Suggestions toward the improvement of the dispensary at Newark, founded on an estimate of the remedial wants of that town & neighbourhood : followed by an appendix containing tabular views of the management and results of thirty English dispensaries / by John J. Bigsby.

  • Bigsby, John J. (John Jeremiah), 1792-1881.
Date:
1836
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Suggestions toward the improvement of the dispensary at Newark, founded on an estimate of the remedial wants of that town & neighbourhood : followed by an appendix containing tabular views of the management and results of thirty English dispensaries / by John J. Bigsby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Dispensary house should be wholly appropriated to its own business. It should be within a walled space, a little removed from the ordinary stir of the town ; and yet be centrical. Its ground floor should consist of waiting and con¬ sulting room, of surgery, kitchen, and offices ; while the first floor should be occupied by a large ward, two bed rooms, a store room, closets, water closet, and passage. XXVI. The advantage of such an independent “ locale5’ for the ready and satisfactory dispatch of business is obvious. What so conduces to the accurate performance of the delicate and important duties involved, as the possession of space, conveniences, and arrange¬ ment ? XXVII. I perceive that the Dispensary house at Dover is exempt from taxes, on the ground of its being a charitable establishment: why should not this privilege be extended to Newark ? XXVIII. Sixteen miles from the nearest Hospital, and twenty from any other, Newark is in urgent and loud¬ speaking need of a ward or two in her Dispensary; of one ward at least, containing five beds. Five beds will accommodate forty patients through the year, allowing the usual average of six weeks to each case. Our advocacy of the possession of such sick ward in this, the second town in the county, cannot be too pressing. Nottinghamshire, with a population of 225,351 souls, yielding an annual sick list of 56,000 (besides children), has only one Hospital and two Dispensaries.