 1948-1950, again in Iraq 1950-1958 (acting as anaesthetist to King Faisal in 1956), and in Jamaica 1959-1963. He finished his career as consultant anaesthetist to the Medway Health Authority, retiring in 1987.

GC/203

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