New Hospital for Women
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The New Hospital for Women developed from St Mary's Dispensary[1] in the 1870s,[2] a London institution founded to enable poor women to obtain medical help from qualified female practitioners - in that era a very unusual thing.
In 1866 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was appointed General Medical Attendant to St Mary's Dispensary, where she worked for over 20 years, through the change to the new name.[3]
The New Hospital was renamed the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in 1918. It is now part of the University of London.
[edit] Further reading
- Elston, Mary Ann.. Run by Women, (Mainly) for Women: Medical Women's Hospitals in Britain, 1866-1948 (Conrad L, Hardy A, eds) 73-107(35). Rodolpi.
- Glynn, Jenifer. Pioneering Garrets: Breaking the Barriers for Women. Hambledon Continuum.
- Crawford, Elizabeth, Enterprising Women: the Garretts and their circle, Francis Boutle, 2002
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[edit] References
- ^ Elston, Mary Ann. ‘Run by Women, (mainly) for Women’: Medical Women’s Hospitals in Britain, 1866-1948 (pdf). Retrieved on 2007-10-28. “In July 1866, the St Mary’s Dispensary opened in the Marylebone district of London to provide medical advice for working-class women and children. Dispensaries for the thrifty poor were not unusual in Victorian Britain, but St Mary’s had a unique feature. The driving force behind it and the main provider of the medical advice was a woman, Dr Elizabeth Garrett. (may require a visit here first for authentication)”
- ^ Elizabeth Garrett Anderson - Victorian Women's Campaigner. BBC (December 2004). Retrieved on 2007-10-28. “In 1866 she opened, and was appointed General Medical Attendant to, St Mary's dispensary in Marylebone, where she set about establishing a medical service specifically for women. Not only that, but she started to teach medical courses to other women, so that the practice could expand. The St Mary's dispensary was renamed the New Hospital for Women in the 1870s.”
- ^ The People's Chronology.. eNotes.com. Retrieved on 2007-05-13. “A London dispensary for women opens under the direction of local physician Elizabeth Garrett, now 31, who pioneers the admission of women to the professions, including medicine. The extent of female invalidism, Garrett argues, is much exaggerated by male physicians: women's natural functions are not all that debilitating, she says, pointing out that among the working classes women continue to work during menstruation "without intermission, and, as a rule, without ill effects"”
