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London, city of lost hospitals

Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.

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Journeying home

A serious health scare was the catalyst to Chris beginning the process of understanding his experiences more clearly, and using that new insight to help other intersex people.

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Born different

For Chris North, being born intersex in the 1940s meant his many childhood hospital visits, tests and operations were not explained or discussed. As he reveals, doctors encouraged strict secrecy.

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Wonder years

The confusion and secrecy surrounding his condition seriously affected Chris’s mental health, blighting his teenage years. But somehow he began to hope and plan for the future.

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  • The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street
  • London Homeopathic Hospital, Great Ormond Street, Holborn. Wood engraving.
  • View of "49 Great Ormond Street..."
  • View of "49 Great Ormond Street..."
  • The London (later Royal) Homœopathic Hospital, corner of Queen Square and Great Ormond Street, London: exterior. Photograph.
  • The entrance to Little Ormond Yard, off Great Ormond Street. Watercolour by J. P. Emslie, 1882.
  • The entrance to Little Ormond Yard, off Great Ormond Street. Watercolour by J. P. Emslie, 1882.
  • The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London: the street facade of the Jubilee wing. Process print after R.S. Ayling, 1890.
  • Powis House, Great Ormond Street, London, in 1714. Wood engraving after T. Bowles.
  • The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London: the main facade. Wood engraving by W. E. Hodgkin after D. R. Warry, 1872.
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