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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’.
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