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London Metropolitan Archives

WESTERN CITY DISPENSARY


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/154

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: WESTERN CITY DISPENSARY

Date(s): 1829-1877

Level of description: Collection

Extent: One production item.

Name of creator(s): Western City Dispensary

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The dispensary was established in 1829, by voluntary subscription, to supply the poor in the wards of Farringdon Within, Farringdon Without and Castle Baynard with free medicines and medical advice in sickness and childbirth. Medical services were provided free by doctors at their places of residence, or in patients' homes, and prescriptions dispensed at selected druggists whose expenses were reimbursed by the charity.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Minute book of the committee of the Western City Dispensary.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

One volume.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to these records rests with the City of London.

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

This volume was donated to Guildhall Library in 1994, and was catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff in 1996. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: June to August 2010.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Charities administration | Charities | Charitable organisations | Associations | Organizations
Charity records | Documents | Information sources
Dispensaries | Health services
Medical charities | Charities | Charitable organisations | Associations | Organizations
Poor relief | Social welfare
Nonprofit organizations

Personal names

Corporate names
Western City Dispensary

Places
Farringdon | City of London | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe