The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-03-17 00:00:00

THE EASTERN DISPENSARY.

The seventh annual meeting of the subscribers of this
excellent, but inadrquately supported, institution, took
place yesterday, at the Parish-office. Mr. Kilshaw was
called to the chair. An anxious desire was shown on the
part of its friends for that public aid which would enable
them to clear off the outstanding debt, and to extend the
benefits of the institution, which from its locality em-
braces large districts of the town. in which the objects for
relief and a,sistatice are not immediately comprised within
the convenient limits of the other two admirable Dis-
pensaries.
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Mr. A. HENDERSON, the honot a7y secretary, read the
following interesting report :
The committee, in presenting to the subscribers their seventh
annual report of their proceedings, beg to express their gratifi-
cation on being enabled to announce, that in consequence of
the response made by the public to their appeal on behalf of the
funds of the institution since November last, they have been
enabled efficiently to carry on the operations of the Dispensary
without increasing the debt ; and they have strong hopes, as
the subscribers' list has much improved, (though still inade-
quate to the wants of the charity,) that they shall be enabled
to proceed without adding to the present incumbrances of the
institution, which remains yet involved to the amount of .e2OO.
In the last year the number of applicants for relief and as-
sistance amounted to nearly 7000, being a considerable increase
on the former year, and all of whom were furnished with pro-
fessional advice and medicine, at the small cost of £3OO.
The committee feel. convinced, taking these facts into con-
sideration, that the public will admit the great benefits which
the poor have derived from the institution, and be anxious to
perpetuate them by continuing their liberal aid, and to enhance
and extend the efficiency of the charity, by increasing the
amount of their subscriptions, and the number of the sub-
scribers.

The committee have, moreover, great pleasure in acknow-
ledging the receipt o'f £3O from the Rev. W. Falloon, being the
amount collected at St. John's Church, after a sermon preached
by him in behalf the Dispensary, and £lB 13s. 3d. from the
Rev. Dr. Tattershall, being one-half the amount collected at
St. Augustine's Church, after a sermon by hint on behalf of this
and the other Dispensaries.

The committee -beg to return their thanks to those gentle-
men, and to express a hope that, in the ensuing year, their ex-
ample may be followed by other ministers in the district.
Mr. Parker Mr. Henderson, and Mr. Bousfield, were
elected as a committee for the management of the charity
for the ensuing year.
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The resolutions, which will be found in our advertising
columns, were then passed unanimously.
The other business was chiefly conversational, and we
adduced from it an ardent desire on the part of those
present to do their utmost to place the undoubted claims
of the institution before the general public and their
friends, with a view to pay off the debt, and to perpetuate
the advantages which the afflicted had, to so great an ex-
tent, all along derived from the charity.
Thanks being voted to the chairman, the meeting sepa-
rated ; and we sincerely hope that the appeal embodied in
the report, as well as the representations of the philan-
thropic committee and the subscribers at large, will pro-
duce the requisite funds for carrying on operations with
increased vigour and effect.