Hints on the constitution of dispensaries, with a view of their being rendered of more extensive benefit to the labouring population / John Storer.

  • Storer, John.
Date:
1832
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    undertake no other; the health of several of these persons have suffered so much^ as to compel thera to abandon the situa- tion, before the term of their eugage- ment had expired; and should that parish continue to add to its population as hitherto^ a further expense will be in- curred for the health of the poor belong- ing to it. Every argument of expediency and utility, and probably also of economy, points to the advantage to be derived from placing the health of the parochial poor, under the care and management of a dispensary. It would then become the official duty of parish officers to observe and watch over the affairs of the dis- pensary ; and the most respectable inha- bitants of every parish connected with it, would feel an interest in the due admi nistration of all its concerns. The me^ dical attendants would be sufficiently numerous to lighten the burden to each, and enable him to discharge these public