Provident dispensaries : sketch of the facts connected with the establishment of the Royal Victoria Dispensary, at Northampton with a short summary of the results of the working of that institution, during a period of fourteen years and practical suggestions for the conduct of similar institutions / by John Becke.

  • Becke, John.
Date:
1860
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Credit: Provident dispensaries : sketch of the facts connected with the establishment of the Royal Victoria Dispensary, at Northampton with a short summary of the results of the working of that institution, during a period of fourteen years and practical suggestions for the conduct of similar institutions / by John Becke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [No. 2.—Back.] RULES FOR FREE MEMBERS. 1. —That Free Members shall consist of working persons and servants, their wives and children, not receiving parish relief, and being unable to pay for medical advice in the usual manner. 2. —Any such person wishing to become a Free Member, shall leave his or her name, age, residence, and occupation, at the Dispensary, and deposit one month’s subscription, which will be returned if the depositor be not admitted a Member. 3. —Every Free Member, above fourteen years of age, shall pay one penny, and under that age, one halfpenny a week; but twopence a week will be con¬ sidered sufficient for a man, his wife, and all his children under fourteen years of age. Servants who may be judged eligible by the Committee, shall pay five shillings a year, and in not less than half-yearly payments. 4. —The payments of the Free Members shall be made in advance. No one in arrear will be entitled to the benefits of the Institution; and each Family or Member shall pay a fine of one penny for the arrear of every week. If any Member be more than five weeks in arrear, his or her name shall be erased from the boohs. 5. —No one actually labouring under sickness can be admitted a Free Member unless he pay an entrance fee of five shillings, in addition to the usual weekly Subscription, and all his family enter at the same time. 6. —If any Free Member shall, through improved circumstances or otherwise, be, in the opinion of the Committee, no longer eligible to the benefits of the Institution, his or her name shall be erased from the books. 7. —Every Free Member shall have the choice of whichever Medical Officer he may prefer; but he shall not change his medical attendant during his illness, without the sanction of the Committee. 8. —Those patients who are able must attend at the Dispensary at the ap¬ pointed hours, bringing their admission ticket. Those who are too ill to attend at the Dispensary must send their tickets before Nine o’Clock in the morning to the Medical Officer by whom they wish to be attended, and he will visit them at their own homes. In cases of accident or sudden illness, they can have the attendance of any one of the Medical Officers, on sending their admission ticket to his residence. No Free Member will be visited at his own house, if he reside beyond the limits of the Borough. , 9. —Any married woman subscribing, with her family, twopence a week, may have, during her confinement, the attendance of whichever Medical Officer she may prefer, on depositing at the Dispensary five shillings three months pre¬ viously. The same amount will be added to the fee of the Medical Officer out of the Honorary Fund. No woman will be entitled to the benefit of this rule, unless she and her family have been Members at least six months. 10. —Patients must find their own bottles. 11. —The Children of Free Members may be vaccinated on any morning at Nine o’Clock. 12. —The Medical Officers will attend at the Disponsary, every day, except Sunday, in the following order :— Dr. Faircloth on Mondays and Thursday's...'} Mr. Dodd on Tuesdays and Fridays .(At Nine o’Clock in Dr. Barr on Wednesdays and Saturdays.f the Morning. Dentist—Mr. Wilkins on Mondays....) 13. —Any Patient having cause of complaint, is to make such complaint to the Honorary Secretary, who will enter it in a book to be appropriated to that purpose, and lay it before the next meeting of the Committee. The Free Members’ Payments received at the Dispensary on Tuesdays, from Two until half-past Three o’clock.