The National Temperance Hospital was a hospital in Hampstead Road , London, between Mornington Crescent and Warren Street .
11-571: The hospital opened as the London Temperance Hospital on 6 October 1873 by initiative of the National Temperance League , and was managed by a board of 12 teetotallers . Under its rules, the use of alcohol to treat patients was discouraged, but not outlawed: doctors could prescribe alcohol when they thought necessary for exceptional cases. In 1931, Chicago magnate Samuel Insull donated $ 160,000 to build
22-837: A general scale, and in this they were largely successful. Delegates were invited from every part of the U.K., and the following organisations were represented on the programme of the day's proceedings:-The British Temperance League; the United Kingdom Alliance; the North of England Temperance League; the Western Temperance League; the Midland Temperance League; the Dorset County Association; the Order of Rechabites;
33-845: A new extension, the "Insull Memorial wing" which was designed in the Art Deco style by architect William Binnie . It was renamed the National Temperance Hospital in 1932 and acquired the premises of the St Pancras Female Orphanage and Charity School , located on an adjacent site, in 1945. It was incorporated into the National Health Service in 1948 under the management of the North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board. After
44-549: A pledge or declaration of abstinence from all intoxicating beverages, and who contributed to the funds of the League not less than 2s. 6d. per annum. Contributions were accepted from all friends of temperance, whether abstainers or not. The League's agencies were comprehensive and nonscctarian. It assisted local societies and individual workers, and sought to accomplish its object by means of public meetings, lectures, sermons, tract distribution, domiciliary visitation; conferences with
55-656: The Army and Navy. In 1856, The Weekly Record of the Temperance Movement was commenced, in London, by William Tweedie, and was continued thereafter as the organ of the National Temperance League under the title of The Temperance Record . The Jubilee Fête at The Crystal Palace on September 2, 1879, was an attempt on the part of the National Temperance League to organise a celebration upon
66-400: The League were largely instrumental in awakening public attention to the necessity for effective measures against Intemperance, as well as in promoting distinctive temperance action amongst clergymen and ministers of different denominations, the medical profession, teachers of children, and other influential bodies. A gratifying degree of success was achieved by its efforts to advance sobriety in
77-629: The clergy, medical practitioners, schoolmasters, magistrates, and other persons of influence; deputations to teachers and students in universities, colleges, training institutions and schools; missionary efforts amongst sailors, soldiers, the militia, the police, and other classes. It provided support and was connected with the Ladies National Association for the Promotion of Temperance (established 1860) and The Ladies' National Temperance Convention of 1876 . The operations of
88-584: The hospital was closed in 1990, its exterior featured in an episode of Mr. Bean , broadcast in October 1995, in which Bean tailgates an ambulance and stops behind it before entering the hospital. It was briefly considered, but rejected, as a potential site for the National Institute for Medical Research between 2006 and 2007. The building was used by Camden Collective , a regeneration initiative, from 2015 to 2017. In 2017 demolition began as part of
99-517: The practice and advocacy of total abstinence from intoxicating beverages. The object of this Society was to persuade the community that abstinence from strong drink as a common beverage was the most efficient means of reclaiming alcoholics, and of preserving the sober from habits of intemperance. The success of these efforts was considered to be highly encouraging. The League's headquarters were located at 337, Strand, London . The League consisted of persons of all genders, who subscribed their names to
110-1066: The two Orders of Good Templars; the Sons of Temperance; the Blue-Ribbon Army; the Metropolitan Open-Air Mission; the Band of Hope Union; the Baptist Association; the Congregational Association; and the Church of England Temperance Society. The occasion was a highly representative one. The programme included a Jubilee Conference, presided over by Edward Baines. Historical papers were read by the Rev. Dawson Burns, M.A., Dr. Norman Kerr, Rev. Dr. Valpy French, Captain H. D. Grant, C.B., Rev. Canon Ellison, and by Mr. Michael Young. A meeting took place in
121-739: The work necessary to clear the area for the proposed High Speed 2 railway line. Time capsules were discovered during the demolition in October 2017. National Temperance League (Great Britain) The National Temperance League was a British organisation established in June 1856, through an amalgamation of two others: the National Temperance Society and the London Temperance League. Its Presidents included Samuel Bowly , Edward Long Fox , and Wentworth Leigh . The League sought to promote temperance by
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