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Battersea General Hospital, known locally as the "Antiviv" or the "Old Anti," was a hospital in
Battersea Battersea is a large district in south London, part of the London Borough of Wandsworth, England. It is centred southwest of Charing Cross and extends along the south bank of the River Thames. It includes the Battersea Park. History Batter ...
, London.


History

The hospital was founded in 1896 by Mrs Theodore Russell Monroe, secretary of the Anti-Vivisection Society. The hospital was notable for not allowing animal experiments to take place in its facilities, and for refusing to employ physicians who were involved in or approved of animal research. Based at 33
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,
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, it first opened for in-patients in 1903, with 11 beds for adults and 4 for children. It faced opposition from the medical establishment, who regarded the hospital's existence as "a great slur upon the profession."
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"The 'Smooth Cool Men of Science': The Feminist and Socialist Response to Vivisection"
''History Workshop Journal'', 1995, 40, p. 22. Because of difficulties attracting funding – its stance made it ineligible for grants from the King Edward's Hospital Fund – it lost its anti-
vivisection Vivisection () is surgery conducted for experimental purposes on a living organism, typically animals with a central nervous system, to view living internal structure. The word is, more broadly, used as a pejorative catch-all term for experiment ...
charter in 1935. It joined the new
National Health Service The National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). Since 1948, they have been funded out of general taxation. There are three systems which are referred to using the " ...
(NHS) in 1948, was closed by the NHS in 1972, and its building was demolished in 1974.


See also

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Brown Dog affair The Brown Dog affair was a political controversy about vivisection that raged in Britain from 1903 until 1910. It involved the infiltration of University of London medical lectures by Swedish feminists, battles between medical students and the ...


Notes


Further reading

* Lansbury, Coral. ''The Old Brown Dog: Women, Workers, and Vivisection in Edwardian England''. University of Wisconsin Press, 1985. Hospital buildings completed in 1903 Buildings and structures in Battersea 1896 establishments in England Defunct hospitals in London 1972 disestablishments in England Hospitals established in 1896 Buildings and structures demolished in 1974 {{Animal-rights-stub