There were explicit references to three additional sources of personal benefit for Dispensary benefactors:
1.curing the sick poor would prevent the recipients sinking into pauperism and thereby preventing an increase in the poor rates
2.some of the literature maintained that the charity could be a 'passport to Heaven'
3.benefactors were reminded that they might personally benefit from the results of medical research carried out in Dispensaries.
The public objectives included the following:
1.the desire to cure – saving lives
2.a desire to preserve the population for the sake of national wealth and national welfare – a mercantilist-type desire
3.a type of 'mutual obligation' existing between rich and poor – with the artisan always depending …show more content…
In the third annual report of the Gloucester Dispensary (1834) 'smallpox, scarletina and other cases of a dangerous description and some requiring serious operations have occurred where the patients have been unable to leave their homes... cases utterly hopeless as to ultimate cure, but in which medicine may mitigate the sufferings of the patient and smooth, in some degree, the passage to the grave. Many such cases were admitted annually under the care of the Dispensary'. Infectious diseases were feared by the voluntary hospitals, so if the patient was feverish or had a rash or looked as if they might have diarrhoea and or vomiting they were viewed with great suspicion and almost certainly would not be admitted. The last thing the hospital authorities wanted was an outbreak of an infectious disease in the confined situation of a …show more content…
During the three years 1831-3 there were 1336 candidates for the Licentiate examination of whom 1171 passed. Of this number there were 222 candidates who had gained their clinical experience in London or Provincial Dispensaries and 193 passed the examination. Fifteen London Dispensaries gave instruction: Islington, Aldersgate Street, The Surrey, St George's and St James. The Western, The South London, The Central, Tower Hamlets, Finsbury, The City, Middlesex, Farringdon, Westminster General, Carey Street, Bloomsbury.
The Provincial Dispensaries were: York, Wakefield, Salford and Pendleton, Ardwick and Ancoats, Kidderminster, Chorlton, Wigan, Liverpool North, Leeds, Exeter, Birmingham, Falmouth, Bristol and Clifton. After 1858 the Dispensaries lost their educational function in England and
1.curing the sick poor would prevent the recipients sinking into pauperism and thereby preventing an increase in the poor rates
2.some of the literature maintained that the charity could be a 'passport to Heaven'
3.benefactors were reminded that they might personally benefit from the results of medical research carried out in Dispensaries.
The public objectives included the following:
1.the desire to cure – saving lives
2.a desire to preserve the population for the sake of national wealth and national welfare – a mercantilist-type desire
3.a type of 'mutual obligation' existing between rich and poor – with the artisan always depending …show more content…
In the third annual report of the Gloucester Dispensary (1834) 'smallpox, scarletina and other cases of a dangerous description and some requiring serious operations have occurred where the patients have been unable to leave their homes... cases utterly hopeless as to ultimate cure, but in which medicine may mitigate the sufferings of the patient and smooth, in some degree, the passage to the grave. Many such cases were admitted annually under the care of the Dispensary'. Infectious diseases were feared by the voluntary hospitals, so if the patient was feverish or had a rash or looked as if they might have diarrhoea and or vomiting they were viewed with great suspicion and almost certainly would not be admitted. The last thing the hospital authorities wanted was an outbreak of an infectious disease in the confined situation of a …show more content…
During the three years 1831-3 there were 1336 candidates for the Licentiate examination of whom 1171 passed. Of this number there were 222 candidates who had gained their clinical experience in London or Provincial Dispensaries and 193 passed the examination. Fifteen London Dispensaries gave instruction: Islington, Aldersgate Street, The Surrey, St George's and St James. The Western, The South London, The Central, Tower Hamlets, Finsbury, The City, Middlesex, Farringdon, Westminster General, Carey Street, Bloomsbury.
The Provincial Dispensaries were: York, Wakefield, Salford and Pendleton, Ardwick and Ancoats, Kidderminster, Chorlton, Wigan, Liverpool North, Leeds, Exeter, Birmingham, Falmouth, Bristol and Clifton. After 1858 the Dispensaries lost their educational function in England and