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
  • Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Kanpur[3]
  • Ramakrishna Mission Vidyapith, Purulia

United Kingdom

London

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 John Livingstone, a surgeon with the East India Company

References

  1. The Surrey Dispensary, Great Dover Street, Southwark. Wellcome Library. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  2. The eighteenth century dispensary movement. Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
  3. "Medical Activities".
  4. "The Surrey Dispensary". www.exploringsouthwark.co.uk. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
  5. 1 2 "Sir Samuel Garth's poem, 'The Dispensary' | RCP 500". history.rcplondon.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-12-29.
  6. 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.
  7. Fred Shoken (1979). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Baltimore General Dispensary" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
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