The school where dozens died: Only 30 of 122 boys at Treloar College are alive after experiments with...

Children were used as "objects for research" at a specialist school where they were treated for haemophilia, while the risks of contracting hepatitis and HIV were ignored, the final report of the Infected Blood Inquiry has found. Of the pupils that attended the Lord Mayor Treloar College in the 1970s and 1980s, "very few escaped being infected" and of the 122 pupils with haemophilia that attended the school between 1970 and 1987, only 30 are still alive.

The report, written by inquiry chairman Sir Brian Langstaff, concluded that children at Treloar's were treated with multiple commercial concentrates that were known to carry higher risks of infection.It also found that staff favoured the "advancement of research" above the best interests of the children.

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