Abstract
THE honorary treasurer of the Research Defence Society, Sir Leonard Rogers, in a recent issue of the Fight Against Disease (24, No. 1) directs attention to the sums spent on propaganda by anti-vivisection societies within recent years. Analysing the certified annual accounts from 1912 onwards, and making allowance on one side for missing reports, and upon the other for useful work for animals done by some societies, it is estimated that a sum of approximately £600,000 has been received for ‘anti-vivisection’ work, and nearly £500,000 expended. The success in raising funds, in spite of the verdicts of two Royal Commissions against them, would appear to be partly due to a facile appeal to sentiment, aided by the lack of adequate medical and scientific knowledge of the masses to enable them to sift the ‘anti-’ statements. Anti-vivisection propaganda has sought to curtail the work of hospitals and veterinary col-leges, and the one piece of useful work that might have been accomplished with the huge accumu-lated funds, the support of the ‘Anti-Vivisection Hospital’ at Battersea, has been allowed to lapse.
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Anti-Vivisection Finance. Nature 138, 71 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138071b0
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