St Catherine's Hospital

In the novel Hickory Dickory Dock, St Catherine's Hospital is a hospital in London.

Several of the residents of the hostel at Hickry Road worked or attended courses there:
 * Celia Austin - a chemist at the hospital's dispensary
 * Jean Tomlinson - a physiotherapist
 * Len Bateson - a medical student
 * Colin McNabb - attending a post-graduate course in psychiatry

Any of these could have easy access to the hospital's dispensary and could have obtained morphine tartrate which was used in a murder. According to Jean Tomlinson, there had been a bet when Len Bateson said it was difficult to get poison but Nigel Chapman accepted the challenge and produced a few examples, including a bottle of morphine tartrate with a St Catherine's label on it.

In the 1995 ITV TV film adaptation of Hickory Dickory Dock, Sir Arthur Stanley was portrayed as being admitted to St Catherine's. Patricia Lane, an admirer of Stanley (here non-canonically portrayed as a famous politician) asked Len Bateson to sneak her into his ward to see him.