An account of the Eastern Dispensary, in Whitechapel, instituted, 1782
Contributors: Adams, Thomas, -1813, former owner
Publisher: Printed by W. Hales, Fenchurch Street
Published: 1789
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Eastern Dispensary for Relief of the Poor; Urban poor; Social Welfare; Urban Hospitals; Organisation & administration
Notes: Not in ESTC.

ESTC T490151.

Copy 1. Original light blue paper wrappers. Note by Thomas Adams on the top of the upper wrapper. With enclosed heavily corrected draft of a letter by the Alnwick Solicitor Thomas Adams to John Yelloly at the Eastern Dispensary discussing a recent visit paid by Adams to London and a discussion he held with Yelloly about setting up a dispensary at Alnwick. This pamphlet is one of a group of items which were part of the papers of Thomas Adams (d. 1813), solicitor, agent for the Duke of Northumberland and owner of Eshott Hall, south of Alnwick (purchased in 1783). They were sold at auction in Carlisle by Thomson Roddick & Medcalf auctioneers in July & August 2008. It is clear from the letter which accompanies this pamphlet, and a number of other documents from the collection, (there is also a letter from John Ralph Fenwick, Doctor in Physic, Durham, regarding the sending of the printed rules and regulations of the Dispensary and how they may suit a similar proposed Institution at Alnwick, his advice regarding subscriptions, medicines, etc.) that Adams was planning to set up a dispensary in Alnwick and went about gathering as much information on the management of these institutions as he could find. He collected other material from Newcastle, Durham and Wakefield. For some reason his ambition was not realised until after his death. The Alnwick Dispensary was founded in 1815. Also with this pamphlet are two leaves with ms contents notes for Adams' collection of dispensary material.