Foundation Dates

Foundation Dates

Date of Foundation of Dispensaries in London

1844	Battersea	185 High Street
1801	Bloomsbury	12 Bloomsbury Street
1850	Brixton	Water Lane
1880	Brompton & Knightsbridge	28 Fulham Road
1789	City	29/30 College Street, Dowgate Hill
1849	City of London & E London	35 Wilson Street Finsbury
1849	Clapham	42 Manor Street Clapham
1782	Eastern	Leman Street Whitechapel
1828	Farringdon	17 Bartlett's Buildings
1780	Finsbury	Brewer Street Goswell Road
1821	Islington	303 Upper Street
1779	Metropolitan	9 Fore Street Cripplegate
1838	Paddington	104 Star Street Edgeware Road
1850	Queen Adelaide's	Pollard Row Bethnal Green
1770	Royal General	25/26 Bartholomew Close
1783	Royal Kent	Greenwich Road
1842	Royal Pimlico	104 Buckingham Palace Road
1821	Royal South London	St George's Cross
1810	St Pancras & Northern	126 Euston Road
1777	Surrey	St George's Cross
1792	Tower Hamlets	White Horse Street Stepney
1789	Western	Rochester Row Westminster
1830	Western General	Marylebone Road
1774	Westminster General	9 Gerrard Street Soho

Source:
From - Whitaker's Almanack 1904 p 293
London Hospitals - Dispensaries
Submitted by Alan Longbottom

Report of Diseases

Report of Diseases treated at the Public Dispensary
(near Carey Street) London from 31st August to 30th
November 1808. pp 124-128
In the month of September, a few cases of typhus were observed at the Dispensary, several were admitted into the House of Recovery, with malignant symptoms, and some severe, and even fatal instances occurred in individuals of respectable rank in life; they were, however, under all circumstances, only sporadic; and since the commencement of October, I have scarcely seen or heard of one example of the typhoid fever.
Scarlet fever appears to be almost the only contagious disease, which can be said to be epidemic at present, if we except the artificial epidemic of small-pox. The latter disease, although little observed in the practice of the Dispensary, appears, from the bills of mortality, to be exceedingly fatal, to the extent of 40 deaths weekly, or nearly so. This is not the usual season of the epidemic of small-pox; and, therefore, it is probable that the fatal poison is now disseminated to this lamentable degree, by those advertising gratuitous inoculators, who have taken up the trade of death, which the humanity of the Governors of the Small-pox Hospital had suppressed at St Pancras.
Report dated 30th November signed T Bateman.

Source:
From Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal Vol 5 1809 504 pp. p 124
Submitted by Alan Longbottom

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