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An Hour a Month: Children’s Hospital Visiting Rules Before the Platt Report
One hour, once a month: how British hospitals kept sick children apart from their parents before the Platt Report, and the boy who watched the clock.
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Childhood Hospital Separation: ‘I Want My Mummy’
For decades, many British hospitals kept sick children apart from their parents. This article looks at childhood hospital separation, James Robertson’s films, the Platt Report, and what family historians can recover from the silences in hospital records.
