Records of the Miller Hospital and Royal Kent Dispensary : with nine illustrations and one map / by John Poland.

  • Poland, John, 1855-1937.
Date:
1893
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Records of the Miller Hospital and Royal Kent Dispensary : with nine illustrations and one map / by John Poland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    as years roll by, and the population becomes so dense there is a danger of historical associations being obliterated and forgotten. Among its chief supporters we meet with the names of many eminent persons and of those most honoured and respected in these localities—among the laity as well as in the clerical and medical professions. Amidst the earlier records of the Institution evidences may be traced of the romances of bygone Deptford, Greenwich, and the immediate neighbourhood, which are far more pleasant and agreeable than their modern realities. In point of age the Royal Kent Dispensary stands ninth on the list of Dispensaries now existing in the Metropolis, having been established in 1783. The eight which are older were established between 1770 and 1782. At the time (1822) when Mr. A. Highmore wrote his “ Philantropia Metropolitana,” there were seventeen Dispensaries in and near London for gratuitously supplying the necessitous with medicine and medical aid at their own habitations. This number has been increased at the present time (1892) to 95, including the Provident Dispensaries. “ An Account of the Kent Dispensary, Deptford,” was printed in 1799, a similar one, evidently a reprint, in 1785 (?), and a third, “Account of the Kent Dispensary, Broadway, Deptford,” was published by the authorities of the Institution in 1834. All of these give but little account of the work carried on by the Charity, but are rather dissertations in