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Barts Health NHS Trust Archives (Royal London Hospital Archives)

Eastern Dispensary


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0387 ED

Held at: Barts Health NHS Trust Archives (Royal London Hospital Archives)

Title: Eastern Dispensary

Date(s): 1808-1952

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 0.5 linear metre

Name of creator(s): Eastern Dispensary

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Eastern Dispensary was founded in 1782 in Great Alie Street, Stepney, moving to new premises in Leman Street in 1858. Owing to wartime difficulties it closed in September 1940 and in 1944 the building was leased to the Jewish Hospitality Committee. After the Second World War it was proposed that the Dispensary should be transferred to the London Hospital. This proved unacceptable to the Charity Commissioners, and the assets were transferred to the Marie Celeste Samaritan Society by a Charity Commission scheme in 1952.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Administrative records.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

See Scope and content.

Conditions governing access:

Open.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copying and digitisation services are available for unrestricted material. Researchers should contact the repository in the first instance.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

See 'Detailed catalogue' link above.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Transferred by the Secretary of the Marie Celeste Samaritan Society in 1984.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Originally compiled by Julie Tancell as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Updated by Clare Button, Archivist, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London.

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 2001, updated April 2020.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Drugs | Pharmacology
Medical centres | Health services
Medical treatment | Therapy | Medical sciences
Pharmacists | Medical personnel | Medical profession | Medical sciences
Surgery | Medical sciences
Life sciences
Personnel
Social sciences
Social welfare

Personal names

Corporate names
Eastern Dispensary

Places
Stepney | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
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