List of public dispensaries
The Surrey Dispensary, in Southwark (now an area of central London). Coloured lithograph by R. Alford, c.1840.[1]
A public dispensary provides "outpatient medical treatment and advice to patients, in contrast to the inpatient service provided by hospitals".[2] Examples include:
Australia[]
- Sydney Dispensary, Australia, founded 1826
Canada[]
- Toronto Western Hospital, Canada, founded as a public dispensary in 1895
India[]
A charitable dispensary in Bhubaneswar, India
United Kingdom[]
London[]
- The Foundery free dispensary in Moorfields, was opened by Methodist preacher John Wesley in 1746
- Finsbury Dispensary, London, founded 1780
- St. Mary's Dispensary for Women, London, founded 1866
- Surrey Dispensary, founded 1777[4]
- Warwick Lane dispensary, London[5] 1688-1725
- St. Martin's Lane dispensary[5]
- General Dispensary, Aldersgate Street[6]
Elsewhere in England[]
- Ardwick and Ancoats Dispensary, Manchester, England. Founded in 1828 and managed under the auspices of the Provident Dispernsary Association from 1875
Elsewhere in the U.K.[]
- Edinburgh Provident Dispensary for Women and Children, Scotland, founded 1878
- Public Dispensary of Edinburgh, Scotland, founded 1776 (received royal charter in 1818 to become Royal Public Dispensary of Edinburgh)
United States[]
Other countries[]
- Dispensary for Chinese at Macau, founded in 1820 by the Scottish missionary Robert Morrison and , a surgeon with the East India Company
References[]
- ^ The Surrey Dispensary, Great Dover Street, Southwark. Wellcome Library. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
- ^ The eighteenth century dispensary movement. Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
- ^ "Medical Activities".
- ^ "The Surrey Dispensary". www.exploringsouthwark.co.uk. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
- ^ a b "Sir Samuel Garth's poem, 'The Dispensary' | RCP 500". history.rcplondon.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-12-29.
- ^ Hartston, William (August 1963). "Medical Dispensaries in Eighteenth Century London". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. 56: 753–758. doi:10.1177/003591576305600839. PMC 1897424. PMID 14052474.
- ^ Fred Shoken (1979). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Baltimore General Dispensary" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
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