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Clinton Farms, a state facility for "delinquent girls," becomes a testing site for viral hepatitis.

Date: 1950

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Two hundred incarcerated women, who allegedly volunteer, are given viral hepatitis by Dr. Joseph Stokes Jr. of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania, to prove that the "virus could be developed in animals" (New York Times, 1950).