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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    had not the following incidents led to their being brought into some form, and communicated to others. In 1830, a proposal was made to the governors of the Infirmary near Notting- ham^ to permit a dispensary, for the benefit of the town, to be annexed as an appendage to that hospital, and to have their funds in common. On this question, the governors requested to have the wri- ter's opinion sent to them in writing. The arguments used by the friends of a dispensary, rested on the large popu- lation of the town, and its progressive increase; on the numerous catalogue of out-patients that always appeared on the books of the infirmary, and of that num- ber, those who become so ill, as to disable them from personal attendance on the days appointed, could receive but a very occasional and imperfect attention at their own dwellings : add to this, that the con- stitution of the infirmary precludes the admission of out-patients, on more than