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Battersea General Hospital
Battersea General Hospital
Location within Wandsworth
Geography
Location	Battersea, London, England, United Kingdom
Coordinates	51°28′30″N 0°09′50″W / 51.4751°N 0.1640°W / 51.4751; -0.1640
History
Opened	1902
Closed	1972
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Lists	Hospitals in England

Battersea General Hospital (founded as The National Anti-Vivisection Hospital) known locally as the "Antiviv" or the "Old Anti," was a hospital in Battersea, London.

History

The hospital was founded by Mrs Theodore Russell Monroe, secretary of the Anti-Vivisection Society as The National Anti-Vivisection Hospital in 1896. 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 Prince of Wales Drive, Battersea Park, 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." In 1908, Herbert Snow was appointed surgeon to the hospital. Because of difficulties attracting funding – its stance made it ineligible for grants from the King Edward's Hospital Fund – it lost its anti-vivisection charter in 1935. It joined the new National Health Service (NHS) in 1948, was closed by the NHS in 1972, and its building was demolished in 1974.

See also

• Brown Dog affair

Notes

1. Bates, A. W. H. (2017). "The National Anti-Vivisection Hospital, 1902–1935". In Anti-Vivisection and the Profession of Medicine in Britain: A Social History. Palgrave. ISBN 978-1137556967
2. ^ "Battersea General Hospital". Lost hospitals of London. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
3. Kean, Hilda. "The 'Smooth Cool Men of Science': The Feminist and Socialist Response to Vivisection", History Workshop Journal, 1995, 40, p. 22.
4. Neuhaus, Susan J. (2004). "Dr. Herbert Lumley Snow, MD, MRCS (1847–1930): The Original Champion of Elective Lymph Node Dissection in Melanoma". Annals of Surgical Oncology. 11 (9): 875–878. doi:10.1245/ASO.2004.02.031. PMID 15342349. S2CID 29746326.

Further reading

• Lansbury, Coral. The Old Brown Dog: Women, Workers, and Vivisection in Edwardian England. University of Wisconsin Press, 1985.

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