Great Ormond Street Hospital

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Dame Barbara Clayton

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Dame Barbara Clayton was almost certainly the biochemist / toxicologist who conducted the analysis of the lead paint sample in 1963.

A poem made of words that the U.K. and U.S. do not agree on.

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Hospitalisation.

Sniveling Esophagus,

Diarrhoea, Humourless.

Misbehaviour, Agonizing,

Unraveling,

Traumatized.

Alas Poor Merrick

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These articles were sent to us by Sally MacDonald, Director of UCL Museums, Collections and Public Engagement.

Sister Hazel Bigg on Lead Poisoning and Great Ormond Street Hospital

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Hazel Bigg was passing the bus and was curious about what was going on. It just so happened that she was a nurse (and later a ward Sister) at Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Allahakbarries

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Allahakbarries CC - J.M. Barrie’s literary cricket team

Boy X

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I am giving the boy the name Boy X in an attempt to redress the racism he suffered at the hands of the British medical profession in being defined as “of non-European extraction”.

Professor Alan Moncrieff and Lead Poisoning in Children

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Sir Alan Moncrieff (1901-1971) attended Caterham School from 1912 – 1918. He joined the staff of The Hospital for Sick Children as house physician in 1925.

British Medical Journal - Article on Great Ormond Street Pathology Collection

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The toy car, which is part of the UCL Pathology Collection, was kept as 'evidence' from a case of infant lead poisoning in the 1960s by the clinical team at Great Ormond Street Hospital.

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