Records of the Miller Hospital and Royal Kent Dispensary / by John Poland.

  • Poland, John, 1855-1937.
Date:
1898
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Credit: Records of the Miller Hospital and Royal Kent Dispensary / by John Poland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To remedy this inconvenience the Kent Dispensary was instituted, to commence visiting the poor at their own habitations, at Rotherhithe and Camberwel] Churches (where the Surrey determines) and from thence through Deptford, Greenwich, Lewisham, Woolwich, and as much of the Hundred of Blackheath as at any future time might be thought proper. * * * * Among other circumstances that recommend this Dis- pensary, the Physician and Medical Gentlemen, have from the first institution of it and still continue to give their advice and attendance from motives of humanity, and without any pecuniary recompense. The limits for visiting the poor at their own habitations, commences from Rotherhithe to Cam- berwell Churches, and extends through the towns of Deptford, Greenwich, Lewisham, and Woolwich, in all which extensive districts, such as are unable to come to the Dispensary, are attended by a Physician, Surgeon, or Medical Assistants, accord- ing to the nature of their complaints. The intention of this Charity is to give assist- ance, not only to the lowest class of the people, but to poor housekeepers, and others, whose income will not enable them to pay for it. Then follow about four pages on the utility of public dispensaries, and an abstract of the