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Welcome to Small and Special

Small and Special is a collection of resources relating to the early years of The Hospital for Sick Children at Great Ormond Street, England’s first in-patient children’s hospital. Here you can trace a patient, learn about childhood diseases, or investigate a member of the medical staff.

Small and Special includes a database of patient admission records - from the Hospital’s first in-patient in 1852 to the last admission in 1914; a collection of articles on the early history of the Hospital and pen-portraits of the Hospital’s personalities; and a gallery of images.

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Nelly WallaceNelly Wallace: Patient from 29 June 1872 to 11 March 1874

Nellie Wallace lived at Hyde St, Hoxton. She was four and a half when she was admitted to the Hospital on 29th June 1872, by one of the surgeons, Mr Haward. Nellie probably had a tubercular infection of her knee joint. She stayed in hospital for three months, and was sent to Cromwell House to convalesce in September. Her problem returned however, and she came back to hospital twice in 1873, both times for surgery, before being finally discharged in November 1873, relieved.To find out more about Nellie click here.

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