Plan of the Surrey Dispensary, in Montague-Close, near St. Saviour's Church, for administering advice and medicines to the poor inhabitants of the Borough of Southwark, and places adjacent, at the dispensary, or at their own habitations. Instituted in the year 1777.

  • Surrey Dispensary.
Date:
1782
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Plan of the Surrey Dispensary, in Montague-Close, near St. Saviour's Church, for administering advice and medicines to the poor inhabitants of the Borough of Southwark, and places adjacent, at the dispensary, or at their own habitations. Instituted in the year 1777. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    confolation were mod necefiary, was appa- rent : and, above all, young children were feldom Tent to hofpitals, although fo very fubjedt to diforders, that in London near one half of them die before the age of two years. The opulent and charitable therefore fought means to fupply thefe deficiencies, and, happily for mankind, conceived the plan of inflituting publick Difpenfaries for the relief of the poor at their own habi- tations. Many advantages accrue from hence : the immenfe fums expended on building and fupporting great houfes, are now ufefully employed in relieving a number of objedts from the diftrefles of ficknefs. The vari- ous diforders are treated apart, free from the noife, impurities, contagion, or confine- ment of a publick ward. A very great number of patients are accommodated at a fmall expence, and thofe of the moll: ufeful part of the poor j for relief is adminiftered not to the profligate and lazy only, but A 3 more