25 October, 2011 DISPENSARY


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DISPENSARY

Tetbury Dispensary was established on 28 September 1818 and it’s first surgeon was Richard Filkin Esq.

1889 Dispensary, Fox Hill: William Wickham Medical Officer; Arthur Dunsford Treasurer; R.C Paul Hon Secretary
1897 Dispensary         William Wickham M.R.C.S. Eng Medical Officer; Albert Appleby Treasurer; Geo Bigwood Secretary
1914 Dispensary         John Stafford Mellish M.R.C.S, L.R.C.P & Desborough Brodie M.B, B.S Lond hon medical officers;                                Edward Thomas Boyce Treasurer; George Bigwood Secretary
1923 Dispensary, Silver St John Stafford Mellish M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. & Richard Ernest Sedgwick M.D. hon. medical officers                                  Geo Tovey hon. treasurer

In 1931 it was described as ‘this charity if exclusively intended for the relief of the labouring and industrious persons of the town and neighbourhood, who are incapable of defraying the expenses of advice and medicines’.

Cotswold Hospital

The old workhouse on Gumstool Hill became the Cotswold Hospital.

SOURCES:

GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHIVES

Tetbury Dispensary.
D567/41-42 1819-1821
Contents: Registers of Richard Filkin, surgeon. (Names of patients and prescriptions).

Cotswold Hospital

D 875 1682 - 1905
Deposited by Gloucester and District Hospital Management Committee, 11th September 1952.
Contents: Deeds of Cotswold Maternity Hospital, Tetbury

NATIONAL ARCHIVES

DT 33/1439
Tetbury: Cotswold Hospital 1953 Dec-1957 Apr

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